Lead Pastor

Clinton Corners Evangelical Free Church is a rural church with a Christian School (K - 12). Having completed a thorough church-wide assessment and hiring an interim pastor, we have been addressing needs and now are in the search process for our new pastor.

Primary Preaching/Teaching responsibilities:

• Preach 40-45 weeks a year
• Develop a team of preaching elders
• Create an annual preaching calendar to meet current needs of the congregation
• Approve teachers and teaching resources for men, women, adult, youth and children

Oversee spiritual leadership development through ministries providing for growth and accountability

(Men’s, women’s, small group, youth, children and assimilation):
• Deepening congregational prayer
• Create and implement a leadership development pipeline (elders, deacon, ministry leaders and future staff)
• Leading and/or participating in men’s bible studies
• Organizing and/or overseeing men’s retreats
• Implementing a small group model
• Overseeing and approving women’s ministry activities
• Design and implement an assimilation process including membership class
• Create and implement a discipleship pathway that is strongly relational, having mutual accountability and incorporates small groups in various forms (groups, triads and one-on-one)
• Establish and maintain meaningful and regular connection with the EFCA district, EFCA East
• Become/remain a lifetime learner to meet the needs of a changing world and growing congregation

Lead church shepherding and pastoral care efforts:

• As a committed follower and disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ he is to reflect humility and the character traits found in 1 Tim 3 & Titus 1 as a model to the flock
• Provide for the wellbeing of his own family
• Pray in partnership with elders for the needs of the congregation
• Lead/resolve church conflict and implement discipline and/or restoration
• Officiate weddings & funerals, baptisms, communion
• Visit and share visitation with elders of shut-in congregants
• Perform marital and pre-marital counseling
• Counsel congregants as able and otherwise resource to competent counselors

Lead the church organizationally and administratively through:

• Oversee the worship services with the help of the elders and worship leader
• Developing a 3-to-5-year vision for the church and ULCS
• Developing a strategic implementation plan with annual goals and aligning ministries that enacts the 3-to-5-year vision
• Oversee alongside deacons budgeting process/efforts

Please visit our church website for the employment link and documentation for our organizational setting.

Please call Pastor Jeff LoCaste (Interim Pastor) @ 920.810.4984. And if interested, please consider creating a profile on {pastorsearch.efca.org](https://pastorsearch.efca.org/).