Job Overview

The Christ Community Pastoral Residency is a two-year mentoring program designed to train and equip church leaders of tomorrow. Believing the local church, as God designed it, is the hope of the world, Christ Community seeks to provide aspiring church leaders at seminary a healthy church environment to learn, grow, and practice ministry after completing their degree.

Job Description

Christ Community desires to select seminary students with "integrity of heart and skillful hands" (Psalm 78:70-72) to participate in this program. Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to following Christ, ministry leadership ability, a heart for serving the local church, and academic excellence.

Those selected for the Residency receive tuition assistance in their final year at seminary and commit to moving to the Kansas City area upon completion of their degree, where they will serve at Christ Community as a Resident for two years.

Christ Community is an Evangelical Free Church in the Kansas City area with campuses located in Leawood, KS, Olathe, KS, Shawnee, KS, and the Downtown and Brookside areas of Kansas City, MO. Founded in 1989 by its current Senior Pastor Tom Nelson (ThM, DMin, DTS), Christ Community seeks to assist people in becoming integral and influential apprentices of Jesus. Built upon expositional and relevant Bible teaching, thoughtful and beautiful worship gatherings, and communities of truth and grace, Christ Community is healthy and growing, with an average weekly Sunday morning attendance over 2,500.