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Chemistry Staffing helps churches find healthy staff members

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Churches need to realign both their budget and their staffing if they want to pursue an aggressive online presence and ministry going forward. This is a major shift in priority and in ministry model.

Of course, change is never easy, especially when every church in America is innovating and pioneering online ministry at the same time. Chemistry Staffing will guide you through your different options for both staff and budget and bring some clarity to what your next steps should be.

The formula for church staff success:

A Vibrant Church + A Healthy Staff = Long-term Fruitful Ministry

A vibrant church

It all starts with a healthy church. We work to find your church’s strengths and weaknesses before we ever try to locate a possible candidate. Every church has a story. We take time to discover yours.

A healthy staff

A vibrant church environment breeds healthy staff members. Our mission to make healthy, long-term connections means that we choose the churches and candidates we work with very carefully.

Fruitful ministry

When healthy churches add new healthy team members, unbelievable things happen. The needle is moved. Lives are changed. And ministry is both effective and fulfilling… This is fruitful ministry.

Let's Talk

Are you getting ready to start the search process at your church? Or maybe you’re in the midst of a search that needs a little extra help?

I’d love to hear your story and see if there’s a way that Chemistry Staffing can help find your next long-term ministry staff member.

THERE ARE FIVE NEEDED ELEMENTS OF A GREAT LONG-TERM HIRE

The average church staff member in America stays at their church for about three years. Churches that hire well can increase the longevity and effectiveness of their staff exponentially.

In our work with churches over the years, we have identified five different areas that need to match up in order for your next hire to have ‘long-term, healthy fit’ potential. Miss on any one of these five, and the chances for longevity of your new staff member goes down significantly. Misalignment on two or more of these areas are the things that bad hires are made of.

THEOLOGY

Does this person believe the same as us on both core and secondary issues?

CULTURE/DNA

Will this person be a good fit for our community, church, and culture?

PERSONALITY

Does this person play well with others? Are they likeable?

SKILLS

Does this person have the talents and abilities we need to do a good job?

CHEMISTRY

Will this person fit on our team? Do we want to do life and ministry together?

Chemistry Staffing developed an assessment process that gives us an understanding of who a candidate is. This pre-interview assessment process allows us to gather 125 points of data early on in the process, allowing us to gain crucial insight into whether someone is a potential fit for the churches we work with or not.

The end result of this process allows us to eliminate 90-95% of the candidates who submit a resume for a position. By the time a candidate completes our assessment process, we have a reasonable idea as to whether they could be a good fit for your church, and whether they should be interviewed for the position.

WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING?

Having Chemistry Staffing filter out the candidates to find those with our specific church DNA was a huge assist. It would have taken countless hours to ask for and receive applications, review applications and do the initial interviews to ensure we were a match theologically and philosophically. Partnering with Chemistry allowed us to focus only on candidates that were a match for our church. And because we stuck to the process we are excited to have Jacob as our next lead pastor. If you are in need of a hire, go with Chemistry Staffing and ’Trust the Process’."

Chemistry was able to bring many competing candidates to the table, and through their time-tested process, bring us a tremendous fit for this role. Luke is a person of godly character and incredible insight, the perfect mix of fun and spiritual gifting to pastor our students and families in this season. We’re so grateful for Chemistry Staffing and so excited to see the Lord work through the person they helped us find. If you’ve got a ministry position to be filled, I highly recommend working with the team at Chemistry Staffing!

For any church thinking about launching a search for a church staff position, I highly recommend setting up a consultation with Chemistry Staffing early on. If you're new to hiring a search firm, their team makes the process simpler than I could have imagined and answered every question along the way. If you have experience with other firms, you'll be pleased with the reasonable cost of a search that Chemistry offers versus other firms, and there are no surprise costs along the way. Same - if not better - personalized service. I'm already telling our partners in other churches about our experience and encouraging them to give Matt and Todd a call!