Lead Pastor - Lexington, Kentucky

First Alliance Church, a vibrant, multigenerational church located in suburban Lexington, Kentucky, is prayerfully seeking its next Lead Pastor—a spiritually mature, visionary shepherd who can lead its next season of ministry and local and global impact for the Gospel.

The Lead Pastor serves the body of Christ at FAC by providing spiritual, pastoral, and strategic leadership for First Alliance Church, giving general oversight to the church’s ministry, staff, and mission.

• Preaching and Teaching
  • Serve as the primary preacher and teacher, handling the Word of God with biblical depth, clarity, and practical application.
  • Teach in a way that forms mature disciples, calls people to faithful obedience, and shapes the theological direction and spiritual tone of worship.
  • Work with appropriate staff to plan worship services that are biblically grounded and spiritually formative.
• Spiritual Leadership and Shepherding
  • Shepherd the congregation with humility, warmth, approachability, and spiritual maturity.
  • Give strategic oversight to congregational care while empowering staff and lay leaders to provide direct care.
  • Lead in a way that reflects a deep, visible, and contagious walk with Jesus, helping the church build trust, heal from transition, and move forward with unity.
• Vision and Strategic Direction
  • Work with the Leadership Board and staff to clarify and advance the church's next season of ministry, casting vision clearly and consistently.
  • Help move vision from discussion to action through clear plans, priorities, and follow-through.
  • Lead with prayerful discernment, wise decisiveness, and a willingness to evaluate and refine ministry goals as needed.
• Staff Health and Organizational Leadership
  • Build, empower, and release a healthy leadership team by delegating leadership, not only tasks, to qualified staff and ministry leaders.
  • Clarify staff roles, reporting relationships, expectations, and accountability rhythms.
  • Develop and mentor key staff and leaders, helping establish healthy systems for goals, feedback, evaluation, and growth.
• Churchwide Discipleship and Leadership Development
  • Strengthen a culture of discipleship throughout the church by identifying and developing emerging staff, lay leaders, and volunteers.
  • Equip leaders to disciple, develop, and empower others through healthy leadership pipelines.
  • Help connect spiritual formation, ministry service, and leadership development into a unified culture of growth.
• Outreach, Evangelism, and Mission
  • Champion local outreach, global missions, and evangelism as central to the life of the church.
  • Support and empower the Pastor of Outreach and Missions, encouraging pathways for people to share their faith and serve their neighbors.
  • Keep the church focused on reaching neighbors, the nations, and the next generation, welcoming new believers into community and discipleship.
• Board Partnership and Governance
  • Report regularly to the Leadership Board, working together to establish long-term goals, priorities, and measures of success.
  • Support healthy communication and alignment between the Board, staff, and congregation.
  • Receive feedback with humility, participate in regular accountability, and help the Board identify major ministry opportunities, challenges, and staffing needs.
• Personal Health and Accountability
  • Maintain a growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ, pursuing healthy accountability with trusted people inside and outside the church.
  • Demonstrate humility, self‑awareness, teachability, and integrity in all areas of life.
  • Protect personal, family, spiritual, and emotional health, leading from maturity, humility, and integrity.

• Spiritual and Theological
  • Meets the biblical qualifications for elder/pastor.
  • Fully aligned with the doctrine, mission, and polity of the Christian & Missionary Alliance.
  • Ordained or willing and able to pursue ordination with the Christian & Missionary Alliance.
  • Demonstrates a life marked by prayer, humility, integrity, and dependence on the Holy Spirit.
• Educational
  • Graduate‑level theological education preferred, such as an M.Div., M.A. in Theology/Ministry, or equivalent.
  • Demonstrated ability to preach,…