Pnc training (albany presbytery)

Pastor Nominating Committee Training!

Roles and Responsibilities

Opening Devotion Introductions

First Questions

Presby-acronyms!!

• PCUSA - Presbyterian Church (USA)

• PNC - Pastor Nominating Committee

• COM - Committee on Ministry

• MIF - Ministry Information Form (what you fill out)

• PIF - Personal Information Form (what candidates fill out)

• CLC - Church Leadership Connection (national database for congregations and job-seekers in the PCUSA)

Role of the COM• To train your COM liaison

• To respond in a timely manner to the questions/needs that your PNC has

• To approve your MIF before it is uploaded to the CLC system

• To ensure that the Presbytery EEOC Policy is followed

• To do “clearance interviews” with your final candidates when they are here in-person

• To pray for your congregation, PNC and potential applicants throughout the search process

Role of the COM Liaison• To attend your PNC meetings, Session

and Congregational meetings when PNC business is docketed and monitor your progress

• To ask the hard and challenging questions for your reflection throughout the process

• To answer questions you might have as the process unfolds

• To bring questions you might have to the COM, Transitional Presbyter, Stated Clerk

• To talk to candidates at the final round


Role of your Interim Pastor• To continue to provide pastoral

leadership to your congregation

• To answer questions related to the Mission Study

• To leave an organized packet of information for the incoming Pastor around church administration, pastoral care, worship, staff and congregational mission

• It is the responsibility of the PNC to let the Interim Pastor know when they reach certain steps in the process so that the Interim can work on his/her own exit from leadership in an appropriate fashion


Role of the Transitional Presbyter

• Trends/futuring/coaching

• Assist and resource COM liaison

• Help to publicize your call throughout the PCUSA and Formula of Agreement Partners

• Background Checks (before in-person interviews are offered/scheduled)

• Assist with CLC Staff if necessary


Role of the Stated Clerk• Answer any polity questions

anyone in the search may have

• Transfer of paperwork from sending Presbytery for your final candidate and Interim Pastor

• Filing of appropriate paperwork at the time of a call and ordination/installation

• Final criminal background check via the Synod of the Northeast


Role of your Session• To create a nominating committee to bring a PNC

to the Congregation for vote

• To work with the financial reality checklist with the COM liaison and PNC

• To continue to work alongside the Interim Pastor

• To meet with the PNC to review and advise regarding the draft MIF

• To work with the PNC and Treasurer on terms of call for the new pastor

• To ensure that the budget for the PNC search is appropriately communicated

• To call a Congregational Meeting to elect the new Pastor

• To work with the Presbytery to schedule and organize the Ordination/Installation of the next Pastor


Role of the Presbytery• Examination of your Candidate for

ordination/membership in Albany Presbytery (happens at a Stated Meeting of the Presbytery)

• To welcome and support their new colleague in ministry

• To ordain/install your new Pastor at a worship service. The Ordination/Installation service to be held at your church and presided over by the Moderator of the Presbytery


PCUSA Calling a Pastor Manual

• Updated by PCUSA in spring 2015

• Will walk you through the process of upload to the Church Leadership Connection (CLC) and other issues to attend to

• Copy provided to all members of the PNC at training

Pause for Questions

Norms for your PNCAt first meeting before work begins it is important to set norms for your PNC and to then share those with your

Session. Here are a few ideas:!

A. Role of Devotions, Prayer

B. Attendance

C. Relationships

D. Confidentiality

E. Conversations in Public, not Private

F. Team Leadership

Steps in the Process• PNC is elected by the Congregation

• PNC has its first meeting for orientation with representatives from the COM!

• PNC has its second meeting. Elects Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and Treasurer and establishes norms

• PNC works with the Financial Reality Checklist, Materials from the Session and Congregation and the Mission Study to write a draft of the MIF

• PNC spends at least two meeting discussing and discerning Leadership Competencies

• When the MIF draft is complete, meets with Session for suggestions, rewriting (if necessary) and forwards to the COM

• COM receives the written draft MIF and meets with representatives from the PNC for suggestions, rewriting (if necessary) and approval to post to the CLC

• COM liaison works with the PNC to create a standardized interview process and review Presbytery EEOC policy

• COM liaison works with the PNC to ensure that all online information about the congregation is accurate (website, social media)

• Submit the MIF online. The Chair of the PNC forwards a PDF copy of the MIF to the Presbytery Administrative Assistant for posting on the Presbytery website.

• Receive PIF’s

• Review PIF’s

• Schedule interviews (Skype, Phone) according to the process decided upon.

• Narrow field (the Transitional Presbyter is given names and contact information by the COM liaison in order to perform background checks).

• In Person Interviews Occur (time is scheduled for COM clearance interviews with each Candidate) If Candidate is at a distance, schedule a neutral pulpit for preaching

• Negotiate Terms

• Stated Clerk to perform final criminal background check via the Synod of the Northeast

• Schedule Congregational Meeting and Candidate Weekend

• Examination and Approval by the Presbytery

• Candidate Begins Ministry

• Scheduling of ordination/installation with the COM and Presbytery

Leadership Competencies• Split into 5 Categories, you pick 10

• Need to spend at least two meetings engaged in discernment and prayer around the leadership competencies

• What does your congregation need now, and what does it need in the next five to ten years? How does this affect what competencies you choose?

• What biblical/theological stories are important to your congregation and how does this affect what competencies you choose?

• Important in discernment to think through and pray about the right mix of calling a pastor for what your present and future needs are

Leadership Competencies Theological/Spiritual Interpreter

Leadership Competencies Communicator

Leadership Competencies Organizational Leadership

Leadership Competencies Interpersonal Engagement

Standardizing Your Search Process

• One email address for your PNC

• Date through which you will accept PIF’s

• Grid to evaluate PIF’s

• EEOC

• Supplemental Questions

• Skype Interview Questions

• Final Interview Process and Questions

• Budget for the Search

• Budget for Interview Weekends

• Move budget for your new Pastor

Pause for Questions

Formula of Agreement Partners!Adopted in 1997 and allows full communion between five major Protestant

denominationsEvangelical Lutheran

Church in America!!

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)!

!Reformed Church of

America!!

Disciples of Christ!!

United Church of Christ!

Ways You Can Receive Applications

• Direct matches through the CLC

• Self-Referrals through the CLC

• Self-Referrals through your email address

• Formula of Agreement Partners

Filling out your MIF• Working with your COM liaison

• Using material from your Mission Study

• Discussing with your Session compensation

• Researching what others in your size category are offering to be competitive

• Only after other steps in the process

• Not to be rushed

Pause for Questions

Internet/Social Media• What is your congregation’s

website like?

• Does your PNC have a page on your website with ways to get to know you?

• Facebook page - How does this market your congregation?

• What image are you projecting of your ministry online? Is is consistent with your MIF?

• Google Alerts

Marketing & Publicity

Traditional

CLC System

Word of Mouth

PCUSA Connections

Web/Social Media !

Your Church Website Social Media

Videos !

New Ways Pastors are Getting Noticed by PNC’s

• Headhunters

• Word of Mouth leading to Direct Invitations

• Web Presence

• Blogging, Vloggings

• Personal Website

• Published Writings

• Activism—Publicity

• Portfolios

• Self-Referrals

Congregations will be Investigated Online!

(same for pastors)

Questions Candidates will Have for You

Take a look at the questions from candidates sheet and links!

Can you answer these questions?!

Mock-Interviews

Next Meeting Final Questions

Closing Devotion

Pnc training (albany presbytery)

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