Senior Pastor

Big Creek Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist church in Pleasant Hill, MO in the south Kansas City metropolitan area, seeks a full-time pastor with a minimum of 5 years pastoral experience to provide spiritual leadership to the church and ministerial and pastoral care to the congregation and community.  He needs to lead by love, encouragement, and modeling; exhibit cooperation and collaboration; have a heart for missions and discipleship, and teach by word and action in adherence to God’s Word.  Please email resume and sermon links to: pastorsearch.bigcreek@gmail.com

Qualifications:  The ideal candidate will

• Meet the qualifications set forth in 1 Timothy 3:1-16, with particular emphasis to be given to the manner in which he demonstrates spiritual leadership and companionship in his own home
• Be ordained and of sound Bible doctrine, He will also subscribe to the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 statement.
• Satisfactorily demonstrate that he is a Spirit-led, Bible believing man of God.
• Be willing to relocate to the Pleasant Hill community.
• Have a 4 year degree in something appropriate to a pastoral position

Duties

• The Pastor is responsible for leading the church, the organizations, and the church staff to perform their tasks.  As such, he:

1. Proclaims or preaches the gospel to believers and non-believers
2. Leads the church to engage in a fellowship of worship, witness, missions, education ministry, and application
3. Leads the church in performing its ministries and supervises the ministries of the church staff and employees
4. Cares for the church’s membership and other persons in the community
5. Serves as an ex-officio member of all committees and will vote only in case of a tie

Information about Big Creek Baptist Church

• BCBC was started as a new church in May 2006
• 236 members with an average attendance of 100 on any given Sunday
• Conservative Southern Baptist affiliation
• Interim Worship leader on staff
• Part-time Secretary on staff
• New modern facility with room for  growth on major state highway leading into town
• In a rural/bedroom community of approximately 10,000 people with a good school system

Please visit our online candidate portal at https://www.bigcreekbaptistchurch.org/candidate-portal/