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Matchmaker, Matchmaker

The Complete Search Committee Guidebook by Robert W. Dingman, Regal, $6.95

Reviewed by Heidi A. Hasted, associate pastor, Bidwell Memorial Presbyterian Church, Chico, California

Perhaps you're about to call a new person on staff. How do you help the Christian organization you lead call a qualified person? Or maybe you're a pastor who has received a new call and has just notified the board of your decision to leave. How can you help the congregation you are about to leave prepare for their future?

You form a search committee and let them search, which is easier said than done, as search-committee members and candidates agree. Whether you've labored diligently on an overwhelmed and under appreciated search committee or endured an interview conducted by a search committee confused about its task, take heart.

Combining a wealth of personal experience as a committed churchperson with over thirty years' experience as a professional search consultant and head of his own executive search firm, Robert Dingman has written a step-by-step guidebook to walk committees through the formidable search process in an organized manner.

The Complete Search Committee Guidebook is filled with practical nuts-and-bolts suggestions, from how to rate a candidate to how to write a thank-you note; from how to check a candidate's references to how to talk about salary and "close the deal."

And this user-friendly guide is presented in witty, down-to-earth language. For example: "God did not leave with the departed pastor," or "Physicists say that nature abhors a vacuum. So do anxious groups who can't learn what's going on. … A good search committee will give their constituency regular reports that progress is being made." If a candidate ...

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