Executive Pastor
An open position
Mountain Brook Community Church
Birmingham, Alabama
This Section Contains
- History
- Executive Pastor Job Description
- Executive Pastor Profile
- Statement of Faith
- About Birmingham
- Contact
History
From the start, the purpose of MBCC has been to reach our community with the good news of Jesus Christ. The first service was held in the home of one of our members in April 1992. The following Sunday, Easter, the church moved to Mountain Brook Junior High School where we began meeting in the lunchroom. When the Montevallo Road facility became available, the church made the move and held its first services there in November 1992.
This campus enabled us to grow, develop our vision, clarify our mission and establish a strong foundation for ministry. Although the facility served us well, our church family grew to the point where we needed a new home. After much prayer and waiting on the Lord, He eventually opened the door for us to purchase the campus of Southeastern Bible College on Highway 280 East. Once again it was time for us to step out of our comfort zone and follow the Lord in faith. On October 10th, 2004, we moved into our current location.
Over the past eleven years of ministry at MBCC we have seen God's hand of blessing in many ways. The church has grown from 250 to approximately 1400. The staff has grown from 3 to 26 and the mission's family has grown from 2 to 34. Annual giving has increased from approximately $400,000 to $4 million.
However, more exciting that the numerical growth is the spiritual growth in the lives of people. Our desire and passion is to equip God's people and ignite a passion within them to wholeheartedly pursue God and His purpose for their lives.
In 1995, God called Tim Kallam to be the Senior Pastor of Mountain Brook Community Church. Tim is a graduate of Northeastern Bible College and Dallas Theological Seminary. He served on the pastoral staffs of churches in South Carolina, Texas and Georgia before accepting the call as Senior Pastor. Tim is married to Christi and has two children, Ben (19) and Katie (16).
Please see our website at www.mbcc.us for more information.
Executive Pastor Job Description
Purpose
To assist the Senior Pastor in fulfilling the desires of the Elder Board and the Mission of MBCC including planning, and developing the leadership, facilities and finances to fulfill those plans. Supervise the pastoral/executive staff of the church and the overall working of the teams (committees) of the church.
Scope
Church-wide planning, leadership development of team leaders, pastors and administrator; ministry teams; human resources; special projects.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a growing, personal walk with God to serve the Lord and the flock out of personal devotion and not professional obligation. Ministry must be a calling and not simply a job. Time must be set aside for personal study of the Word and prayer.
- Assisting the Senior Pastor
- Join or represent the Senior Pastor by meeting with people, hearing proposals, or attending functions as asked.
- Scheduling other pastors or outside speakers to preach when he is out.
- Completing special projects as requested.
- Management
- Meet with the Elder Board
- Work with the Chairman of the Board and the Senior Pastor to set the Elder Board agendas each month.
- Meet with the entire staff and the pastoral/executive staff regularly.
- Give direction to the pastoral/executive staff as determined by the Elder Board and/or Senior Pastor.
- Supervise the pastoral/executive staff to insure they are doing their jobs well and developing as leaders of the church.
- Annually review the pastoral staff.
- Oversee the teams (committees) of the church. Work to see that each team has a clear directive and a leader and does its part in achieving the mission of MBCC. This is not full responsibility for each team, but oversight to see that teams are working.
- Attend a meeting of each team at least once per year.
- Planning
- Work to make the vision of the Elder Board and Senior Pastor become reality. Develop short and long term goals to fulfill the vision of the church.
- Forecast the needs of the church to meet our goals (staff, facilities, and finances)
- Give regular reports to the Elder Board and Senior Pastor on progress toward our goals.
- Leadership Development
- Coordinate Elder Board retreats (yearly) and other team building/fellowship meetings or dinners.
- Coordinate Pastoral/Executive Team retreats (yearly) and other leadership/team building/fellowship meetings or dinners.
- Human Resources
- Plan for future positions and supervise searches for pastoral/executive staff.
- See that our human resources policies are all legal and current. Maintain job descriptions for each position and keep all personnel records current.
- See that all of our staff follow the human resource policies and procedures. Monitor and mange staff days off.
- Adult Education
- Develop a long term teaching plan for adult community groups
- Consult the various ministries of the church (men, women, youth, children) regarding their teaching plan.
