Children's Ministry Director

Messiah Lutheran Church
Wauconda, Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 06/14/2024
Categories: Church/Ministry
Job Type: Part-Time
Employee Workplace: Hybrid
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Job Description:

Children's Ministry Director

Attributes sought:

  • a person with a vibrant, humble, and welcoming faith in Jesus.
  • a team-developer with passion to vision for and engage others in building a life-changing children, youth, and family ministry scope. Several current programs are small but solid, but more can be done, with a new leader's plans designed with input and support from the pastor and a volunteer lead team.
  • a manager who can recruit, support, and supervise volunteer and paid staff in multiple ministries, ranging from nursery, PreK, Elementary, Middle School, and High School age-groups.
  • a team player who reports to the pastor, and works and visions with him and program peers, office staff, council, and ministry directors.

Education and Experience

  • Associate’s or bachelor’s degree
  • two years successful experience in teaching, church ministry, or other related organizational experience
  • proven history of team-building, supervision a plus
  • experience in music, a plus.

Salary & Benefits

  • $20-22/hour, up to 20 hours per week or more, as determined mutually
  • PTO and paid holidays
  • 401(k)
  • supportive culture with ready-to-volunteer families who invite their friends
  • committed pastor, growing staff, energized volunteers—and a deep passion for blessing children with a curious and joyful faith in Jesus Christ.

Requirements

  • Typical workweek has some degree of flexibility, but nearly all Sunday mornings, of course, as well as Tuesday staff meetings and other in-office mornings, and periodically, afternoons.
  • There are summer events/programs where leadership is critical as well.

To apply or find out more

  • Please send resume and cover letter to hr@messiah-wauconda.org.
  • Thanks for your interest!

 

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About Messiah Lutheran Church

Messiah a family-nurturing, community-invested, inclusive Lutheran church, pivoting under new pastoral leadership from an older median age to an increasingly younger demographic, filled with diverse folks and families of all shapes and sizes. Sunday services include both fairly traditional and fairly contemporary worship--and with improving technology and growing staffing plans, we're strategizing to grow our ministries’ and worships’ impact even further. Involvement of children and students in worship is growing, and synergy between worship, music, and children's/youth ministry is increasing. High volunteerism and community outreach to the alone and under-resourced are high priorities at Messiah, as well. Messiah is blessed, too, by its well-run and highly regarded Preschool, Kindergarten, and Before & After School programs as well, and opportunities for church and preschool to mutually bless each other are high on the church's and preschool’s priority list.

As a staff and church, we’re grateful to God, kind to others, curious about change, gracious about goof-ups, eager to get better, and willing to work hard to change lives with Jesus’ love. We are searching for several qualified and passionate teammates to join us. 

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