Church: Midtown Church Project, Minneapolis, MN
Position: Church Planter
Open To: Men and Women
Job Description: The Midtown Church Project is looking for a creative and innovative leader for a church plant in south Minneapolis. This individual will develop a church-planting launch team utilizing open space technology to facilitate creative and redemptive small group conversations. This person will handle preaching duties, develop a high-performing staff culture, and attain financial support from denominations and partner churches.
This leader will:

• Design and implement a culture of self-organizing small group conversations using open space technology.

• Develop a high-performing staff culture; a team that will mobilize volunteers who develop creative and redemptive spaces.

• Bring an integrative and cross-disciplinary approach to ministry; work effectively with diverse populations; communicate effectively; believe a better world is possible.

• Will devote their life to developing people who bring restorative justice to the areas of business, art, family and justice.

• Work 45-50 hours per week with sustained attention to details (and a mandatory Sabbath).

• Join a multiplication movement of replicable churches that plant churches.

Candidate Description: 
The ideal candidate will:

• Provide evidence they are a fully-devoted follower of Jesus Christ; theologically aligned with the Christian doctrines of creation, incarnation, and resurrection; sufficiently motivated by God's unending Grace.
• Present sufficient evidence of prior success and an actual track-record for attaining results in various working environments.
• Prove their gifts for envisioning and strategically planning new projects while adapting to a job description that will change every 90 days.
• Have lived in south Minneapolis for at least two to five years (a strong preference for the Phillips neighborhood) and believes that as the city goes, the culture goes.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with using open space technology as a group facilitation - particularly contexts of faith-building, community organizing, and/or business innovation.
• Be conversant in and academically acquainted with:

1.  the self-organizing principles of emergent systems
2.  church planting models
3.  urban ministries of compassion and justice

Please submit a resume, cover letter, one-page philosophy of ministry, and five references to contact listed below. Please include a description of your strengths and how your strengths align with the performance profile.
Contact: Tim Schuster 
Phone: 952.994.4511
Email: tlschuster@gmail.com
Date Received: 18 October 2011