Shepherd Staff is honored to be working with Grace Bible Church in La Vernia, TX as they search for their next Spiritual Formations Pastor. Grace Bible is a dynamic and growing church in the southeast corner of San Antonio, TX. The Spiritual Formation Pastor will play a pivotal role in uniting and expanding GBC’s small group ministry and discipleship strategy. The church seeks a leader who can step into its culture, assess its needs, and bring clarity to the spiritual formation process. 

The ideal candidate:

• Passionate about spiritual formation and connecting people into the life of the church to be on mission for Christ
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively with individuals and team members at all levels
• Relational leader with the ability to inspire, attract, and develop individuals personally and for leadership
• Ability to clearly communicate vision, goals, and tasks
• Effective team builder and motivator
• Strategic-minded with experience in developing and implementing systems
• Adept at managing a fast-paced environment and willing to be flexible and adapt as needed to changing situations
• Ideal spiritual gifts – Leadership, Discernment, Wisdom, Administration

 Responsibilities:

• Develop a systematic and effective effort to generate interest in small groups (sign-up areas, brochures, stories, all-church promotions, webpage, etc).
• Oversee information and tracking of small group participants and leaders.
• Recruit, train, and equip current and future group leaders and oversee curriculum selection.
• Provide leadership to Student and Family Ministry staff, ensuring cohesive discipleship and group strategy from cradle through college.
• Oversee, implement, and maintain our healthy, growing discipleship process while further developing systems that move people through it and allow for tracking each individual’s progress toward an increased intensity and depth of engagement in ministry.
• Directly oversee adult discipleship groups, assimilation groups and Grace groups including identifying, developing and equipping leaders for these groups.
• Work with pastors, staff, and leaders to implement a comprehensive plan and process that will multiply groups.
• Oversee missions and care ministries.

Much more detailed information is available to you after an initial consultation with Shepherd Staff. During that consultation, you should be able to articulate your provable experience as outlined above. Take the first step by clicking on the “Apply for this job” button to confidentially make us aware of your interest. By confidential, we mean that we won’t share your information or interest with this or any other church prior to a full discussion with you and your permission to do so.

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