This is your one stop for everything Senior Pastor Search Team (SPST)! We will occasionally be posting updates here, and reposting what is said on Sunday mornings so that nobody misses out. Our hope is to provide you with information that will help all of us gain a clear understanding of the process that will guide us through the search for our next Senior Pastor, as well as help define the expectation for where we are headed. Gaining a unified vision, understanding and a clear expectation is vitally important to prepare us as a body for where we are going. Our desire is that this page, and the documents and posts below, will help provide clarity and answer many of your questions!
Below you can click the buttons to find a lot of information including the Senior Pastor Job Description, the EFCA Statement of Faith and short bios of all of the SPST. Further below that will be blog posts relating to the SPST. God Bless!
Sunday Recap – Update on the Senior Pastor Search Process
- Update on the Senior Pastor Search Process
- Job Posting went “LIVE” on September 22nd
- We have received 38 applications of which 6 met the minimum requirements of the job description
- Oct 4-6 an applicant visited Bethany for an initial interview. Mutually agreed not to move forward.
- REMINDER: Search Team info is available on the Bethany website under the ABOUT US tab
(bethanyefc.org/senior-pastor-search-team) - Overseers and Pastors will be visiting all of the Grow Groups in the next 3-4 weeks
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SPST Update – September 15th, 2019
Greeting Bethany Church!
We just wanted to take a brief moment to update you on status of our Senior Pastor Search.
The Senior Pastor Search Team, assembled by the Overseers per the bylaws, has been meeting since
August 15th.
The Senior Pastor Search Team, assembled by the Overseers per the bylaws, has been meeting since
August 15th.
Our focus thus far has been on reviewing our process and documents and reflecting on the
first Search Process and discussing ways we can improve the process! While we have received a handful
of applications through word of mouth, we are officially launching our search on September 22nd.
first Search Process and discussing ways we can improve the process! While we have received a handful
of applications through word of mouth, we are officially launching our search on September 22nd.
A large amount of time has been spent discussing how we can better equip the Bethany family to stay
connected to the search process and understand what our goal is. We have prepared a couple
documents, with various resources that the Overseer Board and Search Team will use to help guide the
search process, as well as a Bio packet for the Senior Pastor Search Team. These will be available in 3rd
Place at the Senior Pastor Search Kiosk, as well as on the Senior Pastor Search Page on our Website.
connected to the search process and understand what our goal is. We have prepared a couple
documents, with various resources that the Overseer Board and Search Team will use to help guide the
search process, as well as a Bio packet for the Senior Pastor Search Team. These will be available in 3rd
Place at the Senior Pastor Search Kiosk, as well as on the Senior Pastor Search Page on our Website.
We want to hear from you, to answer any questions you have and help you get a clear picture of where
we are headed in this search. To help assure we connect with as many of you as possible the Overseers
and Pastors will be meeting with Grow Groups over the next month to help assure any questions are
answered and to provide a clear understanding of where we are going.
we are headed in this search. To help assure we connect with as many of you as possible the Overseers
and Pastors will be meeting with Grow Groups over the next month to help assure any questions are
answered and to provide a clear understanding of where we are going.
As always, we ask that you be in fervent prayer for our Church, The Search Process and whoever God
will call to be our next Senior Pastor. We are eager to see him move and are earnestly seeking the
leading of the Holy Spirit and the will of God through this process.
will call to be our next Senior Pastor. We are eager to see him move and are earnestly seeking the
leading of the Holy Spirit and the will of God through this process.
We look forward to meeting with many of you as we walk this process together!
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