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Timeline to a Senior Pastor
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CELEBRATE!
UPC holds an
installation service for the new
Senior Pastor, we give thanks
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NOMINATE: Report to Session and the
congregation.
Set up a Candidating Sermon Sunday at UPC and
Congregational Meeting for a vote. If approved by
UPC vote, and Presbytery, we proceed.
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SELECT:
Conduct
interviews, visit top candidates at their church (without
their congregation knowing) or visit at a neutral site,
follow-up on references. Pray, confer with COM, extend a call to
one candidate.
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REVIEW: Prayerfully evaluate each
Personal Information Form (PIF) received, as well as
available sermons, books, and papers of candidates. Make
phone calls for initial interviews.
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SEARCH: Post the CIF on national
Presbyterian website, advertise opening, follow-up on
referrals, network for recommendations. Rely on Holy Spirit
to highlight candidates whom God might be calling.
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CREATE: Write Church Information
Form (CIF); produce job description, compensation range, and
descriptions of UPC's congregation, mission and ministry.
Must be approved by Session and COM.
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EXPLORE: Produce website, set up
meetings for congregation, Session, and staff input; design
and distribute survey. Listen and consider what God is
saying about who we are and whom we are looking for.
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ORGANIZE: Slate of
PNC committee
members compiled by Nominating Committee, endorsed by
Session and voted on by the congregation. Weekly meetings
begin, attended by a member of the Seattle Presbytery
Committee on Ministry (COM).
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