Name: Racial Justice Training
Start: 2020-09-01T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2020-09-01T15:00:00-04:00
Location: St. Peter Lutheran Church, Lancaster

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 2019
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, Benefits and Responsibilities 10-08-19
N – Hearing Voices God Speaks to a Call Committee
O – Evaluation of the Synod Call Process
P – Installation of a Rostered Leader

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

Blessings on your journey ahead as you call a new leader to serve in your congregation or institution. Below are resources that can assist you.

Appendices – Here are helpful resources to supplement the Call Manual

Additional Resources

Retirement Seminar by Portico Benefit Services

Racial Justice Training