A Guidebook for a Pastor Search Committee
This book is written mainly for members of a congregation who are searching for a new Pastor, or an Associate Pastor and would like some help in deciding what a Pastor Search Committee should do and how best to proceed. It addresses key questions and provides guidance in answering them.
When you agree to serve on a Pastoral Search Committee (or are volunteered!!), you may or may not know exactly what the committee’s responsibilities are. You can be sure, however, that other people will know or pretend to know exactly what the committee should do; and they will be more than willing to share their views with you.
This book will help you understand how a Pastoral Search Committee works, the ways the Holy Spirit is involved in the search and how each measured step and turn in the road is important to the search as a whole. As a book on travel recommends routes to take, places to stay and sights to see, this book for a Pasto Search Committee will suggest what may happen in the journey. I will describe plans to make, meetings to attend, notes to write, travel plans to schedule, ways to deal with the unusual tasks that lie ahead, and will provide forms, letters, surveys, etc. that you can apply throughout the process.
We at DMI feel that the subject of this book – choosing a new pastor – heads the list of the important things Congregations need to know. We hope you find it helpful in serving your church.
