The Senior Pastor for Pathways Church is the primary weekend communicator and is responsible for the vision, operations, and congregational life of the church. This role works in partnership with the Executive Director to develop and execute ministry through staff leads, team leads, and the church body to glorify God and accomplish the mission of leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.

If you are interested in learning more about this position, please refer to our job opportunity listing at Vanderbloemen.com.

Check out our Senior Pastor Job Listing - now live on the Vanderbloemen website!

Stay up-to-date on our search for a new lead pastor!

The members of our Congregant Committee during this lead pastor search are:

  • TOM APPELL

  • DENNIS BEHNKE

  • CHARLES BEHRMANN

  • JORDAN BERG

  • MARY BOEGH

  • LAURA LOEWENHAGEN

  • TONY MOLLICA

  • JENN STINGL

  • DALE ZULEGER

Before we begin interviewing pastoral candidates, we would love to know what you would ask a candidate if given the opportunity.

Let us know by submitting this completed form by Wednesday, April 30.

Check out these messages from our Pathways Church Board:

What are the steps in this process?

The search for our new Lead Pastor is underway and the board has selected Vanderbloemen Staffing to begin the recruitment process.  While the overall process has many details and great depth, we would like to share the eight components of the process and where we currently are on that journey.

  1. Launch: meet in person to help Vanderbloemen better understand the Pathways Church Mission and culture.  Generate a search profile.

  2. Sourcing: Vanderbloemen draws on its network and data base to match potential candidates with Pathways.

  3. Mid-Point: Vanderbloemen will provide us with a list of the top candidates based on step 1 and 2.

  4. Interviewing: Vanderbloemen continues to vet the candidate results and build their profiles.

  5. Presentation: Vanderbloemen will officially present the candidate list with a deep profile on each.

  6. Client/Candidate Interviews: first and possible second round of candidates, conducted on site.

  7. Reference/ Background Checks: Vanderbloemen will conduct appropriate background checks.

  8. Negotiation/ Closure: If needed Vanderbloemen can serve as facilitator to help finalize the details.

As you can see, this is a lengthy, but necessary process to ensure that we find the most appropriate candidate for this church. As we move forward, we will be enlisting feedback from staff and a congregant committee.  Overall, the process is expected to take approximately six months.  We are currently in the pre-launch stage.  We have been working with Vanderbloemen and filling out forms to help them build the Pathways profile.  We have booked the onsite launch meeting for the first weekend in February.

We are also continuing to evaluate potential interim pastors.  As we navigate the interim role, our staff has been doing a great job of continuing to provide strong speakers and messages.  Currently they have secured speakers to complete services through the end of January.

We ask for your continued support, prayer, and discernment, as we follow Gods plan together.  We will continue to provide you with regular updates as we journey together on this mission. 

Questions?

Pathways Family,
If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please send them to the Elder Board at elderboard@pathwayschurch.us.

We appreciate your questions but want you to know that each question submitted is then discussed by the entire board and then answered. Due to this careful consideration of each question we thank you for your patience as you wait for our responses.
Thank you for your continued prayers and support.

If you'd like to nominate someone or you yourself would like to join the Board at Pathways please click the link below and fill out the document provided. Please return the document to jill.roloff@pathwayschurch.us. Thank you!
Pathways Church Elder Board