staff opening
ministries director
ministries director
Grace Church of Lakeland, FL is seeking to hire a part-time Ministries Director that would provide pastoral and administrative leadership for children and students.
The Ministries Director will have responsibilities including but not limited to:
Strengths & Skillsets:
Application:
Grace Church of Lakeland
Grace Church is in Lakeland, Florida. Lakeland is approximately 50 miles south of Orlando and approximately 35 miles north of Tampa.
Grace Church is an evangelical church of approximately 150 people. Grace Church was established 31 years ago as a church plant of Converge (converge.org). While we remain “networked” to Converge, we consider ourselves to be a non-denominational congregation.
Grace Church has a diverse multi-cultural congregation with a variety of church experiences and backgrounds. We have a healthy mix of age groups from young families through senior adults.
Grace Church Distinctives
Gospel-Centered
We believe that the gospel—the good news of God’s free and gracious saving activity in Jesus Christ—is the pinnacle of His redemptive acts, the center of the Bible’s story, and the essential message for our faith, life, and witness. We teach that our salvation is totally by God’s sovereign, free and gracious initiative. We are committed to preaching the gospel, singing the gospel, praying the gospel, counseling out of the gospel, and building our churches upon the gospel.
God’s Sovereign Grace in Salvation
Scripture presents the all-glorious, triune God as the source and end of all things, sovereignly working all things according to His will. At the center of God’s purposes in the world is the exaltation of His glory through the redemption of sinners. God’s sovereign grace in salvation humbles us, fills us with gratitude, and compels us to worship Him and share the message of His grace to all people. Our core teaching of salvation is informed by a balanced approach to the historic reformational “doctrines of grace”.
Continuationist
We believe the
Holy Spirit desires to continually fill each believer with increased power for
Christian life and witness, including the giving of His supernatural gifts for
the building up of the church and for various works of ministry in the
world. We believe that all the biblical
gifts of the Holy Spirit continue to be distributed by the Spirit today;
that these gifts are divine provisions central to spiritual growth and
effective ministry; and that these gifts are to be eagerly desired, faithfully
developed, and lovingly exercised according to biblical guidelines. We teach and practice a healthy balance of
“Word and Spirit” in our preaching, teaching, and worship.
Elder-Led Pastoral Leadership
Jesus Christ reigns as head over His church, and He gives to His church elders (or pastors) to shepherd and lead local churches under His authority.
Outreach & Mission
Our gospel-centrality entails not only treasuring the gospel personally but sharing it passionately. The risen Christ commissioned His church to make disciples of all nations. We believe that commission falls to us and to all believers and that it is fulfilled in a primary way through church planting, whereby the gospel is proclaimed, and converts are formed into communities of disciples.
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