JOB DESCRIPTIONS
Role Summary
Partnering with local churches to connect people to Jesus, develop missional leaders, mobilize the church, and serve the city.
We’d like to see 1) every follower of Jesus equipped and motivated for sharing the gospel and making disciples 2) every leader having more capacity and confidence for multiplying the church.
To be clear, we focus on multiplying new missional groups within churches and contributing citywide movements by equipping for evangelism and spiritual multiplication by training and mobilizing through leadership training and coaching and doing it ourselves directly in our cities (local churches and city gospel movements)
Role Responsibilities
Add value and support to the local church through our core offerings:
- Connect people to Jesus through contextualized evangelism
- Develop missional leaders to live on mission where they live, work, learn, and play
- Multiply the church to multiply communities
- Serve the city by partnering with city movement conveners to serve the well-being of the city, particularly to mobilize the church to win-build-send as city engagement pathways are pursued.
- Encourage Extraordinary Prayer.
- Seek out, discover and cultivate partnerships with the local church and church leaders to advance the mission of Jesus
- Understands and exemplifies our partnership posture, principles, and values (see other documents)
- Make sure all plans and specific job responsibilities are aligned with Cru leadership and honor the partnering church.
- Act upon and evaluate our Cru metrics (E.G. – gospel engagements, # of trainings, engaged disciples, Multiplying disciples)
Role Qualifications
- Spiritual maturity – demonstrated walk with the Lord and evidence of the Spirit-filled life
- Passionate – heart for the gospel and advancement of the Kingdom of God in partnership
- Partners well inside and outside of the organization
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a diversity of leaders, cross-cultural communication skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Capable of adapting to a variety of cultures
- Entrepreneurial – willingness to think outside the box and take risks
- Ability to take initiative and create opportunities within relational networks
- Capacity for living and ministering in the city
Reporting Relationships
- Church Movement’s National Team Member
- Co-Executive Directors, Church Movements, Cru
Role Summary
Multiplying new missional groups that have a goal of starting new churches in partnership with a city movement that intends to saturate a city with multiplying church communities – planting among the lost. VISION: the church equipped for mission “out there” instead of focusing on events and getting people to come inside the church.
We’d like to see 1) every follower of Jesus equipped and motivated for sharing the gospel and making disciples 2) every leader having more capacity and confidence for multiplying the church.
To be clear, we focus on multiplying new missional groups within churches and contributing citywide movements by equipping for evangelism and spiritual multiplication by training and mobilizing through leadership training and coaching, and doing it ourselves directly in our cities (local churches and city gospel movements)
Role Responsibilities
- A staff person’s primary roles are connecting people to Jesus(evangelism) and developing missional leaders(disciple-making, multiplication and leadership development) in the missional context of the partnering church. (i.e. the primary role within the partnering church is not to be administrative help and event setup)
- Partnering to serve the city with others in the BoC (gospel movements, church-planters) to solve problems, lift the burdens of the city and create great opportunities for multiplying the church
- Act upon and evaluate our Cru metrics.
- Where possible, as in cities with multiple city staff that pursue other “audiences”, each staff person attends Cru Church and City staff meetings regularly. E.G. in KC once a quarter as an official touchpoint. He/she likely also attends and is actively engaged in weekly or monthly staff meetings of partnering church.
Staff person connects with Cru leadership (__________________) for individual coaching and shepherding at least twice per semester. - Staff person attends Cru special meetings as agreed upon, local quarterly check-points and the Cru national conference in CO.
- Also, we are investigating a role as an Adjunct Team Member of Cru Church Movements National Team (possibly helping in areas of priority such as thought leadership, certain task forces, e.g.).
- Staff Person will help with and attend Cru special events as agreed upon. Under consideration: vision dinner, serving summer mission, CityScape, etc.
On this side of this pioneering role, we would like our staff person to report to Cru (______), but we realize they have specific responsibilities to the church-planting network (_____) and partner (_________), which will involve a report.
