Location: 208 W Jackson St., Columbia City, IN 46725
Sunday average attendance: 300+
About the Role
If you desire to have a robust partnership with a Senior Pastor to move a church that is entering into the next chapter of development and expansion, then Community of Hope Church is one you should consider. Our Mission is to help lost, broken, wounded people find hope and healing in Jesus.
Community of Hope desires to continue to multiply disciples in northeast Indiana by strategically reaching the growing unchurched population in Columbia City (Whitley County) and around the greater Fort Wayne area (Allen County). Our strategy prioritizes developing disciples who live on mission in both Columbia City and the Fort Wayne area. Community of Hope is a church currently rooted in Columbia City, but we desire to seize the opportunity to expand our impact by developing campuses in the Fort Wayne Area and beyond to reach the unchurched. Along with your responsibilities at the Columbia City campus, you would lead a team to plant the first campus in southwest Fort Wayne (Aboite).
Northeast Indiana is an exciting place to live, work, and do ministry. Allen County has outpaced state and national trends with 8 years of sustained population growth and is home to the fastest growing big city in the US (Fort Wayne). Within greater Fort Wayne there are award-winning parks, trails, and zoo, plus two top twenty Indiana school districts making it a fantastic place to raise a family. The cost of living is 10% lower than the national average. Since 2020, about 10,000 people have moved to Fort Wayne. Yet in that same span only about 5 new churches have been established. Sadly, there is only one church for every 1109 people in Allen County, which is why we desire to expand our reach across county lines.
Our long-term plan requires a strategist who is a passion-driven, visionary implementer able to develop reproducible systems and language at the Community of Hope campus in Columbia City, while galvanizing and mobilizing a launch team of Christ-followers for ministry at our first church plant campus in southwest Allen County. We are looking for a self-motivated leader and team developer who will partner with the Senior Pastor to serve as the executive to continue to develop the Columbia City campus, while spearheading church plant campuses alongside passionate disciples of Jesus living on mission. The fruit of this development will quickly lead to taking launch teams and establishing what we pray ultimately becomes five campuses in northeast Indiana over the next fifteen years.
We have taken the time to assess our strengths and weaknesses and believe we are positioned to continue to grow and expand with the help of the Pastor of Development and Expansion. This person will partner with the Senior Pastor to see our vision fulfilled by serving as a leader of leaders and strategically developing and implementing the vision to passionately lead and equip men and women to reach those who are not yet followers of Jesus. To accomplish this, we emphasize the following Vision Priorities:
Reaching those who are not yet followers of Jesus
Preaching and Teaching the Word of God
Coaching Christ followers to minister to those within their spheres of influence
Connecting Christ followers with a spiritual family
Developing leaders
Relying upon God’ Spirit
Candidate Description
The Pastor of Development and Expansion exemplifies the following to those around him …
He’s a high-capacity established Leader: This person consistently demonstrates a high level of leadership ability and influence, with a strong track record of growth demonstrated by exceeding expectations and consistently delivering excellent results.
He’s a Starter: This person envisions the shared future, collaboratively develops a plan, and takes the necessary steps to move from ideation to execution.
He’s a Developer: This person candidly analyzes all parts of the church ecosystem, strategizes needed adjustments, sets the pace, and ensures shared ministry goals are made and met.
He’s a Galvanizer: This person inspires, rallies, and organizes Christ followers to take action, while effectively energizing and motivating individuals and teams towards the shared vision.
He actively loves lost people: This person values reaching lost people to the point of prioritizing his life to introduce them to Jesus and the gospel, as well as walking with them toward a saving faith.
He’s an Equipper: This person coaches Christ-followers to effectively impact those within their spheres of influence through empowerment, ongoing training, and personal spiritual life goal setting.
He’s a Learner: This person desires ceaseless growth, so he invests sufficient time increasing his cultural awareness, Biblical competency, and organizational strategies and systems to scale with the increasing demands of the job.
He’s a good Communicator: This person is comfortable in his own skin as he expresses Biblical concepts in a straightforward and easy-to-understand manner, while emphasizing life application for people craving the abundant life Jesus spoke of and modeled while on earth.
