Family Life Pastor

The Family Life Pastor at GBC will primarily be the Pastor/Shepherd to our younger families who still have children at home. His responsibility will include connecting families to one another through fellowship and ministry service.

Key Responsiblities: 

• Connect with our Children’s Ministries Coordinator and our Student Ministries Pastor to correlate the scheduling of events and activities since both children and teens will be involved in outreaches, events, activities, etc., with their parents.
• Coordinate with the Lead Pastor and/or the Executive Pastor when he learns of areas of life, home, or family where a family who is a member/attendee of GBC may have a need that could be met by the church family.
• Will be considered as Full Time Associate Pastor of GBC and will, on occasion, be called upon to teach, preach, baptize, serve communion, counsel others as may be needed, and serve other typical roles of a Pastor to a church family.
• Assist in guest follow-up when families or single parents with children come to visit GBC.

What a Strong Candidate Would Look Like:

• Must have a clear sense of a call to serve a local church body in Pastoral (Shepherding) ministry.
• Must have the ability to apply the Scripture when giving advice or counsel, whether formal (by appointment) or informal (just conversational).
• Must have a loving, committed marriage and model the Biblical role of marriage to the church family.
• Must attend and be supportive of all worship services of the church.
• Should have at least an undergraduate degree from a Christian college of like faith in a field of discipline related to serving church ministries in a ” Baptistic ” church in faith and practice.
• We prefer a candidate with at least four years of local church ministry serving with Pastoral responsibilities.
• Must be a team player willing to contribute to and be part of a multi-staffed church ministry.