Assistant Pastor of Family Discipleship: Rocky Mountain Presbyterian Church

Reports To

• Lead Pastor

Direct Reports

• Director of Children’s Discipleship
• Lay leaders including adult discipleship class teachers, journey group leaders, community group leaders, and youth leaders

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Adult Discipleship (20 Hours/Week)

• Participate with the lead pastor and the Session in developing vision and strategic planning for adult discipleship ministries
• Cast vision and implement strategic plan
• Lead the RMPC Journey Group Ministry
  • Personally lead a journey group
  • Implement the strategic plan for journey groups at RMPC
  • Work with the lead pastor to cast a vision for life-on-life missional discipleship
  • Lead monthly meetings for journey group leaders
  • Organize and lead or co-lead equipping seminars (Express Your Faith, Selection, Engaging the Heart, and other topical seminars)
  • Train others to lead equipping seminars in the future
  • Lead Discipleship Foundations (yearly course for training new journey group leaders)
• Lead the RMPC Adult Discipleship Class Ministry
  • Create an adult discipleship class schedule every year, creating a multi-year plan
  • Recruit elders and other qualified members to teach classes
  • Provide training and support for teachers as necessary
  • Work with the Director of Operations to advertise adult discipleship classes
  • Teach adult discipleship classes as required
• Lead the RMPC Community Group Ministry
  • Lead community group leaders in creating a new strategic plan that includes content for groups, a strategy for recruiting new group members, target locations for future groups, and leadership development (strategic plan to be approved by the Session)
  • Implement the strategic plan
  • Work with the lead pastor to cast a vision for community groups
  • Promote and advertise community groups within the congregation, including announcements, ministry spotlights, and utilization of the back bulletin board and information table
  • Work with community group leaders to recruit new group members
  • Train new community group leaders
  • Lead quarterly meetings with community group leaders
  • Lead a community group when necessary

• Lead the RMPC Assimilation Ministry
  • Prioritize meeting visitors on Sunday morning
  • Contact visitors who fill out a Connect Card within a week
  • Meet with visitors in-person as soon as possible after the initial contact
  • Coordinate and lead quarterly new visitor lunches
  • Work with community group and journey group leaders to recruit visitors and new attenders into their groups
  • Work with Director of Operations to connect new attenders with opportunities to serve at RMPC
  • Coordinate the new member class twice/year, and lead the class as necessary
  • Participate in new member interviews as needed
• Miscellaneous Discipleship
  • Engage in one-on-one or other small group discipleship as needed

Youth and Children’s Discipleship (10 Hours/Week)

• Use the philosophy of youth and children’s ministry to create and implement a strategic plan, with the assistance of the lead pastor and Session
• If needed, pursue a mentoring relationship with an ordained teaching elder who is experienced in youth ministry
• Lead the youth group for middle and high school students
• Recruit, train and lead a youth ministry leadership team, which will be composed of adults who will assist in leading the youth ministry and mentoring students
• Cultivate a heart for the lost among RMPC youth, and train them in evangelism
• Recruit an adult to teach RMPC’s youth discipleship class and provide support and oversight.
• Select and purchase children’s and youth discipleship class curriculum as needed
• Coordinate the yearly communicants’ class; teach and help with interviews as necessary
• Organize and/or lead seminars for parents on family worship, catechism, and other aspects of parenting as needed
• Oversee the Director of Children’s Discipleship

Sunday Morning Duties (5 Hours/Week)

• Provide oversight and support for the adult discipleship class, middle and high school discipleship classes, and Director of Children’s Discipleship
• Teach adult discipleship classes as needed
• Prioritize greeting and talking with visitors
• Lead liturgy as scheduled
• Preach every four to eight weeks

Other Duties (5-10 Hours/Week)

• Focused prayer for RMPC families and ministries
• Attend staff meetings
• Attend Session meetings (without a vote)
• Attend Presbytery and General Assembly
• Participate in family counseling and church discipline as necessary, especially in cases that affect youth
• Help write policies and procedures for RMPC as necessary
• Maintain communications with staff, officers, lay leaders and the congregation
• Assist with recruitment of volunteers when needed

HOURS AND COMPENSATION

Hours

• 40-45 hours/week, with longer hours during certain seasons (advent, holy week, etc.)

Compensation

• Commensurate with qualifications and experience

• Master’s of Divinity and ordained, or seeking ordination, in the PCA or other NAPARC denomination
• A vibrant personal relationship with Jesus Christ that includes a strong commitment to weekly corporate worship and daily personal worship
• Meet the qualifications for elder described in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-9
• Endorses and promotes the mission and vision of RMPC
• Exhibit a Christ-like love for the members, regular attenders and visitors of RMPC
• Relates well with children and youth
• Skill in preaching and teaching, demonstrating an ability to apply the gospel in a way that connects with the everyday lives of adults, youth and children
• A commitment to developing lay leaders
• A good leader of ministry teams, especially teams composed of volunteers
• Demonstrates a passion for reaching the least and the lost through personal evangelism
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; approachable and personable
• Consistent follow-through and results with communications and projects
• Collaborative team player who is humble and teachable
• Organized, self-motivated and able to take initiative