Status Updates (most recent first):

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• April 4th -6th —Candidate Dan Busse and his wife Morgan visited CBC to learn about the church and its people and attend a service. They also met with many of the church's leaders, including the management team, deacons, the council, and others. 

• March 10, 2025 - The PSC is currently in talks with one candidate, and we believe that God is leading us to take the next steps with him.  More to come soon!

• February 7, 2025 - The job posting closed; we received more than 90 applicants.

• January and February: The Committee reviewed resumes and watched sermons from all applicants. The team determined their top applicants and sent Pastor surveys to them.

• January 9, 2025 - The pastor search team posted the updated job description and has reopened the search process for the next 30 days. 

• January 6, 2025—The Pastor Search committee met for the first time since the church voted no on the Executive / Campus pastor split. The team refocused on the Senior Pastor job description and selected to post it on Justchurchjobs.com, Churchstaffing.com, the SBTC job site, and the Dallas Theological Seminary job site.

• December 15, 2024 - Church votes on proposed changes to bylaws.  Determined later in the vote, it did not succeed.

• August 6, 2024—The Church council unanimously voted to approve the proposal. The Pastor Search Committee was put on hold while details of the bylaws and budget were worked out to present to the congregation. Jim Jordan returned to the committee.

• July 29, 2024 - Prepared presentation for the church council on July 30th to go to an Executive and Campus pastor. 

• July 22, 2024—The Committee met to discuss the remaining candidates. Kasey Hoffman stepped down from the committee. They could not reach a consensus on whether any of the candidates were the correct ones. After much discussion, they discussed how the church worked without a Senior pastor and decided to propose an Executive and Campus pastor. They began work to present a proposal to the Church Council.

• July 15, 2024—Jim Jordan and Keenan Foley stepped down to concentrate on Church Council work. Samuel Clark and Gary Gagnon were added as new members. They are now reviewing all sermons and notes from current candidates who are still being considered.

• June 30, 2024 - Determined top candidates and collected additional information from them to better understand their beliefs.  Began meeting with and interviewing candidates.  We made an offer to the top candidate, who declined our invitation to come in view of a call. 

• May 30, 2024 - Reviewed all resumes received and systematically analyzed key points to evaluate candidates.

• April 30, 2024—The job listing is now closed. The search team has also narrowed down our applicant list to the top four candidates who stood out among the rest. We will reach out to them to determine their continued interest and have them fill out additional questionnaires to get to know each other better. Then, we will prayerfully determine which man we should pursue uniquely first.

• April 1, 2024 - The search team has opened a job listing on the SBTC job board for our new senior pastor for Bastrop. CBC's survey results directly influenced some of the phrasing and priorities on the job listing.

• March 18, 2024 - With the new church survey concluded, the pastor search team convened to review the results. You can view a summary of those results here. We thank CBC for helping us describe our church family to prospective applicants and giving the search team a picture of the man you all hope the Lord will call to our church.

• March 3, 2024—The search team invited everyone in the CBC family to take our new church survey. We wanted to hear what kind of man you think we should be looking for to be the senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. This survey was active until March 17th.

• February 26, 2024—The pastor search team reviewed profiles for our community and our church together and concluded an objective review of applicants who have trickled on over the last 90 days.

• February 19, 2024—After the initial survey was developed, we reviewed all the questions and their phrasing again. In the next couple of weeks, the church will receive an email with the survey, and print copies will be available on request.

• February 12, 2024 - The search team developed a hopeful timeline for the process developed the week before, including milestones when we will update the church on our status. This timeline reflects our ideal schedule that assumes no unforeseen obstacles and that the first candidate we interview is the man God has for us. In that best-case scenario, we would hopefully have a vote on a candidate at the beginning of August 2024. We also developed an objective scoring system, as recommended by the SBTC's guidelines, to help the team initially focus on candidates closest to our ideal candidate.

• February 4-5, 2024 - The search team reconvened to construct an updated survey of the church's hopes and expectations for a new senior pastor. This survey will be sent to the church soon. We also wrote out the entire process we will follow, based on the SBTC's guidelines for a pastor search process, but with the added benefit of lessons learned from interviewing previous applicants. We will meet again to reconstruct the job posting for this position and confirm our plans for communication with the church body throughout the search process.

• January 29, 2024—After meeting on January 22nd for pastor search training by Alex Gonzales, the newly reformed senior pastor search committee met for the first time for team orientation. Over the next few weeks, we will review our process and what we're looking for in a pastor to ensure accurate portrayals of CBC today.

• January 21, 2024—At the church family meeting, Teresa Carroll and Kasey Hoffman were announced as the newest members of the search team. On January 22, 2024, they will meet with interim pastor Alex Gonzales and the other pastor search teams for pastor search training.