Treasure State Baptist Association

 

Information Sheet for Prospective Pastor

1.  Name Date 

2.  Local Association where your present church is affiliated

Name of the Director of Missions

 

3.  Name the churches you have served; include when (month/yr) & responsibilities.

 

 

 

 

 

4. Share the reasons you feel your ready for a new ministry assignment?

 

 

5. Share your call to ministry in Montana?

 

 

 

6. Share the most positive work or ministry experience you have had in your life & why was this so meaningful?

 

 

 

7.  Share how you feel about being bi-vocational? 

 

 

 What secular skills do you or your wife have that can be used to gain secular employment?

 

 

8.  Would you consider your style of ministry to be traditional or contemporary? Why?

 

 

 

9.  What methods have you used or would you use to assist in growing the church?

 

 

 

10. What do you consider your greatest asset as a pastor?

 

 

11.  What is your greatest deficiency as a pastor?

 

 

12.  Describe the type of a church you would like to pastor?

 

 

13.  Indicate what type of community you and your wife would like to live in?    Rural area?        Small Town?         Small city?              Large City?

 

 

 

14. What are your main spiritual gifts?

 

 

 

15. List the titles of the last three books you have read the past few months.  Why did you read them? 

 

 

 

16.  .What would others say your really interested in or passionate about?

 

 

 

17.  What have been the major obstacles in the path of being more fruitful in ministry?

 

 

 

18. Share briefly any spiritual experience which has impacted your life/ministry in the past few months.

 

 

 

19.  Are you in agreement with the Baptist Faith & Message?       Which version?

 

 

        The Cooperative Program?

 

 

        What as been your view, role and level of involvement in the local Association & State Convention?

 

 

20. Marital Status:                 Have either of you been divorced?                   If yes, give details