Job Opening
Last Friday, November 9th, the Cascades Presbytery (most of Oregon) approved the creation of a full time Director of New Church Development. This person will work with existing churches and the NCD team to connect, teach, evaluate, and promote the creation of new churches AND NEW FORMS OF MISSIONAL COMMUNITIES in existing church congregations and growing communities in the Presbytery. The NCD in the Cascades Presbytery has already helped to fund the emerging church explorations in Bend Oregon by paying half of a new interns salary for six months. If you are interested or you know someone who might be interested in applying for this exciting position, you can post a message on Robert G Bob Pearson’s facebook page or send email to Karen Sloan, who knows how to contact me. $200,000 is already available to fund this position for the next two years, and another $250,000 is available for new church and new community missional church development! This is a serious commitment of the Presbytery to become more missional and more intentional in creating new forms and places of growth for the Presbyterian church in our Presbytery. This may be a great opportunity for an emerging leader to take a leading role in a 125 church Presbytery, that is very ripe for new expressions of church to emerge and thrive.
