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Welcome to the home page of the Southminster Presbyterian Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC).   This website is the congregation's information center on the internet for matters related to the PNC.

 

This page has information and materials available to you that are specific to the PNC process at Southminster.  For example, the current status and progress of the PNC is provided on this page.  You are also able to you are able to access the latest PNC Status Report Snapshot and PNC articles from this month's Signal and previous months' Signal articles.  Other educational materials related to the Presbyterian Pastor Nominating Process in general are also available to you on this site.

 

Please email me (Marty Ugarte) if you have trouble accessing any of the materials.   Also, please free to contact us with any ideas to make this website more useful.  Thank you.

 

ACTIVE PASTOR SEARCH, PASTOR INFORMATION FORM (PIF) PHASE (8/17/08 update)

 

The Church Information Form (CIF) received final approval on July 21st two weeks earlier than anticipated.  The CIF was posted shortly thereafter on the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) website, the monster.com for ministry openings within the denomination.

 

The Southminster CIF posting has received 116 internet hits or views since it was posted.  More importantly, the PNC has received nineteen (19) Personal Information Forms (PIFs) from prospective pastor candidates applying for our pastor opening.  Of the 19 PIFs received, the PNC is excited about several of the candidates and they are in the process of obtaining DVDs and podcasts of their past sermons and scheduling preliminary conversations with some of the candidates.

 

Although information related to specific candidates must remain confidential, the PNC will continue to communicate their general progress through weekly Church Bulletins, the Narthex Bulletin Board, the Information Center, monthly Moment for Mission speakers, the PNC website and monthly Signal articles.

 

Please continue to pray for the PNC members as they attempt to discern God's will for our church and find the Pastor that God has called to serve us.

 

CHURCH INFORMATION FORM (CIF) PHASE (7/27/08 update)

 

The Presbytery Committee on Ministry (COM) approved our Session approved Church Information Form (CIF) on July 21st, two weeks earlier than anticipated. The CIF has been posted on the Presbyterian Church USA website (the monster.com for ministry positions) and Pastor Head of Staff candidates are already responding.  The PNC members cannot divulge any specific candidate information because of the confidential and sensitive nature of the process.  All Pastor Information Forms (PIF) will be kept in strictest confidence.

 

The Session approved the CIF draft with minor revisions at their June 22nd meeting.  The revised CIF was forwarded to the Presbytery Committee on Ministry (COM) seeking approval at their next meeting on August 5th.  The CIF will be posted on the PCUSA website once it is approved by the COM.  This will begin the active search phase of the pastor nominating process and allow the PNC to start receiving Personal Information Forms (PIFs) from prospective pastor candidates.

 

While the CIF is awaiting COM approval, the PNC worked ahead in July laying the groundwork for the active search phase.  Networking and referral contacts have been identified who may help spread the word of our search for a pastor.  Through our networking contacts we may gain knowledge of pastors with a calling for a new church such as ours.  A process for reviewing Personal Information Forms (PIF) was also formulated. 

 

Please feel free to contact the PNC with any referrals.  All referrals will be kept in the strictest confidence. 

 

The PNC sincerely thanks the 52 members of the congregation and the PNC who attended the Informational Meeting on June 29th.  The PNC is encouraged by the turnout and the high level of interest exhibited at the meeting.

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The PNC completed their first draft of the Church Information Form (CIF) at the June 16th meeting and they are now working on obtaining the necessary approvals.  The PNC will be hosting an Informational Meeting open to the entire congregation on Sunday, June 29th at 10:15 AM.  A Question and Answer period will also be provided.  Please plan to attend. 

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The PNC has completed Stage 1 of 3 of the Pastor Nominating Process and is currently working on the Church Information Form (CIF) in Stage 2. The list of required and desired skills has been finalized.  The committee is being challenged with the five narrative questions/statements to be addressed in depth.  The challenge is to use no more than 1,500 characters in completing each of the five narrative questions/statements.  The job description and terms of call are also in the process of being outlined.

 

SAVE THE DATE!

PASTOR NOMINATING COMMITTEE

INFORMATIONAL MEETING

FELLOWSHIP HALL

JUNE 29TH ... 10:15 A.M.

