Next Level Pastor/Resident

What is a Next Level Pastor/Resident?
A Next Level Pastor is one that will work creatively and adaptively with our Lead Planting Pastor as our church plant transitions from a 140-person two-church network into a multi-campus, multi-site church planting network over the years ahead.

This position is part-time, bi-vocational with massive potential to become full-time within the next few years. This role also coincides with our pastoral residency program for men of God who do not have pastoral experience but are interested in discerning if God has called them into pastoral ministry.

Is Restore a good fit for you?
Strategic Values: Bible Teaching, People Reaching, Community Building, Disciple Making with Christ as King.

Church Community: Restore Church is a 6-year-old church plant in Yankton, SD (pop 22,000 at County level) that is focused on multiplying Disciples, Leaders, Churches.

Future Churches: We are in the process of transitioning into a multi-campus church contextualized for the smaller communities. What does that mean? We are strategically looking at planting multiple campus churches in small towns where there is very little missional/evangelical activity. These churches function in a way that focuses on building a community in the church that also builds value to each community the church is a part of.

Now: So far, we have two campuses in Yankton. One campus is our Kid’s and Family Center, which houses a pro-life pregnancy center in the lower level and an indoor kid’s recreation center on the main floor. Our other campus is our main worship center. On Easter of 2021 we launched our second Church Plant (replant) in the neighboring town of Crofton, NE.

Discipleship: With all of the former in place, we are working aggressively on a goal of making 3,000,000 disciples in the next 20 years and want to partner with anyone who loves Jesus and is passionate enough to help make that happen.

Are you a good fit for the Restore Team?

Team Player: We are constantly working to raise leaders and equip helpers. While there is a variation of authority and influence, there is no position greater than the other. We resist having committees for most church decisions and activities. Instead, we are building a team of leaders and helpers that collaborate and empower one another for quick, agile, and efficient ministry.

Leadership: While we collaborate, we also want leaders to lead rather than simply manage their responsibilities. For our definitions, we view leadership as something that takes people and organizations to a place of growth, whereas management (which is good and necessary) takes people and organizations and tries to simply maintain what is under its care.

Visionary Mindset: We want a team of people who “clock out” and rest well. At the same time, we want people who are passionate about their ministry roles to the extent that they are always considering the next big move (or a series of baby steps) to grow said ministry into something bigger, healthier, or more efficient than it is. All leaders must demonstrate their ability to work with our Lead Pastor for the greater vision of the church.

Beyond the team level, what the qualifications and job requirements for this position?

Passionate love for Jesus, His Word, and His Gospel: Jesus is King. Everything we do centers around our unyielding worship of Him. We need candidates that are lovingly bold about the Gospel and obsessed with Scripture and prayer.

Ambitious: This position has the flexibility to turn into a variety of positions, ranging from Full-Time Associate Pastor to Lead Planter of multiple campuses, and any other complimentary position the right candidate could grow it into.

Teachable: We are more concerned with a smart, teachable candidate than having the most educated candidate. Have all the degrees or none of them but show us that you are well studied and hungry to learn and grow into a master of Restore-style ministry in the context we live in.

Passion for rural towns and small cities: We need quality ministers who see the value of the smaller communities as a calling, and not a stepping stone or fly-over part of our mission field. In what we are doing, this is one of the most critical areas of the mission field.

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