Pastor of Congregational Care

Pastor of Congregational Care

Hours Per Week: 20
Status: Part-time
FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act): Salaried Non-Exempt
SPRC Approved: 7/1/2025
Reports to: Senior Pastor
Supervises: N/A

Job Summary
The Pastor of Congregational Care serves as the director of the congregational care ministries, reporting directly to the Senior Pastor. This person works alongside the Apex UMC pastoral team (Senior Pastor, Teaching Pastor) to equip and empower lay ministry teams, and to provide visitation and pastoral care to congregation members and constituents.

Essential Functions and Duties – 

Pastoral Care:

  • Serve as the primary point of contact for pastoral care needs and emergencies.
  • Conduct pastoral visits in homes, hospitals, and nursing homes, including shut-in and home-bound members.
  • Conduct funerals and weddings at the request of the congregation (and with approval of Senior Pastor).
  • Collaborate with other Apex UMC clergy to coordinate a response to immediate pastoral care needs.

Congregational Care:

  • Provide pastoral support and leadership to the lay Congregational Care Team of Apex UMC.
  • Recruit and equip volunteers to serve on congregational care teams or as lay visitors.
  • Serve as clergy liaison to the Stephen Ministry program, which involves serving as the referrals coordinator and participating in the training of new Stephen Ministers.
  • Serve as clergy liaison to the support group for family members of those who battle mental illness, called SAMI (Sharing Anxiety of Mental Illnesses).

Other Duties:

  • Foster relationships with the staff by participating in staff team building and social activities.
  • Plan and lead special worship services and events related to congregational care.
  • Serve as liturgist for Traditional Worship services as needed.
  • Lead Congregational Care meetings along with the Chair of Congregational Care Committee
  • Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

 

Minimum Qualifications – 

  • At least 2 years of pastoral care experience, with CPE experience recommended.
  • Ordination or licensing with sacramental privileges by the North Carolina Conference of the UMC or other appropriate denominational body.
  • Computer literacy on a moderate level and a willingness to learn new technological tools (including Trello, our congregational care technology).
  • Ability to communicate effectively in written form as needed to promote congregational care issues.
  • Ability to conduct and lead virtual meetings and classes utilizing available technical options, or the willingness and capability of learning quickly to do so.
  • Commitment to accepting all persons regardless of race, color, creed, gender and political preferences in order to love, welcome, and serve all without prejudice or judgment.
  • Commitment to be a “team player” with other staff members, encouraging and caring for them as members of our congregation who also have pastoral needs.
  • Pray regularly and actively develop one’s personal faith.
  • Sense God’s calling to this ministry and be eager to use one’s gifts and talents to serve Christ.

 Physical Requirements:

  • Able to speak in a public forum
  • Able to move freely in and out of different group settings
  • Able to drive, including at night

Minimum Qualifications for All Staff Members at AUMC – 

  • Sense God’s calling to this ministry and be eager to use one’s gifts and talents to serve Christ.
  • Pray regularly and actively develop one’s personal faith.
  • Commitment to accept all persons regardless of race, color, creed, gender and political preferences in order to love, welcome, and serve all without prejudice.
  • Commitment to be a compassionate, kind, and respectful team player with other staff members, willing to offer self as a resource to other members of the team.
  • Commitment to the mission, vision, values and beliefs of AUMC, behaving privately and publicly in a manner that is congruent with these standards.

 

Core Competencies

Pastoral Care/Counseling: Demonstrates the ministry of presence; creates a spirit of openness that invites those who are spiritually or emotionally troubled to confide in her/him; demonstrates appropriate pastoral care boundaries, recognizing his or her own limitations as a care provider; respects confidences; appropriately refers congregants along to other professional care providers as warranted.

Visitation: Moves comfortably and easily around those who are ill or suffering; generates a sense of calm, hopeful presence; offers appropriate prayers and facilitates rituals that invite healing; demonstrates appropriate personal boundaries when caring for the ill and dying; stands as a calm, sure presence in the face of death.

Volunteer Management: Provides direction, gains commitment, facilitates change and achieves results through the efficient, creative, and responsible deployment of volunteers; engages people in their areas of giftedness and passion.

Time Management: Is able and willing to focus time on tasks that contribute to organizational goals; uses time effectively and efficiently; values time and respects the time of others; concentrates his/her efforts on the most important priorities; can appropriately balance priorities.

Spiritual Maturity: Shows strong personal depth and spiritual grounding; demonstrates integrity by modeling Christ in word and deed; is seen by others as trustworthy and authentic; nurtures a rich spiritual life; seeks the wisdom and guidance of appropriate mentors; is able to articulate a clear and consistent theology.


TO APPLY:
Please send your resume to: jobs@apexumc.org. Be sure to include your email address and telephone number.