Church Planting Resident
Religious | Evangelical Presbyterian Church
Full-Time
Posted: May 25, 2026
Application Deadline: Jul 1, 2026
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, dependent 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).
Salary: $60K-$89K
Requirements
- 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.
How to Apply
Qualitifications:
- Has an ongoing and active relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Wholeheartedly affirms the Essentials of the Faith of the EPC (found here: www.epc.org/essentials).
- Believes the Westminster Standards to contain the system of doctrine as found in the Scriptures.
- Wholeheartedly affirms the vision and values of the Host Church.
- A clear call to pastoral ministry
- A church planter’s assessment (prior to or concurrent to the interview process)
- Inspires trust and confidence in others
- Knows computer basics with respect to online file-sharing web programs and applications.
- A Bachelor’s degree is mandatory. Concurrent or completed graduate level studies within the EPC’s educational standards.
Primary Contact: Matt Koehn
Email: matt@waterstoneatl.com
Phone: 6786396471
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