CLERGY NAME: clergy1

Email: clergy2
Cell: clergy3
Social Media Link (Facebook, Instagram, etc.):clergy4
LinkedIn profile: clergy5

Marital Status: clergy6

Citizenship:

Spouse: clergy16
Children living in the home and ages: children1, children2

Specific Family Needs: clergy7

Years in Current Appointment: clergy8

Total Years in Ordained or Licensed Ministry: clergy9

Current Pastoral Compensation:

Cash Salary clergy10
ARP clergy11
Housing Allowance clergy12

Average In-Person Worship Attendance __inperson2_______ Prior Year __ inperson1

Average On-Line Worship Attendance OnlineWorship2____ APrior Year OnlineWorship1__

Appointment History: Appointment1

Special Trainings: clergy15

Education:

Gifts for Ministry: clergy13

Growing edges: clergy14

 Narrative Questions
1. In your years of ministry, what experiences do you especially celebrate? What experiences have
challenged you? What is your passion in the life of the church?

2. Using a scale of 1-10 (1 being in need of significant growth and 10 being high expertise)
evaluate your abilities in the following ministerial skills

Skill Rating

Ability to communicate faith and beliefs through

Inspirational preaching based on scripture

Strategic leadership and thinking – ability to

assist congregation in the development of a
ministry plan

Community engagement – leading congregation

to an outward focus

Pastoral Care

Evangelistic: sharing faith, invitational,

following up with visitors, equipping
congregation for task of evangelism

Ability to lead a team approach to ministry.

Ability to lead congregation in developing

intentional discipleship pathways

Emphasis on Biblical teaching for congregation

Encourages and works with children, youth and

young adult ministries

Promotes a variety of worship settings/services

Administration and staff development

Ability to Lead Change

Develop laity for ministry

Stewardship development

Self-care
3. Prioritize the skills below from (1 being in need of significant growth and 10 being high
expertise) evaluate your abilities in the following ministerial skills
THE PASTOR
Pastoral Leadership Rankings
Rank your gifts/skillsets in the following areas from highest (1) to lowest (17)
RANKING SYSTEM THAT will show their ranking with the order from highest (1) to
lowest (17) on a PDF report.

Rank Leadership Skill Description

Leadership & Serving as the leader of the leaders in the congregation, the person
Vision-Casting who articulates the vision and focuses the work of the whole
congregation on that vision.

Planning & Planning and conducting worship services, Preparing computer

Leading Worship information for services, and working with others who lead and
participate in worship.

Community Leader Serving as a volunteer leader in the community to help make the
community stronger and our world a better place (Kiwanis, Rotary,
Optimus, town/city/county boards, etc.)

Staff Supervision Overseeing the staff of the church, setting priorities, and di- recting
the ministry leaders of the church.

Teaching Planning and teaching short-term classes, teachingbible studies,

teaching confirmation classes, teaching training classes on
leadership, evangelism, etc.

Discipleship Helping others to identify their own special call to service, and
enabling them to respond, by developing and fol- lowing a discipline
of Bible and other devotional study, partici- pating in programs of
continuing education and service to the Kingdom through their
giftedness.

Prophetic Ministry Speaking the truth of scripture into the culture and community and
seeking to lead the community in making a Kingdom difference in
the world.
 Personal & Developing and following a discipline of Bible Study and other
Spiritual Growth devotional study, participating in programs of personal development
and education, in order to lead more effectively.

Office Management Keeping accurate records, collecting data, and filling out needed
reports

Administration Serving as the executive of the congregation, working with the

committees on planning and implementation of programs

Communications Handling the correspondence of the church, channeling com-

munications, getting information into bulletins, newsletters, onto
the internet, etc.

Counseling & Meeting with individuals on a one-on-one basis to work through

Spiritual Direction personal and spiritual problems, helping them to put together a
spiritual plan, meeting with couples planning to be married, or
those who are dealing with the issues of life.

Evangelism Calling on the unchurched, nominally churched, de-churched, and

people in the community, calling on prospective new members, and
generally bearing witness to the Good News in hopes that
individuals will accept the Gospel Message.

Preaching Planning for, preparing, writing, and delivering sermons.

