Lead Pastor

Reporting directly to the Gate Church Community (GCC) Board, the Lead Pastor is responsible to provide spiritual oversight and executive leadership for the Gate Church Community. Aligning with the Mission and Vision of GCC, the Lead Pastor will ensure connection and growth in all areas of Ministry. This includes but is not limited to the following:

Leadership

The Gate’s emphasis for leadership places a premium on the body of Christ on God’s mission rather than Christendom’s sometimes typical concern for the church’s institutional maintenance. In general, the role of the leader needs to be less task oriented and more thematically oriented around a community engaged in making a difference. Rather than beginning with a list of institutional or consumeristic needs, and then designing responsibilities and tasks to address and provide answers for those needs, the role description for our leader needs to be formed around the “missional questions” that God is stirring in us. This becomes a way of living, not a task.

Discipleship

Maintain a life of ever-increasing righteousness, joy, and peace as you journey in authentic community with members of Gate Church Community. We also believe in “Establishing Healthy Small Groups” as a key opportunity for discipleship and coaching.

Personal Growth & Care

Make time for health. Engage in personal prayer, Scripture study and personal reading. Nurture family and have time together. Find people to have lunch with, find a favourite conference or mentor that is inspiring and building. Participate in continued learning for personal and spiritual growth.

Community Care and Relations

Create a culture of authentic community by modeling, encouraging, teaching, and creating space for community ministry.  Mobilize volunteers (and future staff) by recruiting and coaching, providing alignment and guidance for outward vision.

Community Groups 

Develop a network of groups that form and regularly re-form their identity as Kingdom-of-God communities in Brandon, providing people places of belonging, meaning, and purpose, doing good works and making disciples.

Teaching and Worship Celebration Gatherings

Oversee all aspects of Worship Gatherings, developing ministry teams and leading the fabric of corporate times together for encouragement, exhortation and equipping. Demonstrate skill in studying the Scriptures and communicating its truths with accuracy and reverence in a way that is relatable, interesting and applicable. Encourage an atmosphere that is warm, genuine, releasing and reverent.

Hospitality

Co-develop and maintain a strategy for welcoming people into the relational and visionary core of our community. Ensure that there are entry points to this from our Sunday gatherings and from our community groups so that people get to know key Gate point people along with the vision of Gate Church Community and Mosaic learning community.

Prayer 

Ensure an emphasis for prayer at large-gatherings as well as mid-week prayer group(s), recruiting, training and equipping leaders to facilitate in a way that is respectful for all people.

Operations

Maintain a healthy relationship with the Board of Directors, serving as the Lead Pastor (a non-voting board-member) in a governance framework.

Recruit and maintain (as desired) a Leadership Support Team to assist with the administration of the office and care ministries as well as church-communications, special event ministries, and other Gate Church initiated ministry projects. Work with Board and ministry leads to ensure healthy practices and communication between all parties so the ministry and church work without hindrance.

Oversee and manage our legal charity requirements, ensuring compliance and high ethical standards in all aspects of human resources, financial and obligatory commitments.