Job Overview

General Purpose:

To serve as an evangelism and disciple-making catalyst who advances the Grace vision by facilitating the movement of adults from wherever they are in their spiritual journey to the point of being multiplying disciple-makers.

Key Goals and Objectives:

• Create systems to move people into relationships and along a path toward spiritual maturity and multiplication.
• Help our church establish a culture of evangelism and disciple-making.
• Develop leaders and processes to facilitate this movement and cultural shift.

Job Description

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Recruit, train, and equip leaders who are passionate about helping people take the next steps in their spiritual journeys.
• Install processes that will help non-Christians become new disciples, new disciples become maturing disciples, and maturing disciples become multiplying disciple-makers.
• Spend time with people, helping them connect into relationships, recognizing that spiritual growth occurs in community.
• Oversee and improve our enfolding events such as our newcomer dinner and membership class.
• Consider how our existing Sunday schools, community groups, and life-on-life groups help us advance the purpose shown above, and then work closely with the other ministry leaders to align and refine those groups toward that end.
• Create new assimilation processes such as Sunday morning section hosts.
• Oversee all assimilation and enfolding ministries, improving or replacing them after evaluating their effectiveness.
• Participate on the pastoral team by providing preaching, teaching, shepherding, counseling, visitation, baptisms, weddings, funerals, and other pastoral support when needed.

 Qualifications:

• Is a man of prayer who personally prays while equipping and inspiring others to do the same.
• Is ordained or ordainable (before moving) in the Presbyterian Church in America.
• Possesses a seminary master’s degree.
• Has five years of experience in pastoral ministry, evangelism, and disciple-making, so that he can personally model these behaviors as well as equip others to do the same.
• Loves spending time with people and helping them connect to others in the church.
• Is able to preach and teach God’s Word.
• Demonstrates a gospel-saturated focus in his personal life and ministry.
• Is a creator, catalyst, leader, equipper, and shepherd.
• Enjoys working on a staff team in which individual ambitions are subordinated to team goals.
• Is passionate to share the Gospel with unbelievers and to equip others to do the same.
• Possesses a combination of relational and organizational ability.