Job Overview

Position Summary: 

North Bible is seeking a dynamic and passionate individual to join our team as our Children’s Ministry Pastor or Director.  We are looking for a leader who passionately loves Jesus, families, and children.  Our ideal candidate will have the heart, experience, and skill set to equip children and families to be fully devoted disciple-making disciples of Jesus.

About North:

North Bible Church is a 20-year-old non-denominational family of believers in Christ. Our current mission expression is to love God, love one another and love the world. We believe we are called as a church to be a movement of Holy Spirit empowered believers who are growing in our faith and living on mission for Jesus Christ and His kingdom. North Bible strives to equip every generation to love God, love one another and love the world, one life and one home at a time.  Our desire is to develop people whose lives are characterized by celebrative worship, continual growth, cooperative servanthood, commitment to community, and contagious Christianity.

Job Description

North Kids Responsibilities

• Provide vision, leadership, and spiritual equipping for the children, parents and families at North that aligns with and executes the overall vision of North Bible Church
• Prioritize the needs and relationships of the families of North while strategically reaching and connecting with unbelieving/unchurched families in our surrounding community.
• Daily management and decision making for the North Children’s ministry.
• Develop, biblically vet, adapt, oversee and evaluate all the teaching content, curriculum, and environments to accomplish the goals and objectives of the children’s ministry.
• Help children and families take next steps of growth (profession of faith, baptism, connection into North, serving, etc.)
• Recruit, equip, oversee, schedule, and invest in a strong volunteer team that serves the needs of North’s children and families.
• Design, implement, oversee, manage, and improve upon ministry programming, offerings, teaching and staffing for Sunday mornings.
• Create and manage safe, fun, welcoming, clean, creative, caring, and vibrant environments and opportunities for children to experience God, learn about the love of Christ and build relationships with others.
• Develop and oversee an annual budget for the children’s ministry and operate within that budget, as well as oversee, organize, and steward all children’s ministry resources.
• Develop, plan, and execute an annual calendar and ministry plan for the children’s ministry in cooperation with the other calendared North plans and events.
• Design, plan, prepare, and recruit for special events and experiences that reach and grow children and families in Christ (Ideas/examples: VBS, Father/daughter dance, Mother/Son event, Family movie night, picnics, egg hunt, trunk or treat, community engagement opportunities, etc.)
• Develop, utilize, and improve upon systems and tools to help recruit, oversee, engage, and communicate with children, parents and those who serve in the children’s ministry.
• Keep current with trends, needs, and tools that impact children and families.
• Partner with parents in supporting them with the spiritual formation of their children (resources, classes, child dedications, baptisms, intergenerational opportunities)
• Regular evaluation and implementation of safety policies and practices for children.
• Weekly communication to parents and volunteers related to schedules, curriculum and other events, opportunities and needs.
• Help kids with special abilities to be successful in the North Kids ministry environments by partnering with parents and making appropriate accommodations.
• Find, manage, and staff for any church childcare needs.
• Collaborate with assigned staff on providing social media posts and online resources
• Collaborate with the youth ministry leadership to help with a smooth transition from children’s ministry to youth ministry.