Senior Pastor

Location: Fresh Meadows
Queens Herald Church, C&MA

65-15 164th Street, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365

Queens Herald Church, C&MA is seeking a Senior Pastor to lead its staff and lay leaders who will minister to over 500 Chinese and English-speaking congregants of diversified age groups, personalities and giftings in Queens, NY. We are seeking a leader who is flexible and able to celebrate those differences while leading them to lead the rest of the church towards life-change and Gospel impact.

We are looking for a leader who senses the hand of God upon QHC, recognizes the resources that He has blessed us with, and is willing to journey with its leaders and congregation to actualize our potential for Gospel influence and impact in our homes, our communities, and even onto the ends of the earth. The Senior Pastor is charged to lead and shepherd the entire church with support from the lead pastors and elders of the Chinese and English congregations.

The candidate must currently be an ordained pastor with at least 10 years of pastoral experience, preferably with experience as a senior pastor. He must have sound theological knowledge and training as well as experience leading multiple staff. The candidate will abide by and uphold the Christian & Missionary Alliance's (C&MA) Statement of Faith ((Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).). He will also represent our church and spearhead our partnership with the Metropolitan District of the C&MA, the Chinese Churches Association of the C&MA, other local churches, and community organizations to further advance the Kingdom of God.

Queens Herald Church, C&MA .

All applications must be submitted by email to the District Superintendent: office.

Profile of Queens Herald Church ("QHC"):

• Vision: QHC is a family where God's love works.
• Mission:
  Empowering all peoples on their faith journey.
• QHC's Critical Gospel Impact is to be a Chinese American church called to be a strategically positioned presence and resource of God's healing and restorative love to multi-generational Chinese American immigrant families and people of all stages of life and faith. Our church is passionate about evangelism - sharing the gospel with our people groups and also partnering with our community to hold functions and activities.
  
  We believe that God has also blessed us with resources that are rather unique to the Asian American community. We have a dynamic youth group and children's ministry. We recognize the fact that the health of our families needs a champion. We have decided to be that champion. We will know that we are in alignment with our critical gospel impact when we hear testimonies of dynamic encounters with God and sustained intimate relationships with Him as well as stories of life-change among individuals, families, the church, and other circles of influence.

• QHC is a regional church, located in Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York, home to one of the most linguistically and ethnically diverse populaces in the United States.
• QHC was founded in April 1989 to minister to the Cantonese-speaking foreign students predominately from Hong Kong, China. Over the next 25 years, QHC shifted its focus and grew into a multi-generational family-oriented church with Cantonese-speaking and English-speaking congregations. In 2015, Christ Herald Church, a Mandarin-speaking church plant, joined QHC to become its third congregation (for Mandarin speakers). Three separate services were held on Sundays until the start of 2020, when the Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking congregations began to have worship services together (though small groups and Sunday school classes continued to be held in the 2 Chinese dialects respectively).
• QHC currently considers itself two congregations (Chinese and English) united as one church. It has two vibrant Sunday worship services in Chinese (offering simultaneous translation in Cantonese or Mandarin) and English. The Chinese congregation has an average Sunday attendance of over 200 in-person and over 100 units live-streaming online. The English congregation averages around 130 in-person attendance, including approximately 40 youths.
  
  Our youth and college groups currently meet on Friday evenings. The children's ministry averages around 70 children on Sundays. Other ministries include small groups, discipleship and leadership development, missions and evangelism, prayer and healing, community services, music school and children's summer camp.
• There have been seasons of great celebration as well as seasons of deep loss in the 35 years of QHC's history. By God's grace, QHC has been healing, experiencing freedom and restoration. In the past two years, we've experienced so much of God's favor as evidenced by our slow but intentional shift from a program and performance driven church culture to one that values authenticity, vulnerability, trust and life-change.
  
  We are learning how to connect deeply with God and with one another-caring wholistically for those who walk through our doors as well as for those in our…