Pastor jobs in Virginia

About the role

This role exists to ensure that every gathered worship experience—whether in person or online—helps people engage meaningfully with the Gospel in ways that are clear, compelling, distraction-free, and aligned with HOPE’s mission, vision, and values. Through leadership of the Worship and Production teams, the Worship Experience Pastor plays a key role in advancing HOPE’s strategic priorities to Reach Families, Grow Leaders, Plant Churches, and Go Far and Wide. While this role is primarily focused on strategic leadership, team development, and worship experience oversight, the Worship Experience Pastor must also possess the ability to lead worship from the platform with theological depth, musical competence, and pastoral presence, stepping into platform leadership as needed to support the ministry and model worship leadership for the team. This leader helps Reach Families by cultivating worship environments that are welcoming, engaging, and spiritually impactful for both believers and those exploring faith. They help Grow Leaders by developing staff, volunteers, residents, and emerging leaders within worship and production ministries. They help Plant Churches by building scalable systems, healthy team culture, and reproducible worship models that can support future ministry expansion. They help HOPE Go Far and Wide by strengthening digital and livestream experiences that extend the reach of the Gospel beyond HOPE’s physical campuses. The Worship Experience Pastor oversees the Worship Lead Pastor and the Production Lead, ensuring strong alignment, healthy collaboration, and a shared purpose across the two departments. This leader is responsible for cultivating a culture of spiritual depth, creative excellence, technical reliability, and servant-hearted leadership, while ensuring that every worship experience reflects the heart of Jesus and advances HOPE’s mission to offer experiences, relationships, and places where people can find life and purpose through Jesus Christ.

What you'll bring

• While this role is primarily focused on strategic leadership, team development, and worship experience oversight, the Worship Experience Pastor must also possess the ability to lead worship from the platform with theological depth, musical competence, and pastoral presence, stepping into platform leadership as needed to support the ministry and model worship leadership for the team.
• Active and growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ
• Strong alignment with HOPE’s mission, vision, values, and theological convictions, including affirmation of EPC Essentials of Faith
• Significant experience leading complex worship, production, or creative ministries in a large church or similarly complex environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead worship vocally and instrumentally from the platform in a congregational setting
• Proven experience leading and developing high-capacity leaders and teams
• Strong strategic thinking, organizational leadership, and systems-building ability
• Strong communication, relational, and coaching skills
• Working knowledge of modern worship and production systems, platforms, and workflows
• Demonstrated ability to balance pastoral sensitivity, creative vision, and operational execution
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in worship leadership, theology, music, production, leadership, or related field preferred