Congregational Leader / Messianic Rabbi

About the role

Kehillat Eytz Chaim, a Messianic congregation in Toronto founded about 15 years ago by Chosen People Ministries (Canada), is looking for a mature person with pastoral experience and a call to minister to the Jewish community. The position is full-time and calls for someone who can lead the congregation on the foundations of the Old Testament with an understanding of the Jewishness of the New Testament.

Key responsibilities

• Provide leadership, vision and direction for the ministry of Eytz Chaim and serve as an elder.
• Lead the congregation in its ministries, programs and outreach.
• Provide discipleship, modelling, teaching and training, and pastoral counselling and care.
• Visit those who are grieving, hospitalized or homebound.
• Provide biblical preaching and teaching, including Shabbat morning service messages, holiday and life-cycle service messages.
• Oversee administration: compliance with federal, provincial and local requirements, timely payment of bills and debts, receipting of donations, and communication with the congregation, CPMC, the community and the wider Body of Messiah.
• Maintain an up-to-date calendar of fellowship, ministry and missions activities.

Required profile

• A sincere love for the Jewish people and evidence of a growing Christian faith.
• Qualifications of an Elder (1 Timothy 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9).
• Growing disciple of Messiah Yeshua; male; married preferred; ethnically and culturally Jewish preferred.
• Bible college degree required, or seminary degree preferred.
• Five years' experience in vocational Jewish ministry preferred.
• Full agreement with the Eytz Chaim/CPMC Statement of Faith and willingness to abide by its policies and Code of Conduct.