Pastor

Our current Pastor is due to retire in the summer of 2026 and we are seeking to call a new man to take on this role and work with the other 2 elders and 4 deacons in the oversight of the church.
The church currently has 33 members and we meet twice on a Sunday with both services live streamed (Sunday morning congregation around 50 evening 20/30). We have a midweek Bible Study and Prayer Meeting, a Tots & Tinies Group one morning, age-appropriate young people's groups on one evening and there is monthly visitation in the local community.
We practice believer's baptism and open communion and are Mission minded both locally and internationally.
A 4 bedroom manse is available alongside the church.
Horsley Evangelical Church is situated in the village of East Horsley, Surrey and serves both East and West Horsley which have a combined population of 8,000 and this number is growing due to new housing developments.
 

Required Skills

The man we are looking for will know a call to pastoral ministry in general and a specific call from the Lord to pastor Horsley Evangelical Church at this time. He will be a Christian, a godly man who seeks to worship God each day in his own life and who aims to love the Lord with all his heart, soul, mind and strength. Like anyone called to spiritual leadership, he will set others an example in love, faith and behaviour. His character should exhibit the qualities in 1 Timothy 3.
He will be a man with a pastoral heart for people, seeking to build them up and encourage them in their Christian faith. He will have a heart for the lost including young people and children, always seeking ways to reach out to unbelievers with the gospel.
He will be a man of prayer, understanding his calling to include praying for God's people in the church. He will also have a love for the word of God and an ability to expound and preach the Scriptures faithfully, relevantly and with great patience. We would expect him to understand the importance of preaching the word of God in the overall task of shepherding God's people.
We want the man to be the overall spiritual leader of the church and to be assisted in that task by fellow elders. He will fully accept the FIEC statement of faith and be non-charismatic in his understanding of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Ideally the man would have previous experience of being a Pastor and have a family.

For more information or to request an application pack, please contact our current pastor by email at: [email protected] and include a brief CV.

We can confirm that the job complies with minimum wage requirements. The salary for the job is in a range, agreed by the Deacons, but we prefer to take the position as currently in the FIEC Job advert ’to be agreed dependent on experience’, consistent with many other adverts of this type.