Seasons of a Church for Mediation

The best time to mediate in churches is when members are not busy. Don’t try to mediate churches during December unless absolutely essential. If you’re in a farming community, don’t try to mediate in late fall harvest or spring planting time. If you have business people, tax time is not great. Unfortunately, when people are busiest, they most stressed and when they are likely to blow up and need a mediator. First hard cold in the fall and in late winter are also not easy times. Often it is better to put a “Band-Aid” on the problem in busy times and “agree to disagree” until spring or early fall, as summer is another time when people in churches have their focus elsewhere. And some issues are easily solved in spring when everyone is feeling better. I have even known problems in spring to seemingly “melt away.”

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