Pastor Search Committee
Meeting Minutes
MAY 30, 2010
Hugh Peters called our meeting to order @ 12:45 p.m.
All were present.
Terressa opened the meeting in prayer.
Minutes for the May 23rd meeting were approved as written.
We discussed two candidates and eliminated one.
We will proceed with checking references on one candidate.
We were delighted to hear that the new Personnel Manual is near completion.
Hugh closed our meeting in prayer.
Our next meeting will be Monday, June 7th, @ 7:00 p.m.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED BY:
TERRESSA DUGGAN, SECRETARY
May 17, 2010
Hugh welcomed us @ 7:10 p.m. There was a delay due to another meeting
prior to our meeting.
All committee members were present.
We all prayed as we were led for our church, our financial condition, our
committee, and the candidates that we are examining. We all love our church
and seek to do God’s will.
The May 10th meeting minutes were approved as written.
Nick gave a report on the private investigations of various candidates.
Nick was asked by Hugh to run a credit check on another candidate as soon
as we get his information.
Our next meeting will be May 23rd after church IF the needed information
is received.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
May 10, 2010
Hugh Peters, chairman, called to order @ 7:05 p.m.
All committee members were present.
Hugh asked each of us pray as we were led for our country, church, committee
and candidates.
May 3rd minutes were approved as written.
Nick had background reports to give on candidates.
We discussed what we believe EXPOSITIONAL PREACHING TO BE. This style of
preaching was requested on the church survey.
We discussed each candidate in detail, pros and cons.
This was a very lengthy meeting; ended at 10:00 p.m.
Our next meeting will be May 17th @ 7:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
MAY 3, 2010
Hugh called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m.
All committee members were present.
We each prayed as we were led about our church foundation, finances, our
country and our committee.
The minutes for April 26th were approved as written.
We discussed how the background checks will be handled on the candidates
we are considering.
Our next meeting will be Monday, May 10th.
Deborah closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
APRIL 26, 2010
Hugh called the meeting to order @ 7:00 p.m.
Present were Joe, Nick, Deborah, Terressa and Hugh. Myrtle was absent.
We all prayed around the table, especially for our committee and our church.
Minutes for April 12th were approved as written.
We discussed various candidates. Hugh reported that another of the finalists
has declined to take the interview any further. Does not want to relocate.
Hugh asked for volunteers to check references on three candidates for credit
(Deborah), criminal (Nick), and to verify education (Joe). We want to check
the wives as well.
Hugh closed the meeting in prayer.
Next meeting is Monday, May 3rd.
Respectfully submitted,
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
APRIL 12, 2010
Our chairman, Hugh Peters, called our meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. All
six committee members were present.
Nick Athanaseas opened our meeting in prayer.
The minutes for our March 22nd meeting were approved as written.
We have received information on three candidates via a Lifeway report that
we requested. Each candidate answered question for this report and then
Lifeway compiled the answers. This report will be weighed against the surveys
from our congregation. One candidate has returned the information requested
in the packet we sent him. We discussed this information at length. Each
of us will set up a file with our questions for each candidate.
Our next meeting will be called when more information is received.
Deborah Onderdonk closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
March 22, 2010
Our chairman, Hugh Peters, called our meeting to order at 7:05 p.m.
All six of our committee members were present.
We all prayed as we were led. Prayer is very important to our committee.
We are depending on God for His guidance and direction and pray that His
Will be done.
The minutes for March 8th were approved as written.
Hugh gave us updates on the candidates that are being considered. We listened
to a sermon by one of the candidates.
A package of information will be sent to each candidate by the end of the
week. This package will be very informative about our church and our community.
We will include a list of 15 questions for each candidate to answer; a
first pass on the questions.
We feel we are making great progress considering the fact that resumes
were received up until January 31st We looked at the first resume Monday,
February 1st. This was after the church survey was sent out and received
and reviewed and a report given to the congregation. There are many steps
in this whole process and the process continues.
Hugh closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted,
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
March 8, 2010
Hugh opened our meeting with prayer at 7:00 p.m.
The minutes for our February 27th meeting were approved as written.
We discussed the various candidates that we are examining. Hugh will continue
to contact the possibilities and ask for more information. We are all in
much prayer about these candidates and their families.
