Overview

The Saturate Church Planting Residency exists to assess, equip, send and strengthen residents and their families to plant churches throughout the Puget Sound region. Reporting directly to the Lead Pastor of sending church, the Resident’s role is to participate in our mission of “Go Make Disciples” by preparing to become a pastor that will plant a church in the South Puget Sound area.

This is an intense two-year equipping program designed to train, apprentice, and immerse the resident in all major aspects of planting and overseeing a new church plant. The residency will focus on developing competencies in preaching, leadership, shepherding, and mission.

The resident must be called to ministry, be versatile in his skill set, creative, and enjoy working within an entrepreneurial environment that is mission-focused, spirit-led, results-driven, and team-oriented.  The ideal candidate will be able to exercise sound biblical judgment in a variety of situations, have strong written and verbal communication skills, and be a disciple-maker.

Qualifications

• Fulfill the duties required of a church member of the Host/Sending church.
• Fulfill the character qualifications of Elder/Pastor as taught in the Scriptures.
• Complete an independent church planter assessment (Stadia or Converge).
• Complete the pre-elder assessment of the Host/Sending church.
• Ability to cast vision, equip leaders, build teams/ministries and make disciples.
• Have proven leadership track record.

Spiritual and Practical Gifting Requirements

• Called to Eldership
• Gift of preaching and teaching
• Servant hearted
• Entrepreneurship
• Encouragement
• Leadership

Scope

The Resident will engage in a rigorous program that will focus on training (learning new concepts), apprenticeship (practice with hands-on experience under close supervision), and immersion (performing concepts learned with minimal supervision).  Within the program, there will be time spent with various pastors and teams, written assignments, goals with deadlines and team participation with multiple churches.  

Other requirements include:

• Attendance Host/Sending church staff meetings and other church-related meetings
• Participate in Preaching Team Meetings
• Join Aspire with Host/Sending church or Flagship/Hub church
• Participate in Elder Equip with Host/Sending church or Flagship/Hub church
• Attend and serve at Sunday worships at Host/Sending church as well as partnering churches

Preaching

We want to develop preachers who will be able to engage both Christians and non-Christians with the truth of Scripture. The resident will have formal training through reading assignments, video trainings and regular coaching meetings.

• Attend weekly sermon prep with the Preaching Pastor of Host/Sending church
• The resident will learn the different ways to prepare a sermon (deductive, inductive, semi-inductive).
• The resident will learn how to prepare an entire sermon series (themes, text breakdown, small group tie in).
• The resident will gain the ability to discover, prepare and teach a consistent theme throughout each sermon in a series.
• The resident will learn how to write and deliver a sermon that is biblical, memorable, emotional, apologetical, Christological, applicational and contextual.
• Preach at least twice monthly or twenty different sermons in the first year and even more in the second year.

Leadership

We want to develop leaders of leaders that model the Character of Christ while inspiring others to follow Jesus and fulfill His mission. This training will be specifically focused on developing the following competencies.

• The resident will create a vision, plan, and strategy to multiply Small Groups in the planting city. The goal will be to develop at least ten Small Groups in the planting city over a two-year period. During this process, the resident is to build trust & rapport with Small Group leaders and live life within the community and context of the planting city.
• The resident will create a vision, plan, and strategy to build a core group in the planting city. The goal will be to develop relationships with people individually while helping the group grow in group commitment, group identity, group values, and group stewardship. During this process, the resident is to build trust & rapport with the core group and live life on mission together in the planting city.
• Ultimately, the goal is for the resident to equip disciples to make disciples. This will be evident by 1. multiplying groups who make disciples and 2. building a core group that makes disciples.  

Shepherding

We want to develop pastors who love God, love others and love their city. The resident will be exposed to a variety of shepherding styles and shepherding situations. During this process we want the resident to discover his shepherding style by observing different shepherds in different contexts. The Resident will:

• Shadow/participate in fifty hours of pastoral care meetings: The goal is to learn the posture, difficulty, and joy of shepherding by gaining hands-on experience in facing the reality of pastoral care.
• Learn how to do hospital visits and care for those who are suffering.
• The resident will participate in Aspire and Elder Equip of Host/Sending Church.
• The resident will personally shepherd all counseling cases for his small group(s) and his core group.

Mission Development

We want to help develop City Pastors who live on mission and have the ability to invite others to live on mission with them. The Resident will:

• The resident will spend time weekly in planting city getting to know people and building relationships. The goal will be for the resident to build 5-10 relationships with non-Christians.
• Theresident will strive to share the gospel 3 times a week with a variety of people.
• The resident will equip Small Groups to embrace the ONE LIFE initiative. The Goal is that every group makes one new disciple a year.
• The resident will create a vision, plan, and strategy to start and lead an outreach ministry or service project in planting city. The goal is to build relationships with non-Christians in the planting city and begin pastoring the city with a heart of love and service. This plan should include a breakdown of city demographics, who the target audience is for the new church plant and how the core group will engage within the city.

Schedule

Sunday: available 7a -9p; weekly staff meetings of Host/Sending church, Monday-Saturday is flexible to meet job requirements.