Pinelake Church

Central Director of Groups

Brandon,

Mississippi

The primary responsibility of the Central Director of Groups-One Church is to provide spiritual, visionary, and strategic leadership that leads to greater effectiveness in connecting people into community where they will experience life change through biblical discipleship. As a member of the One Church Team, the Director will provide the necessary leadership to innovate, create and develop effective plans, resources, and the leadership structure to drive discipleship across all campuses. This includes equipping, resourcing, and coaching the Connections and Groups Ministries in a manner consistent with the vision, mission, values, and major objectives of Pinelake Church. The role will have direct oversight and provide coaching for all groups directors at all of Pinelake’s campuses. A key ingredient will be facilitating collaboration, teamwork, and serving as a catalyst for spiritual growth within our ministry teams and their respective leaders and communities.

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Why I Love This Opportunity

I absolutely love this opportunity because it’s a high level position at a very influential church. Pinelake is one of the largest churches in the country and this person would be on the “One Church” team, influencing and impacting all campuses in the area of discipleship and groups. If you are wanting a great opportunity to impact thousands of people and coach incredible staff, this is your opportunity.

Ernest Smith

Executive Consultant

A great match for this position would be:

Communication and Vision Casting: Someone who can clearly articulate vision, direction and move people toward that direction. This person will be the chief spokesperson for discipleship at Pinelake.
Organizational Skills: Someone who has the ability to organize ideas, plans and structure throughout a ministry.
Connector: Someone who has the ability to walk into a room and immediately connect with people and connect others to one another.
Developer of Staff and Leaders: Someone who has experience leading staff and recruiting and developing leaders in a multi-site context.
Strategist: Someone who can see where something needs to go and can create and implement the steps to get there.

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About This Organization

Pinelake Church began with a big vision from a small group of people back in 1971. And God has done more than we could ask or imagine since then. From that simple trailer on the banks of the Barnett Reservoir, we’ve seen one life change story after another and incredible growth. We’re now a multisite church with five campuses across the state of Mississippi that reaches over 20,000 people each week.

The passion of our senior pastor, Chip Henderson, isn’t just seeing people come on Sunday. Instead, his heart is for a healthy and vibrant church. A place where people learn from Jesus, live in Jesus, and lead others to Jesus as disciples. A place where the broken and unchurched can find life. A place where life change stories are ongoing.

Last year, over 700 people were baptized at Pinelake (including 350 at our outdoor baptism event), and our prayer is to see even more in the years ahead. In fact, we believe God is working to change every corner of our state—and we want to join Him in that work.

Pinelake’s campuses reach a wide range of ages and demographics. There are three diverse campuses spread out in the Jackson metro area, and we have campuses located near both Ole Miss and Mississippi State University. We’ve been blown away to see thousands of college students worship with us across multiple services on Wednesday nights. God is doing something incredible!

Today, our driving force is to “Be the Church” in the cities, colleges, and communities of our state—and beyond—by making disciples who Grow, Pray, Connect, and Share. We have a vision to see Mississippi changed from the Delta to the coast, from the backroads and bayous to the boardrooms and baseball stadiums. That’s because seeing lives changed never gets old.

Location

“I love living here because life moves at a pace that lets you actually enjoy it. The cost of living doesn’t squeeze you, the food tastes like somebody’s grandma still runs the kitchen, and the people put God and family first. Plus, little to no traffic… which might be my favorite blessing of all.”

Justin Posey – Director of Communications

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