- Develop a teacher training program.
Working Relationships
- You report to the Senior Pastor
- You work closely with members of the Elder Board, team leaders, and all church staff.
- You supervise the pastoral/executive staff
Executive Pastor Profile
Purpose
The position of executive pastor is designed to allow the senior pastor to focus on the areas of ministry unique to his calling and gifting and to assist in providing leadership for the carrying out the mission and ministry of MBCC so that the church will be healthy, equipping the saints, reaching the world and glorifying God.
Profile
- He should have a growing relationship with the Lord.
- If married, he should have a strong marriage and family.
- He should have a related master degree and/or commensurate experience in ministry.
- Due to the unique nature of church ministry, he should possess sufficient experience and a good understanding of how a local church functions.
- Preferred experience should include a demonstrated ability to provide leadership to pastors and ministry leaders, oversee and evaluate a wide variety of ministries (i.e. children, youth, worship, etc.), and lead a search to identify and hire staff.
- He must be an initiator and self-starter.
- He should be loyal with a willingness to follow and a heart to protect the pastor.
- He must have a good connection with the senior pastor.
- Due to the wide range of responsibilities, he must be able to manage multiple tasks and people without becoming frustrated and overwhelmed.
- He must have strong people skills and a shepherding heart.
- He must be willing to confront difficult situations with strength and grace. He must possess excellent conflict resolution skills. He must have a "thick skin" and a tender heart (be able to "take the heat").
- He must be a team player and have demonstrated the ability to develop teams.
- He should have the ability to build a sense of accountability with the staff that will enable timely completion of projects and ministry plans consistent with the church's vision.
- He must have strong decision making skills.
- He must be both a strategic and an organizational thinker while also being able to effectively communicate the vision of the senior pastor and elders.
- He should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- He must be committed to and adept at accomplishing ministry through others, developing and releasing teams for ministry.
- Due to our specific needs at this moment he should have an ability to give leadership to the area of Christian education.
Statement of Faith
Augustine said, "In the essentials, unity; in the non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity." The following is a statement of what we consider the essentials.
- We believe in the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God, and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life. (Mt. 5:17-18 and 2 Tim. 3:16-17)
- We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Deut. 6:4-5; Mt. 28:19; John 1:1, 20:28 and 2 Cor. 13:14)
- We believe that, as provided and purposed by God and as pre-announced in the prophecies of the Scriptures, the eternal Son of God came into this world that He might manifest God to men and become the Redeemer of a lost world. To this end He was born of the virgin Mary and received a human body and a sinless human nature, thus becoming fully man without ceasing to be fully God. (John 1:1,14; Phil. 2:5-11; Is. 7:14; Mt. 1; 2 Cor. 5:21; Rom. 5:8 and John 3:16)
- We believe that man was created in the image of God and that he fell through sin, and, as a consequence of his sin, incurred not only physical death but spiritual death, becoming dead in trespasses and sin. We also believe that this spiritual death, or total depravity of human nature, has been transmitted to the entire human race, Christ Jesus alone being excepted. Hence, every child of Adam is born with a nature which possesses no spark of divine life and is essentially bad apart from divine grace. (Gen. 1:26-27, 5:1; Rom. 3:10, 5:12 and Eph. 2:1)
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. (Heb. 9:11ff, 10:3ff; Is. 53; Rom. 5:8, 6:10 and 2 Cor. 5:14-21)
- We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate. (I Cor. 15; Rom. 10: 9-10; Acts 1:9; I Peter 3:21b-22 and Heb. 4:14-15, 7:25)
- We believe that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will personally return and set up His Kingdom wherein He will rule and reign in righteousness. (Acts 1:11; Mt. 24:44; Heb. 9:28 and Titus 2:13)
- We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become children of God. (Jn. 3, 1:12)
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the blessedness of the saved, and the retribution of the lost. (Acts 24:15; I Thess. 4:13-18; I Cor. 15:51-58; Rev. 20:11-15
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Contact
Please send your resume to:
- Peter J. Wright, petefpc@yahoo.com
Mountain Brook Community Church
3001 Highway 280 East
Birmingham, Alabama 35243
Phone 205/802-7070
Fax 205/802-7022
www.mbcc.us