Deborah closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
February 27, 2010
Our meeting opened in prayer at 9:07 a.m. Everyone prayed as they were
led.
All six committee members were present.
Hugh provided continental breakfast items and coffee to “get us moving.”
Very nice. Thanks, Hugh.
The minutes for February 22nd were approved as written.
This three and one half hour meeting was for the purpose of discussion
of our top candidates. We discussed each one in depth and will be gathering more
information on each one.
Joe Saviak closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
February 22, 2010
Hugh called our meeting to order at 6:58 p.m.
All six of us were present.
As is our normal habit we all prayed as we were led. Prayer is very much
a part of the life of this committee.
The February 8th minutes were approved as written.
The Personnel Committee is revising the Pastor Position Description and
sent it to us for review. We made a few suggestions and Hugh will send
it back to them to incorporate our suggestions. We all agree we do want
some rules and regulations for the new pastor as well as accountability
for his position.
We reviewed the Position Insights Assessment form that we filled out during
our last meeting. We went over the results line by line. We now have a
consensus.
Hugh reminded us that everything is totally confidential.
We reviewed the Senior Pastor rankings that were as a result of our choice
of the top ten resumes. There was a tie on one ranking. Therefore, we have
eleven candidates to choose our top five rankings by Friday. This is a
tedious job!
We agreed to meet Saturday morning @ 9:00 a.m. to discuss these candidates
in detail. Much progress is being made and we want to continue with the
momentum.
The next meeting will be Saturday, February 27th.
Terressa closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
February 8, 2010
Hugh called our meeting to order @ 7:05 p.m.
All six were present.
We all prayed for our committee to be in God’s will, our church, our church
family – many of whom are ill or suffering from depression, the people
of Haiti and those who are ministering to them, and for the man that God
has chosen as our new pastor and his family and they prepare to move. This
is always a sweet time for us.
Before our meeting began it was noted that someone very special to us is
celebrating a birthday this week – Myrtle Hollingsworth. Terressa baked
a pound cake for her and we all sang Happy Birthday. She is such a dear
person to all of us and we value her knowledge, experience and love for
God.
The minutes from the February 1st meeting were approved as written.
Hugh directed us all to look at appendix 8 in the Pastor Search Committee
Handbook. There is a Position Insights Assessment Response Form that we
all filled out. Hugh will submit it to Lifeway for tallying to see where
we stand as a committee. A report will be generated and emailed to us.
We all turned in our selected top ten resumes, totaling 60 resumes. Hugh
will make copies of all 60 of them and give each of us a copy of all 60
resumes. Our instructions are to go thru the resumes and pick out our top
ten of those resumes by our next meeting February 22nd. From there we will
go forth with our project of selecting a new pastor. (Personally, I felt
the atmosphere in the room is Excitement. We are ready to get on with the
task of finding our pastor and being led by the Lord, we feel we have the
tools to find him.)
Nick is compiling the questions that Matthew, Terressa and he selected
for us to ask each candidate. Nick will have those questions compiled and
typed up by the next meeting.
Next meeting is February 22nd @ 7:00 p.m.
Deborah closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan
Secretary
February 1, 2010
Upon arriving for our meeting at 7:00 p.m. we were invited to join the
Deacons in the Fellowship Hall for prayer. It was very moving to have them
lay hands on us and pray over our committee as we seek to do God’s will
and find the man who He would have be our next pastor. Thank you, ACBC
Deacons! We look forward to having you pray over us on a regular basis.
We returned to our meeting room and all of us prayed again, as we regularly
do. We specifically prayed for our committee, the deacons, staff, our college
ministry and the new second service (contemporary) that will begin soon,
as well as the people in Haiti and the people who seek to help in that
recovery.
The minutes from January 18th were approved.
One of our committee members, Tony Cubbedge, has asked for an extended
Leave of Absence. That leaves only 6 on our committee now.
We now have 300 resumes to review for the possibility of finding our new
pastor. We were all given more resumes to inspect. We discussed this in
detail and want to have each picked our Top 10 by next Monday, February
8th; our next meeting.
Our chairman, Hugh Peters, closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
January 18, 2010
All present.
Hugh called our meeting to order 7:00 p.m.
