SUMMARY
Immanuel Anglican, located in Decatur, GA, is looking to hire a Rector who can bridge liturgical tradition into the modern, lived experience of today’s church. This person is also comfortable offering strategic
leadership, pastoral oversight, and preaching in a manner that is commensurate with Immanuel’s mission to form disciples of Jesus seeking His kingdom and the flourishing of our neighbors.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Oversees strategic leadership of the church
• Discerns, develops, and implements Immanuel’s vision and mission
• Provides leadership and pastoral care for Immanuel’s Sr. Leadership Team (SLT) and broader staff, including:
o Regularly facilitate staff and Senior Leadership Team meetings for
purposes of team development, planning, and prayer
o Regularly connect pastorally to full and part-time staff
• Provides leadership to the Immanuel Vestry board
o Coordinate with Senior and Junior Wardens to facilitate meetings; work
with the Vestry to capably steward the temporal matters of the church
Serves as primary (but not exclusive) preacher / pastor
• Writes and delivers frequent sermons at Immanuel; supports and coordinates
other leadership / guest preachers, periodically on Sundays
• Provides pastoral care to parishioners (alongside care that staff and lay leaders
also provide)
• Participates in and/or leads special services (liturgical services, funerals, etc.)
• Teaches studies and classes (alongside teaching that staff and lay leaders also
provide)
• Maintains relationships with other pastors across ecumenical lines
CHARACTER & COMPETENCIES
- Pursues his/her own growth in formation and mission as follower of Jesus.
• Exhibits integrity, sound judgment, discernment, and discretion.
• Possesses the strength of character to be able to make difficult decisions under
pressure and implement them within settings of considerable complexity and
nuance, handling sensitive information with confidentiality.
• Possesses experience and knowledge regarding governance and basic elements
of church life, rooted in experience as a pastor or rector at a prior congregation.
• Builds and leads as a self-starter, instinctively creating teams of leaders who are
missionally aligned with and anchored in the community of Immanuel.
• Exhibits a demonstrated success in promoting ethnic diversity and women as
clergy and leaders in the church.
• Exhibits a demonstrated success in developing and managing structures that
facilitate fruitful ministry. - Attends to detail and organizational/systems management; works well to
deadlines, bringing projects and tasks to completion.
• Exhibits experience managing budgets and creating ministry plans.
• Exhibits well developed communication skills; including timeliness in
communications; engages on all platforms and on all levels in warm and open
ways.
STRUCTURE
The Rector will need to communicate effectively with:
• The C4SO Bishop Ordinary and other Assisting Bishops
• The C4SO Deans
• The Immanuel Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
• Broader Immanuel Staff
• The Immanuel Vestry Board, including the Senior and Junior Warden
• Immanuel Lay Leaders and Broader Congregants
