Minister Match Launches

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Minister Match Launches New Staffing Service Focused on Churches of Christ

Cookeville, Tennessee - November 1, 2014 – Unique service focused on meeting the staffing needs of Church of Christ congregations forms to help churches make better hiring decisions.

Founder, Don Viar, perceived a need to help congregations conduct better minister searches with deeper and richer candidate pools while serving on a search committee in his local congregation.

“There simply hasn’t been a resource like this within the Restoration Movement,” says Mr. Viar, “to serve as the central community for ministers and congregations to connect with each other.”

We estimate that more than 200 ministerial searches are conducted each year within the Church. With more preachers retiring than we are graduating from our universities and schools of preaching, the supply of available ministers is shrinking.

Mr. Viar feels that better networking, training, support and tools for search committees will lead to longer minister tenures and ultimately healthier and more stable congregations.

“With a combination of free and paid services, Minister Match has the resources to help every congregation achieve better results with their next hire. Churches can choose one of three paths: 1) Use our free Search Process Tutorial to conduct your own search, 2) Pay a small fee to search our Minister Profile Database and access our tools, or 3) engage with us in a Guided Search to facilitate a search on their behalf.”

Don Viar serves as a coach, advisor, and confidant to church leaders across North America. He is available for discussion about your staffing needs between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm Central Standard Time, seven days a week.

Contact:
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410 South Lowe Avenue
Cookeville, Tennessee 38501
Ph: 931-881-3930

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Testimonials

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

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

Minister Match was kind to me, followed up really well, and tried to be as helpful as possible. I believe they give a lot of attention to the candidates and care about their part of the process.

Kerry Williams - Minister, Waterford 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

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 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 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

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

Our Search Committee is so grateful that we used Minister Match when we needed to hire our new Youth Minister. Minister Match assisted us in recruiting many serious candidates (over 30) that fit what our congregation was looking for. The ...

Jorge Acebo - Search Committee Chairman, Sunset Church of Christ

Contact Information

Minister Match
410 South Lowe Avenue
Cookeville, TN 38501

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