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Placement Procedures
Guidelines for Candidates:
1. If you are interested in having your profile sent to any of our congregations, please ask the Office for Parish Life and Leadership to send your profile to Pennsylvania Southeast Conference. If you are from another denomination, we prefer that you ask your judicatory to send your resume/papers directly to us. However, if this is not possible, you may send them yourself.

We share only official United Church of Christ Ministerial Profiles with our congregations—or those of our covenant denominations. Official Ministerial Profiles include:
  » Pastors holding Full Standing in the United Church of Christ
  » Seminarians In-Care who are authorized for ordination
  » Disciples of Christ ministers granted Ordained Minister Partner Standing
  » Pastors already ordained by another denomination who have received Privilege of Call expressing desire to change denominational affiliation or seek dual standing.
These designations are authorized by a UCC Association Church and Ministry Committee.
2. Again, please note: Our congregations will accept only profiles and equivalent resumes through our Conference Offices. So do not send them to the congregations you might be interested in - they will only be sent to us without consideration.
3. If you engage in conversations and negotiations with a PSEC congregation, we urge you to keep in touch with the Associate Conference Minister.
4. We ask that you please notify us if you accept a call elsewhere so that your profile can be withdrawn from needless circulation.

Requirements for Non-UCC Candidates
We ask all non-UCC persons searching for a position in our Conference for several things before we can circulate their profile/papers/resumes:
1.To gain either Dual Standing (where you keep your ministerial standing in your present denomination along with gaining UCC standing) or Privilege of Call (keeping your standing in your present denomination but approved to serve a UCC congregation in a particular area). This is done by petitioning and interviewing with the Association Committee on Ministry in the area in which you now live. Contact information is available through Rev. Nancy Gottshall.
2.Once you have gained either Dual Standing or Privilege of Call, you must then fill out a UCC Profile. This is done through our national UCC website. Click here to go to Profile webpage.

Description of Placement Procedures:
1. When we receive candidate profiles, we will:
  » Send you an email to confirm that you are in active search and are interested in the churches of the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference.
  » Also contact your authorizing judicatory (Association/Conference) to confirm your authorization for ministry.
2. If you are actively seeking and interested in churches in our Conference, your profile will be sent to our churches in search in two ways:
  » You request that it be sent to specific churches, or
  » The Conference Profile Placement Committee selects it to be sent to various churches within the Conference because your needs, wants, and gifts appear to be a match for one or several of our churches in search.
In either case, you will receive a list of those churches to whom we have sent your profile.
3. If, upon reading your profile, a local church Search Committee feels that you might be a possible match and wishes to be in conversation with you, they will contact you directly and send you their complete church profile.

Follow the "Quick Links" above, on the left, for more information. Also, please feel free to contact us at anytime ...

    Rev. Nancy L. Gottshall, Associate Conference Minister
        gottshall@psec.org
    Donna Tomlinson, Administrative Assistant
        donna@psec.org
        505 S. Second Avenue, PO Box 26400
        Collegeville, PA 19426-0400
        Telephone 610-489-2056 + Fax 610-489-4058
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