There’s a saying in the Marines that we love to try and mirror as we serve you: “Mission Ready.” We are fully focused on you - always ready to serve you and help guide you along the path of a search. That’s why our entire team is full-time. That’s why we make “Ridiculous Responsiveness” our core value and signature. But we aren’t just ready, we are equipped. We have more theological training than any search firm on the planet. We’ve also gotten in more repetitions than anyone. With over 25,000 face-to-face interviews, more than 2,500 completed searches, and a core value of Constant Improvement, we are on a mission to help you navigate whatever is ahead of you. We are fully committed to our mission so that you can be fully committed to yours.

The secret to a successful organ transplant is a careful and thorough tissue match. After all, you can put a healthy heart into a healthy body, and if the tissue doesn’t match, it’s a bad ending for everyone. Filling the open role on your team is just like that. To us, search isn’t about finding talented resumes and sending them along. Rather, it’s a transplant, and our specialty is becoming a student of you: learning your DNA, analyzing candidates, and discovering your unique tissue match. William often says that after serving thousands of churches, he is convinced that “if you have seen one church...you’ve seen about one church.” Every single search and every single team is unique. We are committed to learning about you and helping you discover a team member that feels like long lost family.

Vanderbloemen was born out of a holy discontent. William spent the first leg of his career as a Senior Pastor of churches of all sizes. He knew firsthand that churches usually take at least a year to find their new pastor, and that far too often, the new pastor isn’t a match for the church. In 2008, William saw the large corporation he worked for find its new CEO in 90 days. They used something he had never seen: a search firm. That spurred a question in him: “Why does the business world have a better solution than the Bride of Christ?” He quit his job and set out to build something new for the Church. Since then, that holy discontent has grown into a movement. Vanderbloemen has led that movement by helping churches and today all organizations that have Jesus at their core. We have completed thousands of searches and succession plans in nearly every US state and 6 countries. We are on a mission to give Jesus-centered teams every people solution they need to go farther and faster.