The Pastoral Search Journey: A Guide to Finding Your Next Pastor
No pastoral search committee should leave home without this book! It’s contemporary, comprehensive, and full of practical tools. It details the process from creating a committee to welcoming a newly called pastor into the congregation, with clear diagrams illustrating every point. Eight appendices offer models of surveys, questionnaires, letters, and forms the committee will find indispensable.(Joe H. Leonard Jr., Co-chair, Pastoral Search Committee, Central Baptist Church, Wayne, PA)This book attends to the emotional and relational needs of both congregation and pastor in a time of transition while providing a rich supply of practical resources, adaptable for almost any denominational system. Each chapter provides replicable step-by-step guidelines for any person, committee or congregation involved in the pastoral search process.(Judith Schwanz, Nazarene Theological Seminary, author, "Blessed Connections: Relationships that Sustain Vital Ministry")For the last ten years I have been helping churches and pastors find each other.The Pastoral Search Journey: A Guide to Finding Your Next Pastoris one of the most inclusive books on this topic. It contains a wealth of information that every search committee needs to know as they fulfill the search, it is written in a plain and precise language that any reader would be able to understand, and it is full of resources, surveys, and examples of how to discover who your next pastor should be.(David I. Shrout, Executive Coordinator, The Association of the Churches of God in Oregon and Southwest Washington)