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TMCNet: Finding her calling: Interim minister enjoys her temporary positions

[May 14, 2009]

Finding her calling: Interim minister enjoys her temporary positions

May 14, 2009 (American News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A temporary situation is a way of life for the Rev. Sue Seiffert.

Seiffert is an intentional interim minister.

"I work with congregations in transition," she said.

She arrives at churches that have lost their pastor and prepares the way for the next one. Her current assignment is at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Aberdeen. She began work as the church's interim senior pastor May 1. Her contract runs until October, but she could leave sooner than that, or later.


Seiffert, 52, has worked at churches for as long as 18 months, and as short as three.

In other words, she never makes herself at home. And that's fine with her.

Seiffert made a deliberate career choice to become an intentional interim minister.

When she started to discern that she had a call to ordained ministry, she saw what kind of impact a trained interim minister could have at her church in Portland, Ore. She learned what kind of gifts such a person must have, and realized that God had given her those gifts.

An interim minister helps members of a congregation reflect on what is going on, take stock, see "how God has been with them in the past and where God is leading them in the future," Seiffert said.

He or she takes them "through a process of evaluation, reflection and prayer," she said.

An interim minister must be able to be observant, listen, "ask questions that will bring things to light" and encourage people to consider new possibilities.

Seiffert believes she's carrying out the ministry that God has chosen for her.

"There's great contentment in feeling like you're doing what God is calling you to do." Seiffert's average stay at a church is nine to 15 months, so change is always around the corner. She doesn't want to become too comfortable, because her job is to "challenge people, to help them focus on where God is leading them into the future." Like John the Baptist, "I prepare the way," Seiffert said.

An intentional interim minister is sometimes compared to Moses leading the people through the wilderness. Members of the congregation sometimes feel they're in the wilderness, "not quite sure where they're going," Seiffert said. But hopefully they will look back on the period as a time of formation and renewal.

If she does her job well, a new minister will come in smoothly and begin a strong ministry, working in partnership with the congregation.

A point of pride for Seiffert is that every pastor who has followed her ministry is still in place at his or her new church.

Seiffert worked as a registered nurse for 15 years before becoming a minister. Good Shepherd is the 10th church at which she has served as an interim pastor. The other nine were in Southwest Minnesota. Seiffert, who is single, keeps an apartment in Marshall, Minn.

She likes her job because she finds it challenging, she likes learning new skills and likes meeting people.

The hardest part of being an interim minister is "when it comes time to say farewell." It's what she works for, "but it's still hard." Still, she's happy with her occupation. She wants to do it into retirement and beyond.

"One of the joys of interim ministry is there's always something new and refreshing." To see more of the American News, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.aberdeennews.com. Copyright (c) 2009, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.

Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA.

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