
Menu Home Page Contact/Info Church Profile ICF Eldership ICF Staffing: 2009 3rd Sat. Prayer Reflections Find Us ICF Staff Directory Update TAP Peace Bridges ICF History MailList © 2008 ICF NOTICE The Email links on this site require JavaScript to be "turned on" in your browser. If you do not see the mailbox icon in the footer of each page, please turn on Javascript.	ICF Staffing: 2009 The International Christian Fellowship of Phnom Penh (ICF), Cambodia, is seeking to recruit two persons to fulfil leadership roles on the pastoral team of the church. The ICF is an English speaking, expatriate, broadly evangelical, interdenominational church of around 400 adults and 100 children from 35 different nationalities who live and work in Cambodia. The ICF community includes various kinds of relief and development workers, missionaries, and other professionals as well as people in business and with diplomatic roles. Most have demanding work roles, travel often and experience all the usual concerns of Christians everywhere. The two leaders will work together as co-pastors who fit well together as a team in which each will exercise functional leadership in their respective areas of responsibility. Each should be able to exercise an overall leadership as required from time to time. The existing culture of team leadership between Pastor and Council of Elders (men and women) lends itself well to this model of future leadership for the ICF. The exact mix of responsibility will depend on the two who are appointed. There has been a clear sense that we should not focus on narrow, pre-determined job descriptions but rather see who God may be sending to work among us. While the usual range of needs in any international church must to be covered, the ICF Council is also expecting that one will be able to exercise real leadership in strengthening the ICF's engagement with the wider expatriate community of Phnom Penh. There are particular challenges for ICF pastors. For some time it has been clear to the current Pastor and the Council that the needs of the church are much greater than what one full-time sole pastor should be expected to handle. The Council has spent some considerable time in discussion and prayer on how best God would have us move forward. Some of these challenges are: Supporting and caring for a community of people who see their work in all areas as missional in character, who work very hard in demanding roles, and who are often quite weary. Being flexible and relaxed with a community that is mobile and has a high turnover in a country which has its own lack of predictability. Supporting and facilitating those who engage with the wider expatriate community which has been described as one of the largest unreached people's groups in the country. Providing coordination and encouragement for the large number of volunteers who serve the ICF. Ensuring good relationships with the multiplicity of Christian agencies in the country and ensuring good collaboration with the other international churches in the country. The regular activities of the ICF, for which the co-pastors would have overall responsibility, include two Sunday services, two Sunday Schools (for which there is a part time coordinator), youth ministry in partnership with other international churches (we anticipate a full-time youth minister being appointed very soon), the Timothys All Project, a monthly Taizé style service, the usual pastoral care and prayer ministry involvements, the strengthening of the small home groups, and the exploration of other services to meet the needs of an increasingly culturally diverse community. Our current pastor, Graham Chipps, will move out of his present role early in 2009. He is not leaving the country, nor the ICF, but his exact role will depend on how he might best fit with the two new pastors and how comfortable they might be with the former pastor still being present. This will free Graham to focus more on a wider role in Cambodia as well as spend more time with people and get on with his research studies. He will not draw a normal salary from the ICF once this change happens as he will be rearranging his assets in Australia to provide for his wife and himself. Experience (at least a decade) in church leadership and pastoral ministry, as well as international living and cross-cultural work, are essential: capacity to function well in a team leadership with both the other pastor and the ICF Council likewise. As many in the ICF have attended Bible School and Theological Seminaries, it is expected that applicants have a minimum of three years of formal theological education at university level. If interested, but would like to first seek further information, first browse this website and then click on the icon below for an addressed EMail form: If interested and would like to apply, please review our application page. If interested in serving in the ICF but not as a co-pastor, we have other ways you can serve. We welcome self-funded retirees, interns, and those who have something to offer for a few weeks at a time. If you think God is directing you to international ministry in Cambodia, let's dialogue about this prayerfully and see what works out.
International Christian Fellowship of Phnom Penh PO Box 98 Phnom Penh Cambodia Telephone: 012-235-182

International Christian Fellowship of Phnon Penh

ICF Staffing: 2009

The International Christian Fellowship of Phnom Penh (ICF), Cambodia, is seeking to recruit two persons to fulfil leadership roles on the pastoral team of the church.

