Position Title: Missions and Church Planting Minister

Pay Type: Full Time Salary, Exempt (considered self-employed by IRS)

Reports To: Executive Minister

PURPOSE

To oversee, organize, and implement the church's mission through local, regional, and international missions, with a focus on training indigenous leaders to plant disciple-making churches that plant disciple-making churches and develop sustainable short-term trips.

 KEY RESULTS AREA

The Missions and Church Planting Minister has the satisfaction of knowing that they are contributing to the missional discipleship of everyone.

·      Integrate the Church’s Mission Statement into every aspect of Missions and Church Planting.

·      Cultivate a healthy and effective missional culture at Providence.

·      Establish relational and generosity discipleship in every church plant of Providence.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership

·      Work in unity with the elders to oversee the church planting and missions ministry of the church.

·      Provide leadership and development of the mission leadership team (Directional Leadership Team or DLT).

·      With the help of the DLT, cultivate and empower a disciple-making and church-planting culture.

·      Train and help execute strategies of multiplication for making disciples through relational discipleship groups. (Participate in one yourself).

·      Cultivate and build a prayer relationship with our missional partners.

·      Understand and promote the church’s philosophy and strategy of missions, centered on planting disciple-making churches that plant disciple-making churches.

·      Equip and empower members of Providence to be unleashed to help plant disciple-making churches.

·      Engage, equip, and empower Providence in equipping Disciple Makers amongst the unreached and less reached around the world in a healthy and effective way.

·      Keep all missions and church planting efforts and projects aligned with the mission and vision of the church.

·      Maintain and plan budgets to align with the mission of the church. 

·      Communicate regularly with the elders regarding church planting and mission ideas.

·      Develop a strategy to maintain visibility and champion our partners.

Church Planting

·      Lead the church in supporting new church plants.

·      Identify locations / opportunities for church plans.

·      Identify and oversee assessment and training of church planters.

·      Maintain ongoing communication with church plant leadership.

Local / Regional / International Missions

·      Maintain ongoing communication with our ministry partners.

·      Invest in new partners consistent with our mission. 

·      Evaluate and assess partners annually to ensure missional efforts and resources are stewarded well.

·      Establish international and domestic mission trips that focus on planting disciple-making churches and training disciple-making leaders.

·      Leverage mission trips to expose our people to disciple-making in other cultures.

·      Visit potential partners for church planting.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPECTATIONS

A detailed list of expectations may be found in the Providence Employee Policy Manual on Page 9, entitled Providence Staff Statement of Ethics. In addition, the person in this position must:

•      Supportive of elder leadership.

•      Spend regular time with God in his word and prayer, walk in the Spirit, be sensitive to God’s leadership, and pray for Providence Church.

•      Participate in church staff meetings and other meetings required by the Elders.

•      Have a Bachelor's Degree; Master's Degree (or working towards) is PREFERRED.

•      Have a minimum of 3 years previous experience related to this position.

•      Seek personal improvement. Find ways to improve personal productivity. Understand and implement new or better methodologies for accomplishing the church’s mission.

•      Be detailed oriented, flexible, and decisive, with the ability to organize and coordinate work, set priorities, delegate, build consensus, and meet deadlines.

•      Strong interpersonal skills; establish effective working relationships with others.

•      An ability to work with a wide variety of people, including those of different generations, ethnic backgrounds, and socio-economic levels.

•      Documented record of participation in a variety of mission efforts, including domestic and international mission trips.

•      Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.

•      High level of motivation and personal accountability.

•      A willingness to learn new tasks and functions.

•      Proven ability to recruit, train, and effectively lead congregation, staff, and volunteers to embrace a multiplication attitude.

•      Elder and congregation approval required for this position.