Position Profile

• Gospel: We gather around the magnetic center of Jesus Christ. Through his life, death, and resurrection, God’s kingdom has arrived on earth to renew all things—our relationship with God, ourselves, others, and the world.
• Personal Transformation: We help people respond in faith to the new reality that the Kingdom of God has arrived in Jesus and to learn the practices of spiritual formation: renewing minds, reordering priorities, reshaping habits, and redirecting work.
• Community Formation: We live as a community of friends extending personal care to one another across generational, ethnic, and cultural lines.
• Public Faith: In being honest and transparent about our faith, we endeavor to be relationally winsome, accessible, respectful, humble, and loving, even when it requires courage for us to announce the gospel.
• City Vision: With all the resources of our faith and life, we work sacrificially with others to build a great, flourishing city for all people.
• Mercy and Justice: We seek to protect the weak and vulnerable, to take up their injustice, and show compassion while also seeking remedies for structural evil and institutional injustice.
• Cultural Renewal: We equip people in their various vocations to enter into culture as faithful stewards of the world because we share in God’s yearning for all of culture to be redeemed and renewed.
• Church Planting: We use the resources that God has given us to start and support new churches, because the local church is the primary agent of God’s kingdom.
• Gospel Movement: We want to be a catalyst for a movement of the gospel in our city and region that is a dynamic set of interactive relationships between gospel centered churches, a variety of specialist ministries, as well as many other institutions.

Leadership and Oversight:

• Serve as a senior clergy leader providing oversight for assigned ministry areas.
• Supervise and support the Children’s Pastor, Youth Pastor, Curate, and other ministry staff as assigned.
• Partner with the Director of Operations & Executive Assistant (DOO/EA) and the Worship Pastor to ensure strong communication, planning, and ministry alignment.
• Participate actively in staff meetings, retreats, and leadership development initiatives.
• Support the Rector in cultivating a healthy, joyful, and prayerful staff culture marked by unity, humility, and excellence.

Discipleship and Formation:

• Provide vision and direction for adult discipleship and formation ministries, ensuring that all people have clear pathways for growth in Christ.
• Oversee small groups, classes, and community formation opportunities for adults.
• Equip and mentor lay leaders to lead effectively in discipleship and pastoral care.
• Coordinate with staff to ensure alignment between worship, formation, and communication rhythms.
• Preach and teach regularly in worship and educational settings, with theological clarity and pastoral warmth.

Pastoral Care and Sacramental Ministry:

• Provide leadership for pastoral care ministries, including the Diaconate and Stephen Ministry, ensuring compassionate, coordinated care.
• Officiate at baptisms, weddings, funerals, and other pastoral offices as needed.
• Assist the Rector in sacramental and liturgical leadership.
• Train and equip lay pastoral caregivers.

Outreach and Evangelism:

• Lead and coordinate the church’s outreach and evangelism initiatives.
• Integrate evangelism into the discipleship and worship life of the congregation.
• Equip parishioners to live missionally in their neighborhoods and workplaces.

Strategic Leadership and Parish Development:

• Collaborate with the Rector and Senior Staff Team in strategic planning for the growth and health of the parish.
• Translate vision into actionable ministry goals.
• Contribute to leadership development, clergy formation, and long-term planning.
• Evaluate ministries to ensure effectiveness, sustainability, and alignment with the vision of Apostles Houston.

Safeguarding and Pastoral Conduct:

• Maintain current diocesan Safeguarding certification.
• Model appropriate boundaries and safe pastoral practices in all ministry relationships.
• Support the Safeguarding Coordinator and Rector in ensuring parish-wide compliance with diocesan Safeguarding requirements.
• Communicate promptly with the Rector regarding any safeguarding concerns or policy issues.

• Ordained priest in good standing within the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) domiciled in the Anglican Diocese of the Carolinas, or eligible for licensing and transfer.
• Master’s degree in theology (M.Div. or equivalent).
• Minimum of five years of pastoral or ministry leadership experience, preferably in parish context.
• Demonstrated excellence in preaching, teaching, and pastoral care in a Parish setting.
• Proven capacity to lead and develop staff or lay ministry teams effectively.
• Exemplary interpersonal, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
• High capacity for strategic thinking, problem solving, and collaborative leadership.
• Joyfully aligns with the theological convictions and vision of Apostles Houston.
• Completion of diocesan Safeguarding certification (or ability to obtain upon hire).