Now Hiring · Full-Time
Campus Lead, Ensley Campus
Magnify Church is looking for a pastor to lead, shepherd and preach at its Ensley Campus: a rural, family-oriented congregation in Sand Lake, Michigan, with the warmth of a country church and a heart for making disciples.
About Magnify Church
Magnify Church is a three-campus evangelical church with Baptist roots, based in Rockford, Michigan. It began more than 50 years ago as Blythefield Hills Baptist Church, “started on hay bales,” and took the Magnify name in 2020. Today it gathers across its Rockford, Northview and Ensley campuses.
Magnify is “Gospel-centered and kingdom focused,” with practical Bible teaching, life-giving relationships and the hope of Jesus at the centre of everything. Its mission is simple: Always Making Disciples, bringing the hope of Jesus to the community and the world through prayer, loving actions and words.
The Ensley Campus sits beside the township hall on 120th Street, “surrounded by crop fields and filled with friendly faces.” It pairs the warmth and character of an old country church with modern worship and ministries for every age, and serves a stable, family-oriented rural community about 30 miles north of Grand Rapids.
Our Values
Worship — Gratitude for what God has done through Jesus fuels daily worship, with Sunday set apart to meet with God and his people.
Learn — Ongoing transformation through God’s Word: a commitment to keep growing, not coasting.
Relate — Honest community without pretense, where people admit their need for redemption and carry one another.
Serve — Every believer has a part in God’s work, and no role is too small.
Give — Time, talent and treasure belong to God, stewarded first through the local church.
Reach — Jesus alone is the hope of the world, shared through prayer, actions and words, from local to global.
About the Role
As Campus Lead, you will provide pastoral leadership, care and oversight of the Ensley Campus as its campus pastor, in a way that supports the mission, vision, values and strategies of Magnify Church. You will preach regularly, develop and equip the campus’s staff and ministry teams, and shepherd the congregation alongside Magnify’s central pastoral team.
Roles & Responsibilities
Pray for key staff and ministry.
Develop and cast vision in coordination with the overall church vision.
Develop and equip ministry teams and staff personally, as leaders, and in light of their gifting and the skills their roles require.
Measure and evaluate the effectiveness of key staff and ministry.
Assist with pastoral responsibilities: communication, visitation, funerals, weddings and more.
Support program coordination: facility needs, calendar and resources.
Preach a minimum of 35 to 40 times per year.
Take part in the weekly pastoral team and teaching team meetings as needed.
Qualifications
A personal relationship with Jesus Christ that results in a life lived in obedience to the Word of God.
Beliefs consistent with Magnify’s Statement of Beliefs.
Actively participates and serves in the community of believers at Magnify’s Ensley Campus.
Gives faithfully of time, talent and treasure to the ministry of Magnify.
Self-directed, with a teachable spirit and a servant’s heart for ministry.
Strong logistical skills: attention to detail and the ability to manage and prioritise multiple tasks at once.
Solves problems with a collaborative spirit.
Strong relational skills with staff and congregants.
Understands and engages with the mission, vision, values and strategies of Magnify.
Experience
At least two years of proven, faithful local church ministry, as a lay volunteer or on staff.
Education
A college undergraduate degree.
Seminary education, complete or in progress.
What Magnify Believes
Magnify’s pastors, staff and volunteers all affirm the church’s Statement of Beliefs. It opens with a Narrative Confession of Faith that follows the storyline of Scripture, then a Founding Confession of Faith, statements on specific beliefs, and how the statement is applied.
Please read the full statement before you apply. Your CV / Resume should affirm it, or clearly outline any area where you differ.
The Narrative Confession, in Brief
God — One holy, sovereign and all-knowing God, eternally existing in three coequal persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Revelation — Scripture, the sixty-six books from Genesis to Revelation, is God-breathed, true, and our final authority in faith and life.
Creation — God created all things out of nothing, for his glory, and made humanity in his image.
Fall — Through Adam’s rebellion every person is born with a sinful nature, alienated from God and under his just condemnation.
Jesus Christ — Fully God and fully man, born of a virgin; his blood atoned for our sins and he rose bodily. Salvation is a gift of God, received by faith and not earned by works.
The Church — The local church gathers for the Word, prayer, fellowship, believer’s baptism by immersion and the Lord’s Supper, and goes out to make disciples.
Consummation — Christ will return personally and gloriously to complete his kingdom, raise the dead for judgment, and renew all creation.
How to Apply
Apply using the form below. Your CV / Resume should be a maximum of 5 pages, with a cover letter that answers each of the following.
Include in the Cover Letter of Your Resume / CV
Why you’re a top candidateTell us why you would be a top candidate for this role, specifically highlighting your past ministry experience.
Doctrinal statementAffirm Magnify’s Statement of Beliefs, or outline any area where you differ.
Preaching samplesLink to at least one example of your preaching. Three are preferred.
Marital statusLet us know whether you are married or single, and whether you have ever been divorced.