List Narrows to Four: Lead Pastor – Mission Campus

The call committee has been busy and has completed their reviews of the pastor information forms (PIF) and self-evaluation tools (SET). We met this week and selected the pastors to be initially interviewed on zoom. Dates for those interviews are being set up with these pastors.  The first interview is next week. Two more are being scheduled and the last one has been set up for the end of this month. Please continue to pray for the call committee and the pastors who will be interviewed. Your prayers asking for God’s direction in this process is greatly appreciated by the members.

Finalizing Interview Questions: Lead Pastor – Mission Campus

The call team members have been working on finalizing questions for initial phone or video interviews. This task will be completed by the time you read this update.

We have received the final listing of candidates that the District President has approved. There are ten pastors on our listing, of which five of them are also on the Shawnee list. We have received the Personal Information Form (PIF) and the Pastor’s Self-Evaluation Tool (SET) for each candidate as well as comments from their respective District President. We have begun to read through the PIF’s and SET’s. Our next meeting is after the holiday and our objective will be to identify which candidates the call committee wants to schedule for an initial interview.

For lead pastor at the Mission campus we are looking for experience in teaching, care ministries, and counseling. Personal attributes that we are seeking include preaching skills, leadership, and people skills.

If you have any questions, please contact Denny Hixson at dennymhixson@gmail.com or 913-481-4815. Please keep the Call Committee in your prayers that the Holy Spirit will guide us to the best candidate for Trinity.

Call List Sent to the District: Lead Pastor – Mission Campus

Progress is happening in the call processes!

Both of the Call Committees for Lead Pastors have met this week to review the nominations received from the congregation. Of the nominations, there are now two nominations for Lead Pastor at the Mission Campus, three nominations for Lead Pastor at the Shawnee Campus, and six joint nominations for consideration for both positions. Since we are in the unique position of working through two call processes at once, the call committees will be consulting with each other throughout the selection process to make the selection process more efficient with the joint candidates.

These nominations, along with the Congregational Self Evaluation Tool (CSET) and the results of the Pastoral Characteristics Survey from last summer with input from the two new call committees, have now been submitted to President Panzer at the Kansas District. President Panzer will be reviewing the list of candidates to verify their eligibility and will be adding other candidates recommended by the district.

In the meantime, the Call Committees will continue contemplating how to organize that information to allow us to select the candidates who will go further in our selection process. We will also consider our interview strategy and questions.

As always, should you have questions or input for the Committees, please contact any of the committee members. Please continue praying for our call process and President Panzer, that we may receive our list of candidates as expeditiously as possible and that we quickly recognize the person God has chosen to lead us.

Request for Nominations: Lead Pastor – Mission Campus

As Trinity searches for our new lead pastor for the Mission campus there are two sources from which we consider potential candidates. One is a list of names compiled by Kansas District President Panzer. The other is you, the congregation.

This is your chance to nominate someone for possible inclusion in our list of names for call consideration. Perhaps you have visited other LCMS churches, or are a former member of another LCMS church, at which you observed a pastor that you think is committed to the written Word, and possesses the compassion, prayerfulness, temperament, interpersonal skills, and presence in the pulpit that will serve us well.

Nominations will be accepted through Friday, May 24.

If so, there are three avenues for you to access the form:

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A PDF form is available below. You may click the link below to access the Pastor Nomination Form after which you have three options in completing the form:

• Complete the form online, save it to your computer and send it as an email attachment to gretchen@tlcms.org; or,

• Complete the form on your computer, print it out and place it in one of the drop boxes or mail it to the Mission church office to the attention of Gretchen Hollman; or

• Print the form, complete it by hand, drop it into the drop box or mail it to the Mission church office for the attention of Gretchen Hollman.

Whether you nominate someone or not, thank you for your prayerful consideration in our call process, asking God to reveal to us quickly the person he has chosen for us. Should you have questions, please feel free to contact Denny Hixson at dennymhixson@gmail.com.

Meet Your New Call Committee!

The newly formed call committee for the Lead Pastor at the Mission Campus will meet for the first time this coming weekend. Please pray for the committee as we get to know each other and become familiar with the call process. We have begun work on a document which will allow you to submit names of pastors for call consideration. We anticipate this document, as well as an electronic version, will be available next week.

Below are the members of the committee:

Justin Lutz

Call Committee Formed

Lead Pastor – Shawnee Campus

Denny Hixson (chairman) 
Karen Jaime 
Scott Kaphingst 
Justin Lutz 
Lisa Miles 
Lydia Rocha 
Rev. Luke Jacob