Associate Pastor

SUMMARY: The Associate Pastor will serve alongside the lead pastor in the shepherding, care, administration, and leadership of Christ Redeemer Church and participate in preaching and teaching. This is a full-time position, reporting to the lead pastor under the direction and care of the elder board.

SPIRITUAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Proven and consistent walk with God.

• Moral and theological characteristics of an elder (1 Timothy 3:1-7).

• Gospel spirit of self-sacrifice (2 Timothy 2:1-5).

• A lifestyle that Scripture requires of servants of the gospel (1 Timothy 3:1-13).

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Maintain a positive attitude about yourself, your areas of responsibilities, and the staff.

• Work cooperatively and cheerfully maintaining a good rapport with all staff, volunteers, church members, and outside professionals.

• Maintain a high level of confidentiality.

• Be congenial, professional, and business-like in all personal contacts with others.

• Be sensitive to the needs of others.

• Exercise good time management.

• Maintain a high level of excellence in your appearance, work habits, and quality of work.

• Be humble and teachable, an aggressive learner. This will require flexibility in expectations, initiating opportunity, and humbly seeking and receiving input.

• Maintain flexibility of hours, being available when the work is needed or is best accomplished (e.g., evenings, weekends, periodic retreats/conferences, unexpected circumstances, etc.).

• Display exemplary participation in the general life and ministry of CRC (e.g., Sunday worship, Sunday school, Community Groups, women’s/men’s ministries, appropriate other ministries).

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Visionary leadership & supervisory ability with staff and volunteers.

• Recruiting, building, and developing teams.

• Positive interpersonal and influence skills.

• An understanding of how technology can be used in ministry.

• Preaching and teaching skills, as well as public and interpersonal communication skills

• Planning, prioritizing & goal setting

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support (own and cooperate with) the vision and direction of the lead pastor, under the oversight of the elder board.

• Minister to congregation to grow in their faith in the good news of Jesus Christ.

• Play a central role in providing pastoral care to our congregation.

• Develop and implement CRC’s vision and strategy to disciple people of all ages as a growing, multi-generational church. Plan, organize and direct ministries of a growing church.

• Lead, coach, and manage staff and volunteer teams. Provide leader supervision and guidance for the planning, coordinating and evaluating of ministries.

• Deal effectively and tactfully with church staff, church members and community.

• Other duties may be assigned as needed.

SHARED CRC NETWORK RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Partner with a growing network of churches that support the work of planting, revitalization, and resourcing in New England and beyond.

• Regular participation in staff training, meetings, and development.

• Occasional pulpit supply at CRC partner churches and other local congregations.

• Partner in the work of support raising for the CRC network.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree

• Master’s level theological training

• 5-10 years ministry experience

REMUNERATION:

• Salary commensurate with experience.

• Health, dental, life, and retirement benefits.

• Housing benefit may be available.

CONTEXT: Christ Redeemer Church is a congregation of about 400 people, located in Hanover, NH, right at the doorstep of the Ivy League institutions of Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Since it was planted in 2000, CRC’s vision is to be a church that is formed and driven by the gospel, and so, is missional, both in our local context – as seen in our resourcing, planting, and revitalizing work in places such as New London and Quechee – but also in our global outreach. Captivated by our biblical and Reformational heritage, we have found that the gospel of Jesus Christ is always bigger, deeper and more counter-intuitive than we tend to think—and so way more transformational (Rm 1:16). The gospel is not only our message, but also our method. When this gospel is faithfully proclaimed, we believe that the chief fruit is the establishment and nurture of a gracious, holy and loving community (i.e. the church, see Mt 5:14-16, Jn 13:34-35, Eph 2-5 & 1 Jn 3:23) that, as a community, is a witness to the watching world (Jn 17:20-21).