The book is designed to provide practical help to those involved in filling a vacancy, showing how to make it a good process and end with a good appointment. At the same time, it is useful to clergy seeking appointments, and senior clergy actually making the appointments.

Claire Pedrick

Cover page

About the Author

Consultant

Declaration

Title page

Imprint

Dedication

Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Context

1. Introduction

2. How to use this book

3. Discernment and selection

4. Roles and responsibilities

Part 2: Making ready

5. Prayer

6. Where are you now?

7. The audit

8. The parish profile

9. Who do you need?

10. Considering your next minister

11. The person profile

Part 3: Discernment and Selection

12. How do you do it?

13. Preparing for the process

14. The process in action

Part 4: Managing Transition and Arrival

15. Holding the community

16. The last and the first

Notes

The Good Book Stall

This book is a manual for those who are involved in making appointments in the Church. The ‘great’, however, refers not to appointments to high office but, hopefully, to the successful outcome of appointing to the more lowly ministries of parish priest, minister or presbyter.   
 The authors are very experienced people. Claire Pedrick has been a ‘selector for the Methodist World Council Office and CMS, and has trained people in vocational selection for the past 25 years’. Su Blanch is a consultant in Human Resources. The book comes wrapped in recommendations from several high profile figures in the churches – on the cover and over four pages at the beginning. If you need to know how to set about considering, advertising, interviewing and recommending candidates for appointments this book leaves no pebble unturned. Essentially it is about process, and so its appeal will be to those for whom process is very important.  
Much will be familiar – how to draw up a parish profile and candidate specification; how to design a time of ‘robust discernment’ and interview; how to frame a list of relevant questions; and so on. If a church is incapable of thinking this out for itself, then the book provides a handy checklist.  
But, if you don’t care for management-speak – ‘stakeholders’, ‘interview script’, ‘candidate audit’, ‘added value’ – or the assumption that process is so critical, then it may serve only to irritate - especially if you are uncomfortable with the idea of ‘prayer events’ or building a labyrinth for Holy Week.

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