Job Overview

Ministry Area: Family Ministry Department

Role Title: Kids Ministry Director

Pipeline Level: Director

Reports To: Executive Pastor

Job Description

Primary Role Responsibilities:

• Cast vision and develop strategic ideas in Kids Ministry (birth – 4th grade) to effectively help kids find and follow Jesus.
• Oversee the planning and execution of Kids Ministry programming, which includes Sunday mornings, midweek ministry, and summer camp or other special Kids Ministry events.
• Recruit, train, develop, and retain high-capacity volunteers. This position is focused primarily on leadership of the ministry rather than serving in the classroom.
• Be current in and willing to innovate the vision, strategy, tools and techniques of Kids Ministry in order to maximize effectiveness.
• Find avenues to encourage and resource parents in discipling their own children.
• Provide timely, consistent, and appropriate communication to volunteers and families.
• Oversee implementation of the Child and Youth Safety Policy and volunteer background checks for Kids Ministry volunteers.
• In coordination with the Executive Pastor, oversee and manage Kids Ministry budgeting and expenses with good stewardship.

Key Skills and Character Traits:

• This person should be a self-driven and strategic thinker who develops ideas, implements plans, and builds teamwork within kids ministry.
• This person needs to be a grace-filled leader who is excellent at recruiting, organizing, and empowering volunteers to make an eternal impact in the lives of children.
• This person needs to be effective as a communicator and team builder.
• This person needs to blend passion and creativity (to see what can be) with the ability to be organized and consistent (to lead what is).
• This person needs to have proven Kids Ministry leadership experience in a local church. A candidate with education or training in Kids Ministry is preferred.
• This person needs to passionately love God and have a calling to ministry to children.

Paid Staff Expectations:

• Become a member of New Hope Church in good standing.
• Annually set goals for self and your area of ministry (goals will be reviewed with the Executive Pastor).
• Actively participate in a weekly Sunday worship service (and watch/listen to the sermon online when you are unable to be in the worship service).
• Maintain healthy relationships with the congregation and staff.
• Maintain a healthy and growing relationship with God.

New Hope Church Snapshot

New Hope Church (https://www.newhopeadel.org)is an Evangelical Free church (www.efca.org) located in the growing community of Adel, Iowa. Our mission is clear: We exist to Help People Find and Follow Jesus. As we strive to live out this mission, we hold strongly to three key values: Love (for God and others), Grow (discipleship), and Go (living our faith out loud whether locally or to other parts of the world).

New Hope Church (NHC) launched on Easter Sunday in 1999 with a core group of local families with a passion to start an evangelical church in Adel. Over the following years the church grew under the leadership of its first pastor, Tom Hein (who continues to serve on the pastoral staff). Approximately 10 years after the launch NHC purchased land and built a church campus, which added a kids wing a few years later.

In the summer of 2018 Ryan Whitson and his family relocated from Denver, CO to serve as the next Lead Pastor of NHC. In the past six years the church has experienced strong growth and spiritual fruit. Recently NHC completed a new $3 million building expansion project. The Lord has been incredibly good and faithful to New Hope Church as we passionately pursue being a life-giving church that infuses gospel clarity, boldness, and a relentless pursuit to grow in outreach and discipleship in our mission to Help People Find and Follow Jesus.

Key Stats

• Our current average Sunday morning attendance (3 services) is 550
• Year-to-date Baptisms: 21
• Ministry Teams: 35
• Small Groups: 31

Church Leadership

New Hope is an Elder-led church made up of six active leaders from the congregation. The Elders primary role is to reinforce our theological boundaries and provide vision, support and accountability to the Lead Pastor.

Our staff team is made up of 4 pastors and 6 other staff members ranging from part-time to full-time. Our staff culture emphasizes a "do what it takes" mentality. We work hard, strive for excellence, value humility, give support to one another, have fun and genuinely love serving together.

Adel, Iowa

Adel is a growing bedroom community located 30 minutes west of Des Moines, IA (the capital of Iowa). It is approximately 7,000 people in size and is experiencing significant growth. The New Hope Church congregation is made up of households from all over Dallas County (population 100,000+). Dallas County has been recently recognized as the fastest growing county in Iowa, and one of the fastest growing counties in the United States.

Adel has a top-ranked school system (admschools.org) and Dallas County is often recognized as one of the best places to live in the state. For more information about Adel visit: https://adeliowa.org/

To learn more about New Hope Church please visit our website (NewHopeAdel.org) and social media pages on Facebook and Instagram.