Associate Pastor of Family Ministries & Outreach at Bellflower Brethren Church (Bellflower, Calif.)

Position: 40 hours/week, salary range $60-65,000
Purpose: To provide consistent, effective leadership to BBC’s family ministry and outreach teams, empowering people to live on mission.
Reports to: Senior Pastor, Elder Board
Duties:

  1. Oversee and coordinate the overall ministry strategy for children through young adults with a goal of
    connecting campus ministries to community outreach.
  2. Oversee visitor follow-up.
  3. Supervise, teach teams for the youth and young adults. Support the children’s, pre-school, and nursery
    ministry directors.
  4. Mentor leaders, recruit, train, encourage, and support adult volunteers.
  5. Develop a family ministry philosophy and strategy and create short and long-range goals in connection
    with the Senior Pastor and elders.
  6. Fulfill miscellaneous pastoral team responsibilities and other duties as assigned.
    Qualifications:
  7. Spiritual: A man of prayer who treasures his time alone with God and demonstrates the fruit of the Spirit
    in both his private and public life.
  8. Relational: A servant-shepherd committed to developing strong relationships with people of all ages.
  9. Educational: Biblically trained and competent to defend the Charis statement of faith and BBC
    membership covenant. Willing to obtain Charis ordination within 3 years.
  10. Spanish Speaker a plus
  11. Initiative: He should enjoy a challenge, be industrious, creative, a “self-starter,” open to ideas from
    others–an administrator who is willing to work within a supportive team environment.
  12. Missional: The candidate should be passionate about making disciples–leading people through a lifelong process that begins with conversion and baptism and results in a disciple-making disciple.

Please contact and/or send job applications to:
Manuel Lopez, Search Committee Chairman
lopezm86@gmail.com(562) 274 5192