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From the start, the purpose of MBCC has been to reach
our community with the good news of Jesus Christ. The first service was
held in the home of one of our members in April 1992. The following
Sunday, Easter, the church moved to Mountain Brook Junior High School
where we began meeting in the lunchroom. When the Montevallo Road
facility became available, the church made the move and held its first
services there in November 1992.
This campus enabled us to grow, develop our vision,
clarify our mission and establish a strong foundation for ministry.
Although the facility served us well, our church family grew to the
point where we needed a new home. After much prayer and waiting on the
Lord, He eventually opened the door for us to purchase the campus of
Southeastern Bible College on Highway 280 East. Once again it was time
for us to step out of our comfort zone and follow the Lord in faith. On
October 10th, 2004, we moved into our current location.
Over the past eleven years of ministry at MBCC we have
seen God's hand of blessing in many ways. The church has grown from 250
to approximately 1400. The staff has grown from 3 to 26 and the
mission's family has grown from 2 to 34. Annual giving has increased
from approximately $400,000 to $4 million.
However, more exciting that the numerical growth is
the spiritual growth in the lives of people. Our desire and passion is
to equip God's people and ignite a passion within them to wholeheartedly
pursue God and His purpose for their lives.
In 1995, God called Tim Kallam to be the Senior Pastor
of Mountain Brook Community Church. Tim is a graduate of Northeastern
Bible College and Dallas Theological Seminary. He served on the pastoral
staffs of churches in South Carolina, Texas and Georgia before accepting
the call as Senior Pastor. Tim is married to Christi and has two
children, Ben (19) and Katie (16).
Please see our website at
www.mbcc.us for more information.
Purpose
To assist the Senior Pastor in fulfilling the desires
of the Elder Board and the Mission of MBCC including planning, and
developing the leadership, facilities and finances to fulfill those
plans. Supervise the pastoral/executive staff of the church and the
overall working of the teams (committees) of the church.
Scope
Church-wide planning, leadership development of team
leaders, pastors and administrator; ministry teams; human resources;
special projects.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a growing, personal walk with God to
serve the Lord and the flock out of personal devotion and not
professional obligation. Ministry must be a calling and not simply a
job. Time must be set aside for personal study of the Word and
prayer.
- Assisting the Senior Pastor
- Join or represent the Senior Pastor by
meeting with people, hearing proposals, or attending functions
as asked.
- Scheduling other pastors or outside speakers
to preach when he is out.
- Completing special projects as requested.
- Management
- Meet with the Elder Board
- Work with the Chairman of the Board and the
Senior Pastor to set the Elder Board agendas each month.
- Meet with the entire staff and the
pastoral/executive staff regularly.
- Give direction to the pastoral/executive
staff as determined by the Elder Board and/or Senior Pastor.
- Supervise the pastoral/executive staff to
insure they are doing their jobs well and developing as leaders
of the church.
- Annually review the pastoral staff.
- Oversee the teams (committees) of the church.
Work to see that each team has a clear directive and a leader
and does its part in achieving the mission of MBCC. This is not
full responsibility for each team, but oversight to see that
teams are working.
- Attend a meeting of each team at least once
per year.
- Planning
- Work to make the vision of the Elder Board
and Senior Pastor become reality. Develop short and long term
goals to fulfill the vision of the church.
- Forecast the needs of the church to meet our
goals (staff, facilities, and finances)
- Give regular reports to the Elder Board and
Senior Pastor on progress toward our goals.
- Leadership Development
- Coordinate Elder Board retreats (yearly) and
other team building/fellowship meetings or dinners.
- Coordinate Pastoral/Executive Team retreats
(yearly) and other leadership/team building/fellowship meetings
or dinners.
- Human Resources
- Plan for future positions and supervise
searches for pastoral/executive staff.
- See that our human resources policies are all
legal and current. Maintain job descriptions for each position
and keep all personnel records current.
- See that all of our staff follow the human
resource policies and procedures. Monitor and mange staff days
off.
- Adult Education
- Develop a long term teaching plan for adult
community groups
- Consult the various ministries of the church
(men, women, youth, children) regarding their teaching plan.
- Develop a teacher training program.
Working Relationships
- You report to the Senior Pastor
- You work closely with members of the Elder Board,
team leaders, and all church staff.
