Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Elizabeth Boone Mclean Pif 2016
Elizabeth Boone Mclean Pif 2016
Formal Education
Continuing Education
2016
2016
2015
2015
2015
Susan Beaumont & Associates, Church Consultant (formerly of
Alban Institute)
Launching a New Beginning
2014
Festival of Homiletics
Preaching with Holy Imagination
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
CREDO Retreat for Mid-Career Pastors sponsored by PCUSA Board
of Pensions
Work Experience
1996-present Associate Pastor, Mission & Evangelism, Preston
Hollow Presbyterian Church, Dallas, TX (urban, 3000
members)
Delight in leading worship in a congregation where I have baptized,
confirmed, married, and buried generations of the same family and
where I know the names, faces, and stories of the vast majority
worshippers in a 3000 member congregation
Lead by creating teams to address unmet needs or fulfill visions and
dreams and empower and motivate them to become self-sustaining
Deepen congregants faith and biblical knowledge by teaching
adults weekly in Sunday school classes and mid-week classes
Integrate my love for stories and art into all of my ministry from
preaching to teaching to mission to pastoral care
Thrive on connecting congregants to each other and to ministries
that allow their gifts to blossom and flourish
Supervise two full-time employees, volunteers from two Session
Councils, and 15 mission teams; during times of transition, have
supervised employees in other departments
Created and implemented a process to re-engage the unengaged
with 50+% returning to worship
Oversee and manage a mission budget of $520,000 and
benevolences of an additional $25-50,000
Initiated quarterly worship where the Word is made flesh in handson mission service
500 members)
Created neighborhood outreach ministries for at-risk children and
families
Broadened Deacons ministry to include care and compassion
ministries
Started summer youth mission trips and conference participation
Enlarged adult faith formation to include mid-week spiritual growth
groups
Learned how to love a congregation for who they are and what gifts
they have to share with the world
Walked with the dying through the last days and weeks of life
Supported families in the dying and grieving process
Organizational Agility
Contextualization
Strategy and Vision
Decision Making
Interpersonal Engagement
Committees
Crafted liturgy for distribution to churches
2013-present
Board Member
2013 & 2014
Hunt, TX
Narrative Questions
Describe a moment in your recent ministry that you recognize as
one of success and fulfillment.
Eight days. Three funerals. Two weddings. One Sunday sermon. The last few
days of February and the first few days of March 2015 confirmed my call to
pastoral ministry and worship leadership, in particular. One funeral was for
an 86 year old WW2 code talker who had lived a long, full, and faithful life.
One funeral was for a baby who died in the womb. One funeral was for a
father who committed suicide the night before his daughter turned 3 months
old. Both weddings were for extremely happy and hopeful young adult
couples. The sermon was for a congregation in the midst of transition,
patiently and impatiently waiting for the PNC to announce some news. And in
each occasion marking some kind of change, the gospel needed to be lived
and preached and felt and received.
Those eight days marked a time of intense prayer and depth of stamina and
faith that can only come from God. Those eight days mirrored the events of
Holy Week and Easter Sunday, culminating in the good news of the
resurrection and the hope for new and abundant life that comes with it. And
as I walked with families through times of great joy and profound sadness,
while in the midst of the mundane of ministry, the Spirit brought the gospel
alive through music and liturgy and Word proclaimed through sermon and
pastoral care. Those days that could make one shake in fear and trembling
brought me alive as I lived into my God-given gifts of pastoral and spiritual
leadership. Those days propel me forward to seek a new and invigorating call
from God to faithfully invest my gifts as a senior pastor.
Describe the ministry setting to which you believe God is calling
you.
God is calling me to lead a church where:
We are all in ministry together:
teaching elders and ruling elders, baptized faithful and baptized
questioning,
seekers exploring and becoming.
We are committed to the PCUSA and our theological tradition
where we are reformed and always being reformed by the Word
of God.
We gather to worship joyfully and deeply,
inspired through the Word read and proclaimed and sung and
heard and lived.
We grow together in Gods Word,
understanding it afresh as it intersects the words of our
generation,
References
Elder Tory Agnich, Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church member
[email protected]
214-533-0410 (cell)
Rev. Sarah Sarchet Butter, Senior Pastor, The Village Church, Wellesley,
MA
[email protected]
847-716-0378 (cell)
Elders Rebecca and Ron Gafford, Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church
members
[email protected]
214-763-3376
(cell)
[email protected]
214-755-7271
(cell)
Dr. Blair Monie, Distinguished Chair of Pastoral Ministry and Leadership,
Austin Seminary
Former Pastor, Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church
[email protected]
214-995-9945
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