Senior/Lead Pastors
Church Planting Resident
Presbytery of the Southeast
Posted: 05/26/2026
Salary/Range: 60,000
Location
Atlanta, GA
Description:
The EPC Presbytery of the Southeast has developed a church planting network that will seek more Southeast region (USA) based church plants as an evangelism strategy. A part of this strategy is recruiting, developing, and sending out new church planters from this residency program, which is designed for 1-3 years, depending upon the resident.
Current Host Churches include Church of the Redeemer in Alcoa, TN (metro Knoxville) and Water Stone Church in Smyrna, GA (metro Atlanta).
- Accomplish the completion of the Residency curriculum: books, assignments, ministry preparation, ordination preparation.
- Act as additional pastoral staff in the host city and at the Host church: preaching, evangelism, discipleship, leadership, and pastoral care.
- Help lead a specific ministry area for Host church, subject to the resident’s competencies and Host church’s needs.
- Strategize with Host church leadership to start a ministry from scratch.
- Assist participating churches in their global mission ministry, in order to learn more about worldwide church planting.
- Attend the requisite staff meetings at the Host Church.
- Weekly participation in the worship services (or their equivalent) of the Host church.
- Other duties as assigned.
To apply please email a resume and cover letter to Pastor Matt Koehn at [email protected]
To Apply: [email protected]