Campus Pastor

Crossroads Community Church); Galena (IL); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossroads Community Church is seeking a Campus Pastor to oversee the leadership and operations at one of its campuses in Galena, Illinois. The Campus Pastor will embody the Lead Pastor's vision and lead both paid and volunteer leaders while ensuring a vibrant worship experience and spiritual growth among congregants.

The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, communication abilities, and a Bachelor's Degree in Christian ministry. Responsibilities include managing weekend services, building ministry teams, developing outreach strategies, and providing pastoral care.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership ability.
• Successful experience in building teams, preferably in a ministry setting.
• Spirit-filled and a mature believer.

Responsibilities

• Oversee general leadership of weekend services.
• Maintain quality standards in worship and ministry.
• Ensure spiritual growth among campus attenders.

Skills

Leadership ability

Communication skills

Problem solving

People skills

Dynamic speaking

Worship capabilities

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in field of Christian ministry

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Publisher)

Job description

Campus Pastor

God has called Crossroads Community Church to bring transformation to rural communities for the cause of Jesus Christ. As a multi-site church with 7 campuses in the Northern Illinois-Southern Wisconsin area and an international online ministry,we believe that God has a deep and lasting work to do in all of us, and we want to see the fruit of that in how we impact the communities and people that surround us. We love to invest in the lives of others, serve our communities, and trust God to do what only He can do on a supernatural level.

Value Focus

We choose to focus on 4 values in our ministry:

• Jesus | Our Message
• People | Our Priority
• Community | Our Calling
• Generosity | Our Privilege

Ministry Pillars

To minister in our community, we focus on 4 Pillars of our ministry:

• WORSHIPEXPERIENCE: experiencing the presence, power and plan of God in a welcoming environment with energized worship and practical biblical teaching.
• NEXT GEN: equipping children and students to love God and impact their world for Christ.
• GROUPLIFE: encouraging spiritual growth through life giving relationships.
• BEYOND ME: reaching communities, cultures and countries with the Gospel of Christ.

Our Campus Pastor

Working under the Lead Pastor of this multi-site church, the Campus Pastor (“CP”) provides overall leadership for a specific campus of Crossroads Community Church. He functions as the embodiment and primary communicator of the Lead Pastor’s vision at the local level. The CP is responsible for leading other leaders on the campus, both paid and volunteer.

Requirements for this position

• Provenleadership ability
• Successfulexperience in building teams, preferably in a ministry setting
• Excellent communication, problem solving and people skills
• Spirit Filled – a mature believer
• Bachelor’s Degreein field of Christian ministry
• Spiritual Gifts include: Leadership, Discernment, Encouragement, Teaching

It would be great if

• You are a dynamic speaker with experience in delivering weekend messages
• You are experienced in Microsoft office products (Word, Excel, Publisher)
• You are also gifted in worship

In this role, you will oversee

Weekend Experience

• General leadership of weekend service including oversight of the worship experience, children’s ministry, first impression activities and everything that happens on the campus during the weekend service.
• Maintain Crossroads level of quality in everything done on the weekends including the initial impression, worship experience, children’s ministry and facility/technology areas, etc.

Leadership Development

• Build and maintain ministry teams necessary for quality ministry. Teams including Hospitality, Technical, Kidzlink Children’s Ministry, Crave Student Ministries, Worship, Facilitiesand others as campus needs dictate.

Spiritual Growth

• Ensure that spiritual growth occurs among campus attenders – through engagement with the weekend teachings, Group Life, Welcome groups, New Believers groups, etc.

Outreach

• Develop and implement a variety of outreach strategies that serve the community that result in a regular stream of first time guests to the campus.
• Encourage campus participation in the Mission through prayer, giving, and participation in short term mission outreach events.

Pastoral Care

• Pastoral care of local campus. Pastoral care includes counseling, prayer, hospital visitation when needed, weddings, funerals, baby dedications, and any other opportunities to care for the needs of the people.