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Resources

Becoming a Vital First Call Congregation: Video

Becoming a Vital First Call Congregation: Discussion Guide

Are We Being Called to be a First Call Congregation? Workshop for Congregational Leaders

Best Practices Checklists
— for Congregations
— for Synods
— Candidacy Committees
— for Seminaries
— for Churchwide Leaders

First Call Theological Education: Churchwide Standards and Guidelines

Pastoral Identity: A Reading Resource

Mentoring Partnership: A Component of First Call Theological Education

Exemplary First Call Congregations Research Summary

First Call Followup Survey Analysis

First Call Survey Research Analysis (January 2004)

Recommended Reading

Reflections on Implications of First Call Research (Surveys in 2002 and 2003)

Summary and Reflections on the 2008 FCTE Summit

Summary: Synod Consultations on Case Study Research

Synod Reports on First Call Theological Education
— 2004–2005 Program Report

— 2005–2006 Program Report

— 2007–2008 Program Report

What is a "Congregational Vocation?"

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