General Information
Job Title:
Associate or Assistant Pastor: Grace Community Presbyterian Church
Job Description:
Purpose Statement: This Pastor will oversee and seek to develop, implement, and provide
support for the various ministries of GCPC, including but not limited to our ministry to
Youth and Families, our Christian Education Ministry, our ministry to the men and women
of the church, our Missions of Grace team, VBS program, etc.
This man will also be an active participant on Sunday morning in the worship service,
preaching when necessary and participate in leading the worship service. He will also be
involved in writing the worship service each week.
The Pastor will be the primary person for members and ministry leads of GCPC to
communicate and coordinate events for our church. Announcements, Remind notification,
Church calendar coordination, building use coordination, website updates will fall to this
man.
Objective: To assist, guide and encourage the overall ministries of GCPC and those involved.
A. Shepherding
The heart (and burden) of every minister’s call is to be a shepherd to the people God
has called him to serve. The Pastor will be a shepherd who will be assigned members of
GCPC to care for. But his responsibility, with the Senior Pastor, will be to be a shepherd of
the members of GCPC.
B. Discipleship
The Pastor will determine and provide regular, careful, and doctrinally sound
instruction in the Scriptures for those under his care, with an emphasis to those leading
various ministries in Christian Ed and Youth and Family.
C. Teaching
The Pastor will, under the oversight of the Session, provide proposals of what books
of the Bible will be taught in Adult Sunday School each semester/year and he will
coordinate which Ruling Elders will teach and when. The Pastor will also teach in adult
Sunday School regularly.
D. Pulpit Ministry
As mentioned above, the Pastor will preach when the Senior Pastor is out and at
other times determined by the Senior Pastor and approved by the Session. The Pastor will
also help determine “the diet” of what will be preached on Sunday mornings. The practice
at GCPC has to provide the Session a proposed schedule of what books will be preached
through for the next 10 years. The Pastor will assist the Senior Pastor in providing the plan
to the Session.
Expectations: The ministry of the Pastor will be a hands-on, deeply relational, and
practical ministry. The opportunities for discipleship, leadership development, pastoral
counseling and shepherding are limitless. Through the leadership and practical ministry of
the Pastor, the members of GCPC will be given the opportunity to grow in the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ through person-to-person ministry and the pursuit of personal holiness.
Lines of Authority: The Pastor, depending on years of experience and his prior ordination
will be called as either as an Assistant pastor and under authority of the Session of GCPC, or
as an Associate pastor and will be a member of the Session. Regardless of the call, the
pastor will report directly to the Senior Pastor.
The Pastor will meet regularly and intentionally with the Senior Pastor for
supervision/direction, training, and mutual encouragement in ministry.
Position Qualifications:
● M.Div. degree or its equivalent
● Ordained or ordainable in the North Texas Presbytery of the PCA
● Agrees with and supports overall ministry vision of GCPC
● Must be a good administrator
● Must be able to work well with people, able to “gather” people of diverse
backgrounds to minister with
● References (at least 3, preferably including someone who has supervised the
candidate, someone who has worked with the candidate (peer), and someone who
the candidate has supervised).
Application Deadline
Job Type:
Full Time
Salary Range:
TBD
General Information
Church/Organization Name
Grace Community Presbyterian Church
Contact Name & Contact Info
Industry
Church
Denomination
Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
City, State
Fort Worth, TX
Description of Organization
A congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America.
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