Pastor of Growth Groups and Teaching Pastor

Pastor of Growth Groups & Teaching Pastor

The Journey Church NYC

New York City, NY (Manhattan)

Job Description:

We’re looking for an “A” player to fill the role of Pastor of Growth Groups & Teaching Pastor at The Journey Church NYC.

The Journey is a young (17 years old), aggressive, contemporary, outwardly-focused church in New York City with 3 Manhattan locations (Village, Upper West Side & Upper East Side.)

The Journey NYC has over 750 attending weekend services, over 800 in groups and expects continued growth.

We are looking for an experienced, aggressive person who is ready to live in NYC, work hard, grow as a pastor and leader in this important role on our staff and make a tremendous difference for Jesus Christ in one of the most important cities in the world!

This role is ideal for someone with the gift of leadership, growing teams and communication - and wants to develop as a minister and grow with the church. This is a key position on our team. Salary is competitive and the position is available immediately.

Are you called to serve in New York City?

Are you passionate about raising up new leaders and volunteers, seeing people get connected in the church and challenging them to grow in their faith?

Are you interested in expanding an already healthy Growth Group ministry that sees over 100% of our average Sunday attendance sign up for a group every semester?

Are you a gifted teacher who can adapt to our teaching style and add strength to our teaching team?

Can you work with our team to increase the number of groups every semester (approximately 60 just in Manhattan) as well as the number of leaders that serve each semester (approximately 100)?

Are you interested in helping a growing church continue to grow?

This is an equipping position (not pastoral care) to make a difference with the best and the brightest from around the world that make up the Journey Church in NYC.  The Growth Groups Pastor serves on our Executive Leadership Team.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership, growth, and innovation of The Journey’s semester-based small groups ministry. 
  
  
• Requires the ability to lead teams effectively and to raise up new leaders at a rapid rate.  Also, organizational and administrative skills are a must.
  
  
• The ability to teach on Sundays and contribute to The Journey's teaching team as well as the ability to work well with and lead staff.
  
  
• Must be extremely hard-working and have had leadership experience on a large or growing church staff.
  
  
• Other desired characteristics include strong interpersonal skills; growing leader; team builder; sense of humor; risk-taker (seminary not required).

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

- A Solid Calling to New York City

- The ability to manage a large and growing Growth Groups system

- A passion for the Bible and innovation

- An ability to teach, lead classes and lead meetings (volunteers/staff)

- A team player

- Experience in a large/growing church

- A positive attitude

- A familiarity with The Purpose Driven Church Model

- A risk taker

- A passion for discipleship and not letting anyone fall through the cracks

- A passion and drive for evangelism and reaching the unchurched

- A high commitment to the local church

- Comfortable in a non-charismatic worship environment

- Experience in a church of 500 or more is a plus

- Bachelor’s Degree required; MDiv or Master’s Degree or greater preferred

- Must be willing to work up to 60 hours a week when necessary

Only resumes accompanied with a COVER LETTER will be considered. 

The cover letter should be personalized for this position and should answer 4 questions:

(1)Why you are interested in this position?

(2)Have you read the book “Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups” by Journey Pastors Nelson Searcy and Kerrick Thomas?   Do you have any familiarity or experience with the semester-based small groups model?

(3)Why you would feel comfortable relocating to New York City?

(4)And what about you makes you stand out from other candidates for this position?

*Also – if you have a recent video/audio of you teaching in front of a group (large or small) – please include that along with your resume and cover letter.

Please send cover letters and resumes to kt1@journeynyc.com.

Sorry – but we won’t consider applications or resumes that don’t follow the above directions.