Conference Superintendent for Congregational Vitality
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Online Application: Conference Superintendent for Congregational Vitality

Thank you for your interest in the position of Conference Superintendent for Congregational Vitality in the California-Nevada Annual Conference. The application deadline is October 1, 2011. The answers provided in this application will be viewed only by those on the search committee and will be held in the utmost confidence.

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1. Please provide us the contact information you prefer us to use when communicating with you throughout the search and interview process.

Please provide us the contact information you prefer us to use when communicating with you throughout the search and interview process. Name:
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2. Why are you applying for this position?

Why are you applying for this position?

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3. What do you most enjoy about your current position (or position you held last)? What do you dislike most about it?

What do you most enjoy about your current position (or position you held last)? What do you dislike most about it?

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4. Describe the last time you built a high-performing team. Include the strategies you used and lessons you learned. What did that team accomplish?

Describe the last time you built a high-performing team. Include the strategies you used and lessons you learned. What did that team accomplish?

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5. Imagine a conference leader asked you for a book recommendation so that they might gain a better understanding of new church starts. What book would you recommend and why?

Imagine a conference leader asked you for a book recommendation so that they might gain a better understanding of new church starts. What book would you recommend and why?

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6. Our number one priority is calling forth, encouraging, equipping and positioning servant leaders to join with the movement of God’s mission in the world. If at least half of those in our California-Nevada churches actually become agents of God’s mission in the world and if we support their movement along the way, we believe the following is possible by 2020:
1. All congregations have a clear, simple vision and strategy for making disciples in their unique context who reach their mission fields.
2. Our conference culture encourages innovative ways of multiplying disciple-making movements to create new places for new people.
3. One-third of the congregations in the conference starting something new that reaches new people through context-driven models of new faith communities and/or new expressions of ministry.
4. A new multicultural congregation that consistently engages no fewer than 1,000 active participants each week.
5. At least 5 existing congregations with no fewer than 1,000 active participants each week.
6. At least 20 faith communities with no fewer than 500 active participants each week.

Looking at the 2020 goals, describe three simple strategies you would employ within the first year of your employment that would lay the groundwork for success.

Our number one priority is calling forth, encouraging, equipping and positioning servant leaders to join with the movement of God’s mission in the world. If at least half of those in our California-Nevada churches actually become agents of God’s mission in the world and if we support their movement along the way, we believe the following is possible by 2020: 1. All congregations have a clear, simple vision and strategy for making disciples in their unique context who reach their mission fields. 2. Our conference culture encourages innovative ways of multiplying disciple-making movements to create new places for new people. 3. One-third of the congregations in the conference starting something new that reaches new people through context-driven models of new faith communities and/or new expressions of ministry. 4. A new multicultural congregation that consistently engages no fewer than 1,000 active participants each week. 5. At least 5 existing congregations with no fewer than 1,000 active participants each week. 6. At least 20 faith communities with no fewer than 500 active participants each week. Looking at the 2020 goals, describe three simple strategies you would employ within the first year of your employment that would lay the groundwork for success.

Conference Superintendent for Congregational VitalityExit this survey

Online Application: Conference Superintendent for Congregational Vitality

*1. Please provide us the contact information you prefer us to use when communicating with you throughout the search and interview process.

*2. Why are you applying for this position?

*3. What do you most enjoy about your current position (or position you held last)? What do you dislike most about it?