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Associate Pastor of Disciple Making

Grace Community Church
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ASSOCIATE PASTOR OF DISCIPLE MAKING

 

OVERVIEW

The Associate Pastor of Disciple Making will help nurture Grace’s discipleship journey by implementing our disciple-making strategy and creating environments where people move from lost to committed disciples who make disciples. He will work to support the Pastor of Disciple Making to create specific disciple-making opportunities within the pathway. In addition, he will provide leadership for the prayer ministry.  

 

CHARACTER

He is a self-aware, spiritually mature believer with a vital, growing relationship with Jesus Christ, expressed through humble, servant leadership and a love for both the local church and the broader kingdom of God. He will embody our five marks of a mature disciple: spiritually deep, gospel fluent, emotionally mature, culturally intelligent, and missionally engaged. 

 

ABOUT YOU

You lead out of your marriage (or singleness) and embody emotional health, living in rhythms that keep you deeply rooted in the love of Jesus. You are passionate about seeing people transformed through intentional discipling relationships. You are excited about the challenge of scaling these kinds of relationships while preserving their organic nature. You love the expression of the Gospel across cultures, and the possibilities for whole-person discipleship in a multiethnic community intrigue you.  

Most importantly, you believe in the centrality of the gospel as the means for an abundant life, so your work to equip, teach, and disciple flows from, and points to, the power of the Gospel. You long to do all of this in a community of pastors. 
 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Champion Disciple-Making Pathway 

  • Support the Pastor of Disciple-Making in implementing Grace’s disciple-making strategy across all ministries. 
  • Lead and develop the parts of the disciple making pathway that include Alpha, baptism, the Foundations & Essentials curriculums, and interpersonal discipling relationships. 
  • Own the operational life cycle of growth pathway courses: planning, setup, execution, hospitality, and tear down.  Recruit, equip, and mobilize leaders and volunteers for every environment. 
  • Integrate Emotionally Healthy Discipleship (EHS/EHR) into the disciple-making pathway. Developing rhythms and leader pipelines so courses are reproducible. 
  • Equip and coach staff and volunteer leaders to implement Five Marks of a Disciple and Four Anchors of MEC into their ministries.  Manage the production of guides and materials for these Marks/Anchors. 
  • Oversee baptism classes and scheduling, assisting families and ensuring baptisms are meaningful. 

Oversee Grace Prays Ministry 

  • Continue to expand the culture of intercessory prayer at Grace by recruiting, equipping and supporting prayer leaders and overseeing Prayer Place teams 
  • Establish an annual rhythm for corporate prayer and systems for intercessory prayer response.  
  • Lead church-wide prayer initiatives (weekly prayer gatherings, prayer vigils, prayer walks, and special seasons of prayer). 
  • Create resources for personal and corporate prayer (guides, journals, online prayer platforms). 

Pastoral Presence 

  • Be a consistent and visible presence on Sunday mornings connecting with people and welcoming them. 
  • Perform general pastoral and care duties as needed (visitations, counseling, weddings, pastoral care etc.) 
  • Teach in small and medium-sized settings as required. 

 

COMPETENCIES

  • Training and experience in disciple-making with the ability to develop and lead teams. 
  • Collaborative spirit, eager to foster unity across teams 
  • Ability to recruit, equip, and multiply leaders. 
  • Strong interpersonal and team-building skills with cross-cultural intelligence. 
  • Able to manage priorities and drive tasks to completion in a collaborative way. 
  • Alignment with Grace Community Church’s theological convictions and philosophy of ministry, including, but not limited to Gospel-centered and Emotionally Healthy Discipleship; convictions around God’s vision for ethnic unity.    
  • Knowledgeable in spiritual formation practices, emotionally healthy discipleship, and intercessory prayer. 
  • Graduate seminary degree preferred (M.Div or equivalent); theological training or equivalent experience required. 
  • Proven pastoral experience in a larger church, or 3–5 years in a smaller church context. 
  • Able to use technology with ease and competence, knowing you will be more effective in ministry and collaborating with teams as you do. 

 

SCHEDULE 

  • 1x Per Week-Meet with Pastor of Disciple Making 
  • 1x Per Week-Attend weekly All Staff Meetings on Tuesday mornings 
  • 1x Per Week-Attend weekly Pastor and Care Meeting on Thursday mornings  
  • 1x Per Week -Attend the weekly All Staff Prayer Pause 
  • 1X Per Week-On-Site on Sunday for all gatherings 
  • 1x Per Year-Participate in the All-Staff Retreat, typically in August 
  • Rotational-Pastor On-Call 
  • Christmas Eve + Easter Sunday Gatherings 
  • As needed-Initiate/attend project specific meetings 

 

RELATIONSHIPS  

  • Reports to: Pastor of Disciple-Making 
  • Oversees: Volunteer teams in discipleship and prayer ministries 
  • Collaborates with: Community Life Pastor, Pastor of Care, and Prayer Ministry Leaders 

 

BENEFITS  

Family Health/Dental Vision Insurance/3 Weeks Annual Leave/2 Weeks Sick/Safe Leave/4 Weeks Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave/10 Holidays /403(b) Plan with Employer Contribution and Match/Employer-Provided Life & LTD Insurance