Oakden Baptist Church is seeking a "people person" to joing us as Senior Pastor. OBC encompasses all age and people groups, and desires to reach the growing community around it through a wide range of ministries including Cedar College, an R-12 school.

Our Senior Pastor will be passionate about prayer, dependent upon the Lord, actively seeking to grow spiritually - and challenging others to do the same. A proven ability to encourage and exhort through preaching God's Word is essential. Serving also as an Elder, the successful candidate will lead in shaping the future direction of OBC.

Significant pastoral experience with appropriate educational qualifications are crucial for this leader who will be an integral part of our church family. Salary will be based on education and experience with this full-time position commencing in early 2009.

Please contact us for a job description and doctrinal statement.

• The Elders
• (08) 8369 1000
• church@oakdenbaptist.org.au

Church Description

• Conservative Evangelical
• Established many years
• Approximately 130 attending (increasing)
• Good youth group with a Youth Pastor (.6 part time)
• New, but active, Seniors Ministry
• Small Sunday School
• Established Ladies work
• Active and enthusiastic Missions Committee
• Has an open membership policy

Current staffing

• Senior Pastor
• Youth pastor (part time)
• Elders ? 6
• Deacons ? 7
• Voluntary office help
• A number of auxiliary leaders (volunteers)

Reason for the new position

Current Pastor has had to resign because of treatment he is having for a health issue unrelated to church activity. We are, therefore, seeking a Senior Pastor who will replace our current one.

Expectations

Ideally our new appointee will be a man who is...

• Theologically trained
• Conservative Evangelical
• Baptistically convinced
• An able preacher/teacher
• A team Manager

One who treats the scriptures as...

• The divinely inspired Word of God
• The final authority for life and practise
• Inerrant in the original manuscripts

Duties

It is expected that the Senior Pastor will perform the normal duties of a pastor (visitation, counselling as required, sermon preparation, marriages, funerals, team meetings, etc.).

It is also expected that his wife will support her husband and, if she so desires, become involved wherever she is gifted. There is no expectation that the Pastor?s wife is to be involved anywhere within the church, only that she fully supports her husband.

Services are presided over by various worship leaders and others who lead in pastoral prayer, scripture reading, and notices. Also the celebration of the Lord?s Supper is presided over by one of the people in the congregation. All serve on a rostered basis.

Should the new Pastor want to be involved in worship leading or any other of the rostered roles he would be able to join the roster for those functions but this is not a requirement.

The Senior Pastor would be accountable first to God, and then to the Eldership of the church.

Term

The initial term would be for three years but is able to be extended by mutual consent and agreement of the Elders. The Appointee would commence as soon as is practical after the end of October 2008.

Applications

In the first instance application should be to...

The Elders
Hawthorn Church of Christ
42 Angas Road
HAWTHORN SA 5062

Application will be treated with the utmost confidentiality and should be ac companied by all references etc., any relevant data supporting current ministry.