PASTOR VACANCY

Senior Pastor – Baglan Community Church

Length: permanent
Type: full-time
Location: Baglan, South Wales
Salary: To be negotiated depending on experience
Posted: October 2025

Position overview

The Pastor will serve as the spiritual leader of Baglan Community Church, guiding the congregation in fulfilling its mission to glorify God and make disciples of Jesus Christ in South Wales and beyond. This role requires a leader who can inspire and nurture spiritual growth, foster community engagement, and oversee the church's teaching and outreach efforts, working with the other elders and ministry teams. The Pastor will be dedicated to preaching, teaching, discipleship and providing pastoral care.

Main Purpose

To provide visionary leadership for the church, focusing on:
 

• Preaching and teaching (John 21:15-16)

• Pastoral care (1 Peter 5:2)

• Evangelism and outreach (2 Timothy 4:5)

• Disciple-making church growth (Matt 28)

 

Required Skills / Qualities 

1. A baptized believer who upholds Scripture as the final authority in matters of faith.

2. Committed to the doctrinal position of the church as outlined in the ‘What we believe’ section.

3. A person dedicated to prayer, with a close walk with God, a love for people, and the ability to lead others spiritually.

4. Dedicated to the study of God's Word and delivering high-quality, relevant Bible teaching and preaching ministry.

5. Committed to evangelism, mission, and the growth of the church.

6. Leadership experience in pastoral care, evangelism, and outreach, with a proven track record of working in and leading ministry teams.

7. Theological training and experience working in multi-generational church settings.

Baglan Community Church – a profile

Baglan is a suburban area in South Wales, located within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot. Situated between the towns of Port Talbot and Neath, it offers a mix of residential neighbourhoods, green spaces, and light industry. Historically linked to coal mining and the steel industry, Baglan has evolved into a quieter, community-focused area with convenient access to the M4 motorway and local rail services. The nearby Brecon Beacons and Gower Peninsula offer stunning scenery and a range of outdoor activities, making Baglan an attractive place to live with convenient access to larger towns and cities.

 

Baglan Community Church is a vibrant evangelical congregation located in the heart of Baglan, South Wales. Founded in September 2002, it began as a small gathering of three families under the eventual leadership of Pastor Neil Tallamy. Through outreach initiatives and door-to-door invitations, the fellowship grew rapidly, soon becoming a congregation of around ninety members who met at the local community centre and experienced a season of notable growth and blessing. The church later acquired a former social club—what is now known as The Centre on Lodge Drive offering modern facilities including a 350-seat hall, meeting rooms, and a community coffee house. Today, Baglan Community Church holds weekly Sunday services at 10:30 am (with around 200 attending) and an evening service on the first and third Sunday of every month at 6 pm.

The church is currently led by a dedicated team of elders who meet regularly to prayerfully oversee the life and direction of the church. Together, they provide spiritual guidance, leadership, and pastoral care to ensure that all areas of church life run smoothly and remain focused on our mission.

 

In addition to the elders, we are blessed to have a part-time Youth Pastor who invests in the discipleship and development of our young people, and a full-time Pastoral Worker who supports the wider church community through teaching, care, and practical ministry.

 

We believe that strong leadership and teamwork are vital to the health and growth of our church family. To find out more about our current elders and staff members, please visit our website: www.baglanchurch.com/meet-the-team.

The church maintains a vibrant and active schedule throughout the week, alongside our Sunday services. House groups, which are central to our community life, meet from Monday to Thursday in various locations and focus on Bible study, prayer, and fellowship. On Mondays, “Craft and Chat” offers a relaxed setting for connection and meaningful gospel conversations. Our coffee shop is open to everyone on Tuesday and Friday mornings, providing a warm space for fellowship. Thursday mornings host “Pitter Patter,” our group for babies and toddlers, while our youth programme for secondary school students runs on Friday nights and during Sunday services. We also hold regular monthly ministries, including a men’s breakfast, a ladies' teaching breakfast, and a senior lunch. Further details can be found on our website, https://www.baglanchurch.com/what-s-on

For an insight into our Sunday services, please visit our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@BaglanCommunityChurchMedia). All of our worship services are livestreamed to ensure accessibility for everyone, whether they are joining us from home or elsewhere. Thanks to our well-equipped digital facilities and dedicated technical team, we are able to provide a high-quality streaming experience that allows our congregation to stay connected and engaged, no matter where they are.

