INDIANA – Zoar United Church of Christ, located in Evansville, IN is seeking full-time pastoral leadership. Zoar is a conservative, biblically based church and has a rich German heritage. Our congregation is made up of a diverse age range of family oriented members. We have an active Sunday school program made up of many age groups. We just recently became affiliated with the Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches. Applicants should be ordained and have credentials with the Evangelical Association or be willing to seek such credentials. To submit a profile for consideration, please contact Ron Williams, 1519 Harmony Way, Evansville, IN 47720 or by email at: lightman5@juno.com
MARYLAND – St. Paul’s Reformed Church of Clear Spring, MD is seeking a Pastor to provide spiritual leadership for a Bible believing congregation. The ideal candidate will be an effective preacher with caring pastoral skills, inspire us with their sermons, encourage people to relate their faith to their daily lives, and be an effective communicator who can inspire our congregation to grow, especially the youth members. The candidate should be credentialed and ordained or willing to be credentialed and ordained with recognition through the Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches or other affiliated body. For a detailed job description of the position, please send a request to StPaulsReformedChurch@gmail.com
MASSACHUSETTS – Middleton Congregational Church, 66 Maple St., Middleton, MA 01949 (http://middleton.org ) is prayerfully seeking an experienced, energetic, evangelical Senior Pastor to lead our church. We are a conservative but unaffiliated Congregational Church with a rich history of serving our community by proclaiming the Gospel message in word and deed. The Pastor we seek should meet the following qualifications…
•Master of Divinity degree from an accredited, conservative seminary.
•Five years of ministry experience.
•Flexible with Infant and Adult baptism and baby dedication.
•An ability to instruct people with biblical insight, compassion, and practical application.
•A heart for outreach and discipleship.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please send us the following…
•Cover letter
•Personal statement of faith, to include your positions on: baptism, ecumenism, eschatology, and the charismatic movement.
•Resume that includes your denominational affiliation, academic training, membership in civic/social organizations, secular and ministry work experience, web or blog-site, musical ability, publications.
•3 references
•Reason(s) for leaving your current ministry
•Any special family considerations
•Sample sermon (manuscript or web-link)
…by mail (ATTN: Pastoral Search Committee)
or email to admin@middleton.org
MASSACHUSETTS – Mayflower Church, 207 Main Street, Kingston, MA. 02364 Mayflower Church (https://www.mayflowercc.org/) seeks a full-time senior pastor who will believes the Bible to be the inspired, inerrant written Word of God; who preaches, teaches, and lives by the Word. He must hold firm to the trustworthy Word so that he is able to give instruction in sound doctrine. Our pastor must have a shepherd’s heart to lead and care for the church but also encourage, reprove, rebuke, and exhort with patience and teaching . Responsibilities will include personal counseling of the members, pre-marital counselling, and visitation of the sick and homebound. Our pastor should have leadership skills and practical vision to help our church live out the Great Commission and our congregation to live out the Great Commandment. We need help developing relevant ministries that show the God’s love for the world through works of mercy and help that enable sharing the Gospel that Jesus Christ is Lord. In particular, experience and skill in using social media would help us use our website, Face Book page, Live Stream worship service, and radio broadcast ministry more effectively. Our congregation is primarily retired or middle-aged; most are mature believers who have served faithfully for many years and still want to serve as God leads. We love strong, expository preaching and teaching. We are primarily a blue-collar church, so our pastor should handle the office with down-to-earth dignity; setting an example in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity. We are members of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference with congregational governance, and both a board of Elders and Deacons/Deaconesses. Our church in Kingston, MA draws from many towns in the area. Kingston, on Massachusetts’ Bay, is half-way between Boston and Cape Cod in a beautiful, semi-rural, historic area. It is a predominantly affluent, educated area and a wide-open field for the Gospel. Over half of our community have no religious affiliation and is “unchurched.” Comprehensive profiles of the Pastor position, Mayflower Church, and our community are available upon request. If interested, please send a resume with education, job history, date of ordination, statement of faith, and links to sermons to Jerry Caldwell MayflowerChurch.Kingston.MA@gmail.com (617-653-3653).
NORTH CAROLINA – Shallow Well Church is a self-governing, family oriented church in search of a full time pastor to lead us in our journey to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. While respecting our historic roots, we are looking for a pastor to blend our traditional service with a respectable level of contemporary aspects so as to appeal to a broader range of membership demographic, while maintaining our current membership. The candidate should foremost be led by the Lord and have competent knowledge of handling business aspects of how a church operates. Based in Central North Carolina, our church has a strong local missions base and works to minister to our local community in many ways. Our pastor must be faith centered and well-grounded in the works of the Bible so as to provide spiritually accurate and energetic leadership to our congregation through sermons, visits, counseling and much more. Shallow Well Church has been a center point for our community since 1877, flourishing due to our faith in God. We are seeking a pastor to shepherd us into the future for years to come. Please visit www.shallow-well.org and click on pastoral search to view basic qualifications that we desire for our Senior Pastor as well as the Pastor’s primary duties and responsibilities and our Vision and Mission. To apply, please download, complete and submit Application along with Resume to swcsearch2020@gmail.com or via mail to PO Box 267 Broadway, NC 27505. If more information is desired, our Church Profile can be provided via email request. (PLEASE NOTE: that this church is in the United Church of Christ denomination and is not part of the Evangelical Association. They have indicated their interest in expanding their search beyond their denomination into the EA. It will be up to the candidate and search committee to determine if the candidate is a good theological fit for the congregation.)
NORTH DAKOTA – Beulah Congregational Church is seeking a full time pastor. Beulah Congregational Church is a historic church in Beulah N.D. We are a diverse congregation of all ages, from many different backgrounds, and from several different towns, but we find unity in our common faith in Jesus Christ. We are a reformational and evangelical church. We uphold key reformational beliefs such as the inspiration and authority of the Bible, salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. We observe two sacraments-Holy Baptism (including infant baptism) and Holy Communion. We are a family church. Our worship is inter-generational, we have an active Sunday School for all ages, youth programs for our children and children of the community (who don’t attend our church) and educational opportunities for men, women, youth, and children. To obtain a full profile of the church or to submit an application, please contact Marvin Sutheimer,Box 242, Zap, N.D. 58580, Phone (701)948-2805, or msutheimer@yahoo.com. Our Church website is http://beulahcongregational.com
PENNSYLVANIA – St John Hill, UCC in Boyertown, PA (about 50 miles NW of Philadelphia) is seeking a full – time pastor who will preach Christ, His love, and His salvation to our congregation and community. We realize we are all different and that each of our faith journeys will be unique, but we hope to find a pastor who will help us each to search and find our way, to “work out our own salvation,” and in doing so to develop a body of Christ at St. John Hill Church that shines as a loving example of His church in our community. We are a congregation that was formed over 250 years ago in the German Reformed denomination and although part of the UCC for the past 50 years, we have recently become affiliated with the Evangelical Association as we desire to remain true to the traditional, biblical, and evangelical theology upon which we were founded. We believe the people of Hill Church are its greatest asset and you will have to look long and hard to find a more giving congregation. We look forward to welcoming our new pastor into our family, expanding our vision, ministry, and personal faith, as we journey together, servants of God in the historic Oley Valley for many years to come. To learn more about this position please submit inquires and/or a resume to our search committee: Nikki Weller, nikki@stjohnhillucc.org, 610-367-8114, or by mail 620 Hill Church Road, Boyertown, PA 19512 and please visit our web site, www.stjohnhillucc.org, to learn more about our church’s recent and distant history.