The Episcopal Diocese of Texas
Job Description
Job Title: Missioner for East Texas Area
Department: Congregational and Mission Vitality
Location: Live in area served, expected to travel one-day per week to local congregations or community partners
Job Type: Part-Time, Exempt
Reports To: Missioner for Small Congregations
Who We Are
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas is committed to supporting healthy, growing, mission-focused congregations in a diverse and rapidly changing region. The Congregational and Mission Vitality team is a hopeful, joyful group of leaders who are passionate about our ministries and deeply value one another and the parishes we serve.
Essential Functions, Missioner for East Texas Area
- Identify lay leaders with vision, gifts and passion for local service and evangelism.
- Support lay leaders in connecting with local community partners that align with their vision.
- Provide leadership development for congregations and community partners with support from the Episcopal Health Foundation.
- Facilitate gatherings of congregational leaders and community partners to discern mission initiatives that fit local context and resources.
- Stabilize worship through worship leadership and connecting available clergy to serve small congregations.
- Equip leaders for discernment and local ministry in partnership with the Canon for Formation.
- Engage in adaptive leadership with the changes in 21st century Church and in local contexts.
Core Competencies
- Listening to lay leaders about their vision, gifts and passion for local service and evangelism.
- Initiating work with lay leaders to connect them with community partners.
- Collaborating with a variety of congregations and community partners in their local context.
- Facilitating group gatherings and coordinating the logistics of making those gatherings happen.
- Preaching in word and deed the gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed through Scripture.
- Discerning prayerfully and equipping others to discern individually and collectively.
- Adapting to changes of role or expectations as the position and regional work evolve.
Preferred Skills and Abilities
Preference for lay leaders who are raised up out of local congregations. Ordination in the Episcopal Church or a church in communion with the Episcopal Church may be required, depending on the geographical area served.
• Demonstrated ability to gather community for discernment in initiating local ministry.
• If not already licensed in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas for preaching, candidates will be required to complete the Iona School of Ministry preaching track.
• Must have two or more years of leadership experience in church contexts.
Physical and Mental demands and Work environmentThe physical and mental demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions.
- Regularly see, talk, listen and easily remember things, any one of which could last for extended hours; stand, walk, climb stairs, bend, and sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 15 lbs.
- Have face to face interactions with others throughout the workday; handle frequent interruptions
- Easily follow instructions oral and written instructions; sustain concentration; and make quick and accurate decisions
- Perform under circumstances of emotional stress, such as yet not limited to, stress from work deadlines, employee complaints, work complexity, competing priorities and occasional under staffing
- Work environment: The work takes place almost entirely indoors in office environment
- The setting is moderately noisy due to employee traffic and ongoing phone calls
- The work requires continuous use of telephones, computers, copiers, and similar business devices
Comments: The above statements are intended to describe the essential responsibilities being performed by person assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of the responsibilities assigned.
