Missions and Church Planting Minister

Position Title: Missions and Church Planting Minister

Pay Type: Full Time Salary, Exempt (considered self-employed by IRS)

Reports To: Executive 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.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPECTATIONS

A detailed list of expectations may be found in the Providence Employee Policy Manual on Page 9, entitled Providence Staff Statement of Ethics. In addition, the person in this position must:

• Be supportive of elder leadership.
• Spend regular time with God in his word and prayer, walk in the Spirit, be sensitive to God’s leadership, and pray for Providence Church.
• Participate in church staff meetings and other meetings required by the Elders.
• Have a Bachelor's Degree; Master's Degree (or working towards) is PREFERRED.
• Have a minimum of 3 years previous experience related to this position.
• Seek personal improvement. Find ways to improve personal productivity. Understand and implement new or better methodologies for accomplishing the church’s mission.
• Be detailed oriented, flexible, and decisive, with the ability to organize and coordinate work, set priorities, delegate, build consensus, and meet deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills; establish effective working relationships with others.
• An ability to work with a wide variety of people, including those of different generations, ethnic backgrounds, and socio-economic levels.
• Documented record of participation in a variety of mission efforts, including domestic and international mission trips.
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• High level of motivation and personal accountability.
• A willingness to learn new tasks and functions.
• Proven ability to recruit, train, and effectively lead congregation, staff, and volunteers to embrace a multiplication attitude.
• Elder and congregation approval required for this position.