Men's Community Life Pastor

Portland, OR
The Harbor for Men
The Harbor for Men

OVERVIEW

Portland Rescue Mission is seeking a Men's Community Life Pastor. This gifted servant will personify responsibility, leadership, and a pastoral gifting as they join a Christ-centered team with an award-winning culture and a commitment to serving others. 

Are you ready to transform and be transformed as you lead men recovering from homelessness and addiction towards spiritual formation and healthy relationships all leading towards long-term success? If so, we invite you to thoughtfully consider this unique opportunity.


EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

  • How to apply: We ask all applicants to apply through the Portland Rescue Mission online application form found on our careers page:

    https://portlandrescuemission.hiringthing.com/job/567098/men-s-community-life-pastor

  • Status: Full-time, Exempt
  • Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm, occasional evenings and weekends as needed
  • Location: The Harbor - 10336 NE Wygant St. 
  • Benefits: For full-time employees: medical, vision, dental, PTO, matching retirement. 


THE PLACE

The Harbor, Portland Rescue Mission’s men’s facility, located in a retreat-like setting in NE Portland, provides residential programs for men impacted by homelessness, addiction, and life crises. This ministry site accommodates up to 33 men and offers a 5-week Discovery program, a 12-month New Life program, and additional transition programs, all integrating addiction recovery, life-skills training, vocational development and spiritual growth in a safe, highly-relational environment. The Harbor ministry team of staff, interns, and volunteers serves to demonstrate the compassion of Christ to support approximately 200 adults each year participating in restoration, growth, and life transformation.

  

THE POSITION

The Men’s Community Life Pastor serves program participants by building a foundation of biblical understanding in their lives through relationally-rooted evangelism and by intentionally cultivating a discipleship atmosphere at The Harbor. This position operates as part of the Community Life Team leading the Spiritual Formation aspects of The Harbor. The Community Life Pastor collaborates with other staff, interns, and volunteers in leading our program participants to growth in Christ through a variety of activities, groups, classes, meetings, and retreats.


THE ESSENTIALS

  • Assure spiritual development is effectively cultivated and sustained in the lives of the men throughout their time at The Harbor, including all participants in the Discovery and New Life Program as well as Alumni.
  • Supervise and mobilize the Community Life team to provide 24/7 coverage ensuring a consistently safe, purposeful, and supportive environment for participants.  
  • Engage all staff, interns and volunteers in shepherding a dynamic, highly-relational and Christ-centered community.
  • Ensure Discovery program participants hear the gospel and receive a compelling invitation into Christian spiritual formation in collaboration with Discovery program staff
  • Lead or oversee discipleship groups, spiritual growth classes, Saturday morning breakfasts, and evening and weekend activities
  • Meet monthly with each participant to assess, support and develop their spiritual growth
  • Provide accurate and timely documentation of programmatic interactions via emails and DAP notes
  • Working alongside the Director of Men’s Recovery in creating and sustaining a robust aftercare program for Harbor Alumni
  • Equip and coordinate Harbor volunteers that serve in the area of spiritual formation
  • Assure each participant seeks and appropriately engages in a partnering church in a timely and effective manner and support partnering church relationships
  • Support the Director of Men’s Recovery in overseeing dynamic group events that encourage spiritual growth and retention, including weekly Community Life meetings, graduations, and retreats.
  • Support ministry coverage at The Harbor, being available for program operations (e.g. UA/BA, exits, med call, crisis, on-call rotation) as needed
  • Model and share biblical principles so that program participants grow towards Christian maturity in all areas of life
  • Participate with PRM staff by stepping into key ministry opportunities as needed, including regular teaching/preaching and Christian discipleship


     

    BACKGROUND AND QUALIFICATIONS

    • College degree in related field or equivalent experience
    • Excellent knowledge of the Bible, experience in effective teaching of the Bible, and giftedness at instilling biblical truth into the lives of men
    • Excellent communication skills, both in a group setting and one-on-one
    • A personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and a testimony of continued growth in faith
    • Ministers as a highly-relational, Christ-centered, joyful servant
    • Spiritual maturity as defined by traditional Biblical standards
    • Adheres to Portland Rescue Mission's Statement of Faith and Code of Ethics
    • Desire to serve God in ministry to hurting men, women and children
    • Ability to lift at least 50 lbs. unassisted

     

    MISSION AND DISTINCTIVES

    OUR MISSION

    We exist to demonstrate the compassion of Christ

    OUR UNIQUE APPROACH

    From the first sandwich that was shared in 1949, to today's fully integrated emergency, recovery, and training services, Portland Rescue Mission is a highly relational ministry. The Mission builds supportive and caring communities, meets people at their point of need, equips them, and provides a path forward. In-depth partnership with churches and volunteers, multiple tiers of services and a focus on growing Christian disciples is fundamental to Portland Rescue Mission’s success.

    OUR SUCCESS

    New Life Ministries consistently sees an 80% success rate of men and women who graduate the one-year comprehensive, New Life program