We opened with prayer. Everyone prayed around the table, asking for individual
guidance with each resume, our ACBC finances & reducing debt, Haiti
disaster & Brian Duggan’s presence there to help with medical care,
Matthew and his new position as a minister of the church, and Josh’s new
programs for the church. We prayed for Kay Ezzell and her pending hip replacement
surgery. She has been so nice to post our committee minutes on the ACBC
website.
Hugh reported that he had heard nothing more from Asa Greer and his desire
to meet with our committee and pray for us. Hugh has asked the Deacons
to come pray over us.
We all desire to be bathed in prayer.
The minutes from December 7, 2009, were unanimously approved.
There was a matter of business to discuss regarding Matthew Jones and his
new position as a minister in the church. Our committee was unanimous in
feeling that because of his new position Matthew should not remain on the
committee as we seek to find his “new boss.” Matthew will stay on to help
Nick and Terressa align questions for our candidate but after that he will
no longer be on the committee. He has done an outstanding job for our committee
and has been very dedicated and we all appreciate that very much. Thanks,
Matthew!
Hugh reported that we have over 280 resumes so far. The cutoff date to
receive resumes is January 31, 2010. We are all overwhelmed at the response
but happy to get started with our reviews. Each resume will have “two sets
of eyes.” We were reminded to pray before looking at these resumes, asking
for wisdom and clarification. We were instructed to write down the name,
education, if they have held a senior staff position for at least one year,
and whether we think he is possible –”maybe”, “looks good” or ”gone.” This
is round one and is being done to eliminate the ones who do not qualify.
We were each assigned 85-90 resumes to review online by our next meeting,
February 1st. Hugh and Myrtle will review the written resumes received.
We were asked to review the resumes and put the top ten in order. This
will be an arduous and time consuming task as we all seek to do our best.
Next meeting is February 1, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan
Secretary
December 7, 2009
All committee members were present
Chairman Hugh Peters called our meeting to order @ 7:03 p.m.
All of us prayed as we were led. Many prayer requests included praise to
God for how well the presentation of the survey to the congregation was
received. We prayed for Matthew as he is called to be a minister in our
church and that it will be approved in our next business meeting Dec. 16th;
for Gary Mayo in the hospital; for ACBC finances and budget; for the wonderful
Christmas season; for Deborah O. as she processes the grief of her friend,
Mr. Northey; for our armed forces; for guidance and direction of our committee.
The minutes for November 23rd were accepted after one minor revision.
We discussed how well the survey went on November 29th. All feedback has
been positive. Once again, thanks to Joe and Carol Saviak for all of their
hard work to make it possible. Everyone seemed very interested and the
lunch was great, thanks to Nick and “the guys” for the preparation. There
were approximately 150 present. People seemed to appreciate the handouts
as they were leaving.
The subcommittee of Tony, Deborah and Myrtle are “going after” resumes.
They are currently deciding on what websites to post our requests: National
SBC, southern conventions, and seminaries. Our chairman, Hugh Peters, should
be the one to whom the resumes are addressed. We have received approx.
15-20 resumes that have not been opened. A demographic profile is being
prepared to give to the candidates. We discussed our budget.
Hugh will talk to Kay Ezzell about making it possible for emails of resumes
to be received on our website; possibly setting up a Pastor Search Committee
email address. Also, other enhancements to the website were discussed.
We have to “sell” ourselves and the website could be the first impression
we have on the candidate and others. More information needed.
Terressa extended an invitation to everyone and their spouses for dinner
at their home on Monday, December 28th. Just a time for food and fellowship;
no work.
Our next meeting will be Monday, January 4, 2010.
Hugh closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
November 23, 2009
The meeting was called to order by our chairman, Hugh Peters, at 7:00
p.m.
All eight committee members were present.
Hugh opened our meeting in prayer.
The minutes for our November 16th meeting were unanimously approved
Joe Saviak presented to us the power point presentation to be shown to
the congregation Sunday, November 29th right after our lunch. Very well
accepted. Great job, again, Joe and Carol.
Hugh will make an introduction about the power point presentation and then
turn the meeting over to Joe.
Terressa was asked to ask Connie Worthington to have some nursery workers
available for our meeting on the 29th. The tables and chairs will be set
up for 150 people.
It is hoped that we will have received many resumes` by the end of January,
2010, and interviews will begin after that. The whole committee is very
pleased with our progress at this point.
