Faith Architect Wanted – Pastor with Focus on Children and Family

We are an active urban church community in a growing district of Winterthur with around 6,000 reformed members, a team of four pastors and 20 employees as well as many volunteers.

Due to a retirement, we are looking to complement our pastoral team with a pastor for whom the profession is also a calling.

We wish for

• A sociable, refreshing pastor with contagious enthusiasm for faith and people
• A life-related, understandable proclamation of the gospel
• Openness to set new impulses and further develop our community's offerings; at the same time, an appreciative awareness of dealing with traditions
• Appreciative teamwork and interprofessional work at eye level
• Joy in building supportive relationships
• Motivation and support of our numerous volunteers (empowerment)
• Building and further developing the area of children and family from the crib play to family services; cooperation with our social deacon in the "Fiire mit de Chliine"
• Equal sharing of official days and services
• Visibility in the community (residence in the community desirable, a parsonage is available)

We offer

• Diverse services, complementary spiritual offerings, an expanded social diaconal offer as well as freedom and openness for new things
• A motivated team with a high awareness of successful collaboration (church council, pastoral team, social diaconate, administration team, catechists, sextons, church music) as well as external support for teamwork and processes (supervision, consulting)
• A newly organized church community according to the management model
• A quietly located parsonage with pastoral office and beautiful garden
• An attractive infrastructure: Our Romanesque church St. Arbogast and the freshly renovated church community house – an oasis in the middle of the village center of Oberwinterthur; the youth center Gleis 1B with church and open youth work, centrally located at the train station
• Our area of activity (Oberwinterthur, Neuhegi, Hegi and surrounding hamlets): an exciting district with old Roman walls on the church hill up to the data center in the industrial area in Neuhegi – accordingly socially diverse are the residential neighborhoods with very different demands

Further information about the position

Address for application