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Senior Pastor Search Services
For Assemblies of God Church Board Members (Strategic focus on churches with attendance of 700 or more)
 You can
re-invent the wheel in the search for your new senior pastor or you can bring
the best practices of Senior Pastor Search Services to your board table! For over
30 years, Dick Hardy has built a network of relationships throughout the
Assemblies of God, equipping him to help you find God's next leader for your
church.
Purpose: To assist the
church and board in effectively navigating the pastoral search.
The Hardy Group helps you design a process that includes, but is not limited
to the following:
- Defining the roles of The Hardy Group and the church.
- Establishing a church-specific search time-line.
- Developing a candidate search process specific to your church.
- Conducting board-defined focus groups to create a senior pastor profile.
- Contacting, determining the interest levels, and recruiting prospective candidates.
- Processing and screening applications in a timely and confidential manner.
- Completing reference checks.
- Advising the Search Committee as they select candidates for on-site interviews.
- Assisting in arranging on-site interview logistics.
- Assisting the Search Committee chair in his/her arrangements for on-site visitations.
- Assisting in negotiating final compensation arrangements.
- Communicating with applicants during the process.
- Informing all applicants when the position is filled.
 Here's what The
Hardy Group brings to you in the process - his network of relationships. These
friendships come from pastors, district officials, colleagues, students,
college presidents, and national leaders inside the AG.
He has spent nearly 30 years with the two highest leadership groups in the
local church-pastors and board members. He enjoyed every minute
(well, almost every minute) of helping pastors think like board members and
helping board members think like pastors. Or at least helping both
groups understand the quirks of the other.
TO THE BOARD CHAIR OF
THE PASTORAL SEARCH COMMITTEE HERE IS YOUR MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION???
 How many tithing families have to leave your church during the search
process before you lose the revenue equivalent to a search consultant's fee?
Normally, it's just one or two! In addition, The Hardy Group fee is usually
near one month's salary for your senior pastor.
Your pastor is now gone and you are not paying his salary. Hence, you
already have the money. Spend it wisely with spiritual and professional
ministerial counsel; that which is intimately connected to the pastor-market
from which your new pastor will come.
Board Member Endorsements:
The Hardy Group has taken us through the initial sifting of resumes and we
believe we will have a very strong short list to pour our energies into. Dick
Hardy has led us prayerfully through our first steps in finding the man that
God has already intended for us. Thank you to Dick, for bringing his skills and
services in this area to meet the needs of our church and the church at large.
Greg Wall
Church Board Member
Dick Hardy has spent many years in church leadership and has a sense for
understanding the heart of God in what He desires for leadership in the body of
Christ. The Hardy Group's Senior Pastor Search Service is a valuable ministry
tool that will be a great asset to any church seeking a new pastor.
Chuck Becker
Church Board Member
The substantive advice Dick gave us educated us about what is necessary to
look for in a senior pastor to perform well today. He talked to us about the
dynamics of the search process, the characteristics of pastoral qualities and
leadership. This information helped us to evaluate the candidates in whose
direction we were sent and kept us from going down blind alleys. This is not
speculative. I have no doubt that Dick's advice easily saved us several months
at the outset.
We discovered that he understood the signals, the nuances of inquiry and
response, and the code words. His training and experience facilitated our
future communications with candidates and helped us to observe proper protocol.
I commend him to you without reservation.
Chad Schlak
Church Board Member
I would recommend Dick
Hardy to any church board seeking God’s new man for their pulpit.
J.C. Ganote
Church Board Member
Dick Hardy was unbelievably helpful to me in the search for our new
senior pastor.
Russ Hixso
Church Board Member
God was so good to us in spite of our mistakes and inadequacies by sending
us Dick Hardy as our spiritual mentor and guide through this very important
decision, that of finding our new senior pastor.
Mike Ruff
Church Board Member
Medium to larger churches
need to quit reinventing the wheel and engage the services of a true Search
Professional that understands AG churches.
Gene Cox
Church Board Member
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