Senior Pastor

First Baptist Church of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 01/15/2024
Categories: Senior Pastor
Denominations: Baptist
Church Size: 501 to 750
Job Type: Full-Time
Employee Workplace: On-site
Job Description:

First Baptist Church Vancouver is searching for a team-oriented, visionary preacher and teacher to provide leadership as our next Senior Pastor.

First Baptist Church Vancouver is a multiethnic, multigenerational, socio-economically diverse congregation of about 650 in the heart of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. We see this as a resounding demonstration of the gospel’s power to overcome human divisions. We are excited to be near the completion of an extensive building project.

We are seeking a Senior Pastor who is an experienced, collaborative leader, gifted and effective in teaching and preaching in our cultural moment and urban context. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Senior Pastor is responsible for overseeing the pulpit ministry. With the agreement of the Board and in consultation with the Executive Pastor and pastoral staff, the Senior Pastor provides visionary leadership through facilitating the development of the church’s mission and vision. The Senior Pastor enables the worship services, strategic congregational initiatives, and the development of ministries for our neighbourhood, our city, and our world.

If you are called to team-oriented pastoral ministry with a skill set of preaching and teaching, and have a set of values and convictions that align with First Baptist Church Vancouver, we would love to hear from you.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Preaching/Teaching Responsibilities

  • Oversees preaching and teaching ministries.
  • Mentors the pastoral team to share in the preaching and teaching ministries.
  • Serves as the primary preacher and teacher at First Baptist Church, which would consume approximately 50% of the work week and entail the responsibility to preach from the pulpit 60 to 65% of the preaching time in any given year.

Leadership Responsibilities

  • Provides visionary leadership in discerning the direction of the church.
  • Collaborates with the Executive Pastor to ensure directional alignment.
  • Models Christ-centered leadership for the Pastoral Team.
  • Serves as the primary communicator of the church’s theological commitments, mission, values, goals and strategies to ensure directional alignment, equip the congregation to participate in the ministry of the church, and engage our denomination, ministry partners, and neighbours.

Ministerial Responsibilities

  • Participates in denomination life as schedule permits.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Recent proven experience and ability to lead a large, urban, multicultural and multigenerational congregation.
  • Gifted in biblical preaching and teaching with a mature understanding of the Scriptures.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to build trust through dialogue, with grace and humility, with other leaders, staff, and the congregation.
  • Effective and encouraging communicator of vision, mission and values.
  • A collaborative leader, a proven leader of leaders.
  • Understands the times and culture we live in and is attuned to our society, with a general awareness of what is going on outside the church.
  • Fifteen-plus years of varied ministry experience with at least 10 years of experience in a leadership position as an ordained pastor.
  • Postgraduate theological or divinity degree.

 

REQUIREMENTS

  • Obtain the credentials required to perform the functions of a Senior Pastor in accordance with the Ministerial Protocol Manual of the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada.
  • Adhere to the ministerial policies, procedures and protocol of the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada.
  • Be fully aligned with the church’s mission, vision, values, bylaws, and doctrinal positions.
  • Model and promote the church’s core values.

 

While every search is dynamic and time frames are hard to predict, the following is an overview of the expected timeline for this search:

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Application Deadline: March 15, 2024
Start Date: July 1, 2024 or later as negotiated

For more information, see our Opportunity Profile: http://tinyurl.com/fbcseniorpastor

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About First Baptist Church of Vancouver

First Baptist Church Vancouver is a multiethnic, multigenerational, socio-economically diverse congregation of about 650 in the heart of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. We see this as a resounding demonstration of the gospel’s power to overcome human divisions. We are excited to be near the completion of an extensive building project

OUR VISION

We are a community following Jesus with a heart for the city and beyond.

OUR MISSION

We seek the peace and flourishing of the city in the following ways.

  • Develop a Christ-centered, missional congregation.

  • Create opportunities for community-building, especially in a city that has identified

    social isolation as one of its key challenges.

  • Serve the vulnerable and marginalized.

  • Welcome immigrants and refugees.

  • Support mental health and wellness.

  • Offer full-time, quality childcare.

  • Provide affordable rental housing.

  • Partner with local churches and organizations.

  • Contribute towards long-term environmental sustainability.

OUR VALUES

  • Worship that glorifies the Triune God.

  • Preaching that declares Jesus and His Gospel of the Kingdom.

  • Introducing others to Jesus.

  • Equipping one another to live like Jesus in our beautiful but broken world.

  • Seeking the favour and empowering of the Holy Spirit.

  • Community based on and shaped by the grace of God, wherein we seek to speak the

    truth in love and show tangible care.

  • Prayer as a lifestyle.

  • Outrageous generosity.

  • Servant leadership.

  • Eagerly awaiting the coming of Jesus, bringing with Him a new heaven and a new earth

OUR STORY

Our story begins in Blair’s Saloon on Abbott Street, a Vancouver pub. The year was 1886, and Vancouver had just been incorporated as a city of almost 5,000.

A small group of Baptists saw the increasing need to establish a church for the growing city. On Sunday, June 6, they launched the inaugural Sunday School program, welcoming 30 children into Blair’s Saloon.

The following Sunday, June 13, 1886, Blair’s Saloon and most of the city were destroyed by fire. By God’s grace, following the fire, two building lots were obtained from the Canadian Pacific Railway (432 Main Street) to build a dedicated space for our congregation. The modest building was 24 by 35 feet and cost just $700 to build.

The following March, a meeting was called to form First Baptist Church officially. Within months, the congregation outgrew the little building on Main Street. A new church building, seating about 800, was built at Hamilton and Dunsmuir Streets and was dedicated on Sunday, September 15, 1887.

By the turn of the twentieth century, our congregation saw the importance of putting down permanent roots on the westside of Vancouver. In 1904, we purchased our current lot. From 1911 to the present, despite various challenges, we have experienced the faithfulness of God at the intersection of Nelson and Burrard, situated at the very centre of the downtown peninsula.

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