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Apostles Anglican Church is looking for a full time pastor to shepherd our congregation. Our parish values relationships, authenticity, approachability, and intelligent, biblically-based teaching that enriches our community of faith.

Our next rector will need to be:

• A life-long learner
• A good teacher
• Empathetic
• Humble
• Well-humored

He or she must be able to deliver effective and compelling sermons, led by the Holy Spirit and focused on Jesus. The candidate must trust scripture, speak truth with grace, and move us to an even deeper relationship with God, using theology aligned with the following:

• God grants His grace and sometimes He offers it in a prevenient manner.
• Humans have the free will to accept or reject God’s grace.
• Humans have the potential for complete, Christian holiness.

While Apostles embraces the traditions of the Anglican Church, many of our parishioners came from non-Anglican backgrounds, as do many of our visitors. The next rector will need to continue the mission of Apostles being a home for spiritual orphans and seekers by educating them in the Anglican way. He or she must additionally be willing and able to increase our church’s racial and ethnic diversity in authentic ways.

Apostles has strong lay leadership, and our candidate will need to encourage and support emerging leaders and facilitate parishioner-initiated community groups and outreach ministries. The church has a paid, part-time administrative staff. We currently have a full-time associate priest, focusing on pastoral care and parishioner engagement. In addition to this, there is a youth and young adult pastor who is an ordained priest. Related to clergy, we additionally have two ordained priests and a female transitional deacon who are non-staff clergy. Our church has always supported women in lay and ordained ministry, and this is a non-negotiable quality we are seeking in our next rector. The next rector will need the administrative flexibility and mentoring skills to incorporate and manage such a staff and one in a state of transition.

Our congregation believes in the power of prayer for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing that can sometimes be miraculous. We strive to deepen our relationships with God, our fellow believers, and our non-Christian neighbors. While we have a variety of secular opinions, we come together to worship the risen Lord—an essential characteristic of our church and a must for our future rector.