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Search and Call is the process used by congregations to call new pastoral leadership. Pastors who are interested in exploring new possibilities for ministry complete an online profile. This standard profile is used to allow congregations to compare the same types of information on each ministerial candidate. Each profile must include four references, one of which must be from a regional staff person in the region where the candidate hold standing.

All ministers entering Search and Call are required to complete a background check before their profiles can be circulated. In addition, Kentucky requires all of its ministers who enter Search and Call to complete a Boundaries Training workshop before a regional reference can be written for that minister. The minister cannot circulate his or her profile until the regional reference is completed.

Once a profile is completed the minister’s profile is distributed to all of the regional ministers where the minister has indicated an interest to serve. The Regional Ministers receive the profiles of ministers entering the system once each week.

A CCK staff member meets with each Search committee of a congregation seeking new pastoral leadership. The CCK staff member does an orientation to the process and establishes the means by which profiles are provided to the search committee on a regular basis until a call is made.

To initiate a ministerial search process in your congregation contact CCK General Minister, Greg Alexander, at 859-233-1391 or greg@ccinky.net.

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