- You supervise the pastoral/executive staff
Purpose
The position of executive pastor is designed to allow
the senior pastor to focus on the areas of ministry unique to his
calling and gifting and to assist in providing leadership for the
carrying out the mission and ministry of MBCC so that the church will be
healthy, equipping the saints, reaching the world and glorifying God.
Profile
- He should have a growing relationship with the
Lord.
- If married, he should have a strong marriage and
family.
- He should have a related master degree and/or
commensurate experience in ministry.
- Due to the unique nature of church ministry, he
should possess sufficient experience and a good understanding of how
a local church functions.
- Preferred experience should include a
demonstrated ability to provide leadership to pastors and ministry
leaders, oversee and evaluate a wide variety of ministries (i.e.
children, youth, worship, etc.), and lead a search to identify and
hire staff.
- He must be an initiator and self-starter.
- He should be loyal with a willingness to follow
and a heart to protect the pastor.
- He must have a good connection with the senior
pastor.
- Due to the wide range of responsibilities, he
must be able to manage multiple tasks and people without becoming
frustrated and overwhelmed.
- He must have strong people skills and a
shepherding heart.
- He must be willing to confront difficult
situations with strength and grace. He must possess excellent
conflict resolution skills. He must have a "thick skin" and a tender
heart (be able to "take the heat").
- He must be a team player and have demonstrated
the ability to develop teams.
- He should have the ability to build a sense of
accountability with the staff that will enable timely completion of
projects and ministry plans consistent with the church's vision.
- He must have strong decision making skills.
- He must be both a strategic and an organizational
thinker while also being able to effectively communicate the vision
of the senior pastor and elders.
- He should possess excellent verbal and written
communication skills.
- He must be committed to and adept at
accomplishing ministry through others, developing and releasing
teams for ministry.
- Due to our specific needs at this moment he
should have an ability to give leadership to the area of Christian
education.
Augustine said, "In the essentials, unity; in the
non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity." The following is a
statement of what we consider the essentials.
- We believe in the Scripture of the Old and New
Testaments as verbally inspired by God, and inerrant in the original
writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith
and life. (Mt. 5:17-18 and 2 Tim. 3:16-17)
- We believe in one God, eternally existing in
three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Deut. 6:4-5; Mt.
28:19; John 1:1, 20:28 and 2 Cor. 13:14)
- We believe that, as provided and purposed by God
and as pre-announced in the prophecies of the Scriptures, the
eternal Son of God came into this world that He might manifest God
to men and become the Redeemer of a lost world. To this end He was
born of the virgin Mary and received a human body and a sinless
human nature, thus becoming fully man without ceasing to be fully
God. (John 1:1,14; Phil. 2:5-11; Is. 7:14; Mt. 1; 2 Cor. 5:21; Rom.
5:8 and John 3:16)
- We believe that man was created in the image of
God and that he fell through sin, and, as a consequence of his sin,
incurred not only physical death but spiritual death, becoming dead
in trespasses and sin. We also believe that this spiritual death, or
total depravity of human nature, has been transmitted to the entire
human race, Christ Jesus alone being excepted. Hence, every child of
Adam is born with a nature which possesses no spark of divine life
and is essentially bad apart from divine grace. (Gen. 1:26-27, 5:1;
Rom. 3:10, 5:12 and Eph. 2:1)
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for
our sins, according to the scriptures, as a representative and
substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are
justified on the ground of His shed blood. (Heb. 9:11ff, 10:3ff; Is.
53; Rom. 5:8, 6:10 and 2 Cor. 5:14-21)
- We believe in the resurrection of the crucified
body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and His present life
there for us as High Priest and Advocate. (I Cor. 15; Rom. 10: 9-10;
Acts 1:9; I Peter 3:21b-22 and Heb. 4:14-15, 7:25)
- We believe that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
will personally return and set up His Kingdom wherein He will rule
and reign in righteousness. (Acts 1:11; Mt. 24:44; Heb. 9:28 and
Titus 2:13)
- We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord
Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become
children of God. (Jn. 3, 1:12)
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just
and the unjust, the blessedness of the saved, and the retribution of
the lost. (Acts 24:15; I Thess. 4:13-18; I Cor. 15:51-58; Rev.
20:11-15
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