RECOMMENDING A CANDIDATE FOR THE ROLE OF SENIOR PASTOR GRAND AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH.
If God is leading you to recommend a prospective candidate to our Pastor Search Committee, we ask that you:
Write a formal Letter of Recommendation to our Pastor Search Committee about the candidate explaining why God is leading you to give us his name for consideration. Furthermore, if possible, please submit a resume of the candidate you are recommending to us. If you cannot get his resume or he prefers to not share it at this time, you may still submit your letter to our Pastor Search Committee, and they can follow-up with the candidate if God gives them the direction to do so.
Write a formal Letter of Recommendation to our Pastor Search Committee about the candidate explaining why God is leading you to give us his name for consideration. Furthermore, if possible, please submit a resume of the candidate you are recommending to us. If you cannot get his resume or he prefers to not share it at this time, you may still submit your letter to our Pastor Search Committee, and they can follow-up with the candidate if God gives them the direction to do so.
Announcements:
All announcements will be added in this location.
Pastor Search Committee Update:
Results of Pastor Search Committee voting will be announced Sunday, May 10.
Pastor Search Team Timeline:
May 3: Church entered a called business meeting to vote on Pastor Search Committee members.
May 10:Results will be made known.
May 17:Commissioning of Pastor Search Committee will take place during our regularly scheduled worship.
The process:
Church Bylaws on Pastor Search Committee Selection and Process:
GABC Bylaws concerning Pastor Search Committee
In SECTION III - Church Officers and Staff under sub-section C. (Senior Pastor), number 2 (selection.)
In the selection of the Senior Pastor, a committee of seven ( plus two alternate members, one male and one female), to be known as the Pastor Search Committee shall be nominated by the Board of Overseers and elected at the regular or called business conference of the church.
Members of the Pastoral Leadership Team and their immediate family members (spouse, parents and children) shall not be eligible to serve on the Pastor Search Committee.
Suggestions for members to serve shall be solicited from the Church. The Board of Overseers shall choose the nominees from those suggested and others they may deem appropriate. The Board of Overseers shall present a slate of nominees to the church body of not less than 3 members of the Board of Overseers, and not less than 3 men, and not less than 3 women. The three Overseers and the two men and two women receiving the most votes from the church
election will be elected as the Pastor Search Committee. The committee shall serve until its task is completed. The man and the woman receiving the third highest number of votes will be
elected as the alternates. Such committee shall proceed in the selection of a Senior Pastor whose gifts, character and calling fit him for the office to be filled. The Senior Pastor shall be presented to and elected by the Church according to the election process specified in Section V.
Election Process (Connected Section V – Senior Pastor)
“In the selection of the Senior Pastor, a committee of seven ( plus two alternate members, one male and one female), to be known as the Pastor Search Committee shall be nominated by the Board of Overseers and elected at the regular or called business conference of the church.
Members of the Pastoral Leadership Team and their immediate family members (spouse, parents and children) shall not be eligible to serve on the Pastor Search Committee.
Suggestions for members to serve shall be solicited from the Church. The Board of Overseers shall choose the nominees from those suggested and others they may deem appropriate. The Board of Overseers shall present a slate of nominees to the church body of not less than 3 members of the Board of Overseers, and not less than 3 men, and not less than 3 women.
The three Overseers and the two men and two women receiving the most votes from the church election will be elected as the Pastor Search Committee. The committee shall serve until its task is completed. The man and the woman receiving the third highest number of votes will be elected as the alternates.
Such committee shall proceed in the selection of a Senior Pastor whose gifts, character and calling fit him for the office to be filled. The Senior Pastor shall be presented to and elected by the Church according to the election process specified in Section V.”
Election Process (Connected Section V – Senior Pastor)
“The Pastor Search Committee shall make a recommendation to the Church to fill a vacancy in the Senior Pastor position…
The election of the Senior Pastor shall occur at a Church business conference called specifically for that purpose. No name shall be considered or nominated except that recommended by the Pastor Search Committee.
The vote shall be by secret ballot and shall require a three-fourths affirmative vote of the members present and voting for election. If the recommendation does not receive three-fourths of the vote, the Pastor Search Committee shall present another recommendation to the Church.”
In the selection of the Senior Pastor, a committee of seven ( plus two alternate members, one male and one female), to be known as the Pastor Search Committee shall be nominated by the Board of Overseers and elected at the regular or called business conference of the church.
Members of the Pastoral Leadership Team and their immediate family members (spouse, parents and children) shall not be eligible to serve on the Pastor Search Committee.
