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DonViar

Don Viar, MBA, CPA (inactive)
Founder & CEO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Minister Match Launches New Staffing Service Focused on Churches of Christ

Cookeville, Tennessee - November 1, 2014 – Unique service focused on meeting the staffing needs of Church of Christ congregations forms to help churches make better hiring decisions.

Founder, Don Viar, perceived a need to help congregations conduct better minister searches with deeper and richer candidate pools while serving on a search committee in his local congregation.

“There simply hasn’t been a resource like this within the Restoration Movement,” says Mr. Viar, “to serve as the central community for ministers and congregations to connect with each other.”

We estimate that more than 200 ministerial searches are conducted each year within the Church. With more preachers retiring than we are graduating from our universities and schools of preaching, the supply of available ministers is shrinking.

Mr. Viar feels that better networking, training, support and tools for search committees will lead to longer minister tenures and ultimately healthier and more stable congregations.

“With a combination of free and paid services, Minister Match has the resources to help every congregation achieve better results with their next hire. Churches can choose one of three paths: 1) Use our free Search Process Tutorial to conduct your own search, 2) Pay a small fee to search our Minister Profile Database and access our tools, or 3) engage with us in a Guided Search to facilitate a search on their behalf.”

Don Viar serves as a coach, advisor, and confidant to church leaders across North America. He is available for discussion about your staffing needs between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm Central Standard Time, seven days a week.

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410 South Lowe Avenue
Cookeville, Tennessee 38501
Ph: 931-881-3930

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The ABC's of the On-Boarding Phase

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Your congregation has just hired a minister, and it seems like they are the perfect fit. Congratulations! There is one more step to the process, though, and it is just as important as the process of finding the right minister. You might have heard people refer to how the “first hundred days” of someone’s job usually sets the tone for their entire career with that organization. The same is true with ministers. Just as your congregation is going through a major transition, so is your new minister. The first few months of a job are a stressful time, and it is the job of the elders and search committee to help your new minister through their transition.

We refer to this as the “On-Boarding Stage.” Since the “first hundred days” is so important to the rest of a minister’s career with your congregation, we believe this stage is one of the keys to reducing minister turnover in the church. In this post, we want to talk about a few of the things that a new minister needs from their congregation during this transition period. We will refer to them as the ABC’s of the On-Boarding Phase.

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