Missions and Church Planting 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 Church’s 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 church’s 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.

Providence Church Exists to Glorify God by Making, Growing, and Unleashing Disciples of Christ.

The word “providence” simply means God’s good plan and perfect guidance for his creation and all of us. He sovereignly brings all variables together, large and small. This includes the decisions humans make—good and bad—which God uses to accomplish his ends. We love the name Providence for three reasons. First, we recognize that God, not a human leader, started and sustains this church. Second, we want to submit to God’s will, bring him glory, and be a part of what he wants to do in this world.

That’s our mission: to glorify God by making, growing, and unleashing disciples. Third, there have been crazy and unexpected circumstances throughout our history that God has used to establish and grow our church. It has proven to be a perfect name for us. That’s why we want to remember our history—because it reminds us of who we are and where we’ve come from by God’s grace. But it’s important for you to know that God, in his providence, may want to use you in our family, too. We invite you along for the journey!