Role Qualifications
- Spiritual maturity –demonstrated authentic walk with the Lord and evidence of the Spirit-filled life
- Passionate – heart for the gospel and advancement of the Kingdom of God
- Demonstrates the qualifications of an Elder
- Entrepreneurial – turns ideas into customers with sustainable leadership; creates a new market; a founder of a ministry type of person; creates structures that lead to momentum and multiplication
- Apostolic leader gifting – sees the overall picture of how to further God’s purposes; takes the Word to new territory, effectively communicating the Gospel to unbelievers, so they respond and move toward discipleship
- Trusted wisdom; wisdom displayed re: involving his director in key decisions, and handles well the freedom given to him for leading his team and plant
- Extremely hard worker (does everything, everywhere for a period of time, juggles balls well)
- Demonstrates the ability to gather, train, mobilize and lead leaders
- People gatherer and inspires community and action; inspirational; team builder
- Theologically equipped and Church-Planting trained
- Initiative – can enter and create opportunities within relational networks
- Experienced – having lived and ministered in the city
- Executes plans individually and delegates and empowers others appropriately
All candidates within Cru must be assessed and approved for this role, and process to launch agreed upon.
Possible partnering church-planters must share our passion for seeking and saving the lost, disciple-making, putting love in action, and multiplying missional communities.
Build a strong partnering agreement. Both partners arrive at plan :: common goal, chemistry, complementary roles, etc. Both bring their best. Both want and need each other. Both have to see why they are needed in an ongoing way. We believe that Cru leaders and church planting partners (e.g. – denominations, associations, presbyteries, movements) must speak extensively about partnership principles and parameters. This should be a true mutual partnership. It must be clear that this is not a secunded relationship but a partnering one.
Our key contributions (see below) must be employed – contextualized and appropriately applied in the partnership.
We value teaming, and believe that we can serve the Kingdom of God by having staff live out their gifts and passions in specific missional contexts of the local church-plant.
All Cru staff so assigned, as a Partnering Church-Planter, have responsibilities and team assignments within Cru that extend beyond this assignment, and team up with other Cru City staff in the city in some way.
Resources for sustainability must be in place; full support (MPD), launch team, leadership and care
All plans and specific job responsibilities must be approved by your Cru leadership
Role Summary
Partner with city movement conveners to serve the well-being of the city, particularly to mobilize the church to win-build-send as city engagement pathways are pursued.
To be clear, we focus on multiplying new missional groups within churches and contributing citywide movements by equipping for evangelism and spiritual multiplication by training and mobilizing through leadership training and coaching, and doing it ourselves directly in our cities (local churches and city gospel movements)
Role Responsibilities
- A staff person’s primary roles are connecting people to Jesus (win) and developing missional leaders (build) in the context of the partnering city movement (i.e. the primary role within the partnering city movement is not to be administrative help and event setup).
- Partnering to serve the city with others in the Body of Christ to solve problems (collaborate), lift the burdens of the city and create opportunities for multiplying the church (mobilize/send).
- Help leaders lead comprehensively regarding evangelism’s role in the well-being of the city.
- Help develop leaders, coupling our training efforts with outreach and service opportunities.
- Connect with others for the purpose of shared learning, missional effectiveness and leadership development.
- Attend Cru Church and City staff meetings regularly.
- Act upon and evaluate our metrics.
- Connects with Cru leadership for individual coaching and shepherding regularly.
- Help with and Attend Cru special meetings (e.g. WWDOP, required conferences, city events, etc.).
Role Qualifications
- Spiritual maturity – demonstrated walk with the Lord and evidence of the Spirit-filled life
- Passionate – heart for the gospel and advancement of the Kingdom of God
- Initiative – can enter and create opportunities within relational networks
- Experienced – having lived and ministered in the city
- Must model our Cru DNA naturally
- Entrepreneurial – willingness to think outside the box and take risks
- Has a heart and ability to bring people together to move them from connection to catalytic action, while being faithful to evangelism, discipleship and leadership development
- Leads primarily through influence – spiritually, strategically and relationally
- Partners well among Kingdom citizens, churches and leaders, and networks resources
- Brings together both the leadership and organizational capacity to accelerate strategic collaboration of Kingdom resources for the well-being and Gospel transformation of cities
- Executes plans individually and delegates and empowers others appropriately
Reporting Relationships
- Church Movement’s National Team Member (staff person has one primary report to Cru, but we realize they have specific responsibilities to our city partners and their leadership)
- CoExecutive Directors, Church Movements
- Executive VP, Cru City