Jack Lohr's Roadmap for the Interim Process

Roadmap for the Interim Process

(a tentative plan to get from here to a called pastor in ~23 months)

1. Sept.: Outline an "Interim Team" to work with Interim Pastor to develop a proposal for Mission Study process.
2. Oct. Session Meeting: With COM liason's OK, Approve Mission Study process
3. Nov., 2010 through March, 2011: Mission Study process and drafting of Mission Discernment Document [MDD] & Position Description [PD]
4. April Session Meeting: Review and Approve MDD and PD
5. May: Congregation Approves MDD & PD
6. June: Committee on Ministry Reviews and Gives Approval to Elect a Pastor Nominating Committee
7. June: Congregational Meeting to Elect PNC
8. July-Sept.: PNC prepares Church Information Form, gets approval from Session & COM
9. Oct., 2011 - June, 2012: PNC Does Its Work and Brings a Candidate for Congregational & Presbytery Approval
10. August, 2012: New Pastor Arrives

For details of Presbytery's process, see:
http://www.hudrivpres.org/upload/resources/com_sm_1_stages_of_process.pdf
http://www.hudrivpres.org/upload/resources/com_sm_apph_mission_study.doc
and other documents available at:
http://www.hudrivpres.org/index.php?n=22&sn=47

--Jack Lohr, Interim Pastor