Description
Summary of Duties
The Student Ministries Pastor is responsible for developing the student ministries team members and working with them to implement an integrated approach to spiritual health and authentic Christian community for middle schoolers and high schoolers. This person will help to create spaces for students to grow in community and grow in their understanding of God and relationship with him.
Essential Functions
- Supervise and develop Student Ministries team members, providing training, support, and conducting bi-annual team performance reviews
- Oversee Students budget development and implementation for both ministry and personnel
- Serve as one of the primary communicators at the middle school and high school weekly gatherings
- Student discipleship and leader development
- Collaborate with the Students team to develop volunteer leaders for Students’ Ministry
- Effectively identify, deploy, train, and support all program and event volunteers
- Collaborate with Students Team to ensure execution of student ministry programs and activities
- Large group student gatherings
- Special events for students
- Student camps
- Any other scheduled student ministry events and activities
- Collaborate with Children’s ministries and Young Adult Ministries to ensure healthy discipleship and development through life stage hand-offs
- Serve as a member of the Bellingham Pastoral team
- Perform all Pastoral duties including but not limited to serving as Pastor on Call and Commons duties during Sunday services
- Perform sacerdotal functions, including but not limited to, serving communions, conducting worship, leading meetings, etc
- You are a messenger/teacher conveying CTK's mission and its understanding of faith.
Requirements
- Demonstrated competency: Strength of character and healthy spirituality
- Commitment to CTK’s mission, values, and ongoing themes and goals
- Passion for the local church and CTK philosophy of ministry
- Proven track record of success in equipping teams and leaders; able to network and recruit.
- Demonstrated track record of hard work, professional accountability, clear communication, healthy conflict resolution, and positive attitude in a variety of settings
- Leadership (has experience effectively leading others)
- Team Building (has experience building teams to implement pre-determined sets of work)