Visitation Calling on those associated with the church family in their homes or
at their places of work in a systematic program to meet each
member where they are most comfortable.

Financial Planning Helping to plan the financial program of the church, creating and
& Fundraising executing a plan to provide funding for the church and/or any
special project or general ministry need.

Healer Builds bridges and restores relationships by creating a healthy

environment, with models healthy work/life balance with spiritual
and emotional maturity.

3. Using a scale of 1-10 (1 being in need of significant growth and 10 being high expertise) offer your
self-assessment of each characteristic related to the task of preaching
 Biblical: Faithful to the biblical text 

Wesleyan: Consistent with Wesleyan theology

Engaging: Gets and keeps people's attention

Relevant: Be relevant to the daily life of the

congregation

Relational: Winsome, authentic and approachable

pulpit presence

Grounded: Speaks out of a deep and authentic

spiritual life

Eloquent: Skillful use of humor, stories and other

communication tools

Deepening: Draws people into a deeper

relationship with God. 

Focused: Clear and focused on what the preacher

wants people to know, feel and do

Evangelistic: Inspires, motivates and invites people

to make a transformative relationship with Jesus
Christ.

4. With what styles of worship do you feel comfortable/competent?

checkboxes for 1) contemporary 2) traditional 3) blended 4) liturgical 5) charismatic 6) Other: ________

5. Ephesians 4:11-12 help us understand the 5-Fold ministry of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd
and Teacher. Please take the free assessment at htpps://fivefoldministry.com and tell us your score
below.

Apostle

Prophet

Evangelist

Shepherd

Teacher
6. What other personality or leadership style indices have you used? (i.e., Meyers-Briggs, Enneagram,
DISC, etc.) How did that index describe you? From all you have learned, how would you describe
your leadership style? What have you learned from the feedback of others?

7. How do you respond to stress/disagreement/conflict? In conflicted times, how do you understand

your pastoral role?

8. Of all the areas of pastoral responsibility, what are your strengths? What are not your strengths?
How to you intend to maintain your strengths and grow in areas that are not a strength?

9. How do you understand your partnership with the laity of the church? How do you understand the
equipping and empowerment of lay leadership?

10. How are you equipping congregations to live a Wesleyan ethos?

11. How are you leading congregations to be externally focused?

12. How do you lead a congregation to celebrate and nurture diversity? (age, racial, ethnic, status,
cultural, gender)

13. Describe how you are leading congregations in the following areas:

Visioning: 
Evangelism/Faith-sharing: 
Strategic Thinking/Planning: 
Intentional Discipleship System: 

14. What do you see as the major challenges of the Church for the next five years?

15. In what ministry settings are you most comfortable? (i.e., urban, suburban, rural, staff church,
pastor-centered church, new starts, missional churches, chaplaincy, extension or agency settings... or
others?)

16. Describe any personal or family issues that might affect your current or any future appointments:

17. For your current appointment, in this past year:

* Church membership:  
* Average In-Person Worship Attendance
* Average On-Line Worship Attendance:
* Please describe your congregation's attendance 'patterns', if any.)  
* Percentage of General Church and Annual Conference Connectional Funding Paid:  
* Baptisms:
* Professions of Faith:
* Number of people in small groups/discipleship groups: 
* 1st time guests to worship: 
* Returning guests to worship: 
* Number of people in hands-on mission and ministry: 
* Number of people served through mission: 
* Describe your ministry setting (mission field):
18. Do you have experience working with staff?

Yes 
No

If yes, describe your experience:

19. Educational Information

High School: education1

Graduation Year:
College: education3 Degree: education4
Graduation Year:
Seminary: education5 Degree: education6
Graduation Year:
Other Graduate or Postgraduate: education7 Degree: education8
Graduation Year:
Licensing School: education9
Year Completed:
Course of Study: Number of Courses: education10
If Completed, what year?:
Other Certifications: education11

20. Describe the geographical area in which you would be open to an appointment?

Anywhere _____ Only in these States _________ Only in State of Current Appointment
______

Only _________Mile Radius from Current Appointment

21. Any information that needs to be known that has not been asked about?