Associate Minister

First Christian Church is a mid-sized Disciples of Christ church located in Livingston, TN. The congregation is one of the larger congregations in town, worshiping around 160 people on an average Sunday, and has a long history of women in leadership and service in the community. We are a loving and healthy church family in a friendly and welcoming small town.

We are known as being the church that accepts everyone. We are a Red Cross shelter, we host the only local Boy Scout troop, as well as Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts. We host Al Anon and AA. We have a weekly luncheon for Seniors every Wednesday. Many of our communities civic leaders are members of the church and we are very active in our community. Our Senior Minister also organizes the Overton County Minster’s Alliance and chaplains for our local hospital.

We are a bedroom community of Cookeville, home of Tennessee Tech University. There’s a lot of agriculture and manufacturing in our community. We also have an Arts Council that puts on an annual art show and monthly talks about famous artists. We have live music quite often in our city park and at a community event center call Iron and Oak. We are twenty minutes from Cookeville, twenty minutes from Dale Hollow Lake, and twenty minutes from Standing Stone State Park. We’re also an hour and a half from Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga.

Full-time or part-time: full-time

Reports to: The Senior Minister and the Board

Compensation:

• Competitive salary (You can contact us for the full package)
• 3 weeks vacation (no more than two weeks back to back at one time)
• A sabbatical every 5 years
• A loving and supportive work environment

First Christian Church is seeking a full-time Associate Minister to strength our youth and missions programs. Our youth group is small, but we have a good group of little kids and the families are very supportive and want to be involved. You would be expected to show up regularly to the office, you would be involved in planning worship, pastoral care, and other routine aspects of ministry. We’re a pretty loving and laid back church so there’s flexibility and we want you to live into your strengths and passions. Responsibilities include:

• Work alongside our education committee to recruit teachers and develop programming for our children’s and youth ministries.
• Partner with our high school teachers to lead our high school youth group.
• Work alongside our outreach committee to plan youth and adult mission trips.
• Participate and lead in Sunday morning services (Preaching once or twice a month, Children’s Sermon once a month, etc.)
• Get to know the families in our church
• Attend high school and middle school sports games and other important events in the lives of our youth
• Work collaboratively with our senior minister

Both men and women are encouraged to apply!