Leadership Profile

HOPEVALE CHURCH is seeking a Campus Pastor for their Bay City campus! We are looking for a campus pastor with a versatile leadership gift to lead and love our Bay City campus. We launched our Bay City campus in January 2018, and over the last 6 years it has grown into a vibrant campus with a gifted team of staff and volunteers all focused on inviting friends and neighbors in Bay City to know and follow Jesus.

The Bay City campus pastor will bring pastoral leadership and shepherding to continue growing our Bay City campus. Key responsibilities include establishing a healthy campus identity consistent with the DNA of Hopevale (one church in multiple locations), embracing and casting a clear vision for why Hopevale is in Bay City, while developing the staff and building servant teams for the Bay City campus.

Position Summary

The Bay City campus pastor will have a demonstrated ability to effectively wear multiple leadership hats – pastor (shepherd the community; help them to know and follow Jesus), visionary (cast a compelling vision for Hopevale in Bay City; lead toward that future), and project manager (organizational leadership and management, all aspects of ministry). The campus pastor must be able to function effectively within a matrixed Hopevale leadership structure.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Proven team builder with the ability to gain buy-in from staff and volunteers

• Proven ability to identify and develop leaders

• Self-starter with entrepreneurial work ethic, time-management skills, ability to multitask and prioritize

• Genuine love for people; relational, friendly and approachable

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, comfortable and effective in front of people

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent theological training or experience

• 5+ years of ministry, leadership and management experience preferred

• Multi-site campus ministry experience preferred

SPIRITUAL GIFTS

• Leadership, Wisdom/Discernment, Shepherding

LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

Carry the DNA of Hopevale “One church in multiple locations”

• Ensure alignment of the Bay City campus around the Hopevale campus constants

• Lead and support Hopevale church wide initiatives at the Bay City campus

• Champion Hopevale global missions at the Bay City campus

Establish a healthy Hopevale Bay City campus identity and culture “Build the tribe”

• Cast vision for Hopevale Bay City. Lead the conversation on “why Bay City”

• Lead the “Sunday experience” (all aspects) at the Bay City campus, including weekly service hosting

• Cultivate the future vision for Hopevale in Bay City

• Lead and manage visitor follow up and assimilation process

Lead and develop the Bay City campus staff team

• Lead annual ministry planning process for campus, in collaboration with the central staff team

• Develop and manage the Bay City campus budget, in collaboration with the central staff team

• Manage and oversee staff through weekly meetings and regular communication

• Provide annual reviews for campus staff, including goal-setting and personal development plans

Recruit, develop and celebrate servant teams for all ministries at the Bay City campus

• Model and establish servant leadership culture and servant assimilation process

• Lead, encourage and celebrate set up/tear down teams. “Go home sweaty” on Sundays

• Lead appropriate campus-wide servant gatherings for training and celebration

Lead local missional engagement

• “Exegete your context.” Know the needs in your community

• Know the city leadership in government, education, arts, business, entertainment, etc. Model missional engagement through personal presence in the Bay City community

• Help the people of Hopevale Bay City discover and lean into where God is “sending” them

Build partnership bridges with Hopevale central and Saginaw campus staff, and with senior leadership

• Meet regularly with Senior Pastor and Executive Pastor

• Collaborate with central worship staff when planning/executing Sunday gatherings

• Communicate regularly with Elders and senior staff, sharing stories and wins along the way

• Manage the “matrix” of leadership by encouraging campus staff interaction with central staff

• Encourage and provide regular opportunities for Hopevale leadership to engage at the campus level

REQUIREMENTS FOR PASTORS

Qualifications

• Live and model an authentic, growing relationship with Jesus (I Tim 3:1-7; Titus 1: 6-9) in the

• workplace, at home, and in personal life

• Exhibit the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5: 22-23)

• Give evidence to being a person of prayer and of the Word, sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit

• A member of Hopevale Church, or willingness to become a member

• Be in wholehearted agreement with Hopevale’s Statement of Faith (hopevale.org/what-we-believe)

• Go through the commendation process at Hopevale if not previously ordained/licensed

Responsibilities

• Perform duties revolving around the ongoing shepherding and pastoral care of the congregation in your

• ministry area: connecting with visitors, assimilation, pastoral counseling, hospital visits, etc. as needed

• Connect with small groups and small group leaders in your area of ministry

• Serve on the Pastor-on-call team

• Potential participation as a member of the teaching team, based on giftedness and at the discretion of

• the senior pastor

• Participate in pastoral staff meetings and ongoing training

• Perform sacerdotal functions as needed: communion, baptisms, weddings, funerals, etc.