Capacity Building and Administrative Skills Development Among Church Pastors of Oyo Baptist Conference

Abstract

Administrative skills that contribute to the effectiveness of church 
pastors in administering the church have witnessed a steady decline in 
recent times among pastors of Oyo Baptist Conference. Therefore, this 
study examined capacity building and administrative skills development 
among church pastors of Oyo Baptist Conference. The study employed a 
descriptive research design. Two sets of questionnaires were designed as 
instruments for pastors and church members. The sample was one 
hundred and sixty. Eighty church pastors and eighty church members 
responded respectively. Split-half method of calculating the reliability 
coefficient was used to check the reliability of the research instruments 
which yielded 0.786 and 0.740 respectively. Data collected were 
analysed using the SPSS package to get descriptive statistics. Findings 
revealed that pastors of Oyo Baptist Conference give good attention to 
professional conferences like ministers’ Conferences. The study also 
revealed that the extent of practicing administrative skills is high. The 
study disclosed that the prominent factor that affects capacity building 
is that some churches have policies that hinder their pastors from further 
training until after some years. Furthermore, capacity building improves 
the overall performance of pastors as a result of the administrative skills 
developed. Therefore, it can be concluded that capacity building leads to 
the development of administrative skills and this will bring improvement to performance of the pastors. It is recommended that 
pastors of Oyo Baptist Conference should explore other opportunities 
like workshop, in-service training, to build their capacities and churches 
of Oyo Baptist Conference should make funds available to assist their 
pastors in capacity building.