Religious | Presbyterian Church in America
Part-Time
Posted: May 12, 2025
Application Deadline: Aug 1, 2025
Description
Goal: To minister to the female youth of Covenant Church (7th-12th grade) in a purposefully relational and thoroughly biblical manner that equips each teenager to know and love Christ and His Bride, the Church.
Responsibilities:
- Pursue and maintain close relationships and fellowship with our youth and their parents – developing and implementing an overall discipleship approach in the process. One-on-one relational ministry will be instrumental in this area.
- Help lead and teach one of the weekly youth Sunday school classes.
- Lead both a weekly Jr. High and a weekly Sr. High discipleship group on Wednesday nights.
- Help lead all major youth events, trips, and retreats.
- Participate in a weekly staff meeting for the Youth Ministry staff.
- Assist the Assistant Pastor of Youth Ministry in planning, coordinating, and publicizing all youth activities. Provide creative and administrative support in appropriate areas.
- Assist in recruiting gifted volunteers from the congregation and seminary community to serve alongside the Youth Ministry staff. Build relationships with volunteer youth leaders, while coordinating ministry efforts with them and encouraging them.
Reporting Relationships:
The Female Youth Ministry Intern reports to the Assistant Pastor of Youth Ministry, as overseen by the Session, on a day-to-day basis and participates in the weekly ministry of the entire church staff. Additionally, there will be opportunities for hands-on ministry training with a particular focus on youth ministry.
Salary: Undisclosed
Requirements
The Female Youth Ministry Intern must be a godly woman who exhibits the following qualities:
- Dedication to Youth Ministry: Uses gifts to disciple students over a significant period of time. Demonstrates genuine love and passion for teenagers and their growth in grace.
- Relational-Giftedness: Able to identify with and interact with teenagers and their parents and live the Christian life richly with them in community.
- Spiritual and Emotional Maturity: Possesses a good understanding of the Scriptures, the gospel of grace, and a biblical world and life view. Able to relate to others out of one’s own personal story of grace. Demonstrates emotional awareness and skill in the use of emotional vocabulary as well as the practice of empathy, perspective-taking, and resourcefulness.
- Leadership Abilities: Supports the vision of Covenant Church and contributes to it by engaging in the discipleship of the next generation for the glory of Christ.
- Effective Communicator, Administrator, and Teacher: Clearly articulates biblical truth and our philosophy of ministry to youth and their parents. Able to effectively plan and publicize various ministry events and programs. Able to communicate clearly in-person as well as in writing and via online media.