Join us from 5:30-7:30 for pizza with Beloved pastoral candidate Jennifer Sanders. We will have time to mingle, as well as a question and answer period with Jennifer at 6 pm. We’ll enjoy pizza from our neighbors at Post Office Pies. Please call or email to let us know if you plan to attend or if you have any food allergies so we’ll order enough for everyone!
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Congregational meeting for pastoral vote, Oct. 9th
Almost one year ago, the members of Beloved Community Church entrusted a search committee to select a pastoral candidate for the church’s approval. Since then, we have spent hundreds of hours diligently and prayerfully reviewing in-depth ministerial profiles of fifteen applicants, including candidates from all over the United States, the UCC and other denominations. With great consideration, we narrowed our search to a few.
After interviewing each candidate twice, hearing them preach in person and talking to their references, we recommend Jennifer Sanders as the best candidate to pastor Beloved Community Church.
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Beloved Community Church seeks pastor
Beloved Community Church (UCC) is an open and affirming, vibrant church comprised of mission-oriented congregants in Birmingham, Alabama. Our small, diverse congregation is honored and proud to serve as sanctuary for people who have not felt at home in traditional churches while encouraging people from all walks of life to grow in relationship with one another and with God.
We welcome all people who join us in worship as our Beloveds and have a regular attendance of approximately 40 people. Sunday evening worship includes inspiring pastoral teaching and soulful music from our Beloved Orchestra followed by food and fellowship.
Whether it be through our Care Team Ministry that provides support for congregants in need, our Brown Bag Ministry that feeds 50+ families each month, our Family Promise Ministry that helps provide food and shelter for homeless families, or our willingness to stand in solidarity with immigrants seeking better lives, Beloved cares about our congregants and our community in word and deeds.
We are looking for a teaching pastor, who is informed and responsive to community needs, able to coordinate and energize lay leaders to fulfill mission responsibilities, able to maintain administrative duties and assist in growing the church, all while embodying our Beloved Community Church covenant:
With the help of God
We will walk together
In the ways of Jesus,
Creating a community
And striving for a world
Where no one is an outcast
And no one is a stranger,
Where all people are
Celebrated as precious children of God,
Where we joyfully share
With one another
Hope for the living,
Comfort for the dying,
Dignity for those in struggle,
And freedom to ask and to
Seek and to grow more fully
Into the persons
We were created to be.
