“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”
- Abraham Maslow

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next to best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

“If you’re doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.”
— Charles F. Kettering, American inventor and businessman

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands, and hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”
– John Wayne, Actor

“As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time.  Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.”
- William Hazlitt, British Writer

P.S. To make the most of your time, check out Time Management for Busy Pastors.

Are you called to serve in New York City?

The Journey is a contemporary 9 year old church with three campuses in New York City (Upper West Side, Village and Queens) and one in South Florida that is currently interviewing for a new opening for a Campus Pastor position in NYC.

The Journey consistently has over 1,000 adults attending weekend services, currently has over 1,100 in groups and expects continued growth.

Are you passionate about raising up new leaders and volunteers, seeing people get connected in the church and challenging them to grow in their faith?

Are you called to be a pastor and willing to take ownership and provide primary leadership for one of The Journey’s NYC campuses?

Are you willing to work with a team to grow your campus and the church’s other campuses?

Do you have the ability and passion to lead and develop the evangelism, discipleship, stewardship, ministry and worship systems of your campus?

Do you have a high view ‘serving as part of discipleship’ and do you have a strong desire to reach unchurched young professionals?

This is a campus pastor position with the potential to make a difference with the best and the brightest from around the world that make up the Journey Church in NYC.

Responsibilities:

- Leadership, growth and innovation of a Journey campus in NYC.  You will lead day-to-day operations for that campus and oversee all of the systems for that campus.

- Serve as the primary pastor, contact person and leader for the assigned campus.

- Requires the ability to lead teams effectively and to raise up new leaders at a rapid rate.  Also, organizational and administrative skills are a must.

- The ability to teach and contribute to The Journey’s teaching team is required as well as the ability to work well with and lead staff.

- Must be extremely hard-working and have had leadership experience on a large or growing church staff.

- Other desired characteristics include strong interpersonal skills; growing leader; team builder; sense of humor; risk-taker.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

- A Solid Calling toNew York City

- The ability to manage and lead a growing campus and the systems of that campus

- A passion for the Bible and innovation

- An ability to teach, lead classes and lead meetings (volunteers/staff)

- A team player

- Experience in a large/growing church

- A positive attitude

- A familiarity with The Purpose Driven Church Model

- A risk taker

- A passion for discipleship and not letting anyone fall through the cracks

- A passion and drive for evangelism and reaching the unchurched

- A high commitment to the local church

- Non-charismatic

- Must have experience in a church of 500 or more

- Must be willing to work up to 60 hours a week when necessary

Only resumes accompanied with a COVER LETTER will be considered. 

The cover letter should be personalized for this position and should answer 4 questions:

(1) Why you are interested in this position?

(2) Have you read any books by Nelson Searcy? (Fusion, Activate, Maximize, etc.)?  Are you familiar with the 8 Systems of the Church and the semester-based small groups model?

(3) Why you would feel comfortable relocating toNew York City?

(4) And what about you makes you stand out from other candidates for this position?

*Also – if you have a recent video/audio of you teaching in front of a group (large or small) – please include that along with your resume and cover letter.

Please send cover letters and resumes to cristina <at> journeymetro.com.

One thing I’ve learned over and over again is that time is our most limited commodity in this life.

And how you manage it determines a lot about what you get done.

I’ve shared before that I’m a long-term student of time management and I just re-read this quote:

“The key to successful time management is doing the most important task first, and giving it your full concentration, to the exclusion of everything else.”
– Alex MacKenzie

One of the biggest hindrances to effective time management is what I call “the myth of multi-tasking.”

With cell phones, texting, social media, always-on email clients and instant access to everything, we’re often fooled into thinking that “multi-tasking” is a good thing.

The truth is, however, that there is no such thing as multi-tasking… our brains weren’t designed to process more than one item at any given time.

Don’t believe me?  Try reading a book while carrying on a phone conversation, then hang up and write down what you read and the details of the call

Here’s my suggestion if you want to get the most out of the time you’re given each day:

Develop an ability to focus like a laser on one task at a time, and see how God uses it.

I guarantee you’ll see increased productivity, a higher level of excellence in what you’re working on and more satisfaction at the end of each day.

To getting more done,

Nelson

P.S. For 34 tested and proven time management practices that you can start implementing today, check out Time Management for Busy Pastors.

“By improving yourself, the world is made better.

Be not afraid of growing too slowly.  Be afraid only of standing still.

Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you.”

- Ben Franklin

“The prospects never looked brighter and the problems never looked tougher.  Anyone who isn’t stirred by both of those statements is too tired to be of much use to us in the days ahead.”
- John W. Gardner

“Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.”
– Pablo Picasso