Grace Fellowship Church
About Grace Fellowship Church
Grace Fellowship Church exists to help people know and follow Jesus Christ. We are committed to biblical teaching, authentic community, and developing leaders who serve the mission of the church. Our culture values spiritual maturity, humility, teamwork, and excellence as we create environments where people encounter God and grow in their faith.
Position Summary
The Pastor/Director of Adult Ministries provides pastoral leadership and strategic direction for adult discipleship, relational community, and leadership development at Grace Fellowship Church. This role serves as both shepherd and architect, ensuring people are spiritually formed in authentic community while building clear, scalable systems that move adults from engagement to maturity and leadership.
This leader owns the vision, health, and effectiveness of Groups, Rooted, and future community expressions, while ensuring execution through strong leadership development, aligned systems, and cross-ministry collaboration. This role plays a key leadership function in ensuring the church’s discipleship strategy is clear, aligned, and scalable as the church grows. This role provides oversight and alignment for key adult ministry environments and leaders, ensuring a cohesive discipleship strategy across the church.
Primary Position Responsibilities
Pastoral Leadership and Discipleship Vision
Champion a culture of spiritual formation, prayer, and Spirit-led community
Ensure a clear pathway from Guest → Groups → Serving → Leadership
Align discipleship environments with weekend teaching and church vision
Shepherd leaders and key volunteers toward spiritual health and maturity
Groups and Adult Community (Execution and Oversight)
Lead the strategy, structure, and health of Small Groups across campuses
Oversee sermon-based group alignment, quality, and consistency
Build, train, and sustain leaders and coaching structures
Establish clear group launch and multiplication rhythms
Rooted and Discipleship Environments
Oversee Rooted as a primary on-ramp to discipleship
Ensure a transformational experience with clear next steps
Develop and support facilitators and leaders
Community Innovation (Future Growth)
Discern and develop new expressions of community as the church grows
Pilot and evaluate new models (affinity, short-term, missional, etc.)
Integrate new environments into the overall discipleship pathway
Leadership Development (Strategy and Oversight)
Set and champion the vision for leadership development with adult discipleship.
Ensure clear and effective movement from community into serving and leadership.
Identify and develop emerging leaders across all environments.
Ensure leadership systems, pathways, and standards are clearly defined, aligned, and scalable.
Provide direction and oversight to leadership development efforts to ensure execution meets vision and ministry outcomes.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Ensure alignment between adult discipleship strategy and weekend teaching, guest engagement, and worship environments
Collaborate with key ministry leaders to drive movement into Groups, Serving, and Leadership
Contribute to and execute against overall church strategy and multi-campus expansion
Candidate Criteria
Demonstrates pastoral calling with a heart for discipleship and people
Proven ability to build systems and lead through other leaders
Strategic thinker with strong execution instincts
High relational intelligence and team leadership capacity
Operates with humility, clarity, and ownership
Education/Experience
Experience in adult discipleship, groups, or similar ministry leadership
Track record of developing leaders and building scalable systems
Experience leading staff or key ministry leaders
Theological alignment with GFC
Success Outcomes
A clear, consistently executed discipleship pathway across all campuses (Guests > Groups > Serving > Leadership)
Growth in group participation, leader development, and group multiplication
Strong and measurable movement from community into serving and leadership roles
Leadership development systems that are clearly defined aligned, and effectively producing new leaders
Consistent evidence of life change
Ongoing evidence of life change through engagement, testimonies, and spiritual formation
Working Hours and Conditions
Business Hours/Exceptions
This position is full time with various hours, including evenings and weekends as required by ministry needs. Additional hours, including evenings and weekends, may be required during designated all-church events, including Christmas, Easter, and Fall Launch.
Working Environment
Church office and worship environments; fast paced, team-oriented ministry setting
Travel Requirements and Expectations
Occasional offsite meetings and periodic travel for training, conferences, professional development, or multi-campus support may be required.
Salary
Commensurate with experience and qualifications
This job description outlines primary responsibilities, but it is not intended to be exhaustive. Additional duties may be assigned as ministry needs and opportunities arise.
For more information about Grace Fellowship Church, please visit our website at www.gfc.org.
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