General Information
Job Title:
Assistant Pastor
Job Description:
Covenant Community Presbyterian Church in Wexford, PA is seeking an assistant pastor to support our growing bi-lingual and cross-cultural congregation. This position will minister to all members, and guests of Covenant, with a special emphasis of ministering alongside our Spanish speaking folks.
Purpose: Cultivate a deep and growing community of faith and service at Covenant Community, helping the church grow inside and out.
Looking for: A bi-lingual pastor with good interpersonal skills, visionary leadership, organization, and communication skills. Someone who aligns with Covenant’s cross-cultural, bi-lingual, multi-ethnic vision with a personal passion to actively pursue it.
Oversees: Various ministries as gifting and graces direct, with special emphasis on Spanish Speaking ministry, and those listed below
Discipleship & Leadership
- Lead Outreach
- Cultivate culture of reaching our communities with the gospel of Jesus Christ
- Disciple our people with an “all of life” vision of discipleship, that our work is integral, not incidental to living as disciples of Christ
- Create and cast vision for an effective ministry that seeks to serve others, and by God’s grace, welcome into the life of the church
- Lead Assimilation
- Cultivate culture of radical hospitality from the moment a visitor walks in the door until they get plugged in
- Disciple and recruit Assimilation ministry leaders and volunteers
- Create and cast vision for an effective, outward-facing assimilation strategy
- Help cultivate the unity we have in Christ across lingual and cultural differences
- Lead Groups
- Develop Bible studies for Spanish speakers
- Help establish c-groups that are either bi-lingual, or Spanish speaking
- Provide pastoral care as needed, especially for our Spanish speaking members
- Attend all staff meeting and share ministry vision, needs, and desires
- Attend all Session meetings, sharing insight and giving input
- Work closely with the Deacons and Helping Hands ministry, identifying needs and appropriate ways to meet those needs
- Work closely with ESL, focused on connecting with folks, building relationships, and evangelism
Preaching/ Teaching & Communication
- Preach on Sunday morning at least 5-10 times/year
- Regularly lead Sunday morning liturgy
- Verbal translation for Worship services on a rotating basis
- Dedicate time each week to continued education and professional development
- Translate written and verbal communication of ministry vision and updates to engage our Spanish speaking members and guests
Administrative
- General translation needs
- Organize and maintain outreach needs
- Organize and maintain policies and procedures for Assimilation Ministry
- Manage ministry budgets as appropriate
- Prompt response to all communication from church leadership and congregation
Position Qualifications:
Qualifications/ Skills
- Active faith and walk with the Lord
- Demonstrate a passion for the gospel
- Proficient speaking and writing in both English and Spanish
- Ordained, or ordainable as a teaching elder in Presbyterian Church in America
- Accessible and affable staff member, with a heart for building up saints to do the work of the ministry
- Has a passion for spending time with people both in one-on-one and group settings
- Active member of the community outside the church, building relationships in the Hispanic community and beyond
- Desire to learn and grow
- Works well in an in-person office setting
- Collaborative team-player with church staff and fully supportive of the senior pastor
- A deep understanding of his own daily dependence on God’s grace and a desire to spread this grace to others
Benefits
- Family coverage: Major Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
- Retirement
- Life insurance
- Disability
- FICA contribution
- Travel & Communication contribution
- 4 weeks of vacation & 2 weeks of study leave
- Sabbatical policy for full-time ministry staff
- Counseling benefit
- Moving allowance
Interested Candidates: Please submit resume (or CV), cover letter, MDF, 2 sermon samples (English & Spanish), short verbal translation example, and philosophy of ministry
Application Deadline
08/31/2024
Job Type:
Full Time
Salary Range:
$55k-$70k
General Information
Church/Organization Name
Covenant Community Presbyterian Church
Contact Name & Contact Info
Industry
Church
Denomination
Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
City, State
Wexford, PA
Description of Organization
Covenant Community Church exists for the glory of God, to be used by God as an instrument for gospel transformation and reconciliation of individuals, families, communities, and culture in the North Hills of Pittsburgh.
The Lord is transforming us into a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic church, displaying the glories of the gospel, by making us one in Christ. We worship bilingually in Spanish and English as we continue to welcome friends from the Hispanic community.
We seek to live this out as follows:
- Worship God with our whole lives, both corporately as the gathered people of God, and as individuals stewarding all aspects of our lives, including our vocational callings as an act of worship.
- Loving one-another as Christ has loved us. Being a church that is ‘one-anothering’ each other with the love of Christ.
- Serving - by loving our neighbors as ourselves - bringing Shalom through word and deed gospel ministry, striving to be a people who seek the common good.