Minister of Religion - LEAD PASTOR

Overview

Minister of Religion – LEAD PASTOR.

We are looking for one Lead Pastor to work with Christ Apostolic Church Pilgrims Tabernacle.

We are a warm and welcoming congregation living and worshipping in a large and lively place. Our ministry has been growing in recent times and we are now seeking a Full time Pastor to join our team to take responsibility of the pastoral ministry.

This post fall in the third category of the hierarchical chart reporting directly to the Senior Pastor and Chairman, Board of Trustee. Been a charity and religious body that survive on members donations, our wages meet the national minimum wage of £12.30 per hour. The holder of the post must have theological education at least to Diploma level, satisfy the English Language requirements and where necessary must be ordained and certified. Purpose: Give leadership to Pastoral care of members and overall organizational management of the church program

General Areas of Responsibility

1. Healthy and Effective Personal Life.
   • To live an authentic and growing Christian life.
   • Professional Growth.
   • Maintain personal study, reading and prayer life.
   • Maintain subscriptions to journals and make additions to professional library.
   • Attend continuing education seminars.
   • Attend meetings for Pastors.
2. Healthy and effective Church office relationships
   • With Senior Pastor
     • Establish a strong, working Relationship
     • Meet together regularly to review the church programme and set priorities
     • Provide timely counsel and feedback
     • Plan church staff and pastoral staff meeting agendas
     • Act and speak on behalf of Senior Pastor in his absence
     • To report any absence of other employee after five days of absence.
   • With Associate Pastors
     • Be available to help in the successful completion of defined ongoing ministry concerns
     • Provide timely counsel and feedback
     • Coordinate needs and requests as appropriate, including travel/ vacation plans
     • Review follow-up of voted actions and responsibilities
   • With Church Employees
     • Give primary supervision
     • Define job descriptions
     • Be available to support, as needed, in completion of responsibilities
     • Provide timely/ Vacation plans
3. Healthy and Effective Relationship with the congregation
   • To love and care for the flock as under-shepherd of Jesus
   • To give priority to personal contact above all non-personal but necessary work
   • To aspire, to protect a reputation for professional competence, financial, releasing people of the congregation to fulfill God’s call to serve with skill and authority

Specific Area of Responsibility

1. Pastoral care- To develop and nurture a programme of consistent pastoral and care to include:
   • Renewal of parish plan for visitation and member care
   • Creation of a database of special and consistent visitation needs (e.g. Home bound, rest week-by-week distribution of urgent or extraordinary pastoral care needs (e.g. Illness, bereavement, loss, employment, trauma, misunderstandings)) to staff and encouraging
   • Appropriate follow-up and accountability
   • Cast vision, recruit and equip volunteer workers to instigate and administer specialized caring ministries using elders, deacon and deaconesses

Administration

A. Summary of Duties

• Meet monthly with the Board of Elders for planning and feedback
• Provide primary decision-making for the daily operation of the church
• Provide oversight for follow-up of decision made by the church business session,
• Liaise with the Director of Mission in planning for church-planting at the locality of the Church.
• Coordinate church calendar management
• Exercise financial management of operational and restricted fund-approve expenditures and monitor budgets.
• Initiate New member orientation: take photos, obtain needed new member information, provide New Member packet
• Oversee insurance issues for church property, equipment and liability
• Review production of weekly church bulletin
• Oversee updating of policies and procedures handbook
• Preach as scheduled
• Act as liaison officer with the Church Administrator for administrative issues
• Maintain membership in local ministerial associations
• Keep regular, posted and how to be reached when not in the office
• Cast vision, recruit and equip lay champions to investigate and administer specialized administrative ministries.

Board/Committee Responsibilities

• Church Board
• Board of Elders
• Elder leadership Team
• Christian Education
• Music Board
• Building and Management
• Community Service
• Finance
• Planning and Policy
• Board of Deacons
• Community interaction

Area/Department – Pastoral, Administration and Resources

Location – Rains Foundation, Approach Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9LY.

Working Hours – 30 hours per week. Wages: £12:25 per hour

Starting Date: Monday 3rd November 2025

Working Days: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday