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Current Open Positions in Vermont - updated August 28, 2010

Associate Pastor/Church Planting Intern Positions

Faith Community Church, Barre, VT
This five year old church plant is already busy planting other churches in nearby towns. Averaging 120 in Sunday worship, this church looks for young men who desire to plant a church in Vermont and invites them to come serve the FCC congregation for 12 months in an associate pastor role. FCC then spins that man off as a church plant to some community that needs a church. FCC commits a portion of their budget to help the new church get started. During the internship, FCC provides rent free housing for the church planters at the newly established Hoover Center for Church Planting (utilities not included). FCC also pays the interns $100 a week and the interns raise the rest of their salary on their own. Most interns are also eligible for $1200 per month in support from the North American Mission Board and those that come through the Nehemiah Program can receive much more. Most candidates serve in a bivocational situation so that they can meet people and learn to interact with Vermonters before trying to start a church for Vermonters. Contact Terry Dorsett at terrydorsett@charter.net for more details.

First Baptist Church, Wallingford VT

FBC is the oldest existing Baptist church in VT, having been built in 1797. It has a long history of mission involvement and faithful preaching of the Word. The congregation of 75 provides a modest full time salary. There is no parsonage. This is a well organized church with a strong Sunday School and other various ministries. The building is in excellent condition and sits in the middle of the village.
Send a resume to: Pastor Search Committee, First Baptist Church, P O Box 345, Wallingford, VT 05773

First Branch Baptist Church, Chelsea, VT

This seven year old congregation is looking for a bivocational pastor. The small core group of 20 people hope to find a pastor who enjoys rural life and will stay for a long time. The salary is small and the pastor will need to find a full time job to help supplement his income. This is the only evangelical church in town. There are also two non-evangelical churches in town, one of which is only open in the summer. Send a resume to: First Branch Baptist Church, P O Box 327, Chelsea, VT 05038

MSC Missionary Positions (These positions require the missionary to raise most or all of their own financial support.)

Church Planting Team Members, Bennington, VT

Leadership team members needed for new church plants. Team members will be part of an existing church leadership tean as well as new church plant steering committee. Team members will be bi-vocational. They will meet weekly with church planting leadership and monthly with area church planters. Team members will plan and implement specific ministry outreaches. Existing efforts have included prayer walking, multi-housing youth and adult ministry and local college ministry planning. Team members will be accessed as to their gifts and abilities and will be paired with complementing ministry team members. Team members will be accountable to the local church where they are serving until new church or churches are launched. Seminary and Bible College preferred. Willingness to attend nearby seminary while in training is also acceptable in certain cases. Internships will be designed for those without any ministry experience. Contact Southern Vermont Church Planting Strategist, Rev. Jerry Frey for information and application. 802-236-9373,  e-mail preliminary resume to jcajfrey@juno.com

Youth Development – Lyndon Center, VT

The Green Mountain Baptist Association and Lyndon Center Baptist Church have the need for a Mission Service Corps minister or couple to serve through the local church by reaching children and parents in our community, providing teaching in Sunday School and training of potential teachers.  At present we do not have Sunday School for children on a regular basis due to the absence of children and qualified teachers.  Also our church is in the center of a private high school, Lyndon Institute, with boarding facilities for students overseas – mainly China and Japan.  This is an excellent opportunity to have a ministry with these students.  Lyndon State College, located ½ mile from us, is in great need of a Christian witness – our location is ideal to have an innovative ministry with these students.

Youth and Children’s Minister – Newbury, VT

Plan, execute, and build a youth ministry in Newbury, Vermont and the surrounding communities, working in a small church setting to enlist youth from within the church and recruit through outreach activities youth from the community to participate in and activate a mission minded youth group.  Planning and leading community connection activities such as block parties, construction and cleanup activities for personal homes and communities, Bible studies, prayer sessions, and leading Sunday morning worship services once a month.  The missionary would also work with other church leaders to ensure a children’s mission education program that leads directly into easy assimilation into the youth group and a mission activity lifestyle.

Area Ministry Coordinators – Pownal, VT

The Church Planting Strategist for southern Vermont (Green Mountain Baptist Association) has the need for an enthusiastic and gifted MSC individual or couple to plan, develop and coordinate ministries aimed primarily at the First Responders and other infrastructure and emergency personnel in Bennington County.  This ministry would include:  (1)initiating contact and develop relationships with the local National Guard unit, firemen and EMTs; (2)coordinate Disaster Relief Team ministry recruitment and training with the BCNE Disaster Relief Director and with the GMBA DR coordinator; (3)planning outreach and ministry follow up; (4)coordinate new contacts and local church assimilation and (5)assist in new church planting efforts and/or beginning house churches at the direction or assistance of the southern Vermont church planting strategist.  This coordinator, in agreement with the GMBA DR Coordinator, should attempt to establish local “Memoranda of Understanding” with the Red Cross, Salvation Army, “Volunteers Organized Against Disasters” and Emergency Management Agency (EMA) modeled on the existing national MOUs that Southern Baptists have with these organizations.

Collegiate Ministry Coordinator – Pownal, VT

The Church Planting Strategist for southern Vermont (Green Mountain Baptist Association) has the need for an enthusiastic and gifted MSC individual or couple to plan, develop and coordinate collegiate ministry primarily to the three colleges in Bennington.  This ministry would include: (1)initiating contact and develop relationships with college administrations, (2)coordinate ministry recruitment and training with the BCNE, (3)planning outreach and ministry follow-up; (4)coordinate student assimilation into local churches and (5)assist in new church planting efforts and/or beginning house churches at the direction or assistance of the southern Vermont church planting strategist.

Multi-housing Ministry Coordinator – Pownal, VT

The Church Planting Strategist for southern Vermont (Green Mountain Baptist Association) has the need for an enthusiastic and gifted MSC individual or couple to plan, develop and coordinate multi-family housing ministries across Bennington County.  This ministry would include follow up with numerous youth who attended the several outreach activities conducted in Bennington this summer.  The ministry would seek to perform other community connection events and services to interest and enlist you, college age and young adults through block parties, service activities to needy individuals, housing complexes and community organizations with the goal of beginning prayer groups and Bible studies.  The coordinator(s) would be expected to perform canvassing, develop strategies for reaching targeted groups in each community, develop leadership through discipling enlisted believers and plan for moving believers into existing churches or beginning house churches.

Children’s Minister and Outreach Coordinator – Randolph, VT

Green Mountain Baptist Association and The Baptist Fellowship of Randolph, Vermont need someone to plan, promote, and direct our outreach to children and families of Randolph and its surrounding communities.  Some ministry possibilities include: community survey and family contact ministry, a children’s worship service, special children’s events and a children’s choir.  We currently have about 34 children attending Sunday School.  We need someone to help take us to the next level of ministry with children and their families.

Chittenden County - multiple church plants around the greater Burlington area

To learn about these specific plants, contact Terry Dorsett at the association office.

Bennington County - multiple church plants across the county
To learn about these specific plants, contact the sponsoring church, Jerry Frey, Faith Christian Church, email: jcajfrey@juno.com

All of these church plants require the church planter to raise part of his own salary. The GMBA will assist with start up costs and some operational funds. Some qualified candidates may be able to access $1200 a month of salary support from the North American Mission Board.

To find out more about church planting in Vermont, contact Terry Dorsett.

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