PASTORAL RESIDENT JOB DESCRIPTION

General

The Pastoral Resident will serve as a member of the pastoral team, working alongside the Rector and Assistant Pastor to provide pastoral leadership to our parish community. In this role, he or she will be exposed to the full array of pastoral responsibilities, and will receive leadership and personal development, mentoring, training and support.

Qualifications

The ideal applicant has a seminary degree or is currently enrolled in seminary training. He or she has a clear sense of call to pastoral ministry and to the Anglican tradition, and is ordained or fully prepared for ordination as a deacon or a presbyter in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). He or she demonstrates a committed Christian faith and is in full agreement with the Jerusalem Declaration as a faithful summary of Biblical teaching (exceptions must be approved by the Rector), and evidence of spiritual maturity. He or she is a mature theologian who loves God’s Word, studies it carefully, and is gifted as a preacher and teacher. He or she is passionate about teaching, discipleship, justice and mercy, racial reconciliation and ministry across lines of difference, hospitality and evangelism, as well as helping church members connect the dots between their faith and their work. He or she is a confident self-starter who can work independently with guidance, and under authority.

Essential Responsibilities

  • Exercise pastoral leadership within our congregation 

  • Provide pastoral care for parish members, including hospital visits, home visits, office visits, pastoral counseling, etc.

  • Shepherd members to welcome others well and cross cultural divides

  • Oversee lay volunteer ministries and ministry leaders

  • Help coordinate Sunday worship service from start to finish (set-up to teardown)

  • Regularly attend all worship services, preaching and leading as assigned

  • Assist clergy in leading occasional offices (baptisms, weddings, funerals, etc.)

  • Work with clergy to plan and teach classes

  • Work with Assistant Pastor to plan our small group ministry, trainings and events

  • Oversee and support men’s or women’s ministry

  • Work with clergy to identify and work on areas of professional growth through classes, conferences, and book study with clergy (preaching, counseling, teaching, etc.)

  • Participate in weekly church staff meetings, an annual staff retreat, and monthly Parish Council meetings

  • Participate in pastoral residency program activities, including trainings and retreats

  • Attend Diocese of Christ our Hope and ACNA conferences and meetings as directed by the Rector 

  • If not ordained, start and continue the necessary steps for ordination,  first as a deacon and then as a presbyter (or “priest”) 

  • Additional responsibilities as assigned by the Rector