Religious | Nondenominational
Full-Time
Posted: Apr 26, 2022
Application Deadline: Jun 1, 2022
Description
The Student Ministry Pastor, alongside the Student Ministry Co-Director, will provide spiritual leadership to teens and college students by reflecting personally, and expressing relationally, God’s love in a dynamic, loving, Bible-based student ministry setting. As a co-leader of the Student Ministry Team (SMT), this position will also work closely with parents, student ministry staff, volunteers, and student leaders to create a welcoming environment where young people will flourish spiritually. As a member of church staff, the Student Ministry Pastor will collaborate with fellow staff members to pursue the church’s vision, in keeping with our mission, discipleship process, culture and values. The Student Ministry Pastor will be personally, spiritually, and professionally developed through mentoring relationships and team training.
The Student Ministry Pastor is responsible for co-leading, developing, and implementing a middle school (grades 6 to 8), high school (grades 9 to 12), and college ministry that purposely guides all students toward a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. He will co-shepherd and oversee student ministry volunteers, student leaders, and students involved in the ministry.
The Student Ministry Team (i.e., Co-Director and Pastor/Co-Director), reports directly to the Executive Pastor of Ministries. The position requires 45 to 55 hours per week on average, and will include but is not limited to, the following essential job functions:
Primary Responsibilities
Shepherd students in grades 6 to 8, grades 9 to 12, and those in college in the context of the COS’s stated mission (To glorify God by making disciples of Jesus Christ in Wayne and beyond) and alignment with the church-wide discipleship process to Love God, Love Others, & Serve the World.
- Plan and lead weekly Sunday and mid-week meetings, mission trips, retreats, and other special events
- Provide regular one-on-one and small group discipleship with students
- Prepare and teach gospel-centered lessons to a diverse audience that are biblical and relevant
- Share the gospel with students who do not know Jesus—model this to all as a life-passion
- Raise up student leaders within the ministry
Provide leadership for the Student Ministry Team (SMT) of adult volunteers who work with youth and college students
- Recruit, connect with, develop/coach/train, and care for servant leaders
- Plan and lead regular SMT and student leader planning and developing gatherings (3-4 times a month). We put a high priority on training our volunteer and student leaders!
- Conduct background checks on all individuals working with students
Minister to families who have teenagers &/or college students in conjunction with our Family Pastor
- Build relationships with parents and counsel as needed
- Provide parenting resources and direction to families
- Attend seminars on teenage and college issues
Minister to the local community and beyond
- Build relationships in the community
- Partner with parachurch college ministries (Cru, IVF, YL, FCA, etc.)
- Partner with key people in Wayne and the surrounding communities (e.g., school officials, coaches, etc.)
- Building a presence on the local college campus (e.g., Villanova, Eastern U., Cabrini, etc.)
Communicate and Coordinate
- Communicate regularly with parents, students, and SMT volunteers via weekly email, webpage, and social media, etc. as needed
- Work closely with staff and volunteers to ensure that the student ministry is complementing and not competing with other ministries
- Develop long-range plans and goals and coordinate routine administrative details
- Oversee the Student Ministry Budget with the other Co-Director
- Delegate select tasks to ministry coordinators and volunteers as appropriate
- Participate in hiring, shepherding, and developing summer interns
Partner with other church leaders and staff to create a humble, team-based environment committed to excellence which brings glory to God
Perform other duties as needed
Salary: $30K-$59K
Requirements
Core Competencies and Values
- A heart for God that is evidenced by proven character and a spiritual-mindedness that understands that “apart from Christ we can do nothing”
- A person of integrity, authenticity, and transparency—marked by humility, and a servant’s heart
- A Spirit-led believer, growing in personal sanctification and motivated to increase in fruitfulness
- A compassionate person who seeks to empathize and understand the hearts of others
- A servant whose love for the gospel and heart for the lost is evident to others
- Able to model, motivate, lead, and train others in Christian maturity
- Possesses the heart and gifts of a shepherd
- Eager to minister in the ever-diversifying suburban Philadelphia Main Line setting
- Collaborates well in groups: valuing people, affirming diverse gifts, and compromising appropriately
- Demonstrates commitment to the COS vision, mission, discipleship process, values, and team culture
- Demonstrates passion for going above and beyond expectations
- Is a leader of leaders – develops volunteers, lay leaders, and student leaders effectively
- Demonstrates humility in words and actions
- Works well with others; gives and receives feedback constructively and resolves conflict effectively
- Displays flexibility and adaptability; able to pivot quickly and flourish in an ever-changing environment
- Heart for international students
- Passion for reaching the nations and making this an integral part of the discipleship process
Qualifications
- A personal and maturing relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ
- A minimum 3 to 5 years of experience (5 to 10 years in youth ministry will put your resume on the top of the inbox)
- Bachelor’s degree, required – M.Div. strongly preferred
- Humble, hungry, and smart (i.e., EQ)
- Demonstrated passion for sharing Christ with students with a proven ability to communicate biblically and relevantly with both churched and un-churched students
- Prior experience leading and developing student and volunteer leaders
- Proficiency with various media, including audio/video production, social media & multimedia
- Proficiency with MS Office 365
- Experience working in a multicultural environment, preferred
- Agreement with all aspects of Church of the Saviour’s Statement of Faith
- An ability and readiness to be a member of Church of the Saviour
How to Apply
Church of the Saviour is a non-denominational Christ-centered church of approximately 1,200 people in the Philadelphia suburb of Wayne, Pennsylvania. We are called by Jesus Christ to engage young people in our community (and beyond) to the glory of God. We take the Great Commission and the Great Commandment seriously (we actively support local outreach and global missions). We have personally experienced the Good News of Jesus Christ and now count it both a blessed privilege and responsibility to be ministers of reconciliation to a lost and hurting world. We depend on the Holy Spirit to enable and empower us to fulfill God’s plan for our lives and our church. We are certain that Christ is supreme in all things and we know we are most fully alive and fulfilled when we are glorifying the Lord most fully.
Please send a resume, cover letter, and personal testimony to cos@coswayne.org
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