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For pastors and ministry leaders

The right resume puts you in the room.

Churches are looking right now. Search committees in every state are praying for the right pastor and reading every resume that lands on their table. Don't let the document be what gets in the way — send something that reflects who you are and the work you've put in.

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James Whitfield

jwhitfield@email.com | (555) 555-5555

Objective

Seeking a pastoral position where I can utilize my skills and grow in ministry.

Experience

Associate Pastor, First Baptist

  • Responsible for youth ministry
  • Preached sermons on Sundays
  • Led small groups and Bible studies
  • Worked well with team members

The Ministry Resume

James Whitfield

Pastor · Expositor · Shepherd

jwhitfield@email.com · (555) 555-5555

Philosophy of Ministry

The Word preached faithfully forms a people fit for the weight of the gospel. I labor to feed a congregation from the text so that Christ is seen, not performed.

Ministry Experience

Associate Pastor

First Baptist Church · 2019 – Present

Shepherded a growing student ministry through Scripture, hospitality, and the ordinary work of showing up.

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The moment

The churches are looking.
Make sure your resume isn't what gets in the way.

The opportunity

In North and South Carolina alone, more than 2,000 churches were in pastoral transition as of late 2024. Search committees are actively, prayerfully looking — across denominations, across the country.

NPR, November 2024

The bottleneck

The things that actually make you the right fit — the convictions, the way you lead, the kind of room you make better — are the hardest things to put into words. So most resumes leave them out. The resume becomes the bottleneck for the very pastor who'd be a gift to the congregation reading it.

The cost

The average pastoral search runs 12 to 24 months. When the resume is what prolongs the process, faithful work waits — on both sides.

Lifeway Research; RCA Pastoral Search Handbook, 2024

A different way

Built by a ministry leader, for ministry leaders.

Fifteen years in ministry, on leadership teams, and around the hiring tables where these decisions actually get made. This tool exists because the resumes that need to land hardest tend to read the flattest.

The AI isn't random. Every polish runs on Claude by Anthropic with a custom prompt written by a ministry leader specifically for this tool — not a generic chatbot. And every paragraph stays editable: if Claude gets it wrong, you get the last word.

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Tell us what you've done

Five short sections. Personal info, philosophy, roles, education, skills. Write the way you'd say it to a friend.

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We polish as you go

Live AI rewrite on every paragraph, looking for evidence of humility, grit, and competence.

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Pick a style

Three serif PDFs, each named after a pastor worth imitating. The look feels premium because it is.

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Download and send

Free with a light watermark, or $7 to remove it. No accounts, no spam, no resume database — just yours.

Three styles

Pick a look that fits how you lead.

Each style is built around a different kind of pastor. The samples are real-ish: researched from public biographies of three ministers we admire. Click any one when you start the builder.

J·B
Sample resume in The Bunyan template — John Bunyan

Classic · Single column

The Bunyan

Plain-spoken serif resume in a single column. Gold section labels, hairline rules, generous margins.

AR
Sample resume in The Rogers template — Adrian Rogers

Modern · Dark sidebar

The Rogers

Deep navy sidebar carries contact, education, and skill chips. Main column tells the story.

C.S
Sample resume in The Spurgeon template — Charles Spurgeon

Editorial · Book typography

The Spurgeon

Hairline rules, italic summary, gold section labels. Reads like a book chapter, not a job ad.

What's at stake

Don't let the resume be smaller than the work.

The right pastor and the right church are out there looking for each other. Median pastoral tenure is now eight years — when the fit is right, it lasts. Send something that reflects the years you've put in. Then let the work speak.

Lifeway Research, 2025