Name: Bishop’s Convocation 2021: Speaking and Preaching Hope
Start: 2021-10-21T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2021-10-21T12:15:00-04:00
Location: St. Matthew Lutheran Church

Call Manual for Congregations and Institutions

This resource guides you through the 12-step call process.

Appendices – Here are helpful resources to supplement the Call Manual

A – Exit Evaluation Form
B – Certification Church Records
C – Policies on Interim Pastor and Preaching Arrangement
D – Supply Pastor Guidelines
E – Council Worksheet for Interim Pastor
F – Services and Rites of Closure or Retirement
G – Mission Planning for Congregations in Transition
H – Litanies of Welcome Farewell for an Interim

I – Sample Letter to a Leader Not Chosen
J – Sample Questions for a Prospective Leader
K – Sample Questions to a Call Committee
L – Covenants of Closure Guidelines for Former Ministers and their Congregations
M – Definition of Compensation Pastor
N – Hearing Voices God Speaks to a Call Committee
O – Evaluation of the Synod Call Process
P – Installation of a Rostered Minister

Additional Resources

Download a blank sample copy of the Ministry Site Profile (useful for Call Committee review).
Check out the Ministry Sites page of the ELCA website. Here you’ll find helpful tools and tutorials pertaining to the Ministry Site Profile (MSP).

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CALL MANUAL FOR CONGREGATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

Call Manual for Congregations and Institutions

Appendices – Here are helpful resources to supplement the Call Manual

Additional Resources

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Bishop’s Convocation 2021: Speaking and Preaching Hope

CALL MANUAL FOR CONGREGATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

Call Manual for Congregations and Institutions

Appendices – Here are helpful resources to supplement the Call Manual

Additional Resources

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