Our next meeting will be December 7th @ 7:00 p.m. to digest our presentation
of the survey to the congregation.
Myrtle Hollingsworth closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
November 16, 2009
Nick, Joe, Deborah, Myrtle, Matthew and Terressa were present.
Hugh and Tony were absent.
Nick called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m.
Everyone present prayed. Our prayers included lifting up the Haszard family,
Ann Petrello, our church, our committee for guidance and direction, and
our ministerial staff.
Nick thanked Joe and Carol Saviak for the tremendous work on the survey.
Many, many hours were spent inputting the confidential data in the computer
program to get the results. GREAT job, ya’ll! Thanks. Carol was present
for a portion of the meeting in case we had any technical questions.
Our minutes were unanimously approved for October 26th.
Joe went over the survey with us in detail. We discussed what should be
presented to the congregation at the lunch Sunday, November 29th; including
power points and handouts.
Our desire is for the congregation to be informed and have confidence in
our work. We plan to have a copy of the entire survey summary available
for anyone to READ in the church office; no copies can be made nor can
the survey be removed from the office.
The atmosphere of the meeting was very good. Our committee is very excited
about our progress and ready to move on to the next step of obtaining resumes.
We are in agreement and unified on all issues and just pray that our thoughts
and actions glorify God.
Our next meeting is next Monday, November 23rd @ 7:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan
Secretary
October 26, 2009
Chairman Hugh Peters called our meeting to order @ 7:10 p.m.
Seven people were present: Hugh, Matthew, Joe, Tony, Myrtle, Deborah and
Terressa.
Nick was not present.
We opened the meeting in prayer by each person. Hugh asked us to pray for:
Church finances/budget committee
Our subcommittees
Elimination of church rumors
Church unity
Josh and staff
Carol Saviak – strength for her as she inputs the data for 185 surveys.
Thank you, Carol.
Praise for the Mission Fair weekend
Minutes for the October 12th meeting were approved.
Joe Saviak gave an update on the surveys received. 185 received which represents
67.7%.
We expect to have the results November 9th at our next committee meeting.
We will give the results to the congregation Sunday, November 29th at the
5th Sunday dinner.
We will be looking at the purpose and methods of data, ways to summarize
the data, as well as visuals. November 23rd we expect to finalize the data.
Subcommittee updates:
Deborah – checked website for Florida Southern Baptist. She found we can
post new requests there. She is checking seminaries and possible college
affiliations with the SBC.
Terressa had two pastor search questionnaires for Nick and Matthew to examine.
The three of them will prepare the list of questions.
Hugh is concerned about any under currents or rumors, which are unfortunate.
We will do our best to end those rumors.
Our quarterly business meeting is Wednesday, October 28th. Hugh will give
a report on our committee then.
Terressa closed our meeting in prayer.
Next meeting is Monday, November 9th @ 7:00.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
October 12, 2009
Chairman Hugh Peters called the meeting to order around 7:10. Terressa was out of town; Deborah recorded minutes. Hugh called on each of us to pray in turn as lead, but asked us to please remember the various church committees, specifically the Budget committee, the deacons and trustees, the church staff, the economy and the homeless.
The minutes of the September 28, 2009, meeting were unanimously approved.
Joe told us that to date 110 surveys had been returned, being approximately a 40% return rate. Joe assured us that the return rate was extremely high for such a survey and depending on the number to be returned this week, it could go as high as 50 or 60%. All were enthusiastic that the return was going so well. Hugh extended thanks again to Joe, Carol and Linda for their tremendous efforts and service. Matt said he would make sure one more mass email would be sent to the congregation to request any last minute returns.
Hugh appointed three new sub-committees:
1) Resume requests - Myrtle, Deborah and Tony; they are to draft a resume
request letter and prepare a list of places to send the letter.
2) Pastor questionnaire development - Nick, Matt and Terressa; they are
to develop the questions that we will ask the final applicants.
3) Survey results presentation - Hugh, Joe and Deborah; they will formulate
a position of the survey results review and how it shall be presented to
the church.
Joe and Carol are to have all survey data summarized by Monday, November 2nd.. These results will be discussed on our November 9th meeting. We discussed presenting the survey results, key findings to the congregation during Fifth Sunday lunch, November 29th.
