The Lead Pastor of Hope Fellowship Church serves as the primary spiritual and directional leader of the church. This person is responsible for shepherding the congregation, leading the Executive Leadership Team, guarding the theological and cultural DNA of Hope, and partnering with the Board of Directors and Elder Team to guide the church into its next season of ministry.
Key Responsibilities:
Shepherding and Pastoral Care
- This role carries the primary pastoral responsibility for the congregation’s spiritual health and care. Hope has a formal pastoral care structure in place; the Lead Pastor is responsible for championing and strengthening this culture, not building it from scratch.
Teaching and Preaching
- The Lead Pastor serves as the primary teaching voice of Hope Fellowship. Messages are delivered live from the Frisco East campus and broadcast to all campuses and online. All campuses operate on a single unified teaching calendar, which the Lead Pastor owns and shapes throughout the year.
Staff Leadership and Development
- The Lead Pastor directly leads the Executive Leadership Team and sets the culture for all of Hope’s employees and volunteers.
Vision and Strategy
- The Lead Pastor is the primary keeper and caster of Hope’s vision. In this season, Hope is not looking for someone to arrive with a new vision — we are looking for a leader who will inherit what God has built here, work collaboratively with the ELT and Board to clarify and articulate it, and lead the church faithfully into its next chapter.
- Hope’s current posture is depth over breadth — consolidating, going deeper, and investing in health and maturity before expanding. What success looks like at year 3 and year 5 will be discerned collaboratively between the Lead Pastor and ELT; the committee is not prescribing a destination so much as identifying a traveling partner.
Elder and Governance Partnership
- Hope’s governance model involves three distinct bodies working in partnership: the Board of Directors (governance and hiring authority), the Elder Team (spiritual discernment and congregational voice), and the Executive Leadership Team (day-to-day ministry leadership). The Lead Pastor operates at the intersection of all three.
Requirements
- Teachability and Humility: Someone who is a humble leader, willing to empower others and appropriately share leadership & the platform.
- Visionary and Missional Leadership: Someone who has the ability to combine vision with mission and lead people toward that vision.
- Developing and Empowering of People and Staff: Someone who is able to develop and empower volunteers, leaders and staff.
- Spiritually and Relationally Mature and Healthy: Someone who is healthy and growing in maturity in their spiritual life and relationships.
- Jesus-Centered Preacher and Teacher: Someone who is able to preach & teach the Word of God from a Jesus-Centered lens, staying true to the Bible and making disciples and spiritually mature believers.
Why We Love This Opportunity
I love this opportunity because Hope Fellowship has done the hard work of getting healthy and preparing the leadership, staff and congregation for the next Lead Pastor. The church has four campuses and wants to continue reaching people for Jesus. There are many incredible factors that make this one of the best Lead Pastor opportunities in the country.
About Hope Fellowship
Hope Fellowship Church has been part of the DFW community for more than 26 years. What began as a single congregation has grown into a multi-campus family spanning Frisco, McKinney, and Prosper — with thousands of people gathering each weekend across our locations and online. We are non-denominational and Christ-centered, shaped by the conviction that Jesus is not just how faith begins — He is how faith grows.
Hope is not a perfect church. We are a church full of people on the journey — people who have been hurt, healed, broken, and restored. We don’t ask anyone to have it all together before they walk through our doors. We widen the door of invitation without lowering the call of transformation.
Hope Fellowship is currently in a season of meaningful transition. Following significant leadership change, our Co-Interim Lead Pastors have guided the congregation through this period. The church is healthy, engaged, and ready for its next chapter — not a church in crisis, but a church with deep roots and growing anticipation.
About Frisco
Hope Fellowship is located in the heart of the North Dallas suburbs — one of the fastest-growing corridors in the United States. Frisco, McKinney, and Prosper consistently rank among the most desirable places to live in the country, attracting young families, professionals, and transplants from across the nation. The area is defined by excellent schools, master-planned communities, and a culture of ambition and achievement — a place where people are building careers, raising children, and looking for community.
Beneath the surface of success, however, is a population deeply in need of roots. Many residents are far from extended family, navigating life in a new city, and searching for belonging. The DFW Metroplex is one of the most diverse and rapidly diversifying regions in the country — ethnically, economically, and culturally. This is a mission field that looks prosperous on the outside and carries real hunger on the inside.
