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As an executive at Stephen Ministries you'll use your leadership, training, and creative skills to advance significant ministry at a successful, stable, and highly productive organization.
Are you looking for an opportunity to work in full-time ministry? Sometimes a very successful person will step back and reevaluate his or her goals. A businessperson may want to find more meaning, to be a part of work that will make a difference. A pastor may want to focus on gifts of leadership, teaching, and writing while still serving in a different kind of full-time ministry. Others may want an environment where they can grow, try new responsibilities, and discover where their gifts and commitment can take them.
If that's you, consider taking the next step of your career at Stephen Ministries Saint Louis.
What Executives Do Here
Executives at Stephen Ministries are highly committed, very bright people who enjoy doing a number of important and very gratifying activities, including some or all of the following:
- leading teams and projects, supervising employees, and taking responsibility for various parts of the organization, such as supervising customer service or managing training events;
- writing and editing material of all kinds including publicity copy, organizational manuals, training presentations, new ministry products, and books (executives at Stephen Ministries are usually very good writers and have a passion for clear communication); and
- helping train thousands of people at workshops and training courses.
Executives at Stephen Ministries work with administrative assistants, and each helps make the other more productive.
Our executives are a cohesive team--we learn together and work together to lead, build, and strengthen the organization. Executives who thrive here get tremendous satisfaction out of doing productive activities and seeing results in the church and the world.
Stephen Ministries executives meet regularly as a team where they study leadership and management, work together to maintain the organization's culture of productivity, and discuss the future direction of the organization.
Two of Our Core Values
An executive office at the Stephen Ministries Center. Our headquarters is a modern, comfortable work environment designed specially to meet our staff members' needs.
Two of the highest priorities at Stephen Ministries are organizational stability and maintaining a positive work environment--these are so important to us that we hold them as core values. Stephen Ministries has every intention of remaining successful for generations to come, and we manage the organization with that goal in mind. At the same time, we make sure that this is a genuinely pleasant place to work. You'll certainly work hard at Stephen Ministries, but you never have to worry about being stabbed in the back. Organizational stability and a positive work environment make Stephen Ministries an excellent place for an executive career.
And by the way, St. Louis is an excellent place to live and raise a family. Our executives have moved here from many different parts of the United States, and all of them enjoy living in St. Louis. "Living in St. Louis" will tell you more about the benefits of the St. Louis area. You can also read about what other Stephen Ministries employees have to say about working here in "What It's Like to Work at Stephen Ministries."
Read about a couple members of
our executive staff:
Joel Bretscher was working as a writer and graphic designer for a computer graphics company in Arizona, but he wanted more meaning in his work. His experience as a Stephen Minister led him to explore working for Stephen Ministries. He joined the Stephen Ministries team in 1995 and quickly earned the respect of his coworkers. Since 1998 he has been leading the marketing and public relations areas as Director of Communications.
Rev. David Paap was a parish pastor for ten years, but he wanted to reach even more people. In 1983, he joined Stephen Ministries, where he found the ideal place to use his gifts of administration and leadership along with his creative and writing skills. He is the Program Director and has taught thousands of people at training conferences.