Lead Pastor

LEAD PASTOR PROFILE

Long Hill Chapel

Chatham, New Jersey

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Long Hill Chapel enters this next season with a healthy and stable foundation and a sense of hope about the future. The church benefits from meaningful worship, biblical teaching, strong relationships, committed leaders and volunteers, and people who desire to follow Jesus and serve others. These are important strengths to recognize and steward as the church prayerfully considers what God may be calling us to next.

The next Lead Pastor will have the opportunity to build upon that foundation while helping the congregation take meaningful next steps. We recognize that health does not mean the absence of challenges. Every season of ministry requires discernment, adaptability, spiritual courage, and a willingness to respond faithfully to changing circumstances. The church seeks a pastor who will listen carefully, lead wisely, build trust, and help the congregation discern together where God is leading.

One of the most important opportunities ahead is cultivating a deeper and more intentional culture of discipleship. This will require more than strengthening programs or increasing participation. It will mean helping people understand more fully what it means to follow Jesus and creating relationships and environments where people are known, prayed for, challenged, spiritually formed, equipped, and prepared to disciple others.

The next pastor will need to articulate a compelling biblical vision for discipleship, develop and equip leaders, and invite the congregation to follow Jesus into deeper faith, greater maturity, meaningful community, and active participation in His mission.

There are also opportunities to bring greater clarity to the church s direction, strengthen alignment among ministries, develop emerging leaders, and build upon the congregation s desire to reach and serve its community. This work will require both patient relationship-building and intentional leadership. Our church approaches this transition with gratitude for its foundation, realism about the work ahead, and hope for what God may yet accomplish.

The next Lead Pastor will have the opportunity to steward existing strengths while challenging, equipping, and encouraging the congregation toward greater spiritual depth, clarity, participation, and Kingdom impact.

A Healthy & Stable Church Ready for Its Next Season

Long Hill Chapel seeks a Christ-centered, spiritually mature Lead Pastor who will faithfully preach and teach God's Word, shepherd people with wisdom and compassion, and lead a healthy congregation into its next season of discipleship, mission, and Kingdom impact. This is a future-building role: the next pastor will honor what God has already established while helping the church become increasingly clear about its direction, more deeply connected in spiritual community, intentional about multiplying leaders, and visible in community mission.

• Unique Opportunity:
  Lead a family-oriented, healthy and stable church committed to helping people grow in their walk with Jesus, developing future leaders, and continuing the work God has already begun.
• Ministry Context:
  Serve a relational community where families are valued and people are seeking meaningful connections, biblical truth, and opportunities to live out their faith together.
• Church Life:
  Build on strong worship, meaningful ministry participation, loving relationships, discipleship, youth and family ministries, and missional efforts.
• Supportive Community:
  Join a congregation, Elder Board, staff, and ministry team that values partnership, prayer, collaboration, trust, and the equipping of others.
• Growth Potential:
  Strengthen relational discipleship, clarify shared vision, multiply leaders, invest in young families, and translate existing missional instincts into coordinated community impact.
• Ministry/Life Balance:
  Serve in a welcoming community with strong schools and family-focused neighborhoods while practicing healthy rhythms of Sabbath, vacation, continuing education, and sustainable ministry.

Location - 525 Shunpike Road, Chatham, NJ 07928

Denomination
- Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA)

Church Size
- Approximately 200-230 attendees

Compensation
- Total package, including base salary, housing allowance and benefits: $135,000 to $160,000, depending on qualifications and…