CHURCH PLANTER IN RESIDENCE
SUMMARY
Staff Level:
Full-timeReports to:
RectorCompensation:
Click ‘Residency Overview’ below for funding model.
ABOUT THIS ROLE:
Identifying and hiring gifted, young pastors with significant ministry leadership experience who are also mature in their personal character and virtue is one of the most pressing challenges facing churches today.
Where can such a pastor be found?
Ironically, the challenge on the flip side of the coin is the difficult hurdles young seminarians face after graduation. Often faced with debilitating student loan debt and a veritable ocean of online job postings, how can a young seminary graduate successfully land his or her first pastoral job? How will they find a church with enough needs to offer robust opportunities to learn and practice the pastoral vocation? Will that church be healthy and resilient enough to absorb their first-time-pastor mistakes?
As a young doctor, fresh out of medical school, is well served by a residency in a teaching hospital, so a young pastor, fresh out of seminary, may be well served by a residency in a missional church.
A pastoral residency, embedded in a local, missionally-postured church, helps to answer the question from both ends. Young seminary graduates with raw, undeveloped gifts and solid, but not-yet-mature character may be identified, recruited, and brought into the local parish under the care and supervision of the Rector and other top staff. There they will be given opportunities to both observe and practice the pastoral vocation. In three years time, the resident graduates from the residency with the skills, experience, and maturity necessary to either plant a new church or step into the Rector position of an existing parish.
KEY COMPONENTS:
Pastoral Development
The explicit purpose of our residency is to prepare the resident to serve as the future Rector of an Anglican parish.
Local Church-Based
This is a Redeemer residency with accelerator and network assistance from Made to Flourish and ecclesial support from the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic.
Faith, Work, and Economic Wisdom
A comprehensive and integrated approach to the Christian life must be an essential aspect of training new pastors.
Three-Year Residency
Three years gives the resident time to settle into life in Redeemer’s Parish before turning their attention to church planting.
Seminary Partnerships
Redeemer seeks to recruit from the following seminaries:
Denver Seminary
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Trinity Anglican School for Ministry
Reformed Theological Seminary
Fuller Theological Seminary
Western Theological Seminary
Regent College
Beeson Divinity School
Immersive Employee Experience
The resident will serve on Redeemer’s staff as a full-time employee. It is expected that approximately 80% of their work hours will go towards Redeemer-specific ministry work, while 20% of their work hours will go towards ordination preparation in the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic and the Made-to-Flourish residents cohort.
Please click below to read more about the residency and to apply.
