Lead Pastor

West Valley City, United States | Posted on 10/13/2026

• Industry Nonprofit Charitable Organizations
• City West Valley City
• State/Province Utah
• Country United States

Valley Light Church exists to make Jesus unignorable on the westside of the Salt Lake Valley. Since launching in September 2023, this young church plant has grown to an average of 140 people on Sunday mornings, with more than 50 baptisms!

Valley Light serves one of the most strategic mission fields in the country. West Valley City is Utah's second-largest city and one of its most diverse. Valley Light is the only English-speaking evangelical church serving a community of roughly 65,000 people, a community that ranks among the least-reached in the United States. It is also a religiously unique and spiritually complex mission field, where many who walk through Valley Light's doors are meeting the gospel for the first time while others are finding gospel clarity, often for the first time.

We experience new guests regularly who found us online because they are spiritually hungry and searching for something more.

Valley Light is a multicultural, multigenerational, family-oriented congregation. New and longtime believers, honest seekers, families, kids, teenagers, and adults from many different backgrounds worship side by side, and everyone is still growing in faith. People here love being together and they love their church. Beyond that, Valley Light has built a strong reputation in the community it serves.

Valley Light is not starting from zero. There is real gospel fruit, real community awareness, and real opportunity already in place.

• Valley Light averages around 140 on Sundays
• More than 50 baptisms in 3 years
• Multiple services with 300 to 400 people present
• Has contact information for more than 1,000 people who have come through the ministry

This opportunity doesn't require the most gifted and experienced leader. It requires a pastor who will love people well and keep showing up in the community. People are already searching, already finding Valley Light, and already walking through the door.

Valley Light also has meaningful ministry partners, including several larger churches, and the next pastor will inherit those relationships.

This is not a typical pastorate, Valley Light is very much a church plant. The church currently meets in a school and operates as a mobile church, with limited resources. The church is still developing the systems, leaders, and ministry structures needed for long-term health. Very little here is permanent, polished, or already built.

The right candidate will feel like the missing leadership piece who can help pull the opportunity together. This is a great opportunity for the right leader to shape the future and ministry of the church.

Valley Light is looking for a Lead Pastor who will preach, shepherd, and build, helping the church mature into its next season. We are looking for a missionary-minded pastor with a church planter's heart, who sees Valley Light as the foundation for something much larger and is willing to build with limited resources. This is a calling for someone who wants to be planted long-term.

This role calls for a shepherd-builder, not a preacher-maintainer. You need to be resourceful and adaptable, and comfortable leading when everything is not yet permanent, polished, or already built. Prior church-planting experience is a bonus, not a requirement, but you should understand what it means to build something with limited resources. If you've ever wrestled with whether God is calling you to plant a church of your own, this role may be a way to live out that calling by stepping into an existing work that is still in its formative years.

Valley Light isn't looking for someone brand new to vocational ministry; a minimum of five years of pastoral experience is preferred. That said, a proven track record of fruit and character matters more than a particular resume. While formal education is preferred, it is not required. Experience, especially in discipleship and leadership development, carries more weight than credentials.

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