Parenting Pastor

Parenting Pastor

Position Objective:
To pastor, disciple, equip, and strengthen the parents and families of Creative Church by helping them build Christ-centered homes, raise children according to biblical principles, navigate the challenges of every stage of parenting, and become deeply planted in the life and mission of the local church.

The Parenting Pastor will serve as a trusted spiritual parent, coach, and pastoral resource to families—helping parents grow in their relationship with Jesus, their relationship with their children, their confidence as parents, and their commitment to building a healthy Christian home.

Qualifications

Personal & Spiritual

The Parenting Pastor must:

• Have a clear testimony of faith in Jesus Christ and a growing personal relationship with Him.
• Demonstrate a lifestyle consistent with biblical standards for Christian leadership.
• Demonstrate the household leadership principles described in 1 Timothy 3, including managing their own household faithfully and leading their family with integrity.
• Be deeply rooted in Scripture and committed to biblical authority.
• Believe strongly in the importance of the local church and being planted, committed, accountable, and active within a church family.
• Demonstrate wisdom, maturity, humility, integrity, patience, kindness, and spiritual discernment.
• Be committed to personal holiness and righteous living.
• Be teachable and submitted to the spiritual leadership and doctrine of Creative Church.

Parenting Experience

This position requires actual parenting experience.

The Parenting Pastor should:

• Have personally raised children through multiple stages of childhood and/or adolescence.
• Understand from experience that parenting a toddler, elementary child, teenager, and emerging adult each requires different wisdom and approaches.
• Have demonstrated healthy and faithful parenting within their own household.
• Possess the humility to recognize that no family or parent is perfect while still being able to model biblical principles with credibility.
• Be able to draw from personal experience without assuming every family's circumstances will be identical to their own.

Pastoral Experience

The Parenting Pastor should have demonstrated ability to:

• Pastor and spiritually guide people.
• Counsel parents and families from a biblical perspective.
• Listen carefully before offering advice.
• Navigate difficult, emotional, and sensitive conversations.
• Pray with and for families.
• Discern when a situation requires additional pastoral, professional counseling, medical, legal, child-safety, or other specialized support.
• Teach Scripture clearly and practically.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality and pastoral boundaries.
• Follow Creative Church's pastoral-care and safeguarding procedures.

Alignment with Creative Church

The Parenting Pastor must be willing to learn, embrace, teach, and reinforce Creative Church's established approach to parenting and family discipleship.

This includes becoming deeply familiar with:

• Pastor Jonathan's Home Team teachings
• Parenting trainings
• Books and written resources
• Sermons and teachings on family
• Creative Church's statement of faith, core values and biblical philosophy of parenting, marriage, family, discipleship, and church involvement

The Parenting Pastor is not being hired to establish an independent parenting philosophy.

The role is to help pastor people through the biblical parenting and family culture being established by the Senior Pastor and Creative Church leadership.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Pastor Parents

The primary responsibility of the Parenting Pastor is to personally pastor parents.

This includes:

• Maintain a consistent schedule of individual and couple parenting meetings.
• Meet with parents navigating:
  Young children, Elementary-age children, Preteens, Teenagers, Young adults, Blended families, Single parenting, Grand parenting, Difficult family transitions
• Listen, pray, encourage, teach, and provide biblical guidance.
• Provide appropriate follow-up after significant conversations.
• Develop ongoing relationships rather than simply providing one-time advice.
• Help identify families needing additional pastoral support.

2. Strengthen the Home

Help parents establish…