Lead Pastor of Church ; planting​/merging

Lead Pastor of new Church Experience Location (planting/merging)

St Augustine, United States | Posted on 12/26/2023

• Industry Nonprofit Charitable Organizations

Denominations:

Church Size:351 to 500

Job Type:Full-Time

Employee Workplace:On-site

Church Experience is a dynamic, 9 year old church that originated in central Florida with rapidly expanding locations in the United States! We are passionate about our vision of being "one church with many experiences". This Lead Pastor opportunity involves leading (and preaching most of the time) at a new CE location you start or relaunch from merger (in a city/state you prayerfully select)!

We have nine CE campuslocations in Florida, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina (some established and some new/developing) with more being added regularly. Weworkextremely hard at 'helping more people experience a full life in Jesus Christ!' and have a lot of fun in the process! We have an amazing and growing team that all primarilyworkfrom home in their communities! You can learn more about Church Experience at:(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..tv

This opportunity consists of your selection of a location, building a launch team, and raising funds to launch (along with significant financial resources invested by CE)! Financial funds at the beginning come from a combination of your external fundraising (that we train/coach you through and provide lots of systems/support), the tithes & offerings from your launch team/campus, and our CE financial support.

Church Experience contributes financially to help you get off to a bigger start! You may choose to raise more funds to start full-time if you're able or choose to be bi-vocational at the start. We have powerful systems, a helpful team, big vision, experience in successfully launching well, and many available tools/resources/team members to help you start faster and we believe, be much stronger by doing it together long term!

Our model is to have a Lead Pastor at each CE location who leads and preaches around 70%+ of the time (supplemented by Central Campus teaching videos). High flexibility for envisioning unique local groups, local outreach, building your team, etc... are anticipated, but an incredible amount of time and money are saved by combining things you don't need to replicate since we are "one church" (kids curriculum and background check process, database, website/app, software, graphic design, support for your additional online service, lots of supplies, forms/guidelines, online giving, giving statements, collective 501c3/legal, financial reports/tracking, and countless other details if alternately starting alone).

Church Experience is "one church with many experiences". We are looking for a great leader/communicator who loves building God's Church within a healthy team context!

• Strong preacher
• Inspiring leader & team builder
• Experience in growing a group/service/ministry (will be building up to a big/quick launch from a small team)
• Fundraiser (will need to raise funds through personal network & other churches with our help along with CE financial support)
• Some college level education necessary (but degree completion not always required)

• Ability to start planning and fundraising relatively soon (but relocation to the city of your choice for planting not needed immediately).
• Successful ministry experience valued over formal education, but some ministry/Bible education may be required
• Items to include in/with resume if possible (recent preaching/teaching video, primary ministry experiences listed with start/end dates, education, contact info, & social media accounts)