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.

The Parenting Pastor should become someone parents naturally think:

“I need some wisdom. I should talk to them.”

This person should have the maturity and life experience to serve as a spiritual parent or grandparent to many within the church while remaining approachable, warm, patient, compassionate, and firmly grounded in Scripture.

• 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.

This position requires actual parenting experience.

• 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.

• Pastor and spiritually guide people.
• Provide pastoral care and biblical guidance to parents and families, helping them navigate parenting challenges, family dynamics, and significant life circumstances through the truth and wisdom of Scripture.
• 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.

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:

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