Position Title
Congregational Care Pastor
Department: Pastoral Ministries
Reports To: Executive Pastor / Senior Pastor
FLSA Status: Exempt
Employment Status: Full-Time
Prepared By: Human Resources
Approved By: Senior Pastor
Position Summary
The Congregational Care Pastor provides Christ-centered pastoral care to the members and regular attendees of Brown Missionary Baptist Church. This role exists to ensure individuals and families experience the love of Christ during life's greatest celebrations, challenges, crises, illnesses, grief, and spiritual needs. The Congregational Care Pastor leads the church's care ministry by equipping volunteers, developing systems of care, and partnering with ministry leaders to shepherd the congregation through biblical counseling, prayer, visitation, encouragement, and discipleship.
This position serves as a visible pastoral presence throughout the church and community while promoting spiritual growth, member engagement, and holistic care aligned with BMBC's mission of making disciples and transforming lives.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Pastoral Care
- Provide compassionate pastoral care to church members and their families.
- Conduct hospital, rehabilitation, hospice, nursing home, and home visitations.
- Minister to individuals experiencing illness, grief, loss, family crises, trauma, and life transitions.
- Provide biblical encouragement and prayer during emergencies and difficult circumstances.
- Coordinate pastoral response during critical incidents involving members.
Counseling
- Provide short-term biblical counseling.
- Refer individuals to licensed professional counselors when specialized care is appropriate.
- Meet confidentially with individuals and families seeking spiritual guidance.
- Assist members in developing biblical solutions to personal challenges.
Member Care
- Develop intentional systems for following up with members experiencing health concerns or family needs.
- Maintain communication with hospitalized and homebound members.
- Coordinate care plans for members experiencing extended illnesses.
- Ensure prayer requests receive timely pastoral attention.
- Partner with ministry leaders to identify members requiring additional care.
Funeral Ministry
- Meet with grieving families.
- Assist families with funeral planning.
- Conduct funerals and memorial services as assigned.
- Coordinate bereavement care following funeral services.
- Develop follow-up ministry for grieving families.
Weddings
- Provide premarital counseling.
- Officiate weddings as assigned.
- Conduct marriage enrichment sessions.
- Support married couples through biblical counseling and mentoring.
Volunteer Leadership
Recruit, train, equip, and supervise:
- Care Ministry Volunteers
- Hospital Visitation Team
- Prayer Team
- Funeral Hospitality Team
- Homebound Ministry
- Encouragement Ministry
- Bereavement Team
- Care Group Leaders
Prayer Ministry
- Lead corporate prayer initiatives.
- Coordinate prayer response teams.
- Oversee confidential prayer request processes.
- Equip members to become prayer partners.
Member Assimilation
Partner with:
- Discipleship Ministry
- Small Groups
- Membership Team
- Ministry Leaders
to ensure members remain connected, cared for, and spiritually growing.
Crisis Response
Provide pastoral leadership during:
- Deaths
- Serious illness
- Family emergencies
- Hospitalizations
- Community tragedies
- Natural disasters
- Church crisis situations
Leadership
- Participate in pastoral staff meetings.
- Support the Senior Pastor's vision.
- Assist in preaching and teaching when assigned.
- Represent BMBC at community events.
- Help develop ministry strategies for congregational care.
- Provide leadership to care ministry volunteers.
Administrative Responsibilities
- Maintain confidential pastoral records.
- Document visitation activities.
- Track member care follow-up.
- Maintain care ministry schedules.
- Prepare monthly ministry reports.
- Monitor ministry budget.
- Evaluate ministry effectiveness through measurable outcomes.
Qualifications
Education
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree in Ministry, Theology, Biblical Studies, or related field.
Preferred:
- Master of Divinity (MDiv)
- Seminary education
Experience
Required:
- Five (5) years of pastoral ministry experience.
Preferred:
- Experience leading congregational care ministries in a large church.
- Experience supervising ministry volunteers.
- Hospital chaplaincy or pastoral counseling experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong biblical knowledge
- Excellent pastoral counseling skills
- Compassionate servant leadership
- Crisis intervention
- Active listening
- Conflict resolution
- Funeral and wedding ministry
- Public speaking
- Teaching and preaching
- Volunteer leadership
- Team collaboration
- Confidentiality
- Emotional intelligence
- Organization
- Time management
- Ministry planning
- Discipleship development
- Prayer leadership
Spiritual Qualifications
The Congregational Care Pastor shall:
- Demonstrate a vibrant and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Be called to pastoral ministry.
- Fully support the doctrine, mission, vision, and values of Brown Missionary Baptist Church.
- Model biblical integrity and Christian character.
- Be active in worship, prayer, and personal discipleship.
- Demonstrate humility, compassion, wisdom, and servant leadership.
- Meet biblical qualifications for pastoral leadership as outlined in 1 Timothy 3:1–7 and Titus 1:5–9.
- Maintain confidentiality and exercise sound spiritual judgment.
Physical Requirements
- Frequent standing and walking
- Ability to travel throughout the community
- Frequent hospital and home visitation
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds
- Ability to work evenings, weekends, holidays, and respond to emergencies
Working Conditions
- Church campus
- Hospitals
- Nursing homes
- Funeral homes
- Member residences
- Community locations
- Weddings
- Funeral services
- Emergency response situations
