Campus Pastor, Lexington Campus

Job Description for Campus Pastor, Lexington, MA

Vision

Grace Chapel is a non-denominational, multicultural Christian church that welcomes everyone, no matter what your faith background or where you are on your spiritual journey. We believe that life with God doesn't just make our lives better, and better together; we believe that living out our faith makes us all better for the world around us.

Grace Chapel has been committed to Christ centered spiritual growth since its founding over 70 years ago. Grace Chapel's mission is to make and mobilize more disciples for Jesus Christ, in Greater Boston and beyond. We strive to be a vibrant, growing, multicultural community of seekers and believers, discovering life with God for the good of the world. As a part of this mission and vision, we are dedicated to developing church campuses in the greater Boston area with a commitment to being “one church with many campuses.”

Position Summary

The purpose of this position is to provide leadership as a gifted Campus Pastors with a deep passion for advancing God’s kingdom work in our region. We are currently seeking such a leader at our Lexington campus to inspire, build and lead a large congregation of committed leaders, volunteers, and attendees.

Campus Overview:

Our Lexington Campus is our original and the largest of our 6 campuses. It has a weekly worship attendance of 2000 with 2 distinct worship services (9:15 Classic/Traditional and 11:00 Contemporary).  Lexington is ethnically diverse with about 40% of its attendance being non-Caucasian with services translated in Mandarin, Korean, Spanish and American Sign Language.  Lexington’s 3 highest priorities are Group Life, Reaching the Next Generation and The Sunday Experience.  There are over 100 Small Groups with over 1500 participants and a variety of Community Care Groups. Kidstown weekly attendance is about 200, Students 80 including a Shine Ministry to support special needs kids.  Lexington has over 700 people who serve on a Ministry Team in some capacity.

This position has the following responsibilities:

• Casts vision for and leads the Lexington Campus within the broader context of Grace Chapel. Serves as the face of the Campus for the local congregation and the local community.
• Develops strategy for growth and energizes campus for outreach.
• Regularly serves as “Host” of the worship services at Lexington.
• Preaches regularly in order to cast vision and contextualize the broader message of the Grace Chapel teaching team to the local needs of the local congregation.
• Leads and supervises Lexington Staff Members (currently 12) and oversees the Lexington Staff Group Coaches.
• Recruit, train, & equip team members & volunteers to serve in their area of giftedness, leveraging existing ministries as well as starting new ones.
• Builds and leads a pervasive, high-quality, and volunteer-run Life Community ministry as the primary connection point to the Lexington congregation.
• Oversees the Lexington Campus Budget and Giving.
• Partners with the Lexington Campus Regional/Global Partners and well as the Lexington Grass Roots Ministries.
• Oversees all Communication Platforms for the Lexington Campus
• Promote attendance, giving, serving, group life, baptisms, and membership.  
• With Associate Pastor, ensures follow-up as the initial connection point for those that are identifying themselves as new to the Lexington Campus
• Facilitate weddings, funerals and provide hospital visitation when requested.
• Involved in the life of Grace Chapel (beyond specific campus).

Key Working relationships:

• Reports to Grace Chapel’s Pastor of Campuses and is a member of the Campus Pastor Team.
• Supervises local Lexington Campus Staff Team (12)
• Builds relationships with the church-wide pastoral staff and ministry team leaders in order to leverage existing Grace Chapel ministry strengths, content and best practices.
• Leads and supports volunteer Group Coaches as they support and coordinate Group Leaders.
• Leads and supports the volunteer leaders of the visitor integration ministries.

Skills and qualifications

In order to be effective in this role, a successful candidate for this full-time position will be a growing Christ-follower* who possesses many of the following core gifts and passions:

• Leader:  A gifted and energetic team-builder and an inspirational leader who can cast a clear and compelling vision and who will equip people to find, develop and act on their God-given calling.
• Pastor/Shepherd:  A pastor who longs to embrace, assimilate and care for those believers and seekers whom God will bring to this campus.
• Communicator: An individual with the ability to preach, teach and communicate effectively in large and small group settings.
• Theological Depth: A continuous learner with a strong theological foundation and biblical understanding that enables him or her to function with effectiveness and discernment. Advanced theological degree preferred.
• Champion of Diversity: An individual who values the diversity that God has brought to Grace Chapel and will work to increase it.
• Self-starter: Someone who is entrepreneurial and internally driven to achieve the mission God is laying out for us and able to manage her/himself accordingly. 

Required education and training requirements

• Pastoral Ministry degree and relevant ministry experience. Bachelors degree required, Masters Preferred
• 10 Years of ministry work at a growing church
• Has an active and personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Practices personal spiritual disciplines and leads with humility, character, and love.
• Able to clearly communicate and embrace Grace Chapel Church's mission, vision, values and strategy.
• Demonstrated Experience with online ministry; social media; and technical aspects of a digital ministry
• Experience leading volunteer teams, developing and equip leaders
• Experience with video production, and knowledge of online audio and video systems preferred
• Has a willing spirit to help support each ministry within Grace Chapel Church to the best of their ability. 
• Gifted in pastoring, teaching or worship leading as well as project management, organizational and administrative skills.
• Relational skills and the ability to develop community life.
• A self-motivated leader, capable of managing self and others, and effective in developing and implementing church systems

Meet Grace Chapel

Grace Chapel is a non-denominational, multicultural church that welcomes everyone, no matter what your faith background or where you are on your spiritual journey. Our mission is simple – discovering life with God for the good of the world. We are fully committed and passionate about helping people find and follow Jesus.

We’ve been around for quite a while – since 1948 in fact, when four families in Lexington, Massachusetts met weekly in a home for a time of worship, Bible study, and prayer. These families had a heart and vision for reaching and serving people in the growing western suburbs of Boston. Since we incorporated in 1956, we’ve grown from a few dozen people in a rented space in Lexington to 4,000 people coming together for Sunday services and midweek programs across five campuses: Lexington, Wilmington, Watertown, East Lexington, and Foxboro. Our worship services are casual, contemporary, and upbeat and we offer great Sunday morning programs for kids and teens at all our locations. Learn more about Grace Chapel on our website at https://www.grace.org.

Grace Chapel is an equal opportunity employer. Grace Chapel does not discriminate in employment with regard to race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, age, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status or unfavorable discharge from military service or any other characteristic protected by law.

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