Texas Baptists Committed

TBC Update - August 2010

Our Texas Baptists Committed Board of Directors is currently discussing plans for TBC's future direction and activities. We plan to soon resume communicating with our supporters and friends primarily through email. If you want to be kept informed of TBC plans and activities, please help us by emailing us the following information:

Email Address
Your Name
Mailing Address
Church Membership, if any

Please click here to send this information to us. Thank you.

Is Your Church Looking for a New Pastor?

Then we can help you!

Your Pastor Search Committee's first call should be to the Pastorless Church Team of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. You can reach Karl Fickling, Director, by calling him at 214-887-5491 or by clicking here to email him. This team is anxious to provide your church with the resources you need as you approach the critical choice of the person to lead your church as pastor.

Also, here on the TBC Web site, you will find links to information that is essential to helping your committee and church navigate the process of finding and calling a new pastor. These links are provided on two pages on our Web site.

First, Texas Baptists Committed is now making available online, in printable PDF format, articles that have been contained in the Help for Pastor Search Committees packet that we have provided to pastorless churches for many years. Your church and pastor search committee will find these articles to be helpful and informative. For links to these resources, click here.

Second, TBC provides links to resources provided on the Web site of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. These include essential resources such as questions that your committee needs to ask prospective pastors, as well as sample documents related to the search process. For links to these resources, click here.

Please keep in mind that you are free to copy any of these materials (from both TBC and the BGCT) for the use of your committee. Permission is not given, however - by either Texas Baptists Committed or the BGCT - to reproduce any portion of these materials for sale.

We also recommend that you go directly to the Texas Baptist Pastorless Churches Web page for additional information and resources regarding the following:

Initial Assistance

Initial consultation

Referrals to supply preachers and trained traditional interim pastors

Intentional Interim Ministry

Training for Pastor Search Committees

Finding Candidates

Leader Connect résumé-matching service

Job Descriptions (English/Español) for a variety of ministry staff positions

Again, if your church is without a pastor, we strongly recommend that you immediately call Karl Fickling at 214-887-5491 or click here to email him. He and his Pastorless Church Team are anxious to provide you with any help that you need. All you have to do is ask.

Our Mission Statement

Texas Baptists Committed is dedicated to

Reaching people for Christ through local churches;
Promoting and defending historic Baptist principles;
Spreading an understanding of Baptist heritage and distinctives through education; and
Cooperating with the mission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and its related institutions.