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.