The Lead Pastor is responsible for shepherding the vision, teaching, and spiritual growth of the Solano Community Church congregation to fulfill its mission. The Lead Pastor mobilizes the church for worship, discipleship, service, and evangelism through spirit-led prayer, biblical instruction, and servant leadership. This is a full-time position, and the pastor will spend 40-50hrs each week on ministry responsibilities. Both the pastor and congregation shall affirm God’s calling to this ministry. 

To explore this role more, please take a look at this position description. If you are interested in applying, email pastorsearch@solanochurch.org.

Solano Community Church (Solano) was planted in November 2004 to be a light for Christ in the East San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay)—one of the least-churched regions in the United States. 

The church began when 25 people were sent out from an Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) church in Oakland and began meeting at the city of Albany Community Center. In its 21-year history, Solano has become known as a warm and welcoming congregation marked by strong worship, gospel-centered preaching, and an outward-facing posture of service and compassion. 

From its earliest years, Solano has attracted undergraduate and graduate students from UC Berkeley, as well as young professionals and families drawn to the East Bay for education and career opportunities. As a result, the congregation is diverse, multi-generational, multi-cultural, and often international, with the largest groups being Caucasian and Asian American. These attendees tend to live close to the church’s El Cerrito location and its surrounding towns to the south: Albany, Kensington, and Berkeley, and to the north: Richmond and San Pablo, as well as others.