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Believers Fellowship

Lead Pastor

Gig Harbor,
Washington
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Junior
Mid
Director
Executive
Believers Fellowship is looking for a teaching pastor who loves God’s people and loves to preach God’s Word; who is trained in understanding and applying Scripture; and who feels called and equipped by the Spirit to teach the congregation and lead the church staff.
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Why We Love This Opportunity

I love this opportunity because Believers Fellowship is a growing, healthy church that is excited and hopeful for what God is going to do through the next lead pastor. This is a great opportunity to lead a healthy church in an incredible community, Gig Harbor. If you are looking for a healthy church to lead and teach God’s Word, while reaching a community that is primed for the Gospel, this is the opportunity for you.

A great match for this position would be:

  • Gospel Centered Preaching and Teaching: Someone who is trained and equipped and passionate about preaching and teaching God’s Word in a way that draws unbelievers and grows believers in their faith and knowledge and love of God.
  • Organizational Leadership: Someone who is able to create and execute systems to sustain progress, as well as develop people to move forward the vision and mission of the church.
  • Servant-hearted: Someone who has a heart and desire to serve others.
  • Emotionally Healthy Relationships: Someone who has healthy interpersonal relationships and shows the ability to build and maintain healthy relationships with family, staff, friends, and others.
  • Shepherd’s Heart: Someone who knows and loves God’s people and desires to see them grow in their relationship with God and others.
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About This Organization

Believers Fellowship is a vibrant, biblically-rooted nondenominational church in Gig Harbor, WA.The church was founded in 1978 in a living room and has grown to a church with 500-600 weekly attendance spread between two Sunday morning worship services. We are generationally diverse with a significant number of young families. Relationships are strengthened in small groups and ministry teams. We are known in our community for our strong biblical teaching, our top-notch children and youth ministries, and our strong cadre of committed believers ministering in their various spheres.

 

 

Location

When the sun comes out, we all say to each other:  “What a beautiful day!”  Leaving Tacoma (“Grit City”) and crossing over the Narrows Bridge (“Galloping Gertie”) into Gig Harbor is a journey to a quieter place.  Roads curve like tunnels through towering Douglas Fir trees, opening up to small farms, salty coastlines, small islands, parks and sports fields.  The Olympic Mountains rise to the northwest, and Mt. Rainier stands tall over the southeast.  We have our Costco and Target and Fred Meyer.  Most of our life may be lived on this side of the bridge.  Families settle here; many pilots, many firefighters, many medical personnel, many work-from-homers.  High schoolers who leave for college return years later to plant their new families.

The liberal and progressive forces for which our state is known dominate the cities of Seattle and downtown Tacoma–but their grip is less powerful in Gig Harbor and the rural communities of Washington.  Yes, the harvest is plentiful and we need workers.  At the same time there are strong families with generations of Christians.  There are families where children have never been to church living alongside families that exhibit cultural Christianity.

We are a wealthy community-though certainly not as wealthy as the Bellevue, Redmond, and Mercer Island communities built up by corporations like Microsoft and Amazon.  A pastor who is neither enticed nor intimidated by wealth will do well.  It’s a wealthy and educated mission field. 

Many Christian families live out their faith and work out their salvation in a constant struggle to balance their family schedules–with school, sports, Young Life, Youth Group, lessons, and hobbies.

When it rains softly and the clouds rest over us like a blanket, we make progress indoors on our to-do lists.  We meet for coffee and build relationship.  We make plans, rain-or-shine, raincoats at the ready.  And when the mountain is out, and the sun shines, we say, “What a beautiful day!”

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Salary Range

120,000 – 135,000

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