New Harvest Community Church (Millerstown, PA)– Associate Pastor

The Big Picture

New Harvest Community Church(newharvestcommunitychurch.org) is seeking an Associate Pastor to direct, lead and develop leaders across all ages of our church family, with a focus on young families.

Requirements

NEW HARVEST

qNew Harvest is a 22-year-old community church in Millerstown PA, mainly reaching Perry and Juniata Counties.

qWe began as a church plant in 2001, meeting in a school gym, then in 2014 purchased and renovated a building, where currently 200 worship.

qOur mission is to worship, love, connect people to Jesus Christ.

POSITION PURPOSE

qWe are seeking an Associate Pastor to direct, lead and develop leaders across all ages of our church family, with a focus on young families.

qThe role of the Associate Pastor is to work in harmony with the Lead Pastor, have a firm grasp on the purpose, value and strategy of New Harvest and align with the Leadership Team.

THE CANDIDATE WILL DEMONSTATE THE FOLLOWING

qA vibrant faith, knowledge of the Bible.

qThe ability to work effectively with teams.

qLeadership skills, with ability to teach in small and large groups.

qA commitment to the vision and goal of New Harvest and strong administrative gifts, with attention for detail.

JOB DESCRIPTION

qSupport the Lead Pastor in the overall vision casting and leadership of the church, and help with teaching and weekend service planning.

qThe ability to recruit, teach, train, spiritually support and effectively supervise volunteers for small groups and adult ministries within the church.

qServe as main leader in developing small group and student’s ministries.

qCommunication skills to effectively preach when called upon and be prepared to be the emergency back-up speaker.

qDevelop relationships with the New Harvest family.

qProvide pastoral care to parents of children and youth families.

qProvide confidential pastoral counseling in emergencies and short-term basis.

qPreferably two years of pastoral experience, with a focus on ministry to young families and have some leadership experience.

qTo sense a calling to ministry, be willing to be mentored and seek educational training.

qA bachelor’s degree in ministry or certification of ministry training, or willing to work toward ministry education.

ACCOUNTABILITY AND SUPERVISION

qThis position will be under the supervision of the Lead Pastor, Terry Burton, andaccountable to the church Leadership Team and the mission of New Harvest.

FULL-TIME POSITION

qThis position requires flexible hours, including weekends and some evenings.

Benefits