An exploration on the perceptions of Transformational Church Leadership: The case of the Alice Region of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.

The paper seeks to explore the perceptions of ministers on context and leadership aspects in the Alice Region of Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA). The problem statement for this paper is to explore the relevance of context to church leadership styles. The stationing of ministers in a different context to theirs does not suit them and it affects the Alice Region church leadership. The study, from which this paper is derived, is informed by a qualitative approach using Alice Region in a case study design. The study uses the data that has been collected from 5 respondents. The study revealed the following thematic findings: Leadership style used by respondents, leadership limps and challenges in the Alice region and leadership components that respondents used in a particular context. This paper employed a contextual leadership approach as a theoretical framework. The data revealed that stationing as such in the Alice Region did not always account for issues related to context and leadership. God gives us the ideal example of relationship as the church can only exist in associations forged by relational and transformational leaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]