Standing (L to R) - Betsy Knarr, Brenda Kaczmarek, Meredith Askey, Charlotte Lazarchik, Maria Hegedus
Seated (L to R) - Jeff Weaver, Tom Reddinger, Ron Katzman, Bill Foos

Ministry Site Profile
Step 1 of the call process is now complete.  On June 28, the call committee met with the Congregation Council, Pastor Gwenn Trout, dean of the West Shore Conference and Pastor Cliff Eshbach, Assistant to Bishop Hoover, to review and approve the Ministry Site Profile.  The Ministry Site Profile is the culmination of a self study process that began in January and included input from the congregation, the Congregation Council and staff.  The document provides a glimpse of Trinity to prospective candidates for call as our Senior Pastor.  The synod office will now be reviewing the list of potential candidates and will prayerfully determine which candidate should be presented to the call committee first for consideration.  The call process is in God’s hands and we have no idea how long it will be until we are able to call a new Senior Pastor.  In the meantime, we continue to be very blessed with Pastor Ludwig’s service as our Interim Senior Pastor.  Copies of the Ministry Site Profile are posted on the bulletin boards in the Gathering Space and the kitchen hallway and may be read any time that the building is open. The document has been approved by the Congregation Council and the synod and is selectively made available to potential candidates by the synod.  The document is complete except for two pages that contain the contact information for our references, since the references were told that their contact information would only be made available to selected candidates as determined by the synod. The document provides a glimpse of Trinity to prospective candidates for call as our Senior Pastor. If you have any questions about the Ministry Site Profile, please contact Jeff Weaver at 697-3259, or email to
call-committee@trinitycamphill.org or talk to any member of the call committee (Jeff Weaver, chair, Meredith Askey, Bill Foos, Maria Hegedus, Brenda Kaczmarek, Ron Katzman, Betsy Knarr, Charlotte Lazarchik, and Tom Reddinger).

Interview preparation
The call committee has begun compiling questions for use in interviews of potential candidates.  During July and August, 2010, the call committee will continue to refine interview questions and expects to conduct trial interviews with Pastors Ludwig and Edmiston in preparation for our first interview with a candidate when a name is received from Bishop Hoover's office.

Sunday Church School Class on the call process
On March 21 and March 28, Pastor Dave Fisher and Pastor Cliff Eshbach, assistants to Bishop Hoover, talked about the call process during the Sunday Church School hour.  The sessions were video taped and are available on YouTube at the following links.  Because of the length of the sessions, each session had to be separated into multiple segments on YouTube.
   March 14, 2010:
      Segment 1
      Segment 2
      Segment 3
      Segment 4
      Segment 5
      Segment 6
      Segment 7
   March 21, 2010:
      Segment 1
      Segment 2
      Segment 3
      Segment 4
      Segment 5
      Segment 6

Senior Pastor Call Committee appointed
At its January 11, 2010 meeting, Trinity's Congregation Council appointed the following members to the Senior Pastor Call Committee:
     Meredith Askey
     Bill Foos
     Maria Hegedus
     Brenda Kaczmarek
     Ron Katzman
     Betsy Knarr
     Charlotte Lazarchik
     Tom Reddinger
     Jeff Weaver, Chair
The Senior Pastor Call Committee began its work on January 17, 2010. 

A Call to Prayer for the Senior Pastor Call Process

Link to a Five-day Devotion Series on Calling a Pastor by Pastor Kerry Nelson, Houston, Texas, May 2007