Mission at BCC

At BCC we have a heart for mission. Our mission statement is, ‘Supporting those who take the gospel all over the world.’ We support missions prayerfully and financially both home and away. Some of the missionaries we support have come from within our congregation. Presently we support a number of missions on a regular basis. Each House group is asked to pray for at least one mission to ensure they are being prayed for often. We also invite the missions to speak in church services, and all newsletters are shared on our church Facebook page.

We are committed to giving away 10% and above of what we receive through our weekly and monthly donations. The church gives one off donations to specific individual and local needs/responds to local and world events and part fund mission trips and young people/children attending camps. Over the last few years BCC has supported a team from our congregation who have worked in Romania on summer camps with Hospices for Hope. We are keen to be doing this type of work and encouraging people to get involved in mission work.

Children’s Work at BCC

Our growing Kid’s Church at BCC happens during the Sunday morning service and is attended by up to 20 children each week. With kid’s worship, songs, crafts, stories, memory verses and prizes, the children are generally very happy to be coming to Church each Sunday morning!

Entirely volunteer led, the children’s team is made up of people from all walks of life – teachers, radiographers, students, mums, dads and plenty of youth helpers too.

On a Sunday morning, we also have a volunteer led creche facility available so that parents to babies and toddlers are able to engage fully in the service whilst their little ones hear Bible stories, sing simple songs, play games and make crafts.

Youth Work at BCC

Our Friday night Youth Group is currently our main session of the week – With sometimes over 30 young people in attendance. About 50% of the young people that attend are from Church families whilst the other half are friends from school or young people that we’ve got to know in the community that want to explore faith further. We worship together, hear teaching together (sometimes from the youth themselves!), spend time in small groups and play plenty of games and eat plenty of sweets! Each year we have a youth weekend away – except every year they ask if we can stay for longer and longer!

Our mid-week Youth Club will begin running again once we have enough volunteers to support it. The Youth Club is open to all young people, many of whom have no connection to church. Each session includes a short, five-minute faith-based talk, with the rest of the time spent building relationships through games and socialising.

On Sundays our year 7-9s meet in the coffee shop for a Bible study during the main service. Once they reach year 10, they stay in the main service and many of the young people join the children’s team on the rota once a month.

What we believe:

1. God. There is one eternal God who exists in three equally divine persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God is unchanging in His holiness, justice, wisdom, and love. He is the all-powerful Creator, Saviour, and Judge who sustains and rules over everything according to His sovereign will, all for His own glory.

2. The Bible. God has made Himself known through the Bible, which is made up of the Old and New Testaments. Every word was inspired by God and written through human authors. Therefore, the Bible is completely true, without error in its original form, and fully trustworthy in all it teaches. It stands as the final authority and is entirely sufficient for guiding our beliefs and how we live.

3. Humanity. All people are made in the image of God and have equal worth and dignity. Our highest purpose is to love, worship, and obey God. God created us as male and female, defined by our biological sex. Marriage, according to God’s design, is a lifelong union between one man and one woman, reflecting the relationship between Christ and the Church. Sexual intimacy is a gift from God to be enjoyed only within this marriage relationship.

4. The Fall. When the first humans disobeyed God, sin entered the world and corrupted every part of human nature. Because of this, all people are spiritually dead, guilty before God, and naturally opposed to Him. We are under God’s just judgment and need to be born again, forgiven, and restored to a right relationship with God in order to truly know and please Him.

5. The Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully human. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, and lived a sinless life in perfect obedience to the Father. He taught with divine authority and all He said is true. On the cross, He died in the place of sinners, taking the punishment they deserved and securing their redemption through His blood. He rose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, and is now exalted as Lord over all. He intercedes for His people before the Father.

6. Salvation. Salvation is entirely by God’s grace—it cannot be earned or deserved. It was accomplished by Jesus Christ and is freely offered in the gospel. God, in His love, forgives those He calls, granting them the gift of repentance and faith. Everyone who trusts in Christ is justified by faith alone, adopted into God’s family, and given eternal life.

7. The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was sent from heaven to glorify Christ and apply His saving work to people’s lives. He convicts people of sin, gives them new spiritual life, and opens their hearts to understand God’s Word. He lives within all believers, assuring them of their salvation and making them more like Christ. The Spirit strengthens the Church and equips every believer for worship, service, and mission.

8. The Church. The universal Church is made up of all true believers, with Christ as its head. This is expressed through local churches—communities of Christians committed to one another for the worship of God, the preaching of His Word, the practice of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, pastoral care, and sharing the gospel. True unity among churches is shown through mutual love, support, and encouragement, and real fellowship exists only where the gospel is faithfully upheld.

9. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Jesus gave baptism and the Lord’s Supper to the Church as visible signs of the gospel. Baptism symbolizes a believer’s union with Christ and their entrance into the Church, though it does not give spiritual life. The Lord’s Supper is a remembrance of Jesus’ once-for-all sacrifice and does not involve any physical change in the bread and wine. Its blessings are received through faith.

10. The Future. Jesus Christ will one day return in glory. He will raise the dead and judge the world with perfect justice. Those who have rejected Him will face eternal punishment, while those made righteous through faith will enjoy eternal life with God. He will renew all things, and God will be glorified forever.

[Source FIEC statement of faith]

Our views on gospel unity, women in ministry and same sex marriage are in line with the FIEC and can be found using the links below:

https://fiec.org.uk/who-we-are/beliefs/gospel-unity

https://fiec.org.uk/who-we-are/beliefs/women-in-ministry

https://fiec.org.uk/who-we-are/beliefs/same-sex-marriage

What we don’t believe

We do not believe that it is essential to adopt a system of belief or to take a particular stance on an issue that has the potential to divide or exclude. Our desire is to be able to minister to as broad a group of people as possible. The moment we begin to take a hard-line position on any of the non-foundational (and sometimes controversial) issues, we alienate some people. It is important to recognise that we can agree to disagree and still maintain a spirit of unity and love.

a) We are happy for people to hold to varying views on the gifts of spirit. We would just encourage people to refer to 1 Cor. 14 for the biblical principles. For those brethren who wish to speak in tongues then we would emphasise the private nature of this gift unless there is very real evidence of available interpretation from God.

b) We do not wish to establish a system of theology that adopts either a Calvinistic or Arminian stance. We would encourage Christians to believe in a sovereign God who wants to see people come to know Him through the preaching of the gospel. Our hearts must yearn in the way that the heart of God does for sinners who need to be saved. Two contemporaries who were diametrically opposed on this issue, Whitefield and Wesley, both gave themselves to achieve this end, and so must we.

c) We will also not take a hard-line stance on the various theories of the baptism of the Spirit or the two main beliefs regarding water baptism. As a church, we practice believers’ baptism by full submersion but appreciate people have different viewpoints on this issue.

d) We do not believe the bible teaches that health and wealth are meant for all Christians while on earth. It is true that on the cross Jesus achieved both forgiveness and a new life free of the consequences of sin. While we do have full forgiveness now, it is also clear that we will not be completely free of the consequences of the sin of Adam until we go to Heaven. It is also true that God can heal and can bless people materially, but huge damage has been done to people who are falsely assured of either health or wealth upon the act of true faith. Countless believers have suffered guilt and huge disappointment because of this error.

For any informal inquiries or direct applications for the post, please contact James Vile (church elder) at james.vile@gmail.com

Application Form

Please submit a CV and covering letter that covers the following information.

• Name:
• Address:
• Email:
• Age:
• Marital status:
• Family:
• Education:
• Other qualifications:
• Employment history:
• Please provide the contact details for two referees, one of whom should be a leader in your current church:
• Please provide the links or recordings for two recent sermons you have preached:

We’d like to know something about you, your ministry to date and your theological and ministry commitments and would ask you to respond to the following questions as part of your covering letter.

Personal details

• How did you become a Christian?
• Describe your call into pastoral ministry.
• Please tell us about your Christian service to date.
• Why are you applying for this post at this time?
• Are you able to signify your wholehearted acceptance of the church’s Basis of Faith, along with the FIEC doctrinal bases and agreement with their ethos statements?

Personal Development

• What has been the biggest challenge that you have experienced in ministry?
• Briefly outline your theological and doctrinal beliefs and are there any areas in which you haven’t yet reached a settled view on (these might include theological, pastoral or ethical).
• Are there aspects of theology to which you hold that we need to be aware of?

Study and Preaching

• How would you describe your hermeneutical approach to the Bible?
• What is your approach to biblical study and sermon writing? How would you describe your preaching style (e.g. thematic, expository etc)?
• How are you seeking to develop your gifts?
• How do you view the role of a pastor within a church eldership?
• To what extent should the views of the membership influence the decisions of the leadership.
• What do healthy relationship dynamics look like in a leadership team?

Prayer and Pastoring

• What are your views on the social gospel and its role within evangelism?
• What is the significance of prayer and how do you pursue that in life and ministry?
• Give an example of how you have handled a difficult situation.
• How would you characterise your approach to pastoring people?
• What are your views on the role of women within church ministries?
• Are all spiritual gifts for today?