DIRECTOR OF MISSIONS / ASSOCIATIONAL MISSION STRATEGIST

The DOM/AMS for the Giles County Baptist Association (GCBA), based in Giles County, Tennessee, is a part-time position with salary and benefits provided that are commensurate to his experience and responsibilities. The following is a general overview of his responsibilities, relationships, and accountability.

Qualifications:

• Biblical: He shall meet the qualities of a spiritually mature leader as described in the role of a pastor in I Timothy 3:1-7, Titus 1:5-9, and I Peter 5:1-4.
• Relationship with Christ: He shall have a healthy, growing relationship with Christ practiced and modeled in spiritual disciplines.
• Calling: He shall have a Church-affirmed call to vocational ministry with a passion for associational missions.
• Missional: He shall have vocational experience with and personal involvement in both local and international missions.
• Education and Experience: A master's or higher in theology and at least ten years of ministry experience are preferred. He must be distinctively Baptist in mission and doctrine.

Responsibilities:

• In general, the DOM is responsible for encouraging the churches of GCBA to cooperate in God's mission in Giles County and to the ends of the earth. He shall be granted the authority and provided the resources to fulfill his ministry.
• Provide strategic missionary leadership: Lead the entire association of churches to refine and implement the adopted GCBA strategic plan. The DOM will help churches maintain a missional perspective; start new work; establish points of witness; report to GCBA the needs of people in Giles County for evangelism, ministry, or missions attention; and lead in enlisting, placing, training, and supervising volunteers for GCBA.
• Provide general leadership and administration: Give general leadership in all aspects of GCBA life; determine his own schedule to meet GCBA needs; and administer processes such as planning, organizing, communicating, training, and evaluating.
• Manage the office, business affairs, and staff: This function includes office management, overseeing and improving all communications, staff supervision, financial management, property management, legal affairs, purchasing, and serving as a general resource person for denominational information.

Relationships:

• Pastor to pastors: Help coach and mentor GCBA pastors to greater spiritual, personal, relational, and missional health. Additionally, the DOM will assist in church/pastor conflicts, orient new pastors in GCBA, develop pastoral support systems, and provide growth opportunities for pastors.
• Strengthen relationships among churches: Encourage GCBA to be a family of healthy churches or a network through which churches mutually give and receive assistance, foster fellowship and mutual commitments among churches of GCBA, lead churches to develop a sufficient degree of unity in faith and practice to fellowship and work together; and create an environment in which healthy churches want to be on mission together.
• Maintain denominational and other relationships: Relate as appropriate to other Baptist associations, Tennessee Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention, other Baptist agencies, and other denominations or religious entities—business, social, educational, and welfare agencies, as well as city, county, state, and national governments. Interpret the denomination to churches and churches to the denomination.

Accountability:

• As a professing believer and one called of God to serve His Body, he is ultimately accountable to God.
• The DOM serves GCBA churches and is ultimately accountable to them through the GCBA Executive Board.
• The DOM will give a quarterly report to the Executive Board on the progress of the strategic plan. Additionally, the DOM will give a report at the Annual Meeting.
• As an active church member, he is accountable to his home church.