Salary: $65,000 - $70,000
Position Title: Missions and Church Planting Minister
Pay Type: Full Time Salary, Exempt
Reports To: Executive Minister
PURPOSE
To oversee, organize, and implement the church's mission through local, regional, and international missions, with a focus on training indigenous leaders to plant disciple-making churches that plant disciple-making churches and develop sustainable short-term trips.
KEY RESULTS AREA
The Missions and Church Planting Minister has the satisfaction of knowing that they are contributing to the missional discipleship of everyone.
- Integrate the Churchs Mission Statement into every aspect of Missions and Church Planting.
- Cultivate a healthy and effective missional culture at Providence.
- Establish relational and generosity discipleship in every church plant of Providence.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership
- Work in unity with the elders to oversee the church planting and missions ministry of the church.
- Provide leadership and development of the mission leadership team (Directional Leadership Team or DLT).
- With the help of the DLT, cultivate and empower a disciple-making and church-planting culture.
- Train and help execute strategies of multiplication for making disciples through relational discipleship groups. (Participate in one yourself).
- Cultivate and build a prayer relationship with our missional partners.
- Understand and promote the churchs philosophy and strategy of missions, centered on planting disciple-making churches that plant disciple-making churches.
- Equip and empower members of Providence to be unleashed to help plant disciple-making churches.
- Engage, equip, and empower Providence in equipping Disciple Makers amongst the unreached and less reached around the world in a healthy and effective way.
- Keep all missions and church planting efforts and projects aligned with the mission and vision of the church.
- Maintain and plan budgets to align with the mission of the church.
- Communicate regularly with the elders regarding church planting and mission ideas.
- Develop a strategy to maintain visibility and champion our partners.
Church Planting
- Lead the church in supporting new church plants.
- Identify locations / opportunities for church plans.
- Identify and oversee assessment and training of church planters.
- Maintain ongoing communication with church plant leadership.
Local / Regional / International Missions
- Maintain ongoing communication with our ministry partners.
- Invest in new partners consistent with our mission.
- Evaluate and assess partners annually to ensure missional efforts and resources are stewarded well.
- Establish international and domestic mission trips that focus on planting disciple-making churches and training disciple-making leaders.
- Leverage mission trips to expose our people to disciple-making in other cultures.
- Visit potential partners for church planting.
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPECTATIONS
A detailed list of expectations may be found in the Providence Employee Policy Manual on Page 9, entitled Providence Staff Statement of Ethics. In addition, the person in this position must:
- Supportive of elder leadership.
- Spend regular time with God in his word and prayer, walk in the Spirit, be sensitive to Gods leadership, and pray for Providence Church.
- Participate in church staff meetings and other meetings required by the Elders.
- Exhibit exemplary commitment to the church covenant:
- Protect unity: act in love with members, refuse gossip, and follow leaders.
- Share responsibility: pray for the churchs growth, invite unchurched, and warmly welcome guests.
- Serve: discover your gifts, be equipped, and exhibit a servant's heart.
- Support: faithfully attend events (particularly the key environments of worship and small group), live a godly life, and give financially.
- Adhere to the Providence Church Employee Personnel Policy Manual.
- Seek personal improvement. Find ways to improve personal productivity. Understand and implement new or better methodologies for accomplishing the churchs mission.
- Be detailed oriented, flexible, and decisive, with the ability to organize and coordinate work, set priorities, delegate, build consensus, and meet deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal skills; establish effective working relationships with others.
- An ability to work with a wide variety of people, including those of different generations, ethnic backgrounds, and socio-economic levels.
- Documented record of participation in a variety of mission efforts, including domestic and international mission trips.
- Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
- High level of motivation and personal accountability.
- A willingness to learn new tasks and functions.
- Proven ability to recruit, train, and effectively lead congregation, staff, and volunteers to embrace a multiplication attitude.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND MINISTRY LEVEL REQUIREMENTS
- Considered self-employed by IRS standards
- Full time staff member
- Ordained or Licensed
- Declaring a housing allowance
- Education: Bachelors Degree Masters Degree or working toward / Previous experience in position
- Elder and congregation approval required
