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Nominee Invitation

This template provides the Chair with both a script and a letter that can be used to let someone know that they are your Nominee for the position. The template helps you make sure that you cover all of the details that need to be covered at this stage of the process without overstating or extending an actual offer.

Nominee Visit Itinerary

This document helps the Committee plan an entire weekend of events for the Nominee and their family. The goal is to help them really get to know the congregation and the community to determine if this is the right place for them to live, work and worship.

Nominee Announcement

This document provides a script that the Committee Chair or elders can use when announcing the selection of the Nominee to the congregation. The statement can be read in its entirity to the congregation and then excerpts can be posted in the weekly bulletin.

Offer Letter

This letter clearly reduces the job offer to written form to lessen the opportunity for confusion between the congregation and the minister. A basic introductory letter along with a detailed statement of benefits is included.

Testimonials

I was grateful for the guidance of Minister Match through the complex and time-intensive search process. John was responsive, supportive and knowledgable. Communication was excellent and flexible around my availability as a volunteer search ...

Brandon Clark - Youth Minister Search Committee Chairman, Mesa Church of Christ

We would like to thank you for your efforts to make the minister hiring process simple and well defined. The congregation here has not been through the minister hiring process in sixteen years and had little experience left for trying to do so. We ...

Jim Burdette - Elder, Frederick Church of Christ

Minister Match connected me with a church, had the details for every aspect of the process already taken care of, and communicated well. It was a very easy process, and now I am a youth minister in Miami, Florida! I was very impressed with the ...

Sam Wilson - Youth Minister, Sunset Church of Christ

The candidate pool for our need was something we had to work to develop but Don was insistent we wait for God's guidance and let it fill up when our human nature wanted to start right away. This served us well since our best qualified candidate ...

Jon Bouley - Family Minister Search Committee Chairman, Mesa Church of Christ

The Minister Match team was very professional. The entire process was very transparent. It was structured and organized, which made it a whole lot easier. I felt that the team also had a genuine concern for the Lord's church and His ministers. ...

Joshua Duboise - Family Minister, Mesa Church of Christ

Minister Match did an excellent job connecting me with a congregation that I would not have known about otherwise. Don Viar did an excellent job representing my concerns to the search committee and did an excellent job communicating their concerns ...

Drew Baker - Preaching Minister, South Fork Church of Christ

I was so happy when Minister Match reached out to me about a potential job. I consider Minister Match an answer to my prayers.

Clay Tidwell

The process was well marketed and we were provided ample information to help explain the steps to the congregation. The book that accompanied the information was very valuable and I referred to it often during the process. As the search team ...

Bill Gaw - Search Committee Chariman, Waterford Church of Christ

We had a very good experience with Minister Match. This was not the first time we had searched for a minister, but it was the first time we used a search firm. Our experience with Minister Match was a complete success. In previous searches, we ...

Jim Holway - Minister, Sunset Church of Christ

We would not have been exposed to the large number of qualified candidates without the resources and expertise of Minister Match. The search process was very organized and accomplished very efficiently with the program and schedule provided by ...

Ken Fox - Elder, Mesa Church of Christ

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The ABC's of the On-Boarding Phase

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Your congregation has just hired a minister, and it seems like they are the perfect fit. Congratulations! There is one more step to the process, though, and it is just as important as the process of finding the right minister. You might have heard people refer to how the “first hundred days” of someone’s job usually sets the tone for their entire career with that organization. The same is true with ministers. Just as your congregation is going through a major transition, so is your new minister. The first few months of a job are a stressful time, and it is the job of the elders and search committee to help your new minister through their transition.

We refer to this as the “On-Boarding Stage.” Since the “first hundred days” is so important to the rest of a minister’s career with your congregation, we believe this stage is one of the keys to reducing minister turnover in the church. In this post, we want to talk about a few of the things that a new minister needs from their congregation during this transition period. We will refer to them as the ABC’s of the On-Boarding Phase.

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