Street Outreach Pastor

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Sanctuary Ministries Toronto Full time

We are Sanctuary, and we’re looking for a Street Outreach Pastor to join our team in June 2023 (or earlier). This job is perfect for someone with a passion for social justice, deep empathy and ability to build trusting friendships, and a love of people and Jesus.

**About Sanctuary**:
At Sanctuary, we are becoming a healthy, welcoming community where people who are poor or excluded are particularly valued. This community is an expression of the good news embodied in Jesus Christ.

Our faith and relationship with God inform us in identifying the following as some of our core values:

- **Dignity**: We believe that each person is created in the image of God and, as such, has the right to be treated with the utmost dignity.
- **Mutuality**: We come to our relationships recognizing that each person has gifts to be shared and gifts to be received.
- **Inclusivity**: We intend that our community at Sanctuary will be as inclusive as Jesus was in his life.

The words we often use to describe ourselves are “community” and “family.” Our staff and those they serve “do life” together. It can be challenging, complicated and messy. We find that it’s also enlivening, fulfilling, and deeply meaningful.

Sanctuary is a freeing place to work. While accountable to each other, we have a lot of autonomy to manage our own schedules and workflow, because we trust one another. We each have a deep commitment to this community, as well as to our roles within it.

Each of our team, regardless of their unique focus within the community of Sanctuary, is committed to viewing ourselves first and foremost as members of the community. By joining us you will become an important part of our close-knit community. We hope that you will feel at home here and that you will want to be with us for the long haul.

**The Role: Street Outreach Pastor**:
As a member of the Sanctuary Outreach team your role is broken up into three main categories: Street outreach, accompaniment, and community meal drop ins. Informing all of this work is our outreach philosophy, and a call to both give and receive pastoral care both to and from our core community.
- **Street outreach**: This occurs several times each week. You along with other members of the outreach team, the larger staff team, and members of the Sanctuary community will go out in groups of two or three on regular routes in the neighbourhood. Teams will seek to build relationships, offer conversation, and sometimes offer supplies to or direct to resources for folks who are panhandling, sleeping rough or marginalized. Sometimes you will build relationships that only exist while you are out on outreach, other times you will be able to point folks whom you meet on outreach back to the larger Sanctuary community. Another focus of walking outreach is to visit community members in the neighbourhood, whether in a tent, a hospital room, or at their home.
- **Accompaniment**:A second focus of the outreach team are activities that would fall into the category of accompaniment. At Sanctuary we describe ourselves as a community, a community of family, friends, neighbours and acquaintances. As you build relationships with members of the Sanctuary community, you will find opportunities to come alongside an individual as they navigate difficult tasks, or tasks that are better to do with a friend. This could include, but is not limited to, going to a medical appointment or court with a community member, helping a community member clean their apartment, or helping a community member move.
- **Community Drop-in Meals**: The final focus for the outreach team is Drop in. Because so many of your working hours are community facing you will have the opportunity to build relationships with many different community members. And so one of the roles of the outreach team at drop in is to facilitate relationships; to welcome folks whom you meet on outreach and to introduce community members to one another and other members of the staff team. Your relational capital and observations from being on outreach and community facing will also allow you to help de-escalate conflicts at the drop in and perhaps identify and address conflicts before they ignite.

When you are not spending your time on one of these three core areas of outreach, you may seek a secondary focus such as advocacy, connecting and maintaining relationships with other like minded communities and agencies, leading educational groups, or organizing outings for members of our community (e.g. fishing trips).

**Our Outreach Philosophy**:
**Why we do outreach**:We go out to meet people on their own turf, both offering and seeking the welcome, dignity, and healing inherent in the community of God’s Kingdom.

**What we do as outreach pastors **
- We go out because Jesus has sent us, and because we expect to see and hear him through the street community. If we want to meet him in this way, we have to “show up”.
- We meet people on their own turf because

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