Your Next Pastorate: Starting the Search

How do you know if it's time to move on? Have you discovered the gifts you have been given to give? How can you know if a new congregation really wants your gifts? Why are they taking so long to decide? When and what do you tell your present congregation?

Bolles gets you started by answering the questions commonly asked by clergy searching for new pastorates.

Ayers helps you identify and develop choices available to you.

Miller leads you to consider the factors that motivate you and how motivational patterns reflect your gifts for ministry.

Mead wraps up the details of your search by providing a job-hunt checklist and gives you a look at the other side of your search--the work and viewpoint of the search committee.