Megan Ferber

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Decision Tools

Decisions, decisions, everyone loves making decisions! With our ad for a new pastor out in a number of locations, it’s time for the River’s Edge Pastor Nominating Committee to nail down exactly how to evaluate potential candidates. That is, we have to decide how to decide on the candidate to nominate. Oy vey! This was an area where, once again, we found ourselves blessed to be working with such good friends and ministry partners as we brainstormed ideas and methods and scoring thoughts galore. After tossing around a lot of ideas with seven backseat drivers making suggestions at one Excel Spreadsheets operator, a set of ideas did ultimately click and we’re now all set to consider and discuss applicants to our ad! We have two sets of criteria that we can use as tools to evaluate each candidate: 1) One spreadsheet has a list of good questions to consider while

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Surveys Tell Stories

Thank you so much for all the responses to the congregational survey that the PNC asked River’s Edgers to complete! We feel like we gleaned some really good insights from this. Some information we have already used to update our wording and requirements on the job listing. Some congregational preferences we’re filing away to reference again when it comes time to evaluate and interview applicants. And some information may be useful for the current and future Session to have ideas on growth and refresh opportunities. So thank you again for your time and ideas!   Since you all may want to see results too (I know I was chomping at the bit to see the overall summaries!), we want to make these available to you now. While most of the entries were filled out on paper - as we requested - the team divided up the task of entering the

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Story About Surveys

“Surveys show that surveys never lie.” ~ Natalie Angier “Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world’s population.” ~ Stephen Hawking "Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy." ~ Jerry Seinfeld   In April, the Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC) got to take a survey of our own. We discovered some interesting things but also realized there were still questions we needed help answering. Here is that process documented: Among the resources that ECO offers as our new denomination is their Flourish Ministry, which has a component focused on churches in transition, like we are (https://flourishmovement.org/churches-in-transition/). We agreed as a team it would be wise to invest part of our team’s budget in leveraging this help and got

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Defined Pastor Nominating Committee

As we have been meeting over a few weeks now, all of our research has encouraged us to define some items as a group operating together before we start defining the job description for a new pastor. Both the book, Search: The Pastoral Search Committee Handbook, as well as guidance from ECO’s website strongly recommended that we agree on our group’s vision and values. So this post is to document a few things specifically about our group. We are what ECO calls a PNC - a Pastor Nominating Committee - as our role is to bring before the congregation a candidate that we nominate for consideration to be called by River’s Edge members. So we have updated our self-naming to switch to our new denomination’s label. While we have been introduced a couple of times during the Sunday morning service, here’s a listing of the committee members here: Allyson R

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Getting Started

As the Pastoral Search Team, we are thrilled to be open about our process and include you, the rest of our church family, as much as we can while protecting the privacy of future candidates. We’re just getting started, so there’s not much to share just yet. But to begin the habit of transparency, here’s what’s been going on so far: We have a book we’ve been reading and pulling out useful tips; it’s called, Search: The Pastoral Search Committee Handbook, by William Vanderbloemen. Dane found it, and we’ve all had a chance to start reading our copies. Some notes in there will likely not be as useful for River’s Edge, but there've been a number of really good points about things we should start doing early, and make sure that we’re in sync about now as a team. One of the things that the “Search” book recommended was to

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