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2024 Clergy Profile/Ministry Review

To be completed by Pastor - deadline May 13, 2024.
(SPRC chairs are to submit their form separately.)

You can complete & submit a form in one session, or leave the form to complete & submit later. To save your form in progress click on the Save and Continue button on the right side (it will appear after you begin filling out the form. Be sure to put in your email address). A link will appear at the top of the page. *It is important to highlight, copy and save this link before exiting out. You may paste this link in the address bar of your browser to re-enter your session at any time. Note: once you submit the form, the link will no longer be available.

After completion, print this form for your records before hitting submit by clicking the print button above.

*indicates required field (if a required field is left blank, the form will not submit)

Clergy Evaluated - Pastor's First and Last Name *

Clergy's email *

District *

Church (Type in first few letters of name to find)

Other churches currently serving

Family Information

Spouse Name

Spouse Employment

Children (include age/or current grade level) and other family living at home

Background Information

    How are you serving/connecting with the wider community of your appointment?    *

    Continuing education report (please put your name and church at the top of the file). Please attach only .pdfs or .docs. No .jpgs or .pngs.    

Share an overview of your strengths in ministry. *

    What ministry specializations or gifts would you like the cabinet to know about?    *

    What plans do you have for your congregation to grow in your anti-racism work? How are you linking this to our work as disciples?    *

    What are you doing as a United Methodist pastor to help
people understand the mission, ministry, and distinctive
characteristics of the United Methodist Church?     *

How did you work collaboratively with another congregation?

    What makes the connection come alive for you and your
congregation?

    How are you helping people hear their own call to ministry? (lay, licensed, or ordained)    *

Health and Wellbeing

What are you currently reading? *

How are you growing in your own Christian discipleship? *

What kind of physical exercise do you do? *

    What kind of hobbies or other activities do you participate in on a regular basis?    *

Do you regularly seek spiritual direction and/or are you in a colleague group for support and accountability? *

    Do you have any chronic medical conditions or health concerns that the cabinet needs to be aware of? If so, what and how does it affect your ministry?    *

Appointment Conversation

*Deacons may mark N/A

    What family or personal considerations does this cabinet need to know when projecting future appointments for you? Do you have a limited itinerancy, and if so what are these limits?    *

    Do you anticipate filling out an Appointment Change Consultation form this year? If so, why?    *

How much longer do you see yourself in your current appointment? *

    Given that an appointment change can happen any year, please share with us your top three considerations of importance for an appointment.  (this can include information around family needs, geography, housing, salary, etc, though clergy should understand that appointments cannot be made guaranteeing all those considerations.)
    *

Part 2 - Clergy Evaluation Tool 2024

1. Pray for clarity and honest self-examination as you prepare to fill out your form;

2. Spend time filling in a score and concrete examples for each of the 12 dimensions. A score of 5 is the highest score and 1 is the lowest;

3. Once you have completed the form, meet with the staff parish to review the forms and work together to improve each of the dimensions. It is your responsibility to want to grow and improve the ministry you have been called to but it is also the work of the church to support and work alongside you to improve each dimension in you and for the church as a whole;

Below are the 12 dimensions of ministry that can be found in Effective Ministry 360.

Each pastor brings particular strengths and growth opportunities for these areas. Please read through each dimension of ministry and rate your effectiveness with the following scale

1--Highly ineffective

2--Ineffective

3--Neither effective nor ineffective

4--Effective

5--Highly effective

Please keep in mind that the way you engage in each dimension of ministry can take many forms. You may be directly involved, develop teams to administer the tasks/ministries, resource others in the area, or develop community connections.

Administration and Organization

Performs activities that support the efficient functioning of the organization such as: Supervising the keeping of accurate and thoughtful records for accounting, bookkeeping, and budgeting purposes and actively managing risk such as investments and insurance; working with responsible financial planning for emergencies or unforeseen needs; maintaining and improving existing facilities and, when needed, leading the development of new facilities. *