New Worshipping Communities Coordinator

To apply please send cover letter and PIF or resume to laura@northwestcoast.org

PURPOSE

To engage, equip and encourage new expressions of Christ’s Church in the Northwest Coast Presbytery. Pray for, recruit, assess, equip, and deploy leaders, potential leaders, and congregations. We believe God is calling NWC Presbytery to steward new life in Christ through many new expressions of Christ’s Church sent from, connected with, and/or giving new energy and hope to existing congregations. We welcome the Holy Spirit’s inspiration and energy exchange between new expressions and existing expressions of Christ’s Church to renew the incarnate Gospel of Jesus Christ in the communities we serve and love.

RESPONSIBILITIES

To promote through your ministry the mission of NWC Presbytery which is “to engage, equip and encourage congregations and their leaders, dispersed yet connected throughout the region, as together we faithfully serve Jesus Christ to transform the world.”

EQUIP AND ENCOURAGE

1) In partnership with our Executive Board and Executive Presbyter, recruit and moderate a New Worshipping Communities Task Force.

2) Facilitate plans and systems for identifying, developing, and resourcing potential leaders of NWCs.

3) Assign liaisons from the New Worshipping Communities Task Force to leaders of NWCs for encouragement, resourcing, and accountability.

4) Learn, communicate, and build relationship with anyone who has insights around starting NWCs such as church planting networks, PCUSA agencies, ecumenical partners, etc.

5) Encourage the imagination and practical groundwork of starting NWCs within the everyday practices of existing congregations in NWC presbytery.

6) Curate and share stories of NWCs in person, print, online and video.

7) Ground this work in reformed theology and prayer.

ADMINISTRATION

1) Attend weekly Northwest Coast Presbytery staff meetings and meet as needed with Executive Presbyter.

2) Develop and manage a sustainable budget and solicit funds when applicable.

3) Write and manage potential grants related to this work.

OTHER

1) Collaborate closely with our Executive Presbyter for developing NWCP’s model for cultivating NWCs.

2) Cultivate a decolonial model for church planting and fresh expressions of church.

3) Apply a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens in this work and be continually educating and resourcing oneself and others in this approach.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Healthy and vital embodied faith, spiritual maturity

• Experience planting or participating in a new worshipping community

• Personal commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-racism

• A Teaching Elder or Ruling Elder in the PC(USA) is preferred

• Serves with energy, intelligence, imagination and love

• Scrappy, nimble, flexible, adaptable

• Emotional intelligence, self-differentiation, healthy boundaries

• Effective interpersonal and public communicator

• Tech-savvy

ACCOUNTABILITY/TERMS

This a 10 to 15 hour a week part-time position for a 2-year term from the start date. Position may be extended in term or expanded in hours depending on funding and initial outcomes. We are semi-flexible to structure the position to fit the needs of the person who God is calling to it.

Supervised by and reports to Executive Presbyter (EP). Annual review by EP and personnel committee.

Salary is $25 hour and related expenses/reimbursables will be negotiated according to NWC Presbytery personnel policies.

Reimbursables: Travel expense reimbursement and hospitality reimbursement for all travel and service related to this role. Professional expenses for any resources needed to engage this role.

NORTHWEST COAST PRESBYTERY

Northwest Coast Presbytery is a regional expression of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in NW Washington, Eastern Washington and SE Alaska. Comprised of 58 congregations, several new expressions of the church, over 120 minister members, and partners we engage, equip and encourage congregations and their leaders, dispersed yet connected throughout the region, as together we faithfully serve Jesus Christ to transform the world.