Team Discusses Future Pastoral Training

April 1 to 3 a task force met to work on a plan for replacing the aging pastoral ministry, which the Council had identified as the top strategic issue.

"We discussed two plans for training pastors—one for the short term (one to three years while awaiting the construction of facilities) and one for the long term (once we have an actual training/education center)," wrote Jim Franks, Ministerial Services operation manager. He said the meetings were productive and that the results would be presented to President Clyde Kilough and then to the Council at their May meetings.

"We covered a great deal of territory, going over the past history of our pastoral training program and all the leadership training efforts both in the U.S. and the international areas," said Richard Pinelli, who coordinates ministerial development. "We dealt with the current training efforts, pastoral candidate profiles, pastoral training desired outcomes, concerns with developing pastoral training and proposed training processes and components."

The task force included Mr. Franks, Mr. Pinelli, Doug Horchak, David Register, Richard Thompson, Ken Giese, Larry Greider, Lyle Welty and Larry Salyer. UN