Options for Interim Ministry in the CRC
Between the departure of your former pastor and the arrival of your next, what options are available for CRCs looking for interim ministers?
Use this space to connect with other local pastor search committee members to compare notes, share experiences, and ask questions as you search for a new pastor.
Write your own blog post to share your ministry experience with others.
Between the departure of your former pastor and the arrival of your next, what options are available for CRCs looking for interim ministers?
How can our church find an interim minister to serve our congregation?
The calling process can be lengthy for pastors. Yet, after many interviews and meetings, some pastors realize most of what they know of the church comes from just a handful of members. That’s not enough.
This article for pastors highlights how the denomination can help them discern their call and connect with ministry opportunities.
Here is a summary of the three main ways the CRCNA supports search committees.
A Search Committee Chairperson shares the good and bad of leading a pastor search in the CRCNA.
One of the most powerful tools churches have for finding their next pastor is the Church Positions page at network.crcna.org. The key to making the most of this tool is carefully creating an effective post.
Many churches without permanent pastors are coping quite well during the pandemic. Here are four priorities and one virtue exhibited by the churches coping best.
What keeps many people with a disability from being considered for a leadership position? I've included a video that raises awareness about how pastoral search teams can discriminate against leaders with a disability.
In this post, Dirk Nagtegaal, Search Committee Chairperson at Duncan CRC, in Duncan, BC, shares the steps he takes when reaching out to prospective pastors.
Here at Trinity CRC in Anchorage, AK, we just wrapped up a pastor search process. Here are five things we believe helped our search process be a successful and edifying experience for all of us!
So, your church is looking for a pastor! Where do you begin? What do you need to know? Who can you talk to? In response to these questions, we are excited to introduce a new process called PastorSearch.
This new topic is a place where members of Pastor Search Committees can correspond with each other, share resources and best practices, and even share frustrations.