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Charles Olsen in his perceptive...
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Charles Olsen in his perceptive book, Transforming Church Boards, helps congregations appreciate their own heritage and the diversity of God-appointed leaders who have been raised up during their history. In working with church boards Olsen often uses the exercise of having each of the officers sit in a circle (as if they were a clock) in the order in which they came to be associated with the church. Hence, you have the earliest church members at one end and the most recent members at the other hand of the clock.