The Pastor Search Team then took on the current task of creating a profile of a pastor to help guide us in the upcoming search for a specific candidate. In addition, we have identified the need to improve in our efforts of evangelism, discipleship, and service. Over the past few weeks, we have affirmed that Roswell Street continues to find strength in our prayer, fellowship and worship with one another. While the TFG will report these findings to the church family once our duties are complete, allow us to share some initial insights gleaned from this process so that you can appreciate the work that is being done behind the scenes. Pastor Dan is leading this group through a process of self-evaluation and assessment, in order to prepare a profile of our church, along with a profile of the ideal pastoral candidate. If the congregation decides to issue a call to the pastoral candidate, and the pastoral candidate accepts, then he or she becomes the next regularly-called pastor of the congregation.In addition to spending time together in fervent prayer to identify the candidate for our next senior pastor, your Pastor Search Committee is currently serving as members of the Transitional Focus Group. Normally, the pastoral candidate leads worship and preaches at a Sunday morning worship service, which is followed by the special congregational meeting as described in the congregation’s constitution. If the Council agrees, the Council calls a special congregational meeting this is done in coordination with the Office of the Bishop which appoints a deputy to run the meeting. After the Call Committee interviews pastoral candidate(s) and hears them preach, it eventually recommends one pastoral candidate to the Council. That Call Committee receives the names of possible pastoral candidates in a highly confidential process.
At this point, the congregation selects a Call Committee. The Call Process begins when the Congregational Profile has been approved by the Synod’s Office of the Bishop. Phase Three of the interim process is the Call Process. Phase I: After a Pastor Resigns or Retires The flow of the call process in our Synod includes four phases.
The Synod has developed a comprehensive guide to the Pastoral Transition Process. The Synod has resources to help your congregation journey through a carefully-designed interim process with a specially-trained intentional interim pastor, and using tools and approaches based on current research and the best methods available. This can be a very positive and productive time for your congregation.Ī congregation whose pastor is leaving is not alone. When your congregation’s regularly called pastor leaves, it enters into the “interim period” – a time for saying goodbye, reflecting on your faith community’s past and discerning God’s purpose for future ministry, and calling a new spiritual leader to guide the congregation into this new season.
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