Director/Pastor Adult Ministries

Grace Fellowship Church•Lutherville Timonium, MD

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Pastor/Director of Adult Ministries provides pastoral leadership and strategic direction for adult discipleship, relational community, and leadership development at Grace Fellowship Church. This role serves as both shepherd and architect, ensuring people are spiritually formed in authentic community while building clear, scalable systems that move adults from engagement to maturity and leadership. This leader owns the vision, health, and effectiveness of Groups, Rooted, and future community expressions, while ensuring execution through strong leadership development, aligned systems, and cross-ministry collaboration. This role plays a key leadership function in ensuring the church’s discipleship strategy is clear, aligned, and scalable as the church grows. This role provides oversight and alignment for key adult ministry environments and leaders, ensuring a cohesive discipleship strategy across the church.

Requirements

Demonstrates pastoral calling with a heart for discipleship and people
Proven ability to build systems and lead through other leaders
Strategic thinker with strong execution instincts
High relational intelligence and team leadership capacity
Operates with humility, clarity, and ownership
Experience in adult discipleship, groups, or similar ministry leadership
Track record of developing leaders and building scalable systems
Experience leading staff or key ministry leaders
Theological alignment with GFC

Responsibilities

Champion a culture of spiritual formation, prayer, and Spirit-led community
Ensure a clear pathway from Guest → Groups → Serving → Leadership
Align discipleship environments with weekend teaching and church vision
Shepherd leaders and key volunteers toward spiritual health and maturity
Lead the strategy, structure, and health of Small Groups across campuses
Oversee sermon-based group alignment, quality, and consistency
Build, train, and sustain leaders and coaching structures
Establish clear group launch and multiplication rhythms
Oversee Rooted as a primary on-ramp to discipleship
Ensure a transformational experience with clear next steps
Develop and support facilitators and leaders
Discern and develop new expressions of community as the church grows
Pilot and evaluate new models (affinity, short-term, missional, etc.)
Integrate new environments into the overall discipleship pathway
Set and champion the vision for leadership development with adult discipleship.
Ensure clear and effective movement from community into serving and leadership.
Identify and develop emerging leaders across all environments.
Ensure leadership systems, pathways, and standards are clearly defined, aligned, and scalable.
Provide direction and oversight to leadership development efforts to ensure execution meets vision and ministry outcomes.
Ensure alignment between adult discipleship strategy and weekend teaching, guest engagement, and worship environments
Collaborate with key ministry leaders to drive movement into Groups, Serving, and Leadership
Contribute to and execute against overall church strategy and multi-campus expansion