Senior Pastor, Head of Staff - Wilmington, DE
Listed: 07-09-2021
Employer: Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church - 500 McKennan’s Church Road
Wilmington, DE 19808 | (302) 998-0434 | www.rccpc.org
Location: Wilmington, DE
Type: Full-time
Download: Job Description - Senior Pastor, Head of Staff
The Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church Pastor Nominating Committee is seeking candidates for the role of Senior Pastor and Head of Staff in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Call:
Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware, is calling a Senior Pastor and Head of Staff to join our spirit-filled church congregation as we prepare to celebrate our 300th anniversary. Red Clay is an energetic and passionate service-minded congregation of 700+ members eager to begin our next chapter. As a faith community, we actively serve our local and global community, and support the needs of people of all ages. We live out our vision through our guiding principles: Belong, Nurture, Reach, Rejoice. We look to our ordained staff to provide theological leadership, inspiration, and vision to support our ministries, and also to encourage and help develop lay leaders to find and use their gifts to further the vision and mission of the church. Our church is housed in a historic building on a beautiful campus in suburban Wilmington, adjacent to both areas of affluence and great need. We are close to downtown Wilmington, home to an interesting professional community, and near Newark, home of University of Delaware. Our mission is to provide worship, programs, and experiences where the astonishing love of Christ is encountered and shared. Contact us at pnc@rccpc.org.
How will this position help you to reach your vision and mission goals:
In addition to participating and engaging in our programs and processes, the Senior Pastor’s role will be to encourage, motivate, advise and help develop lay persons for leadership roles. As a church, we want programs and processes in place that are sustainable regardless of our staffing complement. This will only happen if lay leadership is encouraged to find and use their gifts and abilities to further the vision and mission of the church. We need a Senior Pastor who can help us collectively understand how each member contributes to a whole, healthy church where people are excited about our vision and mission, and become actively engaged.
Provide a description of the characteristics needed by the person who is open to being called to this congregation and or organization:
• Spiritual guide and biblically knowledgeable leader, preacher, worship leader, and teacher
• Sound instructor in Presbyterian and Reformed theology, church history, and biblical interpretation
• Encouraging and motivating teacher and collaborator (all generations)
• Experienced and supportive manager, leader, mentor, and communicator (staff, Session, lay leadership)
• Inspiring and motivating (through sermons and worship)
• Caring, encouraging and engaging counselor (all generations, in pastoral care)
• Visionary, locally and globally informed, aware, and concerned (mission)
• Personable, hospitable, hopeful, compassionate, loving (congregation and community)
What specific tasks, assignments, and program areas will this person have responsibility?
• Create and deliver high quality inspirational sermons
• Emphasize a strong reliance on and communication of God’s presence
• Recruit, train, and support lay leaders to establish and grow high quality programs
• Provide spiritual leadership and encouragement across all program and operational areas of RCCPC
• Lead the staff and maintain a safe, challenging workplace
• Reinvigorate and foster RCCPC members’ deep love for the church and the sense of community members feel
• Approach, engage, and welcome members and visitors
• Develop trusting relationships with staff and members
• Encourage members and staff to identify their gifts and respond to God’s call to use them
• Guide RCCPC in adapting to an evolving vision and strategy
• Provide vision and encouragement to RCCPC in an ever-changing community
• Ensure that RCCPC follows through on recently identified mission study goals (discerned through the reVision program)
• Oversight for all pastoral responsibilities typically associated with the Church including weddings, funerals, and confirmation.
Leadership Competencies:
Preaching and Worship Leadership
Spiritual Maturity
Public Communicator
Task Manager
Organizational Agility
Strategy and Vision
Collaboration
Interpersonal Engagement
Motivator
Self Differentiation
Compensation and Housing:
Minimum Effective Salary: $76,000
Housing Type: Housing Allowance
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