Role Description Part 2: Tina Combs

Role Description

Tina Combs

Position: Associate Pastor

Reports To: Lead Pastor

Status: Full-Time – Exempt

Primary/Overall Responsibility: To Recruit, Train, Deploy, Monitor, and Nurture (RTDMN) volunteer teams in order to provide meaningful ministry and service opportunities for every active member and attender at HRAC in accordance with HRAC’s values, mission, and vision.

Specific Responsibilities: Ongoing team building and care for the following projects and teams will include but will not be limited to Celebrate Recovery, Community Groups, Tech ministry, Youth ministry (both Middle and High School), and Local Outreach. Other general areas of responsibility include participation on the Preaching Team, Pastoral Care as needed, and the development of a HRAC Discipleship/Spiritual Formation Pathway, Budget Oversight and Preparation, and Office Administration.

Celebrate Recovery

·      Lead the volunteer leadership team through ongoing recruiting, training, deploying, monitoring, and nurturing (RTDMN)

·      Provide trainings and development to ensure CR is a safe place for all in recovery

·      Launch 12 step groups for men and women at least annually

·      Oversee the CR budget

Community Groups

·      Work with the Community Building Team to creatively consider ways to launch CGs

·      Work with the Community Building Team to develop a coaching system to provide care, encouragement, and ongoing training for CG Facilitators and Hosts

·      Provide quarterly trainings for CG Facilitators

·      Resource CG facilitators with ideas for mission

·      Resource and oversee short term classes and workshops

Tech Ministry

·      RTDMN a volunteer team including sound, projection, lights, video, which includes someone to administrate the Planning Center schedule for Sunday services, support the tech side of special services (weddings, funerals, etc.)

·      Oversee the Tech Team ministry budget

Youth Ministry

·      Provide leadership and oversight for the volunteer MS and HS ministry teams

·      Train teams to continually recruit, train, deploy, monitor, and nurture additional volunteers

·      Provide safety training and background checks for volunteers

Local Outreach

·      RTDMN a Local Outreach Team to connect with the Hood River region

Office Administration

·      Oversee the role of Office Administrator

·      Web/Tech

·      Oversee the general budgeting process—both ongoing and new year prep

HRAC Discipleship/Spiritual Formation Pathway

·      Work with HRAC Staff, with input from the Governing Authority, to develop a pathway that moves people from unchurched (or de-churched) unbeliever to a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ.

·      This pathway begins with a creative Welcoming ministry and moves to Connections ministry, and then to various classes/workshops that sponsor newcomers into the life and ministry opportunities at HRAC, which include membership, spiritual gift discovery, and servant-leadership development as needed.

Misc. Responsibilities

·      Pastoral care

o   Meet with or reach out to individuals in need of care, encouragement, and prayer

o   Help to provide pastoral care in such areas as baptisms, preaching/teaching, weddings, funerals, hospital visitations, etc. as needed.

·      Hold regular office hours communicated with the church office

Role Description Part 1: Gregg Caruso

Role Description

Gregg Caruso

Position:  Intentional Interim Pastor (IIP)

Reports To:  Hood River Alliance Board

Status:  Full-Time – Exempt

Primary Responsibility:

The IIP is charged with the specific, temporary task of guiding HRAC through a season of healing, reconciliation, and transition. The IIP will guide a spiritual discovery process to develop both a theology and practice of what it means to follow Christ, build His kingdom, and see God revitalize a community of believers. 

General Responsibilities

·      Focus on the preaching and teaching of God’s word.

·      Build trust and interdependence among leaders.

·      Enhance communication among leaders and within the body.

·      Evaluate all ministry systems and structures.

·      Facilitate and assist in biblical reconciliation wherever needed.

·      Work to correct patterns of weakness in communication and leadership.

·      Involve the whole church in a corporate process of revision and refocus.

·      Train and coach, the Lead Pastor Search Team.

·      Lead the church through specific recommendations from the VitalChurch diagnostic assessment process that was completed in February 2022 and prepare the congregation to transition smoothly to a permanent Lead Pastor.

2023 Ministry Objectives (MO’s):

1.     Oversee and implement a change in focus, migrating away from the vocational staff doing the majority ministry to a vocational staff that equips and coaches lay ministers and lay ministry teams. (Ongoing)

2.     Update HRAC Staff Job Descriptions with a primary emphasis on coaching and equipping lay ministers and lay ministry teams. (Ongoing)

·      All JDs will begin with: Primary/Overall Responsibility: To Recruit, Train, Deploy, Monitor, and Nurture (RTDMN) volunteers and volunteer teams in order to provide meaningful ministry and service opportunities for every active member and attender at HRAC in accordance with HRAC’s values, mission, and vision.

·      Followed by consistent coaching appointments with vocational and lay staff members to creatively and consistently build multiplying and interconnected teams in accordance with HRAC’s values, mission, and vision.

3.     Identify HRAC Core Ministries that need to be re/built, primarily with lay leaders coached by vocational staff. (This would be my main priority over the next 6-months in addition to building and training a LP Search Team)

·      Sunday morning Worship Service. Sub Teams include… (Gregg, Tina, Laura, & Kim)

o   Hospitality and Connections (includes Welcome Desk, Coffee, Communion Prep, Greeters)

o   Pre-Service Prayer

o   Post-Service Prayer

o   Adult Sunday School Class/es (??)

o   Tech Team

o   Worship Team

o   Preaching Team

o   Children’s Ministry (Nursery-5th Grade)

·      Classes (Gregg, Tina, & Tim)

o   Welcome to HRAC (?)

o   Discipleship/Spiritual Formation Pathway

§  Baptism

§  Membership

§  Gifts (?)

§  Service

·      Governance Authority (Gregg)

·      Deacons (Gregg)

·      Youth (Tina)

o   Middle School

o   High School

·      Community Groups (Tina)

·      Facilities (Eric)

o   Inside Team (upkeep and repairs)

o   Outside Team (upkeep and repairs)

·      Worship Community (Gregg)

o   Relationship/Team Building

o   Auditions

·      Outreach/Service/Evangelism/Missions (Tina)

o   Local

o   Extra Local (see below)

·      Women’s Ministry (Margie Grant & Team)

·      CR (Tina)

·      Additional Teams to be Re/Built (brainstorm potentials and begin to build teams when interest includes 3-5 people):

o   Men’s Ministry

o   Prayer/Intercession

o   Financial Advisory Board (FAB)

o   Benevolence Team

o   Special Events Team (Mary B)

o   Social Media Team

o   Safety & Security Team

o   Seniors Ministry

o   Adult Ed

o   Short Term Missions