Call Process is the unique and prayerful way by which the synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America engage their congregations, church-related organizations and rostered ministers (pastors and ELCA deacons) in a time of thoughtful assessment and spiritual discernment of the way God may be drawing each toward the other for mutual ministry for the sake of the mission and ministry of the church. Each of the sixty-five synods of the ELCA is responsible for the management of the call process within the territory of their respective synod.

Listing of congregations currently in the call process
Resources for Congregations and church-related organizations that are entering into the call process
Resources for Rostered Leaders interested in making themselves available for call

Matthew Harrison, after being elected to a second term as president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, puts on his jacket shortly before attending a meeting in his office at the LCMS. Pastor calls & vacancies Arlington – St. Peter (evaluating) Baraboo – Our Savior (evaluating) Brookfield – Immanuel Milwaukee – Oklahoma Ave. (evaluating) Milwaukee – Sherman Park (evaluating) Oconomowoc – St. Paul Poy Sippi/ Weyauwega- Emmaus/Christ Princeton, Calvary Sun Prairie – Bethlehem (associate) Westfield – Immanuel (evaluating) Pastors considering a call. Insures the continuation of the Gospel Ministry of Word and Sacrament. Assists in the process by which the congregation calls a pastor. Provides the congregation with a list of pastors for call consideration (call list). Your District President is: Rev. May 03, 2021 CONGREGATIONS CALLING OR PREPARING TO CALL A FULL-TIME PASTOR. LCMS Kansas District 1000 SW 10th Ave. Topeka, KS 66604. CONTACT NUMBERS. Phone 785-357-4441.

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Resources for Congregations

The call process begins when the congregation notifies synod staff of the resignation or retirement of the rostered leader serving the congregation or the desire to call an additional leader. A synod staff member will be appointed to meet with your council and walk with the congregation through the call process.

Documents and Links:

Ministry Site Profile (MSP)
Click on the Ministry Sites tab on the left and follow directions for establishing an account and completing the Ministry Site Profile for your congregation.
This document will be shared with potential candidates.
Compensation Guidelines
Definition of Benefits, Compensation and Responsibility Forms
Compensation Calculators (Excel Documents)
- Compensation Calculator for a Pastor with a Housing Allowance Provided.xlsx (no parsonage)
- Compensation Calculator for a Lay Rostered Leader (Deacon)
Resources for Rostered Ministers
In order to be considered for call, rostered ministers must complete a Rostered Minister Profile (RMP) that can be shared by synod staff with congregations in the call process. RMPs are completed and submitted online. Once submitted, the forms are available to the whole church, but if you have indicated synods of preference, they will receive a notification that your paperwork is available and that you have indicated interest in their synod.
Begin your RMP (Select the Rostered Minister Tab on the left)
A searchable database of openings in ELCA congregations and organizations is available.
Search for Current Openings

Below is a letter of resignation from a pastor in the LCMS. It came our way and we feel it is important news for our readers and a helpful warning for us all.

By publishing this letter we are not endorsing the action of this pastor. We do not claim to know all the ins and outs of this situation but we have experienced enough doctrinal foolishness in the LCMS to recognize a warning shot when we see one. We completely understand his frustration and can imagine all that he says to be the case with maybe one exception. This pastor says he found no confessional, brotherly support in the LCMS. That has not been our experience. Are there large pockets of little or no support? Yes, and Pastor VonMehren was apparently in one of those but there also larger pockets of great support and we hope that the posts on this website are proof of such.

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We are glad to see this pastor not lay his frustration entirely at the doorstep of President Harrison, Like Pastor VanMehren we are pleased with the leadership and work of President Harrison. Thanks to President Harrison and his team good things are happening in the LCMS to restore purity of doctrine and faithfulness of practice. The pace may not be the same pace as you or I might pick. Some of us would want things to happen faster and some even more deliberately than the current pace but overall, we are being steered in a good direction.

So we submit for your edification and as a warning shot over the bow of the battleship Missouri the heartfelt and accurate letter of a frustrated, former LCMS pastor. May this letter further egg us on to uphold pure doctrine and faithful practice.

Pres. Matthew Harrison
Int’l Center, LC-MS
1333 South Kirkwood Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63122-7295

22 May, 2012

Dear President Harrison,

Hope all is well with your family, health and your service to Christ’s people. I write to inform you of a decision that I have been compelled to make by both circumstances and conscience, a decision that will bring delight to my current and past district presidents, as well as my current and past circuit counselors. I am moved to tender my resignation from the clergy roster of the LC-MS effective the date of this letter. As with the painful eventuality that many have the misfortune of experiencing, a divorce, the end of a slowly dying marriage, I grieve; not for what was, but for what should have been.

I have served in the LC-MS for 15 years and I have finally had enough of, on the one hand, the open heterodoxy in both word and practice that is not only tolerated, but promoted and encouraged in the LC-MS. On the other hand, I tire as well from being treated worse than a heathen infidel by those who deceitfully claim to be “servants of servants.”

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I was recently forced to resign from a parish I served for 8 years, Emmaus Lutheran, Redmond, OR for no reasons. I was charged or accused of absolutely nothing, not a single reason was brought to my attention as to why I needed to resign. Even when directly asked, those responsible for this travesty would just shrug their shoulders and give no response. Yet, when it happened, my district “servant of servants”, with no reason given, no communication attempted or made, no letter, no phone call, no email, no contact whatsoever, put me under discipline effectively terminating my career.

The circuit meetings I have attended have been nothing but a shameful waste of time. Not only do the pastors not engage in any theology, casuistry or brotherly support or admonition, several seem to delight in nothing other than sheer buffoonery. I do not exclude the circuit counselors (“circuit clownselors”).

There still has been no indication that Missouri recognizes the public sin of Dr. Benke, nor that it ever will. Faithful pastor’s have no friends in Missouri. They and almost exclusively they take their career and Calling in hand caught between the all too frequent viciousness of goats in their own congregations and the lying hypocrisy of other “brothers” and their “servants of servants” in their district offices. It has been and is open warfare against faithful shepherds as those whose father is the devil work to subvert and destroy them.

The Holy Ghost indeed calls and gathers sinner

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Resources for Congregations

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