Congregational Care Pastor
Mount Pisgah Church • Johns Creek, GA • Part Time
Congregational Care Pastor Job Description
Role Summary
The Pastor of Congregational Care will provide pastoral leadership for the church’s care ministries, ensuring that individuals and families experiencing seasons of need receive compassionate and meaningful support. As a ¾ time role, this position will have a high degree of flexibility with which to organize their schedule.
This pastor will help organize and strengthen existing care ministries while developing systems that mobilize lay leaders and volunteers to participate in the ministry of care. The goal is to cultivate an environment in which the church cares for one another faithfully, relationally, and sustainably. This role reports to the Lead Pastor and collaborates closely with the ministry staff and volunteer leaders throughout the church.
Primary Responsibilities
Care Ministry Leadership
- Provide vision, leadership, and oversight for congregational care ministries such as Stephen Ministry, GriefShare, funeral ministry, and other care initiatives.
- Develop sustainable systems that support long-term effectiveness and growth of care ministries.
- Lead and support a Care Council that helps recruit volunteers and foster lay leadership across care ministries.
Pastoral Care
- Respond to pastoral care needs including illness, hospitalization, grief, and other life circumstances.
- Provide visitation to hospitals, assisted living facilities, hospice settings, and homebound members.
- Serve as the primary clergy leader for funerals, including meeting with families and officiating services as requested.
Lay Leader Development
- Recruit, train, and develop volunteers who serve within the church’s care ministries.
- Equip members of the congregation to actively participate in caring for one another.
Older Adult Ministry
Provide pastoral leadership and initiatives that support and engage older adults within the congregation.
Measures of Success
The ideal candidate will be a pastor who combines a deep heart for people with the ability to build sustainable systems of care.
This leader understands that effective congregational care happens not only through pastoral presence, but through equipping and mobilizing the church to care for one another. They will be energized by developing volunteers, strengthening existing ministries, and cultivating a culture where compassion, presence, and prayer are shared throughout the body of Christ.
Qualifications
Qualifications and Experience Candidates should demonstrate proven experience providing congregational care leadership within a medium or large church setting (minimum four years), including recruiting and developing volunteers and lay leaders.
Candidates should have:
- A bachelor’s degree
- Ministry or related care experience
- A passion for forming and reproducing followers of Jesus
- Strong relational and pastoral presence
- Organizational and administrative leadership skills, including ministry planning and budget management
- Alignment with Mount Pisgah Church’s theology and identity
- Preferred: ordination within a Wesleyan tradition
Salary & Benefits
$55,000 - $70,000
- Health care
- Vacation days
Can be done remote?
- No
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Who We Are
Mount Pisgah is a church shaped by a simple belief: hope is found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We believe God meets people in real places - wilderness seasons, our neighborhoods and quiet moments of becoming. That's why we sum up who we are this way:
Leaving wilderness for peaks,
Trading performance for purpose,
Turning stranger into neighbor,
For the Hope of the Gospel.
Where We Are Headed
We believe hope doesn't belong inside buildings - it belongs in neighborhoods.
We're living in the most connected time in history, and yet people feel more isolated, disconnected and unseen than ever before. Community is thinning. Trust is fragile. Too many of our neighbors are carrying life alone.
So over the next four years, Mount Pisgah is committing to 200,000 hours of presence and building relationships over time with our actual neighbors. Our aim is simple: to take hope outside the walls of this church and into our neighborhoods - our actual neighbors in Johns Creek, Alpharetta and Roswell.
We want to rebuild neighborhoods on hope, one relationship at a time.