Lead Pastor

A Lead Pastor to help us sustain our growth whilst strengthening and deepening all we currently do. Our current lead pastor has accepted a call to a church in Oxford and our associate pastor will be leaving next April to take up a teaching post.

Responsibilities

The lead pastor will: - Take responsibility for planning the Sunday meetings of the church, being part of our Sunday morning service leading team, and regularly leading at our twice monthly Sunday evening services. - Be responsible for the majority of preaching at Sunday morning services. - With the elders, establish plans for the future direction of the church. - With the elders, oversee, support, encourage, and help to equip ministry leaders to grow and flourish in their ministry. - Be involved in discipleship to help members of the congregation to grow in spiritual maturity and in using and developing their gifts for works of service. - Be involved in sharing the pastoral care oversight and workload with the elders, staff, lifegroup leaders and others. - Oversee those responsible for the management of the church's practical business.

Required skills

The person will be: - A Christian man with the biblical qualifications of 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 who is committed to the ministry of prayer and the word (Acts 6). - Someone with some experience of ministry and church leadership who is likely to have undergone a form of theological training. - In agreement with the FIEC doctrinal basis and ethos statements and able to work within our church Fellowship Guide (available on request).

Other

Christ Church Trumpington CIO (CCT) is an independent evangelical church affiliated to the FIEC. The church was planted in 2014 into Trumpington, a very rapidly growing part of Cambridge. Over the last decade, we have grown to a congregation of around 100 and are made up of a wide range of ages and nationalities, reflecting the community in which we are based. The staff team also comprises an administrator and a trainee pastoral worker, both part time. In addition to the church's staff, there are two lay-elders and four deacons. Our missionaries in Japan, Eswatini and Greece are supported personally and financially by the church and another couple in the church is actively exploring serving overseas from sometime in 2025. We hold services in a local school every Sunday morning for worship and preaching, alongside which we run a children and youth programme. Twice monthly we meet in our Church Centre (a former chapel and church hall a few hundred metres from the school) on Sunday evenings for a varied programme including prayer and praise, testimony, mission updates and discussion of a variety of topics. We also host events such as church lunches on a regular basis in the Centre. During the week we currently run a number of ministries in the Church Centre and in people's homes. These include: a group for parents and toddlers; an international café; English conversation classes; a daytime lifegroup for the elderly; evening lifegroups for all attenders; and a women's bible-study group. Some of our young people have joined regularly with the youth group run by Rock Baptist Church (from whom CCT was founded) in addition to what we provide. There are also occasional men's breakfasts, a men's discipleship group and a women's book group. Our priorities for the future are to maintain strong biblical teaching, continue to develop a strong sense of community among church members and attenders through lifegroups and more personal interactions, and grow ministries that reach out to our local community and others around the world. Our current priorities are to continue the development of our ministry among internationals in the area, work among the elderly, and our work with children and youth. Other information: - Applications are invited accompanied by a CV and covering letter including details of 2 referees. - Salary: according to experience and situation - Accommodation: there is an office for the pastor in the Church Centre, but the church does not own any housing for a pastor. A number of accommodation options for the pastor exist which can be discussed with CCT's elders and deacons - Appointment commencing: as soon as possible after Easter 2025 - The position is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure - Applications can only be considered from those who are UK citizens or who otherwise have a right to work in the UK. Other documents available on request: CCT's Fellowship Guide; CCT's statement of faith. For more information or for an informal conversation please contact the elders: elders@christchurchtrumpington.org