Position Description

Discipleship Pastor (Full-Time)
New Hope Fellowship, Mississauga Campus

We are seeking a Full-Time Discipleship Pastor to join our pastoral team: a pastor who loves God and his church; a pastor who is a faithful follower of Jesus and is able to disciple others to grow as faithful followers of Jesus; a pastor who would like to be part of a pastoral team that desires to glorify God, equip God’s people, and blesses the nations.

Church Description

New Hope Fellowship is an English Ministry of Light Presbyterian Church and has a network of three campuses in the Greater Toronto Area. Mississauga Campus is a growing church community (current Sunday attendance of around 300 adults and 100 children with over 120 members actively serving in various ministries). We exist to glorify God by moving with a gospel-centered missional spirituality. Our mission is to help all people move toward Christ together. We are devoted to prayer and God’s word to guide and fuel our life and ministry. We aspire to reflect the glory of God through our life and ministry together. We endeavor to spread the glory of God through our missions locally and globally. 

Key Responsibilities & Outcome

•    Collaborate with pastoral team and lay leadership team to cultivate a healthy discipleship ecosystem so that members grow as faithful followers of Jesus.
•    Equip members with God’s word so that they can do the work of ministry in the church and live a missional life in their daily lives at home, work and public square.
•    Cultivate discipleship pathways so that a nonbeliever can come to faith and believers can grow in faith and mature as fruitful disciple-makers.
•    Build discipleship team and ministry structures so that members are mobilized to lead classes and discipleship ministry is organized with coherence. 
•    Shepherd members through word ministry, pastoral care and counseling so that they can be strengthened in their faith.

Key Qualities

•    Gospel Conviction: You love Jesus Christ, cherish the gospel and seek God’s kingdom.
•    Calling: You have a deep sense of God’s call to serve as a pastor and shepherd God’s people.
•    Character: You have a lifestyle congruent with the biblical qualification of a pastor/elder (1 Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-9).
•    Teaching Competency: You are gifted in teaching, rightly handling God’s word and relevantly applying it to life and ministry of God’s people.
•    Missional Passion: You have passion to know Christ and to make him known in all nations.
•    Team Player: You put the interest of others first and pursue unity for the sake of the church’s mission.

Qualifications

•    Education: Master of Divinity or equivalent/ higher degree from an accredited seminary. 
•    Experience: A minimum two years of experience in pastoral ministry at a local church.
•    Competency: Excellent communication (written and verbal), organizational & interpersonal skills.

Salary Expectation
Compensation will be commensurable with qualifications and experience.

Application
1.    Testimony (sharing how you came to faith and how you were called into pastoral ministry)
2.    C/V (highlighting ministry experiences and educational background)
3.    Ministry philosophy and vision for discipleship ministry
4.    Two references

Application Deadline: August 30, 2025 (Open until filled)
Please submit your application to HR@newhopefellowship.ca.
If you have any questions, please contact pastor Charles Lee at charles.lee@newhopefellowship.ca. For more information about our church, please visit our website www.newhopefellowship.ca