If you get excited about galvanizing and equipping Christ-followers to reach a dense concentration of unchurched people in a rapidly growing, enjoyable community through the ecosystem of multiple church plant campuses, then this might be the job for you.
Benefits
Health Insurance
Retirement
Professional account
Vacations
Charis Fellowship Statement of Faith
Member churches in the Charis Fellowship, in harmony with our historic position, believing the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible to be our infallible rule of faith and practice, and feeling our responsibility to make known the divine message of the Bible, present the following articles as a statement of those basic truths taught in the Bible which are common to our Christian faith and practice:
The Bible
The Word of God, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, verbally inspired in all parts, and therefore wholly without error as originally given of God (II Tim 3:16; II Peter 1:21).
God
The One True God Existing eternally as three persons–the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Luke 3:22; Matt. 28:19; II Cor. 13:14).
The Lord Jesus Christ
His preexistence and deity (John 1:1-13), incarnation by virgin birth (John 1:14; Matt. 1:18-23); sinless life (Heb. 4:15), substitutionary death (II Cor. 5:21), bodily resurrection (Luke 24:36-43), ascension into heaven and present ministry (Heb. 4:14-16), and coming again (Acts 1:11).
The Holy Spirit
His personality (John 16:7-15); and deity (Acts 5:3-4); and His work in each believer: baptism and indwelling at the moment of regeneration (I Cor. 12:13; Rom. 8:9); and filling (Eph. 5:18) to empower for Christian life and service (Eph. 3:16; Acts 1:8; Gal. 5:22-23).
Man
His direct creation in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-28), his subsequent fall into sin resulting in spiritual death (Gen. 3:1-24, Rom. 5:12), and the necessity of the new birth for his salvation (John 3:3-5).
Salvation
A complete and eternal salvation by God’s grace alone, received as the gift of God through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and his finished work (Eph. 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-7; I Peter 1:18-19).
The Church
One true Church, the body and the bride of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23; 5:25-32), composed of all true believers of the present age (I Cor. 12:12-13); and the organization of its members in local churches for worship, for edification of believers, and for world-wide gospel witness, each local church being autonomous but cooperating in fellowship and work (Eph. 4:11-16).
The Christian Life
A life of righteousness, good works and separation unto God from the evil ways of the world (Rom 12:1- 2), manifested by speaking the truth (James 5:12), maintaining the sanctity of the home (Eph. 5:22-6:4) settling differences between Christians in accordance with the Word of God (I Cor. 6:1-8), not engaging in carnal strife but showing a Christ-like attitude toward all men (Rom. 12:7-21), exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23), and maintaining a life of prayer (Eph. 6:18; Phil. 4:6), including the privilege, when sick, of calling for the elders of the church to pray and to anoint with oil in the name of the Lord (James 5:13-18).
Ordinances
The Christian should observe the ordinances of our Lord Jesus Christ, which are: (1) baptism of believers by triune immersion (Matt. 28:19), and (2) the threefold communion service, consisting of the washing of the saint’s feet (John 13:1-17), the Lord’s Supper (I Cor. 11:20-22, 33-34; Jude 12), and the communion of the bread and the cup (I Cor. 11:23-26).
Satan
His existence and personality as the great adversary of God and his people (Rev. 12:1-10), his judgment (John 12:31), and final doom (Revelation).
Second Coming
The personal, visible and imminent return of Christ to remove His Church from the earth (I Thess. 4:16- 17), before the Tribulation (I Thess. 1:10; Rev. 3:10), and afterward to descend with the Church to establish His millennial kingdom upon the earth (Rev. 19:11-20:6).
Future Life
The conscious existence of the dead (Phil. 1:21-23; Luke 16:19-31), the resurrection of the body (John 5:28-29), the judgment and reward of believers (Rom. 14:10-12; II Cor. 5:10), the judgment and condemnation of unbelievers (Rev. 20:11-15), the eternal life of the saved (John 3:16), and the eternal punishment of the lost (Matt. 25:46; Rev. 20:15).
