The Lead Pastor of Hope Fellowship Church serves as the primary spiritual and directional leader of the church. This person is responsible for shepherding the congregation, leading the Executive Leadership Team, guarding the theological and cultural DNA of Hope, and partnering with the Board of Directors and Elder Team to guide the church into its next season of ministry.
Key Responsibilities:
Shepherding and Pastoral Care
- This role carries the primary pastoral responsibility for the congregation’s spiritual health and care. Hope has a formal pastoral care structure in place; the Lead Pastor is responsible for championing and strengthening this culture, not building it from scratch.
Teaching and Preaching
- The Lead Pastor serves as the primary teaching voice of Hope Fellowship. Messages are delivered live from the Frisco East campus and broadcast to all campuses and online. All campuses operate on a single unified teaching calendar, which the Lead Pastor owns and shapes throughout the year.
Staff Leadership and Development
- The Lead Pastor directly leads the Executive Leadership Team and sets the culture for all of Hope’s employees and volunteers.
Vision and Strategy
- The Lead Pastor is the primary keeper and caster of Hope’s vision. In this season, Hope is not looking for someone to arrive with a new vision — we are looking for a leader who will inherit what God has built here, work collaboratively with the ELT and Board to clarify and articulate it, and lead the church faithfully into its next chapter.
- Hope’s current posture is depth over breadth — consolidating, going deeper, and investing in health and maturity before expanding. What success looks like at year 3 and year 5 will be discerned collaboratively between the Lead Pastor and ELT; the committee is not prescribing a destination so much as identifying a traveling partner.
Elder and Governance Partnership
- Hope’s governance model involves three distinct bodies working in partnership: the Board of Directors (governance and hiring authority), the Elder Team (spiritual discernment and congregational voice), and the Executive Leadership Team (day-to-day ministry leadership). The Lead Pastor operates at the intersection of all three.
