Senior Pastor Job Profile
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Pastor Dave’s gift of flexibility provides a time of overlap where Mount Calvary will have two Senior Pastors working together to bridge the transition from one to another. With this approach, we benefit from the collaboration of Pastor Dave and the new Senior Pastor on foundational ministries and the history and culture of our congregation. At the same time, we are excited and look forward to encouraging our new pastor’s vision for the future.
Many churches our size have moved to this overlap-succession model to create continuity while looking to the future. We will look for our next Senior Pastor to be just as inspired as all of us to make Mount Calvary a welcoming, inclusive, open and affirming, loving, service-oriented place to call church home. Pastor Dave has done this for forty years and he’s excited about shepherding this process and a new leader to success.
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Starting with the nudging of Pastor Dave and between the Transition Team, HR Team, Council, Staff and Congregation, we have been preparing for a senior pastor transition since 2015 … six years of preparation!
In January of this year
We determined that hiring an Independent Recruiter was important to ensure we contacted the best candidates for Mount Calvary.
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Our Recommendation
We have prepared for this moment for the last six years. Our recruiter contacted over 200 candidates and met with about 20 she felt fit the profile. We selected eight candidates for the committee to interview and conducted 28 interviews. Our top candidate was interviewed seven times and went through a professional assessment.
In conclusion, we can confidently say that we did our due diligence. Throughout the process, we received great feedback that Mount Calvary appeared to be well organized, the job profile was very inspiring, and Mount Calvary has a great reputation. We met a lot of fantastic candidates. However, through everything one candidate continued to stand out and the Call Committee is enthusiastically recommending to Council that we hire Pastor Kyle Jackson as our new Senior Pastor.
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People of Mount Calvary have followed God’s lead for over 90 years. Since the beginning grace, love, hospitality, inclusion, and service have been part of who we are and what God calls us to offer our community and the world. Our leader, Pastor Dave Olson, has been our conductor on the journey, empowering people to hear God’s word in scripture and in life, inspiring folks to follow their passions and to use their gifts for present needs and the next generation.
For 40 years Pastor Dave has dedicated himself to leading our congregation, and together we’ve built on our strong pillars and faithful foundation. What will the coming years look like for us? Let’s embrace our future with enthusiasm! We’ll need all our prayers, energy and resources to be our best. Join us in launching a legacy that shows we opened our hands to give what we could for our longtime mission to make, build up, and send out disciples of Jesus Christ.
Shared gifts grow in their significance. Our combined blessings increase exponentially and extend beyond our walls. Combining our gifts, we are able to meet compelling needs and serve our neighbors in unexpected ways. We can do so much more when we do it together!
Over the next year, we hope to raise $350,000 in gifts to provide for leadership transition, an executive search firm, technology upgrades, and critical partner support. These dollars will allow us to successfully position ourselves for a seamless transition. We’re proud of our legacy with Pastor Dave, and we’re excited about all the possibilities in our future. Please help us by supporting a thorough plan for growth. We believe this plan is the best way to move us gracefully forward.
Church is where the faith we hold dear unites us. It’s here that we invest in other people’s tomorrows as young people grow in faith and human needs are met in our community. In this holy space we inspire people to live in ways that benefit the world. We get to be a part of something greater than ourselves.
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