Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission:
To help people live by faith in Jesus Christ.
- This mission is reflected throughout Living Faith’s ministries, from its Sunday worship services and Life Groups to discipleship, young adult ministry, outreach, and global missions. The church consistently emphasizes helping people know Christ, grow spiritually, live in Christian community, and share their faith with others.
Current Vision:
- Living Faith’s strategic vision for 2024 through 2027 is Faith to Finish & Prepare. The church is focused on finishing several significant initiatives while simultaneously preparing itself for future ministry, including becoming debt free, deepening congregational maturity, developing ordained and lay leaders, stewarding its facilities, strengthening hospitality and ministry environments, and improving organizational systems.
- The goal is to ensure that Living Faith is spiritually and organizationally prepared for whatever new opportunities God provides in 2028 and beyond.
Ministry Values and Distinctives:
- Living Faith describes itself as contemporary, evangelistic, Gospel focused, Bible based, and Spirit filled. The church maintains a historically Baptist statement of faith while emphasizing unity around essential Christian doctrine and Christian liberty on secondary matters. Evangelism remains particularly central to the church’s identity, with Living Faith reporting people regularly placing their faith in Christ.
Key Responsibilities
- Senior Pastor Partnership: Serve as a trusted collaborator to the Senior Pastor, helping maximize his preaching, leadership, and pastoral ministry by providing leadership across staff, operations, ministry execution, and organizational planning.
- Staff Leadership: Establish clear roles, goals, responsibilities, and performance expectations while providing regular coaching, feedback, accountability, and encouragement.
- Leadership Development: Invest intentionally in staff and ministry leaders, identifying strengths and growth areas while developing leaders spiritually, theologically, relationally, and professionally.
- Ministry Alignment: Ensure ministries, programs, events, and initiatives support the church’s mission and strategic priorities, using appropriate measures to evaluate and improve effectiveness.
- Operational Leadership: Provide strategic direction and oversight for finance, human resources, facilities, communications, technology, office systems, legal and insurance matters, and key external vendors.
- Organizational Structure: Assess and strengthen the church’s staff structure, supervisory relationships, decision making processes, and leadership systems so they can support continued growth and multiplication.
- Leadership Rhythms: Lead and continually improve staff meetings, Leadership Team meetings, one on one meetings, planning processes, and other rhythms that promote alignment and execution.
- Pastoral Leadership: Participate in pastoral responsibilities according to gifting and church need, with the possibility of periodically serving as a second preaching voice for the congregation.
Key Qualifications
- A vibrant and growing relationship with Jesus Christ demonstrated through spiritual maturity, integrity, humility, and genuine love for people.
- Clear alignment with the theology, mission, ministry philosophy, and direction of Living Faith Christian Church.
- Significant ministry and organizational leadership experience. Living Faith identifies approximately 20 years of ministry experience with 10 or more years as an Executive Pastor as ideal, 15 years with at least five years as an Executive Pastor as preferred, and approximately 10 years of significant leadership experience with strong Executive Pastor aptitude as a minimum benchmark.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing staff, building healthy organizational culture, and creating accountability and clarity across teams.
- Proven ability to translate vision into strategy, priorities, systems, and measurable execution.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the emotional intelligence necessary to lead organizational change while maintaining relational trust.
- Experience providing leadership across ministry operations, budgeting, staffing, organizational systems, and strategic planning.
- Appropriate theological education and ministry preparation for the responsibilities of the position.
- A strong work ethic and demonstrated commitment to personal integrity and fiscal responsibility.
- The ability to thrive in a second chair leadership role and develop a deeply collaborative relationship with the Senior Pastor.
- While preaching is not required, the ideal candidate will be a gifted communicator capable of serving periodically as Living Faith’s second preaching voice.