New Hope Church

Lead Pastor Job Description

At New Hope Church we are Becoming fully-engaged followers of Jesus Christ by Belonging together, Believing in Christ alone, and Blessing our world. Under the leadership of our current Lead Pastor, we have transitioned from a legacy to a missional church culture. Our new Lead Pastor will share this missional focus.

Our future Pastor will be responsible for:

1. Spiritual Modeling. The Lead Pastor should conspicuously model prayer; personal Bible study; encouraging the spiritual faith of the one-another's in a personal way; doing non-anonymous good deeds in the name of Jesus Christ; and sharing the Gospel with not-yet-believers.

2. Mission Alignment. The Lead Pastor is responsible for keeping the vision before the congregation through preaching, teaching, writing, and conversation. He is responsible to ensure that everything the church does is aligned with its mission, is achieving its vision, and is operating within its values. To that end, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Results-oriented, and Time-bound objectives (SMART Objectives) should be annually proposed by the lead pastor so that achievement can be measured.

3. Team Building. The Lead Pastor is responsible for ensuring the right leaders are in the right roles. Key volunteers, who give sacrificially of their time and gifting, are to be treasured, trained, encouraged, and led well to become the fully-engaged follower of Jesus Christ they were created to be.

4. Care Provider. The Lead Pastor is responsible to "equip the saints" to provide care for the members of the church according to Ephesians 4:11-13.

A strong candidate would have:

• Experience as the Lead Pastor of a growing church.• Educational equivalent of an MDiv degree or higher.• Alignment with our beliefs as outlined in the Baptist Faith and Message 2000.• Exceptionally strong communication skills.• Extroverted personality who connects well with both believers and not-yet-believers.• Comfortable with an Elder-led church polity and a strong Teamwork culture among the staff.