Pastor

About Grace Bible Church

Grace Bible Church leads people into a growing relationship with Jesus and one another, with a vision to saturate the Heartland with the Gospel. We are a vibrant community focused on creating meaningful experiences and connections.

The Pastor of Next Steps serves as the primary overseer and architect of the "cradle to grave" discipleship and care pathway at Grace Bible Church. This high-level leadership role integrates spiritual formation, congregational wellness, and community integration. By overseeing the Connections director, this role ensures every individual is biblically equipped, emotionally supported, and actively moving toward spiritual maturity. This position provides strategic partnership and oversight to the Connections Director—to ensure a seamless journey from a guest's first impression to their development as a fully devoted missionary partner.

• Vision Alignment & Supervision: Partner with the Lead Pastor to ensure all operations reflect the church’s vision while directly mentoring the Formations and Connections Directors toward a culture of servant leadership.
• Leadership Multiplication: Identify, recruit, and equip ministry leaders to reproduce spiritual leadership at every level of the organization.
• Ecclesial Oversight: Serve on the Elder Board to provide doctrinal alignment, spiritual governance, and a visible pastoral presence in the Highlands County community.

• Strategic Discipleship: Direct the strategy for adult education (Grace U), global/local missions, and the expansion of the Groups ministry curriculum.
• Provide leadership, vision, and pastoral oversight for staff and volunteer lead ministries, ensuring alignment with the church’s discipleship pathway and mission.
• Specialized Care & Application: Oversee high-level care initiatives (Stephen Ministry, Marriage Counseling) and develop mid-week content that applies weekend teaching to daily life.

• Guest Experience & Assimilation: Oversee the "front door" experience, ensuring a seamless, world-class pathway that moves people from first-time guests to committed missionary partners.
• Compassion & Deacons: Supervise the Deacon team and Care Portal system to ensure the practical and physical needs of the congregation and community are met with excellence.

• Teaching & Training: Serve in the Sunday teaching rotation and provide ongoing theological and spiritual formation training for staff, Elders, and the congregation.
• Counseling & Maturity: Function as a primary pastoral voice for counseling and lead "First Steps" initiatives to guide members through a clear pathway of spiritual maturity.

• Liturgical Leadership: Assume a lead role in public-facing pastoral duties, including stage leadership, prayer, weddings, funerals, and community-wide announcements.
• Mission Advocacy: Champion and oversee the discipleship components of regional/global mission trips and community partnerships, such as prison ministries and local collaboration

• Leverage Grace onramps and community partnership through Abide to ensure that there is a life giving, gospel centered gathering within walking distance of every man, woman and child in our footprint. (Saturate the Heartland)

• Touch base with each mission partner to encourage, support and learn of any needs
• Plant 1-2 replicating disciple makers in a group in their region of the community.
• Ensure sermon mapping drives alignment through the downstream disciple making environments
• Four individual check-in’s with care ministry leaders and one collective gathering for care, empowerment and alignment

• Ongoing development of current leaders aimed at equipping them to be a disciple who makes disciples
• Identify new leaders and move them towards the mark of being a replicating disciple
• Rhythmically provide check-in care for staff team

• Servant Leadership: We foster a collaborative…