•  Welcome/Table of Contents
  • The Ministerial Director
    • General Job Description
    • Getting Started
      • Transition into a Ministerial Director
      • Talk Candidly With Your Conference President
      • Develop Your Own Concrete Sense of Your Work
      • Meet With Your Union Ministerial Director
      • Connect With Other Ministerial Directors in Your Union
      • Establishing/Building Relationships With Your Pastors
      • Pick Out Two or Three "Startup Tasks"
      • Pay Special Attention to Your Own Family Early On
      • Grieve What You Are Losing and Embrace What You Are Gaining
    • Are You a Pastor or Administrator?
    • Juggling Multiple Hats
    • Managing Your Own Spiritual Life
    • Ministerial Director Ethics
    • Resources/Books
  • Relating to Conference Administration
    • Boundaries & Freedoms
    • Committee Assignments
    • Confidentiality Issues
    • Advocating for Pastors
  • Pastoral Care of Pastors and Their Families
    • Visiting Pastors and Their Families
    • Counseling/Urgent & Crisis Management
    • Ideas for Affirming/Encouraging Pastors
    • Aging/Retirement Preparation
    • Ministry to Single Pastors
    • When Both Spouses are Pastors
    • Relocation/Moving
    • Sabbaticals
      • Southeastern California Conference
  • Continuing Education
    • CE for Yourself
    • CE For Pastors
    • Adventist Learning Community
  • Logistics
    • Mission/Vision/Values for Pastors & Churches
    • Sermon/Preaching Record
    • Scheduling/Calendar
    • Networking
    • Developing a Working Plan
    • Checklist for Pastors
    • Vetting Questions
    • Needed Databases
    • Self-Evaluation
    • Staffing Formulas
    • Pastoral Search Committee Process
    • Micro to Macro View
  • Pastoral Development
    • Ethical Leadership
    • HIPAA Privacy Guidelines
  • Pastoral Internship
    • What is Internship For?
    • How Long Will It Be?
    • What Will It Be Like?
    • Dealing with the Distance Between Expectation and Reality
    • Intern Family Experience
    • Financial Planning
    • Ordination-Commissioning Committee
    • Pre-ordination-commissioning/Intern Development Models/Practices
    • Ordination-Commissioning Resources
    • Pity the Poor Intern!
  • Evangelism Leadership for the Ministerial Director
  • Potential Traps/Danger Points for the Ministerial Director
    • Pastoral Invterviews/Hiring
    • Pastoral Evaluations
    • Pastoral Discipline
    • Pastoral Moves
    • Pastoral Terminations
    • Dealing with HR
  • Specialized Resources for Ministerial Directors
    • Interviewing Best Practices
  • NAD Ministerial Directors Listing
  •  Resources for the New Ministerial Director
  •  Pastoral Moves
  • Links to additional Information
    • Bible Workers
    • Relating to your Union and NAD Ministerial Counterparts
  •  SagePage/FAQ Listing
    •  Submit a question
    •  Submit a sage response
    •  Questionable pastoral moves
      •  Mic Thurber
    •  When you can't be an advocate
      •  Bryce Pascoe
      •  Mic Thurber
    •  Helping a pastor interview well
      •  Bryce Pascoe
  • Submit a Resource