Pastor of Ministries


Denomination: Non-denominational
Church Size: 200-300
Job Type: Full-Time

About Downtown Hope:

We exist to be transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ for the sake of our city and World.   We are a church made up of believers of different ages, family structures, ethnicities, and economic backgrounds.  We love and actively serve our most vulnerable neighbors, including those who live in public housing neighborhoods, immigrant communities, and friends who are disengaged and uninterested in faith or church.  Currently, we offer two Sunday morning gatherings. The average weekly attendance at Downtown Hope is 250 adults and 75 children ages 0-11. Children of Hope, our children’s ministry, is currently led by a part-time director and a volunteer team.

Downtown Hope's long-term vision is to grow and plant gatherings across our city, county, and region, reaching thousands of people and seeing their lives transformed by the gospel.  Our approach to this vision is to follow the New Testament pattern of reaching a geography with the gospel.  We do this by sending out teams of believers that will reach and form new disciples amongst the 80% of our friends, neighbors, and coworkers who are disengaged, left the church, or are unchurched.  From these disciples, we will identify and develop local leaders and pastors to form and lead new gatherings.  Each local gathering in turn will send out new teams to form new disciples in a new area or neighborhood.  We believe reaching this vision begins with Downtown Hope flourishing as a local, sending church. 

Job Description:

We are seeking a Pastor of Ministries who will provide organizational leadership to all ministry and operational aspects of Downtown Hope Church.  They will be responsible to:

  1. Oversee and lead all ministry areas of Downtown Hope by developing, and directing the planning and organizational functions along with all teams in line with Downtown Hope’s mission and vision for effective ministry.

  2. Ensure the flourishing of church staff, by developing an effective team and by onboarding and training, informal coaching, and formal performance evaluations.

  3. Ensure the operational flourishing of the church through leadership and oversight of administration, finance, human resources, supply and facilities management processes.

  4. Facilitate the annual strategic planning process, including evaluating ministry performance; reviewing vision, mission,  and core values; developing key objectives and tactics; and establishing short, medium, and long-term goals and developing KPIs.

  5. Oversee the process of recruiting, developing and supporting volunteer leaders and teams to meet the ministry needs of Downtown Hope.

  6. Lead the church’s building and facilities programs, including master planning, design and architecture, contractor selection, and construction.

  7. Oversee the planning, coordination, and execution of Sunday Gatherings, including volunteer management, space setup, service flow, attendee experience, and administrative tasks.


Required Characteristics:

  1. Aligned with the vision, mission, and culture of Downtown Hope

  2. Staff leadership experience in a church or organization of over 200 members.

  3. Thinks strategically and gives attention to detail

  4. Strong organizational and communication skills (writing and speaking)

  5. A motivated, positive, flexible, and strong leader

  6. Strong technology skills

  7. Strong developer- ability to flesh out and execute on existing vision/mission.

  8. Working Genius Assessment- Galvanizer, Tenacity, Discernment 


Desired Characteristics: 

  1. Broad ministry experience in youth, music, or other ministries

  2. A theology degree or equivalent ministry experience

Qualifications of the Pastor of Ministries

  1. Elder qualified according to 1 Timothy 3.1-7 and Titus 1.5-9

  2. Deep, time-tested walk with Jesus (John 5:24-25);

  3. Humble, grateful heart and expression (James 3:13);

  4. Solid testimony (1 John 1:2-3)

  5. Disciplined and personal time spent in the Word (2 Tim 3:16-17); and

  6. Healthy personal prayer life (Ephesians 6:18)

  7. Able to preach (2 Timothy 2:15)

Critical keys to success

  1. High level of spiritual maturity and practiced self-awareness (James 1:23-24);

  2. Full reliance on Biblical wisdom and Spirit-given discernment (Hebrews 4:12);

  3. God-given humility in dealing with others (James 4:6);

  4. High level of patience and compassion for others (Colossians 3:12);

  5. True love of people (John 15:12-13);

  6. Desire to serve in order to see others succeed (Romans 12:10); and 

  7. Healthy dose of humor and the ability to defuse tension (Proverbs 15:1)