JOB TITLE: Pastor for Pastoral Care & Senior Adults (Part-time)
ACCOUNTABILITY: Reports to Senior Pastor
JOB SUMMARY: Job Summary: To assist the Senior Pastor in pastoral care, counseling, visiting the sick and homebound; providing leadership to Senior Adults, activities and outreach.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Keep records of church members who are sick, in the hospital, or other medical and long-term care facilities.
- Visitation of homebound members.
- Keep records of widows and contact info.
- Provide this information weekly to the church staff and regularly share this information with the elders, deacons, and the appropriate small groups promptly.
- Regularly visit hospitals, and other medical or long-term care facilities offering pastoral care and encouragement.
- Keep Senior Pastor and church staff, elders, and deacons informed on members’ situations.
- Counsel church members (upon request), funerals and weddings as approved by the
Senior Pastor.
- Give leadership to the Senior Adult program of the church.
- Provide support for the Senior Adult organization, ministries, outreach, prioritizing activities, and coordinating them with the church calendar and planning budgets.
- Manage the annual Ministry Plan for areas of responsibility and contain costs in a manner
that does not exceed the current year's budget.
- Participate in the Ministry Plan process.
- Challenge, motivate, and recruit church members for involvement in outreach.
- Participate with church staff and members in seeing contacts, prospects, and visitors assimilated into Wynnbrook Baptist Church.
- Seek to incorporate an outreach component into every church activity for visitors
and prospects to be drawn to Wynnbrook Baptist Church.
- Give leadership to other regular outreach-oriented programs to see more members of
the Church involved in reaching out to missing members, prospects, and the unchurched.
- Any other responsibilities assigned by the Senior Pastor.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
Seminary degree in Theology and Pastoral Care or equivalent; or four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
- Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints and maintain confidentiality.
- Listening skills must be excellent with a proven ability to understand what is said and what is meant.
- Active listening is essential to effectively represent the ministry of the church in a positive manner.
- Written skills must be strong and flexible.
- Experience writing a formal letter or report, a proposal, background briefing, memos, email communications, and personal notes is strongly desired.
- Writing must be clear, concise, passionate when required, and compelling.
- Verbal skills must be polished, facile, and quick.
- Clarity of expression, good organization of thoughts, effective articulation, and humor are a must.
REASONING ABILITY:
- Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
- Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
CHRISTIAN WALK:
- Evidence of a mature and growing Christian Walk characterized by Paul in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1.
- Personal wisdom and sufficiency are grounded in Christ, with a life submitted to God’s authority in all things.
- Can effectively lead others in prayer.
- Gives regularly and generously to the work of the church.
- Readily applies scripture to personal and professional situations.
- Can articulate Baptist theological understandings on a range of issues in agreement with the Baptist Faith and Message 2000.
If you have a passion for pastoral care as described, please consider sending a cover letter, resume with references, with links to your work to wynnbrookpastoralcare@gmail.com.