Executive Pastor

About Beacon Church

Beacon Church exists to help people Love God, Love People, Grow in Christ, and Serve the World. Founded in 2005, Beacon is a vibrant, gospel-centered church rooted in the heart of Long Island’s diverse, fast-moving New York metro culture. We are a community of people who take Jesus seriously, pursue genuine discipleship, and believe the local church is God’s “plan A” for the world. What started small has grown into a multi-service, multi-ministry congregation with a growing footprint in the region.

Our discipleship pathway runs deep: from Alpha courses and small groups to Discipleship Classes and small groups, we invest in the long-term spiritual growth of every person who walks through our doors.

The Opportunity

Beacon Church is actively searching for an Executive Pastor – a seasoned ministry leader who can serve as the Lead Pastor’s right hand, translate vision into execution, and provide unified oversight across our pastoral and ministry teams. This is a senior leadership role for someone who thrives in a high-trust, high-accountability environment, and who brings the experience and grit to lead in the complexities of a New York-area church context.

Key Responsibilities May Include:

Preaching & Teaching

• Craft and deliver Bible-based, exegetical sermons as part of the preaching team rotation.
• Collaborate with the Lead Pastor and team in developing sermon series that address the real needs of the congregation.
• Contribute to weekend service planning, ensuring theological depth and pastoral sensitivity in all teaching content.

Sunday Experience Oversight

• Provide senior-level oversight for the Sunday worship experience, working closely with Production and Worship Team leaders.
• Ensure technical excellence and spiritual intentionality work in concert each weekend.
• Coordinate communion, baptisms, and other sacramental moments with care and precision.

Next Generation Ministries

• Provide strategic oversight to Kidz Quest (children’s ministry) and Student Ministries leadership teams.
• Ensure Next Gen ministries are aligned with the church’s overall discipleship vision and pastoral culture.
• Champion investment in the next generation as a core part of Beacon’s long-term mission.

Guest Connection & Assimilation

• Lead and strengthen the church’s systems for connecting new and returning guests to community and next steps.
• Oversee the Alpha Course as a primary on-ramp for people exploring faith.
• Create clear, reproducible pathways from first visit through covenant membership.

Group Life

• Provide leadership oversight for Beacon’s small group ministry, ensuring health, growth, and theological alignment.
• Oversee Small Group Leader coaching, monthly connection meetings, and discussion leader development.
• Steward the matching and placement process that connects new members to appropriate community groups.

Discipleship & Spiritual Formation

• Oversee Beacon’s Discipleship Class (D-Class) content, scheduling, and execution.
• Recruit, train, and deploy Disciple-Makers to lead D-Groups throughout the congregation.
• Personally lead a D-Group as a modeling practice, demonstrating the culture you’re building.
• Maintain a clear vision for what a fully-formed disciple at Beacon looks like, and build pathways toward it.

Staff & Pastoral Leadership

• Provide unified oversight and weekly/monthly touchpoints with ministry team leaders across departments.
• Serve as a primary pastor to staff—offering encouragement, accountability, and spiritual care.
• Coordinate pastoral care efforts, including covenant member sessions, hospital visits, and counseling referrals.
• Lead church-wide brainstorming, troubleshooting, and operational problem-solving in partnership with the Lead Pastor.
• Represent the Lead Pastor’s vision clearly and consistently to the wider team.

Facilities Management

• Provide oversight of Beacon’s physical facilities, ensuring spaces are well-maintained, safe, and mission-ready.
• Manage vendor relationships, building maintenance schedules, and any renovation or building projects.
• Coordinate facility use across ministry teams, ensuring clear scheduling and accountability for shared spaces.
• Liaise with relevant contractors, inspectors, and local authorities as needed to keep the building compliant and operational.
• Work alongside leadership on long-term facility strategy, including stewardship of Beacon’s Generosity Initiative and future building needs.

Finance & Bookkeeping Oversight

• Provide senior oversight of Beacon’s financial health, working alongside the Lead Pastor and any bookkeeping staff or volunteers.
• Review and approve ministry budgets, ensuring stewardship and alignment with church priorities.
• Monitor monthly financial reporting and keep leadership informed of key metrics and variances.
• Ensure appropriate financial controls, processes, and accountability structures are in place.
• Support annual budget planning and financial goal-setting in coordination with church leadership.

Our Lead Pastor is a visionary with a strong personality and a clear sense of where God is taking this church. We’re looking for someone who can be an equally strong collaborative leader; someone who knows how to build structure around a vision, manage a diverse staff, and create the conditions for ministry to thrive. This position fits a leader who is energized by pace, a high-level team, complexity, and the unique dynamics of New York culture.

Who We’re Looking For

The ideal Executive Pastor candidate brings:

• A proven track record of senior ministry leadership, ideally in a multi-staff, large church context.
• Exceptional ability to build, manage, and develop a diverse ministry team.
• A deep commitment to expository preaching and gospel-centered discipleship.
• Strong relational instincts with a high EQ.
• A collaborative spirit with the ability to serve confidently under a strong, visionary Lead Pastor.
• Operational and administrative acumen – you can hold vision and details in the same hand.
• Familiarity with New York metro culture: the directness, the pace, the diversity, the political landscape, and the unique spiritual landscape of the region. You don’t need to “learn” New York – you already get it.
• Experience with or working knowledge of the Alpha Course model and small group ministry.
• A genuine personal discipleship life not just a program manager, someone who takes soul care seriously and models healthy spiritual disciplines.

Qualifications

• Seminary degree (M.Div. or equivalent) preferred; serious theological training required
• Minimum 7–10 years of pastoral ministry experience, with significant team leadership responsibility in a larger church context (700+)
• Ordained or ordination-eligible within an evangelical tradition
• Agreement with Beacon Church’s statement of faith and membership covenant
• Demonstrated personal faith, family health, and spiritual integrity consistent with 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1