Could you be the campus pastor for Adventure's new campus?

Muscatine is a beautiful old Mississippi River town and a great place to raise a family. Located just below the nose of Iowa on Iowa's east coast, it is about 30 minutes west of Adventure's Davenport campus in the Quad Cities, and about 45 minutes southeast of Iowa City. The town's population is around 23,000 and Muscatine serves an area population of around 50,000. The geographic setting includes the Mississippi River, hills and bluffs, and is an outdoors paradise. Detailed demographic information is available upon serious inquiry.

This new campus will serve as both an extension of the main Adventure campus - one congregation in two locations - and as a new church plant. It is scheduled for a mid-September 2011 launch.

Adventure New Muscatine Campus Pastor Position Profile

Are you a natural born leader? Do you have a passion for God and for people? Have you always felt like a square peg in a round hole? Do you feel God calling you to work and thrive in a less-structured, nontraditional, post-contemporary atmosphere? Then you may be the right fit to become our Campus Pastor at the new Adventure Muscatine Campus in Muscatine, Iowa!

How you are wired:

• A Relational Person – You understand how to influence people positively and enjoy empowering a diverse group of people.
• A Self-starter – You understand that “If it is to be, it is up to me.”
• A Connector – You enjoy networking with people and building teams and understand the power of “we”.
• An Evangelist – You easily identify and lead people in opportunities to know and experience Christ, are a gifted story-teller, and understand how to motivate and inspire through one-on-one interactions and platform communications.
• A Strategic Thinker – You can see the big picture in the distance and can envision the steps it takes to get from here to there.
• A Person of Character – You’ve demonstrated integrity over the years in your words, relationships and actions.
• A Likable Personality – You enjoy being surrounded by people, make friends easily, and have the gift of good natured sarcasm. You make people laugh, they like you, and you can take it as well as dish it.
• Experience – You’ve helped lead healthy, growing ministries, but not necessarily as the lead pastor.

What you will do:

• Champion the Adventure mission, vision, and values.
• Identify, recruit, and develop staff and volunteers for various ministry teams.
• Lead the campus staff, both paid and volunteer.
• Cooperate with the Adventure lead team to shepherd the Adventure DNA at the local campus as expressed in Adventure’s “Campus Constants” (See below).
• Pastor the local campus family including periodically performing pastoral care responsibilities like weddings, funerals, baptisms, child dedications, and life coaching.
• Manage the campus budget.
• Connect with the other campus pastors and staff under the leadership of the Adventure lead pastor or his designated representatives.
• Organize, operate, and maintain local small groups.
• If gifted, participate on the teaching team for the weekend services (not required – and at the discretion of the lead pastor or his designated representatives), and the anticipated iCampus.

What success looks like:

• Growing your campus spiritually and numerically as measured through stories and metrics including: Attendance, Giving, Groups’ participation, Baptisms, Volunteers, Outreach involvement.
• Accomplishing individual goals established with the lead pastor or his designated representative(s).
• Executing the “Campus Constants” (including the financial goals and time lines).
  
• Helping identify and mentor potential other campus pastors and leaders.

Campus Constants

We consider ourselves to be one congregation in multiple locations. Muscatine is our first official new campus, and others are anticipated later on. With that in mind, these are 10 constants that each campus will embrace:

1. Mission - To bring people to Jesus and membership in His family, develop them to Christ-like maturity, and equip them for their ministry in the church and life mission in the world, in order to magnify God’s name.

2. Vision – Our vision includes both short- and long-term views:

• Short-term: To reach people via relationships one at a time and lead them on a life-changing journey to follow Jesus.
• Long-term: To grow a movement of reproducing congregations and campuses serving southeastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois committed to reaching the 70% of people in our region who are unchurched and likely live outside of a relationship with Jesus.

3. Strategy – This strategy will serve as the foundation for spiritual growth:

• Love God through worship. We believe that our daily lives should be lived as an act of worship and as we gather weekly for corporate worship.
• Grow in God’s grace through small groups. We believe that life change happens best in a Christ-following community of small groups.
• Serve God through teams. We encourage people to serve others based on their spiritual gifts, talents, and passions.
• Share God through outreach. We desire to reach people for Jesus by relationally impacting local communities and those around the world.

4. Shared Curriculum – Every ministry environment including kids, students and Sunday services will offer the same teaching at every campus, except in cases where a different need is perceived by the Adventure lead team.

5. Teaching Team – The teaching team will set the schedule and will serve as the primary communicators either in person or by video.

6. Leadership Structure – Every ministry of the congregation at each location will operate under one leadership structure that ultimately comes under the authority of the pastoral leadership team and the Lead Pastor. Leadership authority flows through the campus pastors and influence flows through the ministry champions.

7. Leadership Development – The campuses will encourage relationships and environments where volunteer leaders and teams are developed to allow for future reproduction of volunteers and leaders - as well as new congregations and campuses.

8. Financial Model – Every campus will share these financial goals:

• Within 12 months, offerings from the campus will cover its ongoing weekly ministry expenses (rent, consumables).
• Within 24 months, the offerings from the campus will cover its ongoing weekly ministry expenses including staff costs.
• Within 30 months, the offerings from the campus will cover its ongoing weekly ministry expenses including staff costs and its prorated portion of central services expenses (insurance, printing, video production, etc).
• Within 36 months, the offerings from the campus will cover its ongoing weekly ministry expenses including staff costs, its prorated portion of central services expenses, and will also contribute to new church-wide endeavors including launching new churches and campuses.
• At the appropriate time pending financial health, 10% of a campus’s general offerings will be designated toward missions-oriented giving with a church planting focus.

9. Communications and Web – Every campus will operate under the same communication strategy including a centralized web site for the congregation representing all locations (each campus will maintain its own social media page for local interaction). Additionally, there will be a centralized web-based database to track people, groups, events and finances.

10. Central Services – There will be one centralized process or system for administrative services including banking, paid staffing, payroll, benefits, capital expenditures, lease agreements, etc.

IF this sounds like you and the kind of environment in which you'd like to serve, send your resume and questions to tony@adventurecommunity.org.