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Minister Hiring Process - Overview Featured ! Hot !

The Minister Hiring Process™ is a proven 5-phase approach that helps congregations make better minister hiring decisions and increase their chances for a long-term minister tenure.

This Overview document helps the reader develop a quick understanding of the process from a “big picture” perspective. It is perfect for anyone interested in learning more about the process but we particularly recommend it to elders, search committee members, and even candidates of your job search.

Member Commitment Featured ! Hot !

This document outlines the responsibilities that come with serving on a minister search committee. Share it with potential committee members and ask them to sign it as evidence of their agreement and understanding of their commitment. NOTE: There are two optional paragraphs that will need to be edited depending on whether or not you are working with a search firm.

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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

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

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

Minister Match helped us hire a new minister in half the time we took for our previous hire. We used the Minister Match process which helped us build a consensus of what we wanted. Minister Match's network then helped us to build an ...

Tom Long - Search Committee Chairman, South Fork 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

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

It was a great process for me. Minister Match did a good job of keeping confidentiality in collecting information, and the communication process was very clear. The staff was very easy to deal with and very helpful. Overall the experience was very ...

Joel Soumar - Youth Minister, 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

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

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

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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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