Suggestions for members to serve shall be solicited from the Church. The Board of Overseers shall choose the nominees from those suggested and others they may deem appropriate. The Board of Overseers shall present a slate of nominees to the church body of not less than 3 members of the Board of Overseers, and not less than 3 men, and not less than 3 women. The three Overseers and the two men and two women receiving the most votes from the church
election will be elected as the Pastor Search Committee. The committee shall serve until its task is completed. The man and the woman receiving the third highest number of votes will be
elected as the alternates. Such committee shall proceed in the selection of a Senior Pastor whose gifts, character and calling fit him for the office to be filled. The Senior Pastor shall be presented to and elected by the Church according to the election process specified in Section V.
Election Process (Connected Section V – Senior Pastor)
“In the selection of the Senior Pastor, a committee of seven ( plus two alternate members, one male and one female), to be known as the Pastor Search Committee shall be nominated by the Board of Overseers and elected at the regular or called business conference of the church.
Members of the Pastoral Leadership Team and their immediate family members (spouse, parents and children) shall not be eligible to serve on the Pastor Search Committee.
Suggestions for members to serve shall be solicited from the Church. The Board of Overseers shall choose the nominees from those suggested and others they may deem appropriate. The Board of Overseers shall present a slate of nominees to the church body of not less than 3 members of the Board of Overseers, and not less than 3 men, and not less than 3 women.
The three Overseers and the two men and two women receiving the most votes from the church election will be elected as the Pastor Search Committee. The committee shall serve until its task is completed. The man and the woman receiving the third highest number of votes will be elected as the alternates.
Such committee shall proceed in the selection of a Senior Pastor whose gifts, character and calling fit him for the office to be filled. The Senior Pastor shall be presented to and elected by the Church according to the election process specified in Section V.”
Election Process (Connected Section V – Senior Pastor)
“The Pastor Search Committee shall make a recommendation to the Church to fill a vacancy in the Senior Pastor position…
The election of the Senior Pastor shall occur at a Church business conference called specifically for that purpose. No name shall be considered or nominated except that recommended by the Pastor Search Committee.
The vote shall be by secret ballot and shall require a three-fourths affirmative vote of the members present and voting for election. If the recommendation does not receive three-fourths of the vote, the Pastor Search Committee shall present another recommendation to the Church.”
SECTION III - Church Officers and Staff
C. Senior Pastor
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2. Selection
In the selection of the Senior Pastor, a committee of seven ( plus two alternate members, one male and one female), to be known as the Pastor Search Committee shall be nominated by the Board of Overseers and elected at the regular or called business conference of the church.
Members of the Pastoral Leadership Team and their immediate family members (spouse,
parents and children) shall not be eligible to serve on the Pastor Search Committee.
Suggestions for members to serve shall be solicited from the Church. The Board of Overseers shall choose the nominees from those suggested and others they may deem appropriate. The Board of Overseers shall present a slate of nominees to the church body of not less than members of the Board of Overseers, and not less than 3 men, and not less than 3 women. The three Overseers and the two men and two women receiving the most votes from the church election will be elected as the Pastor Search Committee. The committee shall serve until its task is completed. The man and the woman receiving the third highest number of votes will be
elected as the alternates. Such committee shall proceed in the selection of a Senior Pastor whose gifts, character and calling fit him for the office to be filled. The Senior Pastor shall be presented to and elected by the Church according to the election process specified in Section V.
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2. Selection
In the selection of the Senior Pastor, a committee of seven ( plus two alternate members, one male and one female), to be known as the Pastor Search Committee shall be nominated by the Board of Overseers and elected at the regular or called business conference of the church.
Members of the Pastoral Leadership Team and their immediate family members (spouse,
parents and children) shall not be eligible to serve on the Pastor Search Committee.
Suggestions for members to serve shall be solicited from the Church. The Board of Overseers shall choose the nominees from those suggested and others they may deem appropriate. The Board of Overseers shall present a slate of nominees to the church body of not less than members of the Board of Overseers, and not less than 3 men, and not less than 3 women. The three Overseers and the two men and two women receiving the most votes from the church election will be elected as the Pastor Search Committee. The committee shall serve until its task is completed. The man and the woman receiving the third highest number of votes will be
elected as the alternates. Such committee shall proceed in the selection of a Senior Pastor whose gifts, character and calling fit him for the office to be filled. The Senior Pastor shall be presented to and elected by the Church according to the election process specified in Section V.