Planting Pastor

In Brief: Ignite Church is passionate about starting small to medium-sized (100-400), high-impact churches and campuses around Peoria and central Illinois that reach people with the Gospel of Jesus.  The role of the planting pastor is critical in the fulfillment of this vision to see the region saturated for Christ, passionate Christ-followers raised up, and deploying leaders/disciple-makers into the Harvest fields.  Planting Pastors are responsible for the oversight, local leadership, and implementation of the vision, systems, teams, finances, services, teaching, and operations of their local campus.  Additionally, they will work with the Lead Pastor of Ignite (as well as other staff and elders) to decide high-level directional issues such as vision, policy, financial oversight, broader movement decisions, etc.  Below is a snapshot of the responsibilities and expectations.

Position Responsibilities:

• Work with Lead Pastor (as well as other staff and/or elders) to provide overall directional leadership of the church (all campuses), decide matters of policy and doctrine, as well as spiritual leadership to their campus.
• Recruit, train, and develop a launch team to start a new, high-impact campus.
• Oversee and lead all volunteers, campus-specific staff, and operational aspects of campus.
• Primary Teacher/Preacher at campus (and a part of preaching team for all campuses) responsible for communicating relevant, impactful, Spirit-empowered messages.
• Be ‘the face of the campus’ on Sundays and throughout the week.
• Ensure all worship experiences are executed with excellence in all areas (kids’ ministry, First Impressions, teaching, worship, tech, etc) and provide training when needed.
• Model, lead and implement a dynamic evangelistic value/strategy throughout campus and be a positive, winsome presence in your community.
• Shepherd, disciple and lead your campus towards a vibrant faith in Christ.
• Develop, train, disciple, empower and raise up an ever-increasing number of leaders, disciple-makers, and partners. Model, lead and implement multiplication (of believers, disciples, leaders, etc) throughout the campus.
• And other assorted duties.

Expectations:

• “Owner” of the vision, mission, values, and beliefs of Ignite Church.
• Demonstrates a growing, contagious, and passionate walk with God, has the highest moral character, and has qualifications of an overseer found in 1 Timothy 3.
• Exhibits a friendly, humble, fun, positive, and team attitude.
• Protects the unity of the church by dealing with conflict quickly and biblically, by refusing to gossip, and by staying aligned with the senior leadership of the church.
• Strong work ethic, great people skills, good communicator, and functions as a leader and multiplier.

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