Tony arrived and he presented for our review the folio compiled for the church profile packet for the candidate.
We discussed what items might be on the pastor questionnaire.
Hugh suggested we listen to the John MacArthur sermon about what to look for in a pastor; Matt will send us a web link.
Tony closed in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by;
Deborah Onderdonk
September 28, 2009
Chairman Hugh Peters called our meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. All eight
of the committee members were present. Hugh called on each person to pray
for our group and its work as well as Darlene Dryer who is ill, Josh Dryer,
our interim pastor and for church unity and for the church business meeting
to be held Wednesday, September 30, 2009.
The minutes for the September 14, 2009 meeting were unanimously approved.
We discussed how communication is so vitally important. There is a rumor
on the street that a local retired pastor has been called to be our new
pastor. Wrong!
We spent approximately one hour folding, stuffing and sealing the survey
to be sent to the congregation. Carol Saviak did a wonderful job preparing
all of this. Thanks Carol! The surveys will go out in the Tuesday mail
and are requested to be returned to the church office by Friday, October
16. We discussed ways to contact those who do not return the survey timely.
At the next meeting October 12th Hugh would like to begin looking at a
pastor profile, statement of the church expectations and setting up ways
of obtaining resumes. Jeanette Booth is the new Personnel chairman. We
are hopeful her committee will begin immediately looking at setting up
new policies and procedures for each position in the church.
Hugh would like to keep our meetings on two week cycles. We will meet Monday,
October 12th and then Monday October 26th @ 7:00 p.m.
Tony Cubbedge closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan
Secretary
September 14, 2009
Chairman Hugh Peters
called to order @ 7:00 p.m. We all prayed out loud as we were led.
The minutes for the August 31st meeting were unanimously approved.
We talked in more detail about the survey prepared by Joe and Matthew.
Our desire is to mail it to the congregation by October 5th. Our committee
plans to fold, stuff, and stamp the envelopes at our next meeting, September
28th, in preparation for the mail out the next week.
The bulk of our time at this meeting was to go thru each name on 13 pages
of a list and decide WHO should receive a survey. Our mailing list is being
updated as we go along, thanks to Carol Saviak and her computer knowledge
and skills. We each took the remainder (26 pages) home to continue marking
with updates. Joe would like the results of that by Friday, September 18th,
at 3:00 p.m.
Our committee will be asking the Personnel Committee to commence work on
updating the Policies & Procedures manual, as it has not been touched
since 1999 and is very outdated. This will be advantageous for all.
Hugh will give the congregation an update on September 28th.
Nick Athanaseas closed our meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan
Secretary
August 31, 2009
Our meeting was called to order by Ch’rman Hugh Peters. Matthew Jones
opened the meeting in prayer.
The minutes from August 3rd and 17th were unanimously approved as written
Myrtle Hollingsworth thanked Hugh for the explanation he gave the congregation
about the PSC and what they can expect in the coming months. Hugh also
sent out an email to the congregation today explaining the same thing in
case people were not present in church August 23rd.
Hugh called on Joe Saviak to explain the work he and Matthew Jones are
doing on a church survey. We went over the letter that will accompany the
survey and made a few changes. We discussed who will receive the letter/survey
and who should keep the list of responses. We discussed the pastor profile
survey in depth, as well as the pastoral attributes as seen by the church.
We will begin looking at the church roll at our next meeting to ascertain
who will receive this letter; age limit 18 and up. The roll is currently
being updated and there will be software for data input.
We discussed the budget for printing and mailing the letter and survey.
Tony, Myrtle and Deborah are working on the information package to be given
to any prospective candidates. Matthew Jones will cross check the Bible
references given for the profile. Nick and Hugh are working on finding
the by-laws and mission statements to have ready for the package.
Hugh discussed the guidestone.org website regarding salary for pastors.
He is not on board with that site and wants to examine other sites i.e.
www.ministerpay.com.
Hugh reported we have received three resumes for the senior pastor position,
none of which he has read. They are being held until the appropriate time
to examine them. He has given Linda a reply letter to send out to that
effect as they come into the office.
Our next meetings are September 14 and 28.
Hugh closed the meeting in prayer.
Respectfully submitted by:
Terressa Duggan,
Secretary
August 17, 2009
Our meeting was called to order by Ch’rman Hugh Peters at 7:00 p.m. with
prayer.
