The Executive Pastor of Ministries (XPM) ensures the mission, vision and culture of Eastpoint Church are implemented through the various ministries. By overseeing ministry staff and guiding the strategic implementation of the vision, the XPM enables the Lead Pastor to focus on preaching, clarifying culture and providing big picture vision. See our full posting and description at https://www.epeaston.com/jobs
The roles of the XPM include:
Staff Developer: Lead People and Build Alignment?
The XPM thinks like a “coach,” encouraging strengths, identifying weaknesses and helping staff members grow as ministry leaders. He also thinks like a “shepherd,” seeing the spiritual growth of the team as more important than their production. He ensures their ground-level, day-to-day decisions advance our mission and embody our values.
Lead Team Member: Steward the Vision?
The Lead Team elevates from doing things “in the ministry” to working “on the ministry.” They evaluate staffing needs, assess progress on our Thematic Goal, identify organizational weaknesses and prayerfully set the direction for the staff. As a Lead Team member, the XPM possesses an appreciation for strategic implementation, empowering others and creating healthy systems. He has both concrete and abstract thinking skills, allowing him to translate vision to the ground level, day-to-day decisions. His ability to both handle details and see the broader vision enables him to build missional alignment.
Lane Developer: Oversee Ministry ?
The XPM will eventually oversee all three of our ministry “lanes,” ensuring we are living out our mission, pursuing our vision and implementing our strategy. By monitoring processes and outcomes, evaluating health, identifying strengths and weaknesses, coaching staff and establishing goals and targets, the XPM ensures we avoid stagnancy and instead maintain a growing, vibrant ministry.
Elder: Shepherd Sheep ?
Our pastors are vocational elders. As a member of the Shepherding Elder team, the XPM has several families he cares for. The XPM is also a non-voting participant in Directional Elder meetings.
BENEFITS SUMMARY
CHURCH HISTORY
Our church started in 2016 as a campus of Bay Area Community Church in Annapolis, MD.
In 2021, we hired our rst Lead Pastor, Sam Cassese, and fullled the original vision of launching an autonomous church on the Shore that can multiply other Gospel-centered campuses and plants.
The Eastern Shore is strategically placed and ripe with opportunity. Our relational congregation, conversational expository preaching, priority on group life, and commitment to excellence are providing a refreshing approach to ministry in a community steeped in tradition and surrounded by history.
Over the last three years, we have experienced exponential growth, increasing our Sunday gathering attendance from 200 to over 650. We’ve seen over one hundred people baptized and discipled in a life-giving community. We celebrate regularly through our “Grow Videos,” stories of people’s spiritual journeys, reminding ourselves that the most signicant growth happening in our congregation isn’t numeric – it’s genuine spiritual transformation.
We have a tremendously engaged congregation, with over 50% of our adult congregation serving and dozens of volunteers leading groups and ministry teams. Eastpoint has a unique level of partnership with our local YMCA, where we meet in their gymnasium for two gatherings. We also rent ofce space in a local business park. Our lack of a building has created a “church without walls,” culture, fueling our congregation’s commitment to not simply “go to church” but to mobilize in our community “as the church.”
WHERE WE ARE GOING
We have nearly two hundred attendees traveling from Queen Anne’s County, a twenty-five drive to Easton. Over 50,000 people call Queen Anne’s County their home. Centreville is the County seat and, like Easton, is a vibrant and historical Eastern Shore community. Its convenient location provides a natural draw that will grow its population, and with it, opportunities to advance the gospel deeper into the Shore.
We feel the Lord leading us to plant a campus in that community where our people can live on mission and invite their neighbors. The YMCA just built a brand new building with a 10,000-sq. ft gymnasium and they are eagerly welcoming us to plant a campus in this new location so we may partner with them in Queen Anne’s County as we have in Talbot.
