Assistant Pastor Community Formation Waypoint Community Church: Equipping people w

Waypoint Community Church is a growing congregation seeking an Assistant Pastor for Community Formation to shepherd our people, strengthen discipleship through community, and provide organizational leadership that equips ministry teams. This role will help build clear pathways for deeper connection by recruiting, developing, and releasing leaders to meet the needs of a maturing church.

• Deep, mature faith aligned with Waypoint’s values and ECO’s tenets — spiritually grounded, trustworthy, and theologically attuned to Waypoint’s culture.
• Pastoral presence with a shepherd’s heart — demonstrated fruit in care, discipleship, and life-on-life formation; emotionally intelligent, perceptive, and relationally wise.
• Proven developer of leaders — recruits, equips, and multiplies leaders while bringing helpful structure to ministry.
• Innovative with disciplined follow-through — creates pathways for involvement, bridges vision to execution, and sustains practices over time.
• Adaptive and collaborative work style — shares responsibility, seeks creative solutions, and remains calm and flexible in changing environments.
• Experienced in fostering Christian community – minimum four years of pastoral leadership with demonstrated responsibility for forming, leading, and sustaining community groups and larger gatherings.

• Create, train, and lead a Diaconate Team (Women’s Ministry, Men’s Ministry, Care Team, and Hospitality leads) that meets monthly to care for the needs of the church.
• Supervise the part-time Youth Director and Women’s Ministry Coordinator staff positions as well as oversee the Care Team and Men’s Ministry Teams.
• Recruit and develop leaders, building a “team of teams” culture.
• Strengthen pathways for regular worship attendees to deepen their engagement within the Waypoint community.
• Provide clear structure to existing and newly formed ministry teams.

• Launch and nurture new small groups while strengthening existing groups.
• Design and implement discipleship training and experiences (e.g., Men’s and Women’s retreats, Marriage and Parenting seminars, Faith at Work trainings).
• Facilitate workshops that deepen spiritual formation and practical discipleship.

• Provide ongoing pastoral support to Way pointers.
• Administer sacraments and officiate weddings and funerals as needed.
• Participate fully in worship planning; preach at least six times annually.
• Meet weekly with the Lead Pastor and collaborate with staff.

• Full-time position with presence on Sundays and flexible weekday schedule.
• Balance of pastoral presence and organizational leadership.
• Self-starter with strong execution and follow-through.
• Clear, collaborative communicator who works well in a team setting.
• Ordained or ordainable into the Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians (ECO).
• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience (4+ years preferred) including benefits such as 403(b); family medical and dental; life and disability coverage; 4 weeks vacation; 2 weeks study leave; sabbatical in the 7th year of service.