To be considered for this position, you must visit us at https://covenant.cc/careers and complete the Outreach Director application.
Covenant Church and the outreach role in a nutshell.
We are looking for a proven leader who has the heart and experience (3+ years) to equip and develop our people and teams to mobilize our church to bring God’s Kingdom to Greenville and beyond. The heart of the director must ultimately celebrate the success of others. We are a church who wants to become a movement of people who live and love like Jesus, and our Outreach Director must help us cultivate a culture of reflecting God’s story to a hurting world in everyday ways. We have no aspirations of being a trendy destination church; rather, we want to be humble and authentic people who worship 7 days a week in the ways we love our neighbors, the hurting, and the people in our spheres of influence for the sake of discipleship. If this connects with you, we are excited to begin the conversation.
Greenville, North Carolina is a great place.
Greenville is growing city located in the coastal plains of eastern North Carolina. It lives along the Tar River and has numerous parks, trails, and is the gateway to many of North Carolina’s amazing beaches along the Crystal Coast and Outer Banks. Postcard towns like New Bern, Beaufort, and Belhaven are great day trips, or cities like Washington DC, Asheville, Charleston, and Baltimore are roadtrip destinations that can be reached by lunch. Greenville is diverse, proud, and a great place to live, work, and raise a family. Most importantly, Greenville is receptive to the Gospel, and we want God to use us in this great city. We need brave and bold leaders to help us reach it.
Outreach supports Covenant on these primary levels:
It starts with leadership.
For outreach to be successful, we will need a leader to help mobilize our Missions Leadership Team, and our congregation, toward reaching our community holistically. These efforts are integration with discipleship as we empower a congregation in ways that look like Jesus in a few key ways: 1. Strategizing, organizing, and mobilizing Covenant Church in direct cooperation with the Outreach staff. These efforts should be tied to a multi-year local/international strategy. 2. The Outreach Team holds all areas of outreach accountable to Covenant’s overall vision & mission. 3. Stewarding our financial investments, and ministry partnerships to ensure effectiveness, and the achievement of mobilizing the Covenant family in compelling ways. 4. Helping ensure Outreach is in lockstep with Covenant Life’s discipleship priority. 5. Inviting our congregation into the vision, strategy, and opportunity that exists in outreach.
Equipping & resourcing real-life, real-time opportunities, and telling the stories. Outreach isn’t an event, or a thing; it’s a lifestyle that encompasses prayer, meeting felt needs, and taking calculated risks in existing relationships with friends, neighbors, co-workers, and beyond. There’s exists an opportunity to teach people how to live an integrated life, meaning, outreach isn’t something we do; it flows from who we are. This doesn’t mean we’re trying to ‘save’ or ‘fix’ people; we love others as a reflection of how God loves us. We trust that God will flow through us for the good of others, to HIS glory. Equipping can take various forms: 1. How to connect with others in everyday ways that helps foster genuine relationships. 2. How to engage a curious, cautious, or critical world without imposing our agendas. 3. How to shed a ‘Christian-culture’ mindset that allows us to meet people where they’re at. 4. How can we continue to walk with people prior, during, and after a spiritual ‘decision’. 5. How we can confront our own motives, ‘toxic’ charity, or hurtful ways we can ‘help’ others. As we mobilize and empower our church, it’s vital we share the stories of what God is doing in our church, neighborhoods, community, and the world. We want to inspire our congregation to take loving and bold steps as we love and serve others. This is an important part of outreach.
Supporting & supplementing existing opportunities. There are seasonal rhythms, ministry calendar rhythms, and other strategic opportunities we can support, such as message series, church wide events, and so on. We can complement these rhythms by scheduling our training or equipping sessions accordingly . Additionally, we can partner with our ministry leaders to help empower their teams, provide tools or resources, or even organize a strategic opportunity that aligns with the ministry area and brings a blessing to our community and/or ministry partners.
Clearing a path to serving. We must devise a multi-year plan that both narrows and deepens local partnerships, and incorporates complimentary international opportunities; being mindful of the overall spiritual development we aim to achieve in our congregation through outreach. We must meet people at various spiritual levels, offering connected, meaningful, and consistent opportunities that align with our strategy to reach our community, state, and world.