A few years ago we created a position on our staff called church planter in residence. It is so healthy for our church culture because we're always in the process of raising up a potential church planter. We've also discovered that it is a great farm system for potential campus pastors as well.
As we think about staff strategy for 2008, we're hoping to bring another CPR on board in early '08 and we're taking applications.
The CPR is like a utility player in baseball. They play lots of positions because that is the nature of church planting. We try to get them some experience playing the role of campus pastor and ideally they help with the launch of a location. It is typically a one or two year commitment. And I'll say upfront that it doesn't pay much money! We actually expect the CPR to raise some budget to come on staff as a church planting litmus test. And we fund it out of our missions budget. But then we continue to support the CPR after they leave NCC to plant a church.
We've got quite a few applicants already and only one spot for '08, but if you'd like to apply for the CPR position you can email a resume to Joel Schmidgall at Joel@theaterchurch.com.
As we think about staff strategy for 2008, we're hoping to bring another CPR on board in early '08 and we're taking applications.
The CPR is like a utility player in baseball. They play lots of positions because that is the nature of church planting. We try to get them some experience playing the role of campus pastor and ideally they help with the launch of a location. It is typically a one or two year commitment. And I'll say upfront that it doesn't pay much money! We actually expect the CPR to raise some budget to come on staff as a church planting litmus test. And we fund it out of our missions budget. But then we continue to support the CPR after they leave NCC to plant a church.
We've got quite a few applicants already and only one spot for '08, but if you'd like to apply for the CPR position you can email a resume to Joel Schmidgall at Joel@theaterchurch.com.
4 Comments:
Chris and Lora Jarrell (NCC CPR this year) have been such a blessing to all of us at NCC, Pastor Mark.
It will be so bittersweet to see them move on in furthering the Kingdom of God .... I guess the lives they touch in the future and the lives that NCC will embrace next year as CPR will be all the richer ... Thanks for selecting Chris and Lora for this year!
I so wish we'd had the opportunity to do a residency like this before we planted...what a valuable experience! I really admire NCC's mindset in this. Kudos!
what a great idea. Do you pay them a salary? Do you have a time frame for the position, like how long they are going to be there? I would love to see the job description. We have a similar calling at Freedom House.
Troy,
We do pay a salary, but not much because we expect them to raise a budget. But it does pay off because we continue to pay a small salary after they leave NCC to plant.
We generally do a 1 or 2 year stint depending on their readiness level for planting. If someone is younger it'll probably be two years. If someone is more experienced it might be one year.
Hope that helps. I'd love to see lots of church add a CPR position--I think it would help fuel a church planting movement.
Mark
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