All eight members were present.
Hugh introduced Mr. Lewis Miller, Associate, Florida Baptist Convention,
Leadership and Life Development Dept., who came to help us get organized
in our search for a new pastor. He gave each of us two booklets, Pastor
Search Committee Guidebook and Search Committee Training. Items from these
booklets were discussed. He also gave us a ten year profile of our church
produced by the Fl. Baptist Convention.
Hugh advised us that the Trustees have approved a line item budget for
this committee of $5000.
Hugh plans to speak to the congregation Sunday, August 23rd, just to let
them know our committee is ready, willing and able to proceed with finding
a new pastor. We previously agreed to keep the congregation abreast of
what is going on.
Hugh appointed two subcommittees:
Survey of the church – Joe Saviak, Matthew Jones
Information packet about our church & community – Tony Cubbedge, Myrtle
Hollingsworth and Deborah Onderdonk
Hugh requested an update from each of these committees at each meeting.
Nick closed our meeting in prayer around 8:45 p.m.
Our next meeting is Monday, August 31st, followed by September 14 and 28th.
Respectfully submitted,
Terressa Duggan, Secretary
August 3, 2009 – 7:30 p.m.
All eight people selected for the Pastor Search Committee were present for our first meeting: Hugh Peters, Nick Athanaseas, Tony Cubbedge, Matthew Jones, Deborah Onderdonk, Myrtle Hollingsworth, Joe Saviak, and Terressa DugganMyrtle Hollingsworth opened the meeting in prayer.
At first we just threw around some ideas and possibilities such as having a survey of the church for what they would like in a pastor and then give them a tally.
Nick will ask Glenn Jones, Interim Pastor Search Committee chairman, to give us a write up of where they stand on selecting an Interim pastor and their plans. Nick will speak to that on Sunday in church. Nick indicated there is no one on the horizon.
As for this Interim committee, we hope to see an interim pastor who will lead, energize, keep focused and lay ground work for the new senior pastor. We would like to see an Interim called for six months with the understanding that may need to be extended. Do we want a Full time Interim or a transitional Interim that is only present for Sundays and Wednesday nights? This decision should be made according to the congregations’ heart.
Win Thornton is the advisor to the Interim Search Committee. They plan to accept resumes through September and hope to have an Interim pastor seated by November 1st. Not moving quickly. We feel our PSC should be kept informed of the progress.
Our committee would like to keep the congregation in the loop and hope to have regular updates on the ACBC website. We all feel it is important that we are uniform in the information we give to people who ask what is going on, remembering some of it is confidential. We all agree to respect each other’s input.
Josh Dryer, our associate pastor, plans to leave ACBC on a school sabbatical January 1st, 2010. There is a concern for the timing of the Interim selection and our search. We were told the average search for a senior pastor is one month for every year the pastor served; thus ten months.
Deborah Onderdonk made the motion for Hugh Peters to be chairman of our Senior Pastor Search Committee; Terressa seconded followed by Tony Cubbedge. Hugh was genuinely overwhelmed and agreed to accept this position with one proviso: all on the committee will help and be committed. It was agreed that Nick Athanaseas will serve as Vice Chairman. Hugh asked Terressa to serve as Secretary and all agreed.
It was agreed that we will meet every other Monday night at ACBC at 7:00 p.m. – first and third Monday nights.
Hugh suggested we Google any information possible and share with others via email.
As Treasurer of the church, Hugh is concerned about our budget which will need to be approved by the Trustees. Since this is a “church called committee” the church will pay any expenses for travel etc.
Hugh suggested we look at www.ministerpay.com for information or guidelines. He will try to arrange for a representative from the FBC to visit us at our next meeting to help with guidelines for this search. We will need to develop an information package for the new pastor and want to have that in place before we have any interviews. We all agree that our committee must be unanimous before we call a pastor. We plan to have a firm do a background search on each candidate.
Terressa discussed the idea of having Prayer Warriors for this committee and asked that we be covered by prayer by the Deacons regularly. Hugh mentioned the people meeting in the sanctuary each Sunday morning @ 9:00 a.m. for prayer and suggested we should join them when possible.
Hugh closed the meeting in prayer and dismissed us.
The next meeting is Monday, August 17th @ 7:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Terressa Duggan, Secretary