Facilitative Church Planter/Mentor – Romania

Serge’s team in Cluj, Romania has an urgent need for facilitative church planter/mentor. If you are interested, please apply. If you know someone who is interested, please send them our way (go@serge.org).

Position Title: Facilitative Church Planter/Mentor

Location: Cluj, Romania

FT/PT: Full­Time

Need: URGENT ­ desired deployment as early as May 2019

Length of Service: 4 years

Responsibilities:

Working alongside a national church planter, this individual would help facilitate an international, Gospel­-centered church plant in Cluj, Romania, with the long­term vision of encouraging the renewal of Cluj spiritually, culturally, and socially. While initially targeting Cluj’s English speaking international community, such a church might also serve as a neutral worship space for people from both the Romanian and Hungarian communities. Responsibilities include:

1. Serving the church

• Facilitates the church plant ­­ preaching, teaching, vision­casting, shepherding, counseling, training, planning
• Assists in raising up church officers and leaders (develops indigenous leadership team)
• Leads a home group and helps develop future home group leaders
• Pursues opportunities to build relationships with members and visitors

2. Serving the City of Cluj

• Pursues opportunities to build relationships and share the Gospel with non­Christians
• Participates in local, like­minded ministries and projects
• Fosters relationships in strategic institutions for outreach
• Serves on community boards or other forms of outreach.

Requirements and Critical Qualities:

1. Commitment to Jesus Christ and the global expansion of His Kingdom.
2. Call to missional living and desire to engage with assigned Team in fulfilling its vision.
3. Devotion to prayer, personal repentance and renewal as the motive and power for mission.
4. Commitment to Serge Core Values, demonstrated in work and interactions.
5. An ability to work effectively with a team and practice healthy conflict resolution.
6. At least some degree of seminary training.
7. Training and experience in church planting.
8. A love for evangelism and discipleship.
9. A willingness to pursue conversational fluency in both Romanian and Hungarian, although fluency in neither language is an initial requirement.