Pastor

North Fork Baptist Church in Riverton, West Virginia, is prayerfully seeking a full-time pastor.

North Fork Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist congregation founded in 1983, is located between the rural communities of Riverton and Seneca Rocks, West Virginia—an area known for its stunning mountain views and peaceful surroundings. The church is prayerfully seeking a full-time pastor to serve as the spiritual leader of the congregation. The pastor will be responsible to God and the church to faithfully proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, demonstrate a burden for the lost, and provide Christlike leadership, teaching, pastoral care, and equipping for this body of believers as they encourage one another and live on mission to reach their community with the good news of Christ.

The ideal candidate will be a man of integrity and good moral character, with a strong reputation inside and outside the church, exhibiting self-control, hospitality, and a gentle, non-quarrelsome spirit. He should manage his household well, be Baptist by faith, and be in agreement with the church’s statement of faith. Formal biblical or pastoral training from a seminary or Bible college is preferred, as well as at least seven years of pastoral and counseling experience.

The pastor will oversee the welfare and ministry of the church by leading worship services on regular and special occasions; giving primary leadership to the pulpit ministry; working with the deacons and any church staff to help North Fork function as a New Testament church; providing pastoral care and counseling to members and the community; and helping the church fulfill its mission through evangelism, discipleship, and service.

He will also preside over church meetings (as outlined in the by-laws) and serve as an ex-officio, non-voting member of all organizations, departments, and committees.

Church Statement of Faith

• We believe that the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired, infallible Word of God.
• We believe in the Biblical account of a literal, six-day creation.
• We believe in the one Triune Godhead-God existing in three persons:
  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• We believe in the substitutionary and redemptive sacrifice of Jesus Christ for the sin of the world; that salvation is available to “whosoever will”, not just to a select few.
• We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God; but that in Adam’s sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God. Man is depraved and, of himself, unable to remedy his lost condition and is drawn by the means of the Holy Spirit to accept Christ as Savior by his/her own volitional will.
• We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and thus secure in Christ forever.
• We believe that Jesus Christ arose bodily from the dead, that He ascended into Heaven, and that there is His state of glorification. He is now the great high priest, intercessor and advocate for all believers.
• We believe that personal salvation from the eternal penalty of sin is provided solely by the sovereign grace of God on the basis of the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
• We believe the Holy Spirit convicts, regenerates, indwells, and seals all believers in Jesus Christ until the day of redemption.
• We believe in the existence of a personal spirit, being called Satan, who is tempter and accuser, for whom the place of eternal punishment was prepared, where all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious, bodily torment for eternity.
• We believe the Church is the body of Christ, composed of all born-again persons in the present age, with the primary mission to witness for the Lord Jesus Christ, equip the saints, and that the Church will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air prior to His return to set up His kingdom.
• We believe in the pre-tribulation future rapture of the Church, at which time the dead in Christ shall be resurrected, and we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. We believe in the coming seven literal years of tribulation and the future, person, visible, bodily return of Jesus Christ with His saints to the earth to judge and purge sin and establish His eternal kingdom and to consummate and fulfill all His purposes in the work of creation and redemption.
• We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman.
• We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living being, and that abortion is the wrongful taking of unborn human life.