COMMUNITY'S Lincoln Park location is one of our seven physical locations presently meeting in the familiar and iconic Victory Garden Theater. Tell just about anyone in Lincoln Park where COMMUNITY meets on a Sunday and they will know it. Presently reaching about 150 adult attenders with the majority participating in one of a dozen small groups makes for one of our most connected locations.
Lincoln Park is one of 178 distinct neighborhoods in the city of Chicago where you can spend a day at the beach, walk home through a zoo, and end the night at an upscale restaurant or local pub. Lincoln Park’s unique location in the city allows for amazing outdoor living just a short distance from the hustle of downtown.
Home to about 66,000 residents it is the perfect place for people looking for all the benefits of urban living alongside large parks and open areas. DePaul University is located in the neighborhood, mixing the upscale with a traditional college atmosphere.
Located two miles north of downtown, Lincoln Park borders Old Town, River North, and Gold Coast to the south, Bucktown to the west, and Lakeview and North Center to the north. Lake Michigan beaches take up the eastern border of the neighborhood and are a perfect place to spend a summer day. Lincoln Park has a walkability score of 94 and a bike score of 88, making it the 6th most walkable neighborhood in Chicago.
This is an exciting time to join an established and larger team committed to the success of our location in Lincoln Park and to see the Jesus Mission move forward throughout Chicagoland. We'd love for you to consider joining our team and if you're interested in learning more, please read on and submit your resume.
Ministry Role
The Lincoln Park Worship Pastor is a person with a teaching, shepherding & church planting mindset that enjoys engaging in the congregation & community and seeks to develop relationships with people both inside and outside the church. The person in this role enjoys working on a team and sees themselves as a key leader in the church and a significant support for the location pastor. Expectations and responsibilities go beyond just “worship” for our growing Lincoln Park location.
Purpose: The worship pastor at COMMUNITY in Lincoln Park will oversee all adult artists and associated service experiences leading in these five areas:
Authentic Pastor: Ultimately worship is pastoral work, where Jesus entrusts you with His followers so you can lead them back to Him. You must not only love God’s people, you must also love God and His Word and know how to bless and lead His people.
System Orchestrator: A visionary leader, who also serves as an organizational leader who understands that right-brained creativity will never become reality without left-brained systems. We don’t expect you to do it all, but we do expect you to know how it all fits together.
Artistic Recruiter: Artists dance to a different tune, and you need to be the “Pied Piper” to recruit them onto our team. You must also be able to maintain the critical balance between excellence and inclusion, knowing how to develop others and when they’re ready to be put on the platform.
Collaborative Producer: You’ll have to be connected to the programming sheet to make things run, but to the Spirit to keep things real through an authentic expression of worship. You don’t have to be the most creative person in the room, but you need to be energized by both a collaborative and creative process.
Technical Facilitator: You may not know how all the technical equipment works, but you’ll need to develop a team member that does. You need a musical ear, an artistic eye, and a cool-enough head to improvise when the worst-case scenario occurs just before the start of the service.
Reporting Structure
Work Hours
The Lincoln Park Worship Pastor is a full time role with benefits. This role has some remote work hour flexibility. Primary in person working hours being Sunday mornings, Tuesday & Wednesday team office day, and Thursday evening rehearsal.
Qualifications / Skills
Meets leadership expectations found in the COMMUNITY Staff Handbook
The Worship Pastor is a…
Humble Worshiper: You must have more than musical skill or leadership ability. You must first and foremost be a worshiper in awe of God’s majesty and broken by your own sin.
Spiritual Leader: You must not only have the spiritual gifting to lead, but also the spiritual wisdom to equip others to lead as well. You must understand that at its heart leadership is not control, it is influence.
Creative Director: To be our Worship Pastor, you must have the ability to keep your eyes on the details while seeing the big picture. You would be our CEO of creativity, leading the team dreaming up 52 services a year.
Musical Multiplier: You must have the capacity to be both a musical leader on stage and off. You must be looking for and gathering other leaders and volunteers around you. You may love the spotlight, but you love shining it on others even more.
Job Responsibilities
Jesus Mission
Reaching People Who are Far From God:
Reproducing the Mission in Others:
Restoring God’s Dream for the World:
This pastoral role is commissioned by COMMUNITY's Leadership Commission (aka the elders or Board of Directors). The person fulfilling this role is considered to be a religious leader by the church and qualifies under the "ministerial exception" of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The duties of this role include administering sacraments and conducting religious worship. The person fulfilling this role has management responsibility overseeing coaches and leaders and overseeing a ministry budget within the church.
