PastorSearch.appDefine what your church needs.
Build one organization profile.
Discover seasoned and emerging ministry leaders.
Request candidate-controlled Pastor Passports.
Manage discernment, interviews, and next steps from one organized search desk.
Built for
The complete search journey
Nine stages, one organized process — from understanding your congregation to the new pastor's first hundred days.
Clarify the congregation, ministry context, leadership needs, governance, compensation, and season.
Explore available seasoned and emerging clergy appropriate to your organization's criteria.
Request access to candidate-controlled Pastor Passports.
Review calling, formation, experience, preaching, leadership, credentials, and mutual-fit questions.
Organize committee conversations, candidate questions, notes, and stages.
Use approved due-diligence, credential, background, and Church Passport tools where available.
Keep an organized decision process without reducing clergy to simplistic rankings.
Support both congregational calls and connectional appointments.
Prepare for candidating, announcement, installation, onboarding, and the first 100 days.
Before you search
A pastoral search should begin with the organization understanding itself. Your Church Passport uses the same organization profile and transparency architecture already inside Pastor Passport — nothing is entered twice.
Search readiness
Select what your congregation actually needs. These selections organize discovery and your committee's questions. Pastor Passport never produces a 'perfect pastor score.'
Nothing selected yet. Choose the roles and priorities this season calls for.
Leaders for this season
Years of service do not determine quality of leadership. Organizations search professional criteria among clergy who have opted into availability and discovery.
Pastors with long tenure records, staff leadership, and institutional experience.
Gifted ministers stepping into their first lead or senior assignment.
Newly formed clergy with current theological training.
Ministers open to appointment, transfer, or deployment within a communion.
Leaders discerning a next season of ministry.
Ministers serving alongside another vocation.
Worship, education, care, missions, administration, and next-generation leadership.
Clergy building online congregations and hybrid ministry.
Candidate Passport discovery
Discovery cards carry only what the minister authorized. Selecting a Passport opens the large view inside your approved organization workspace, and the full Passport opens only after that candidate approves your request.
Candidate-authorized view
Role sought · General region · Availability
Full Passport opens after the candidate approves.
Candidate-authorized view
Role sought · General region · Availability
Full Passport opens after the candidate approves.
Candidate-authorized view
Role sought · General region · Availability
Full Passport opens after the candidate approves.
Candidate-authorized view
Role sought · General region · Availability
Full Passport opens after the candidate approves.
Request Passport access
The candidate then chooses to approve, limit access, ask a question, or decline.
One profile, many conversations
Approved organizations never re-complete the same application. Build the organization profile once, then use it to request access from multiple available ministers.
A bulk request sends your organization profile to the ministers you selected. It is not automatic access. Every clergy person independently chooses to approve, limit access, ask a question, or decline.
Board + search committee
Committee work stays in one place, and candidate information stays permission-controlled throughout.
Church Passport
Discernment goes both ways. Transparent churches attract serious candidates — and candidates may ask your organization about all of this.
Discernment goes both ways.
Two systems, one platform
Churches that call their own pastor and communions that appoint, transfer, assign, or deploy clergy both work here.
The church independently searches, interviews, and calls its pastor with its own committee and decision authority.
Bishops, presiding elders, district superintendents, conferences, districts, and authorized denominational leadership identify, appoint, transfer, assign, or deploy clergy.
Trust + privacy
PastorSearch.app does not expose an unrestricted public database of clergy.
Organizations receive only the information a candidate authorized, for an approved purpose and period.
Candidate documents, references, and screening details are never public profile content.
Organizations are encouraged to publish Church Passport transparency information of their own.
Ready to begin?
PastorSearch.app helps you bring the right information into the same conversation.
