# Overview: Leadership Transitions

## Status

**Implementation status:** Approved

## Principle (from Streamline)

Lukaszewski's principle: Every church will face leadership transitions — planned, unplanned, and emergency. Written plans for short-term pastoral absence, emergency coverage, and long-term transition principles prevent crisis from becoming catastrophe.

## Mayflower's Current Practice

## Governance & Document References

- Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws — pastoral vacancy provisions
- Position Descriptions #01 Senior Pastor, #02 Elder, #03 Deacon, #12 Moderator

## Open Questions

- Where is the sealed long-term plan stored?

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*Page template: Principle + Mayflower Practice. Part of the Operations Plan, adapted from Michael Lukaszewski's Streamline: How To Create Healthy Church Systems.*