The ICF is an English speaking, expatriate, broadly evangelical, interdenominational church of around 400 adults and 100 children from 35 different nationalities who live and work in Cambodia. The ICF community includes various kinds of relief and development workers, missionaries, and other professionals as well as people in business and with diplomatic roles. Most have demanding work roles, travel often and experience all the usual concerns of Christians everywhere.

The two leaders will work together as co-pastors who fit well together as a team in which each will exercise functional leadership in their respective areas of responsibility. Each should be able to exercise an overall leadership as required from time to time. The existing culture of team leadership between Pastor and Council of Elders (men and women) lends itself well to this model of future leadership for the ICF. The exact mix of responsibility will depend on the two who are appointed. There has been a clear sense that we should not focus on narrow, pre-determined job descriptions but rather see who God may be sending to work among us. While the usual range of needs in any international church must to be covered, the ICF Council is also expecting that one will be able to exercise real leadership in strengthening the ICF's engagement with the wider expatriate community of Phnom Penh.

There are particular challenges for ICF pastors. For some time it has been clear to the current Pastor and the Council that the needs of the church are much greater than what one full-time sole pastor should be expected to handle. The Council has spent some considerable time in discussion and prayer on how best God would have us move forward. Some of these challenges are:

Supporting and caring for a community of people who see their work in all areas as missional in character, who work very hard in demanding roles, and who are often quite weary.
Being flexible and relaxed with a community that is mobile and has a high turnover in a country which has its own lack of predictability.
Supporting and facilitating those who engage with the wider expatriate community which has been described as one of the largest unreached people's groups in the country.
Providing coordination and encouragement for the large number of volunteers who serve the ICF.
Ensuring good relationships with the multiplicity of Christian agencies in the country and ensuring good collaboration with the other international churches in the country.

The regular activities of the ICF, for which the co-pastors would have overall responsibility, include two Sunday services, two Sunday Schools (for which there is a part time coordinator), youth ministry in partnership with other international churches (we anticipate a full-time youth minister being appointed very soon), the Timothys All Project, a monthly Taizé style service, the usual pastoral care and prayer ministry involvements, the strengthening of the small home groups, and the exploration of other services to meet the needs of an increasingly culturally diverse community.

Our current pastor, Graham Chipps, will move out of his present role early in 2009. He is not leaving the country, nor the ICF, but his exact role will depend on how he might best fit with the two new pastors and how comfortable they might be with the former pastor still being present. This will free Graham to focus more on a wider role in Cambodia as well as spend more time with people and get on with his research studies. He will not draw a normal salary from the ICF once this change happens as he will be rearranging his assets in Australia to provide for his wife and himself.

Experience (at least a decade) in church leadership and pastoral ministry, as well as international living and cross-cultural work, are essential: capacity to function well in a team leadership with both the other pastor and the ICF Council likewise. As many in the ICF have attended Bible School and Theological Seminaries, it is expected that applicants have a minimum of three years of formal theological education at university level.

If interested, but would like to first seek further information, first browse this website and then click on the icon below for an addressed EMail form:
If interested and would like to apply, please review our application page.
If interested in serving in the ICF but not as a co-pastor, we have other ways you can serve. We welcome self-funded retirees, interns, and those who have something to offer for a few weeks at a time.

If you think God is directing you to international ministry in Cambodia, let's dialogue about this prayerfully and see what works out.

International Christian Fellowship of Phnom Penh
PO Box 98 Phnom Penh Cambodia
Telephone: 012-235-182

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ICF Staffing: 2009