The Leadership Structure Guide
Leaders
Executive Leaders
Governing Leaders
Associate Leaders
Addresses Controversies & Heresies
(Think Local Communities, Grassroots Discipleship, & Relationships)
Operations
Directors
Coordinators
Admin
Addresses Growth, Resourcing, Logistics
(Think Organization Admin, Events, Platform, & Communications)
Our Board Structure
Two Executive Leaders
Board Members are voted on every 4 years and have a maximum term of 8 years.
Two Operations Members
Board members are final decision makers for movement-wide shifts and strategies.
Wait, who’s the pastor?
Our perspective on leadership
We do church leadership differently. (Like, really differently.) For example: You won’t hear any of us saying "Pastor (fill in the blank)." And you definitely won’t hear us calling anyone "Apostle (fill in the blank)." We’re not pastor-led or single-leader-led. But we do have a 4-member team (Board - still in process) from within our operations and executive leaders who make major decisions that impact the entire movement.
We don’t care about titles, diplomas, fancy preaching, or follower count. We care about character, humility, competency, track record, real-life experience, and love for Jesus and others.
Other notes:
Pastoral care is the shared responsibility of each micro-church as a community and is not the responsibility of any one leader.
We are advocates of the five-fold ministry; read Ephesians 4:10-12.
As a practice and culture:
We’re all on a first-name basis, but we honor those in leadership and believe in submitting to spiritual authority. Our leaders exist to equip and serve the saints. This looks more like modeling Jesus in washing feet—a lifestyle of humility, selflessness, and a desire to send others out into their mission.
Our leaders aim to be unseen and to make loving others and raising up new leaders our greatest win. Our leadership culture emphasizes low control/high invitation, with a bias towards saying "yes" in supporting upcoming leaders’ ideas.
This model of leadership is countercultural in most church contexts, is still in development, and is not for those who prefer a traditional approach.
Why do we have leadership roles at all?
Well, that’s how Jesus established His church through the original apostles. Additionally, we believe that providing clarity on roles, responsibilities, accountability, and governance supports a healthy spiritual community. And it’s clear from scripture that healthy churches have healthy structures of leadership for guidance and discipline. See 1 Timothy 3:1-13 and Titus 1:6-9.
We invite our community to hold our leaders accountable. Our leaders are not superheroes; they are ordinary men and women who’ve said "yes" to Jesus and are committed to honoring Him in serving the saints.