Grab your clubs and hop in the golf cart to participate in the 15th Annual IBSA Golf Scramble May 14-15 at Oak Terrace Golf Resort in Pana. Pastors, church staff and church leaders can bring their own foursome or join a team. Learn more at the links below.

Golf Scramble flyer

Golf Scramble registration

Take a few minutes to help your church and all other church with the same size membership.

Take the 2012 SBC Compensation Survey

Why take the survey? Simply put, for the benefit of your church and churches similar to yours. The survey information is completely confidential.

When pastors and church staff take the salary survey, GuideStone then customized the data into useable reports and makes these reports available to church administrators, personnel/finance committees and minister search teams to determine adequate compensation for ministers and staff.

In 2010 IBSA had a higher number of survey participants which gave us a more accurate baseline of compensation for Illinois pastors and staff.   It will only take five to eight minutes to complete; however, the information is essential for thousands of churches, including your own — which makes the survey worth the effort.

It benefits the pastors and church staff member’s families directly.   Most of us do not like to negotiate salary; the survey gives ministers valuable knowledge concerning the compensation of similar churches in: size, budget, and attendance.  In addition, GuideStone’s compensation survey customizes the data to include factors such as: the ministers his years of experience and his education.  Certainly, this information will be valuable to someone seeking a new ministry. It is for these reasons we are asking you to take the survey now — follow the link below.

http://www.guidestoneretirement.org/Promotions/CompensationSurvey.aspx

Lay Renewal Weekends offer churches a way seek to grow in Christ and reach others for Him. The weekends provide an opportunity for churches to re-awaken to their purpose and passion, and are the first step in the five-part Church Renewal Journey.

The weekends, which are led by trained lay renewal volunteers, begin on Friday with small group times for church members. Saturday sessions include both small and large group sessions.

The wrap-up session on Sunday is the morning worship service with songs and testimonies only. On Sunday night, the church holds an evaluation session to reflect on the weekend and begin steps to turn ideas and plans into action.

For information, contact IBSA Church Renewal Coordinator Mark Shipley at (309) 361-3566, e-mail shipleymark@comcast.net or visit www.churchrenewaljourney.net.

Watch other IBSA videos at www.Vimeo.com/IBSA.

Maximizing Ministers Tax Benefits

Check out GuideStone Financial Services for information on retirement. Here are their retirement guides in English and in Spanish.

• Bivocational Pastor E-Newsletter
• Southern Baptist Bivocational Ministers Association
• Baptist General Convention of Texas
• Louisiana Baptist Convention
• Career Opportunity   
• In the Workplace

• LifeWay OneSource
• The Guide to Parliamentary Procedure
• Marriage By-Laws

• Transformational Church brochure
• Transformational Church video

Download the Book

Submit a resume: All staff persons and pastors seeking a church vocation can submit a resume summary. These resume summaries will be sent to any church seeking a staff member or pastor. They will also be sent on a monthly basis to Directors of Missions in Illinois.

Modify or delete your resume: If you currently have a resume on file with us you may modify or delete it online. (You must be logged in to the account you used to create the resume.)

- Minister's Resume Guide
- Minister's Guide to the Search Committee Interview
- Saying Goodbye to your Church
- Directors of Missions, State Church Ministers Relations Directors, Seminary Placement Contacts

A church can post a position on the web. Pastors and staff can select the positions they are seeking and the churches with those positions will appear. When the church fills the position they are seeking they can submit a position filled form to IBSA, and we will delete their position from our list.

- Submit a church opening
- Search for open positions

-List of pastorless churches at Baptistlist.org

-List of pastorless churches at SBCpastorlesschurches.org

Are you interested in church planting?
- Transitional Pastors, Interims and Supply List
- You have filled your church open position
 

Church Staff Development Ministries has prepared a resource for the churches to guide them in the selection process for pastor and staff. It is called the "Step By Step" guide for the search committee.

• Table of Contents page 1-6
• Introduction: Before the First Step page 7-10
• Step 1: Organizational Process page 11-14
• Step 2: Information Gathering Process page 15-19
• Step 3: Candidate Selection Process page 20-30
• Step 4: Negotiation Process page 31-39
• Step 5: Presentation/Recommendation Process page 40-41
• Step 6: Welcome and Orientation Process page 42-43
• Step 7: Concluding Process page 44-49
• Bibliography: Supply list, DOMs, State Reps, Seminaries, etc. page 50-65

These  links provide information that is useful to the church and minister such as: demographic study, compensation study and screening help.

- 2010 SBC Compensation Study
- Illinois State Police for background checks
- Church Mutual Screening
- LifeWay OneSource Background Checks
 - Illinois Demographic "Percept" infromation
- churchstaffing.com
- churchstaffing.com background checks
- churchstaffing.com/lifeway
- SBC minister search
- Youthspecialties.com
- Youthpastor.com
- kingdomcareers.com
- baptistlist.org
- sbbma.org/constitution.html 

Director, Church Health Development
Church Strengthening Team
(217) 391-3133
SylvanKnobloch@IBSA.org

Ministry Assistant
Church Strengthening Team
(217) 391-3126
DebbieMuller@IBSA.org