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CHURCHES SEEKING PASTORS  

Contact your TM Church Ministry Coach or the TM Office, as soon as possible, so we can help guide your leaders in the steps they need to take


Our Team of Ministry Coaches:

  • Have extensive and ongoing training in working with Search Teams
  • Provide ongoing training for Interim Pastors and Transitional Interim Pastors
  • Maintain contacts with leaders across the country providing us support, resources, as well as names of pastoral candidates
  • Screen all pastoral applications, especially those who are unfamiliar with us and/or come from a different affiliation 
  • Provide tools and Resources for Search Teams 
  • Select a Search Team 
  • Assign Roles and Responsibilities of the Search Team
  • Provide Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board Salary Worksheet

     

    NOTE: We do not choose or place pastors in churches. Our role is to identify potential candidates for the Search Team to consider.

Resources Available to our Churches: 

  • Comprehensive notebook for Pastoral Search Teams
  • Trained coaches to assist your church in the process
  • Church Assessment
  • Applicaton system for Pastors (regularly updated)
  • Online church survey to obtain congregational feedback about their next pastor

Finding an Interim Pastor

We are ready to help you in the process of selection and goal setting for the interim period by: 

  • Defining and clarifying the goals of the interim period and the roles of the interim pastor
  • Offering resumes and referrals of interim pastors
  • Writing a job description for an interim and setting up a church board/council during the interim period
  • Providing resources for interviewing and selecting an interim pastor
  • Completing Church-Interim Agreement

Types of Pastors for the Interim Period Between Pastors (The type of interim ministry choice and the choice of personnel is the responsibility of the local church in cooperation with your TM Church Ministry Coach.) 

  • Pulpit Supply - one or more weeks at various times during the interim

  • Interim Pastors - full- or part-time pastors providing basic pastoral skills

  • Transitional Interims - leads the congregation in making basic changes to prepare the church for leadership by a new pastor (Special training is required of Transitional Interim Pastors.)



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Pastors seeking churches
 


Pastor Search Overview
 

Tools and Resources Available to Pastoral Search Teams 

Selecting a Pastoral Search Team 

Roles and Responsibilities of Pastoral Search Teams 



Pastoral Search Resource


Notebook for Pastoral Search Teams
Comprehensive Process in Seven Steps, accompanied of typical forms, samples and information.

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