Full Time Installed Pastor Position

The Presbytery of Donegal; Honey Brook (Chester County); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The Presbytery of Donegal is seeking a pastor for Honey Brook Presbyterian Church in Chester County, PA. The candidate will be responsible for delivering engaging and inspiring sermons, providing pastoral care, and actively participating in community events.

This role emphasizes supporting children and families in the community, helping them thrive through outreach and service. Strong communication skills and a commitment to faith-driven service are essential.

Qualifications

• Ability to deliver engaging, scripture-based sermons.
• Experience in pastoral care including hospital and home visits.

Responsibilities

• Proclaim scripture-based sermons during worship.
• Provide organized pastoral care within the community.
• Attend community initiatives, representing the church.

Job description

Honey Brook Presbyterian Church, Honey Brook, PA

Our congregation’s vision for ministry is “a Honey Brook community where all children thrive”.

Our mission statement, or how our congregation will work toward this vision, is “to provide community outreach where every child’s basic needs are fulfilled, such as shelter, poverty, safety, etc”. This vision and mission were born from conversations between our congregation and community leaders, where we heard a call for transformative change needed in our local community. This call to provide a community where children thrive has awakened our church, and we feel called by God to rise to the occasion. We believe the growth of our church is directly tied to us serving the families of our community that are in need. Our vision expresses our belief that through our ministry of service, we will transform the Honey Brook community so that
children in our community are empowered to thrive. Our hope is that they will come to understand that their thriving comes from the Lord who gives abundant life. We will utilize our current resources -- people, our buildings, and our finances – to empower, equip and encourage the children in our community.

Tasks, expectations, salary range, duties, supervision, assignments, and responsibilities for the position.

• Proclaim the Word of the Lord with thought-provoking, relevant, scripture-based sermons that are engaging and inspiring, around which the Pastor builds vibrant worship services consistent with Reformed worship.
• Moderate Session and Congregational meetings
• Attend and lend wisdom to ministry meetings, fellowship events, congregational celebrations, and outreach ministries, as well as lend support to the separate cemetery corporation
• Provide consistent, diligent, organized pastoral care (hospital, nursing home, at-home, and home communion) that also invites the congregation into caring ministry, with a willingness to extend caring ministry to members of the community in need of it or as requested.
• Perform weddings and funerals, teach new members and confirmation classes as needed, and embrace other commonsense pastoral care duties as asked.
• Support current - and developing new - ministries to children, youth, and their families per the congregational vision and mission, honoring them as God’s current calling to the congregation to share the love, justice, and mercy of Jesus Christ
• Empower people in the congregation and community to share in leadership
• Attend and support community initiatives and events, representing the congregation and leading the congregation into community involvement.
• Encourage caring, listening, and dialogue in the congregation and community to build relationships and strengthen the bonds of covenantal responsibility and love
• Build congregational and community relationships through regular and positive communications
• Model personally and consistently the love, justice, mercy, and faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, encouraging others to do the same
• In collaboration with Session, to determine and lead during dimensions of ministry, currently unforeseen and yet eventually perceived, as needed by the congregation and community.