 

(4/28/08 Update)

The Session affirmed the PNC's mission study work at the April 26th Officers' Meeting that included the Session and the Deacons.  As a result, the PNC started work on the Church Information Form (CIF).  The PNC began discussions on completing the narrative and the pastor skill requirements sections of the CIF at the April 28th meeting.  To meet the CIF workload demands, the workgroups were re-organized.  The former members of the Mission Study workgroup were re-deployed since their work was completed.  Doug Earle and Nell Schwartz were re-assigned to the CIF workgroup and Clara Goforth was re-assigned to the Correspondence workgroup.

 

PNC TRANSITION to CIF PHASE  (4/21/08 update)

The Southminster Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC) was engaged in prayerful discernment of the mission study responses during the first half of April.  Discernment centered around two questions, “Who are we as a congregation (right now)?” and “Who is God calling us to be (as a congregation)?”.  The mission study responses were reviewed and considered in detail on multiple occasions in trying to discern the answer to these two questions.

 

The PNC completed the mission study discernment process at their April 21st meeting and has a meeting scheduled with the session on April 26th.  The purpose of this meeting is for the PNC to share the information and their findings from the mission study with the Session and to provide the Session with an opportunity to share their views with regard to those findings and God’s call for the congregation. 

 

After meeting with the Session, the PNC's energies and focus will be re-directed towards completing the Church Information Form (CIF).  The CIF is the document that the PNC will use as Southminster's story to introduce our congregation and our sense of identity and mission to prospective pastoral candidates.  It will also list the gifts, talents and abilities that are needed in the new pastor.  Once the completed CIF is formally approved by the Session and the Presbytery’s Committee on Ministry, it will be posted on the PCUSA website.  This will begin the active search phase of the pastor nominating process and allow the PNC to start receiving Personal Information Forms (PIFs) from prospective pastor candidates.

 

Please continue to include the PNC members in your prayers.

 

PNC STATUS REPORT SNAPSHOT

 

Do you want to see a snapshot report of the Southminster PNC process?  Do you want to know where in the process your PNC is?  Please click on the following link to access the PNC Status Report Snapshot.  The report was last updated on 8/13/08 to show that that Personal Information Forms from potential pastor candidates are being screened and that the PNC is in the process of scheduling conversations with candidates.

 

MISSION STUDY INFORMATION

 

The Mission study is the first significant stage (1 of 3) of the Pastor Nominating Process.  Mission Study Surveys were mailed to each family member on Wednesday, February 6th with a response date of February 24, 2008.  The PNC received 86 surveys.  Thank you for your participation.  The link to all copies of the mission study survey and the PNC survey mailbox have been removed as of 3/2/08.

 

TOWN HALL MEETING

 

The PNC conducted a Town Hall Meeting on Sunday, 2/17/08 at 7:00 PM, in the Fellowship Hall of the church.  The meeting was well attended by approximately 45 church members.  Meeting participants  were given the opportunity to voice their responses publicly to the questions on the mission study survey.  Members were also given the opportunity to make the PNC aware of any other issues related to the mission study survey and the pastor nominating process.  The PNC extends their gratitude to everyone who attended the town hall meeting.

 

WHO IS ON THE PNC?

 

Committee Moderator: Richard Early

Correspondence: Mackenzie Buell and Clara Goforth

Communications Workgroup: Marty Ugarte and Dorothy Watts

Secretary: Randy Corbin

CIF Workgroup: Dan Hauschel, Doug Earle and Nell Schwartz

 

Former Mission Study Workgroup Re-deployed on 4/21/08: Doug Earle, Clara Goforth and Nell Schwartz

 

PNC MONTHLY SIGNAL ARTICLES

 

 

PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR NOMINATING PROCESS IN GENERAL

The Presbyterian Church USA website contains a manual that provides an excellent overview of the process for the calling of a new pastor.  The manual is titled, “On Calling A Pastor,” and it can be accessed freely at www.pcusa.org/clc/handbook_pastor.htm .  This is the process that the PNC will be closely following in the selection of a pastor nominee.

 

Thank you for entrusting us with this important responsibility.

Your Pastor Nominating Committee
This page was last updated on 8/17/08  mu