Next Generation Pastor Ministry Expectations
The ideal individual for this opportunity loves students, children, and families and is driven by a deep desire to help them become lifelong disciples of Jesus.
Your Win: To expand the influence and effectiveness of the Student and Children’s Ministry at Bridge Church and continue to create a welcoming and disciple-focused ministry for ages birth through high school graduation.
Summary Of Ministry Expectations:
Organizational Culture Expectations
Our Leadership Culture:
Empowerment with Boundaries. You will have clear direction, creative freedom, healthy boundaries, and flexibility.
Honor and loyalty. We honor each other and protect each other. We honor those over us, alongside us, and those God has entrusted to us to lead.
Grace-filled accountability. None of us are perfect, and we all fail. We understand that sometimes the best intentions, most diligent planning, and prayerfully considered steps don’t go as planned. You have the freedom to fail and learn. It’s part of life and leadership.
Collaborative learning. We learn from each other. We listen to what we haven’t heard and look for a different viewpoint. We believe you don’t know what you don’t know until someone who does know what you don’t know tells you what you don’t know. Teachability is the key to everything.
Responsive creativity. We spur each other on. We take a good idea and make it great. We take a sketch from one person and create a masterpiece together. Together, we find the meat of an idea and set the bones aside.
The Ideal Person:
Spiritually: The ideal candidate is someone who possesses and is developing the following spiritual attributes.
Verbally: The ideal candidate communicates with clarity, relevance, and anointing. They can connect with their audience and move them to action.
Academically: A degree is helpful yet optional. We are looking for someone with a natural God-given ability to lead others. Leadership is more than a title or degree. Leaders are learners focused on growing themselves and those entrusted to their care.
Creatively: The ideal candidate is someone who possesses and is developing the following creative leanings.
Professionally: The ideal candidate is someone who has and is developing the following professional attitudes.
The ideal person loves families, students, and children. They are passionate and driven to reach them, disciple them, and engage them with the message and hope only Jesus can give.
The ideal person is self-motivated. They are excited about their church and the opportunity they have been given, and they look forward to accomplishing what needs to be done.
The ideal person is teachable and welcomes direction. They are emotionally and spiritually mature and can engage in and through challenging conversations. They receive instruction, learn, and change.
The ideal person loves to build teams. They believe winning together is way more fulfilling than succeeding alone.
The ideal person embraces the dynamics of teamwork. They understand great teams trust, disagree, go all in, hold each other accountable, and celebrate team wins first and foremost.
The ideal person follows and supports even when they cannot see what the leader sees. They believe the leader often senses what is around the corner before it can be seen.
The ideal person is positive and finds solutions. They see a problem as a challenge to learn and grow through.
The ideal person is honest about their failures, struggles, and shortcomings. They seek out help and support.
The ideal person is a learner. They learn from the successes and failures of others. They listen to podcasts, read books and blogs, and continually grow.
The ideal person is a pioneer. They know the road least traveled is not as smooth as those already paved, but they long to do something new and fresh. They would instead enjoy what they build than endure what they inherit.
The ideal person sees an opportunity. They are up for the challenge and can’t wait to start.
Mission
The mission of Bridge Church is to Wake our World to follow Jesus and experience the Life only Jesus can give.
Who We Are
We are a diverse, multi-generational congregation. We are young, retired, married, single, divorced, remarried, parents, grandparents, and single parents.
Our Story
As a church we never want to forget our story. We believe that remembering and communicating our story keeps our focus on what God has called us to do. When we look back and remember all that God has done to launch Bridge it gives us faith for what we know God wants to do through Bridge in the future.
On February 11, 2016 Bob & Stephanie Hulett received approval from ARC (The Association of Related Churches) to be an official ARC Church Plant. Along with three other families from Pennsylvania they transitioned to Cape Coral and in June of 2016 held their first Interest Meeting.
With the help of 34 Dream Team Members, Bridge held it’s first service on January 29, 2017 at Mariner High School.
We now have our own location (79 Mid Cape Terrace Suite 2&3) right in the center of Cape Coral. We are experiencing rapid growth in both our Kids & Youth Ministries. Since the beginning of 2023, we have seen numerous people commit to Christ and go public with their faith with Water Baptism. God is doing amazing things at Bridge, and We believe our best days are ahead of us. Over the last 6 months our Sunday attendance has grown by 40%.