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Church Planter in Residence

Vancouver, Washington

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About the role

  • The CPR will carry preaching responsibilities across Northwest Gospel Church, contribute to discipleship content, and move through four progressive stages - from assimilation and training, through gathering and preparing, to launching a new church.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain a weekly journal documenting spiritual, emotional, and practical growth throughout the residency.
  • This focused area provides the CPR with real ministry experience, leadership develop ment, and the opportunity to build relationships across the congregation that will support future church planting efforts.
  • CHURCH PLANTING RESIDENCY CURRICULUM The CPR will move through the NGC Church Planting Residency curriculum as a participant, receiving structured training designed to prepare them for every dimension of planting a church.
  • Build relationships with members across Northwest Gospel Church through consistent ministry presence.
  • Collaborate with Local Lead Pastors to ensure consistent, biblically faithful, expositional teaching across NGC.
  • DISCIPLESHIP CONTENT CREATION Working alongside the Church Support Team, the CPR will contribute to the development of teaching and training resources that support NGC's discipleship initiatives.
  • Recruit and develop a launch team and prepare all logistics for starting the church.
  • Continue fundraising and develop partnerships toward launch.
  • Plan and lead prayer walks and attend pastors' prayer gatherings in the city.

Requirements

  • Attend all required staff, elder, member, preaching, and ministry-led meetings.
  • Work through the required reading list and monthly core competencies.

Skills

  • 5-7 years of meaningful, paid ministry experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Bible, Ministry, or Theology.
  • Competent preacher and communicator.
  • Demonstrated ability to recruit, lead, and develop teams.
  • Experience in discipleship, evangelism, and community engagement.
  • Familiarity with church planting principles and processes is preferred.
  • Discerns and casts vision - able to clearly articulate and compellingly communicate directional vision.
  • Engages the mission - actively practices evangelism and exegetes the surrounding culture.

Compensation

  • Compensation/Benefits

Benefits

  • Film a short vision video and begin casting vision publicly.
  • Begin monthly launch team meetings and host vision dinners and interest meetings.
  • Humble, teachable, and remaining flexible and available throughout the residency.

Company info

  • Northwest Gospel Church (NGC) exists to glorify God by equipping the church to be the church to fill our region with gospel churches.
  • Overview of the Role:
  • The Church Planter in Residence (CPR) is a developmental role designed to identify, train, assess, and commission a future church planter within a 20-24 month residency.
  • Over the course of the program, the CPR will be vetted through a structured assessment process, trained through the NGC Church Planting Residency curriculum, deployed into an assigned area of ministry suited to their gifts, and ultimately sent to plant a gospel church in the Portland metro area and beyond.
  • Desired Profile:
  • Northwest Gospel Church is seeking a spiritually mature, humble, and mission-driven leader with a clear calling to church planting and a passion for making disciples in the Portland metro area.
  • The ideal Church Planter in Residence is a gifted expositional preacher, relational leader, and team builder who demonstrates the biblical character qualifications of an elder, aligns with the mission vision and values of Northwest Gospel Church, and thrives in a collaborative, multiplication-focused church culture.
  • This candidate should possess meaningful ministry experience, strong leadership and discipleship skills, emotional resilience, and the ability to cast vision, engage the surrounding culture with gospel clarity, and develop people and teams toward launching a healthy, gospel-centered church.
  • Northwest Gospel Church Summary
  • Northwest Gospel Church is currently made up of five local churches in Clark County, Washington (Portland, Oregon metro area).
  • These five churches are interdependent, locally led, and missionally linked.
  • Being interdependent, each church relies on the others in multiple areas of ministry and operations.
  • Being locally led, each church is a representation of the local community where it meets.
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