Purpose:
To help families and children follow Jesus in a life-defining way, and to equip and release parents to be the primary disciple-making influence in the home.
Team Members:
Lead Pastor, Pastor of Discipleship, Associate Children’s Director, and other part time CM staff.
Hours:
45-50 hours per week
Compensation:
TBD, proportionate with experience, education, and capabilities.
Qualifications
Personal/Spiritual
· A growing believer with a vibrant, consistent dependency on Jesus Christ.
· A reputation of expressing Biblically-defined, ethical standards.
Educational/Doctrinal
· BA or BS undergraduate degree or proportionate ministry experience.
· Agreement/alignment with EFCA doctrinal statement, and CCC’s philosophy of ministry and by-laws.
Skill Sets
· One who loves and relates well to children and adults.
· Someone possessing strong organizational skills and effective speaking skills.
· One who enjoys teamwork and can lead teams, but who also takes personal initiative.
· A person who is proven in the area of equipping others for ministry.
· Able to handle the Scriptures effectively in a ministry setting.
· Proven ministry experience in working with children.
· Ability to minister to a culturally diverse group of children.
Position Values:
· Disciple-making: We exist to connect people into a life-definign relationship with Jesus. This is our highest value.
· Equipping and Releasing: We value the raising up (equipping) and releasing the body to do the work of the ministry.
· Grace: Ministry can be exciting and fulfilling. It can also be challenging. We want to lead with gracious hearts and attitudes for staff and volunteer leaders.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Discipleship: Work with the Pastor Discipleship in providing training and coaching to parents so as to foster healthy family relationships that prioritize discipleship.
2. Programming: Successfully identify, deploy, and sustain strategic children’s ministry programming (centralized & decentralized) throughout the ministry seasons of a year, while tracking results and metrics.
3. Leaders: Identify, empower, and shepherd children’s ministry staff and volunteer leadership in ministry to children and their families.
Secondary Responsibilities
4. Sharpen - Evaluate the various aspects of the ministry on a regular basis and recommend changes for improvement.
5. Budget - Develop an annual budget and oversee expenditures that advance the ministry.
6. Family Resource - Serve as a support and resource for parents as they seek to disciple their MS & HS students.
7. Be actively involved in a Connect Group and the Life of the body at CCC.
8. Pursue and become a member of the Christ Community Church and credentialing in the EFCA in a timely manner.
Responsible for:
This person should eagerly and humbly learn ministry skills. Responsibilities will increase as he proves his competence in each ministry skill. He should be initially responsible for:
· Maintaining a personal walk with God.
· Developing positive relationships with students and their parents.
· Fulfilling weekly, monthly, and yearly ministry tasks.
· Learning the church/ family culture and working in alignment with the mission and direction of CCC.
Responsible to:
1. Director of Discipleship
2. Executive Pastor
3. Lead Pastor