FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH GREENSBORO
SEPTEMBER 2019
PERSONNEL PLAN
SUMMARY
Amidst recent transitions in our pastoral staff, the Personnel Committee has been engaged in study, discernment, and prayer. This document presents a resulting plan for our next phase of staffing at First Baptist Greensboro, which reflects not only our best attempts at practical planning, but also our understanding of the leadership of the Spirit. Below, you will find background information, as well as details of the three primary changes included in this plan, described as Collaboration, Expansion, and Addition.
PRIMARY CHANGES
1. Collaboration increasing among existing pastoral staff in the area of Pastoral Care. 2. Expansion of the role of Associate Pastor: Spiritual Formation, held by Rev. Courtney Willis. 3. Addition of the role of Minister of Senior Adults.
BACKGROUND
The recent retirement of Dr. Steve Sumerel leaves the open position, Associate Pastor of Congregational Life, which has three specific areas of responsibility in our church’s ministry: Pastoral Care, Christian Education, and Senior Adult Ministry. Our current staff model was most recently modified in the Fall of 2017 in anticipation of the retirement of longtime Associate Pastor, Dr.Steve Pressley. Essential aspects of the Associate Pastor job moved to the Senior Pastor and the expanded role of Associate Pastor of Congregational Life (Steve Sumerel). The addition of an Associate Pastor of Spiritual Formation was also approved, and Rev. Courtney Willis was called to that role in February of 2018. With this model as a starting point, and with an awareness of some of our needs, talents, and possibilities for staffing, Personnel began a period of discernment, including committee study and reflection, conversations with key leaders, pastoral staff, and committees, as well as a series of Congregational Conversations.