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& Full-Time Interim Pastor Position Summary

  • Our Story Jordan Family Church (JFC) officially launched in January 2022. While we initially hoped to plant sooner, pandemic-related restrictions delayed our timeline. Our founding team consisted of 18 adults and a vibrant, bustling group of children and youth. From day one, it was clear that family and youth ministry would be at the very heart of our mission in Jordan.

    Though we were warmly sent out by Bethany church in Bloomington, our team shared a deep, long-standing conviction—nearly 20 years in the making—that God was calling us to plant a gospel-centered church right here in the Jordan community.

    Our Journey & Next Steps We were blessed to launch on a strong financial foundation, thanks to the generosity of our sending church and initial supporters. In our earliest days, our founding leadership served on a volunteer, bivocational basis, allowing us to invest heavily into our initial launch. While this was a wise and sustainable strategy for our first few years, our growth has led us into an exciting new season. As we enter our third year, we are actively seeking a pastor who can serve JFC more fully and be dedicated to our church family as a compensated leader.

    Life at JFC Today From our very first services, God brought incredible, dedicated families into our fold who remain core members today. We currently meet on Sunday mornings at the local middle school, where weekly attendance averages between 110 and 130 people. True to our roots, we are a lively, multi-generational community with a high-energy group of children and youth.

    Our Wednesday night youth program started as a small gathering for our own kids, but it has since exploded to serve a large number children and teens from the community each week. This ministry includes a shared family meal, followed by children’s Bible classes and junior/senior high ministries.

    JFC truly functions as a family. We seek to represent Jesus Christ in our love for one another, eating together often, supporting global missions, and striving to honor God in everything. We are led by a unified board of elders who manage the church by consensus, supported by part-time ministry staff and a dedicated team of volunteers.

    Our Mission & Values "Living for the age to come together in Jordan." We measure success by eternal fruit rather than temporal trends. Our calling is to serve those God entrusts to us by teaching them to obey everything Jesus commanded.

  • This is an interim engagement structured around a recurring 3-month review cycle.

    The Full-Time Interim Pastor will provide spiritual leadership, organizational guidance, and pastoral support during a critical season of transition. This leader will help assess the church's long-term viability and determine the best future pathway for the congregation.

    In the initial assessment phase, the Interim Pastor will lead an intentional process to determine the church's best path forward, which may include:

    • Hiring a permanent Lead Pastor

    • Pursuing a partnership or affiliation with another church or ministry

    • Exploring a merger

    • Pursuing another viable path identified through the assessment process

    Once a direction is chosen, the Interim Pastor will help implement it by leading the church through the early stages of execution, creating momentum and stability for the future.

    This role requires a leader who can balance preaching, strategic leadership, pastoral care, and organizational transition work.

    Key Responsibilities

    1. Transitional Leadership & Strategic Assessment

    Assessment Phase:

    • Evaluate the church's current health, sustainability, attendance trends, finances, volunteer capacity, and ministry effectiveness

    • Assess long-term pastoral staffing needs

    • Work with leadership to evaluate opportunities, including partnership conversations, mergers, or any other viable path

    • Provide a recommendation to leadership regarding the best path forward for the church

    Implementation Phase:

    • Help execute the chosen direction

    • Support pastoral search efforts if hiring a Lead Pastor, or help facilitate the necessary steps for whatever path is chosen

    • Maintain organizational clarity and healthy momentum throughout implementation

    2. Preaching & Worship Leadership

    • Preach approximately 2 times per month

    • Prepare and deliver sermons

    • Coordinate preaching schedule for remaining Sundays

    • Recruit and communicate with guest speakers or internal teaching team members

    • Ensure consistent Sunday teaching coverage

    3. Leadership Advising

    • Serve as primary advisor to the Elder Board and church staff

    • Attend Elder Board meetings

    • Attend staff meetings

    • Provide strategic counsel to church leadership

    • Help leaders make healthy, mission-focused decisions during transition

    4. Pastoral Care & Congregational Engagement

    • Provide pastoral care to church members

    • Meet with members for prayer, counseling, and support

    • Visit individuals/families during times of crisis or need

    • Foster unity during a potentially uncertain season

    • Maintain visibility and trust within the congregation

    Desired Qualifications

    • Previous pastoral leadership experience

    • Experience serving in transitional or interim leadership roles preferred

    • Strong strategic thinking and organizational leadership abilities

    • Strong preaching and communication skills

    • Ability to lead through change and uncertainty

    • Relationally warm, emotionally mature, and collaborative

    • Alignment with the church's mission, theology, and values

    Success Metrics

    Over the course of the engagement, the Interim Pastor should help the church achieve:

    • A clear recommendation on future direction following the assessment phase

    • A decision made regarding the path forward

    • Initial execution of the chosen path underway

    • Continued congregational health and stability

    • Strong leadership alignment during transition