Position and Salary Package Full Time Student Minister. Competitive, based on experience. The Process If you're interested in applying, please send a (1) cover letter, (2) resume with at least 4 references, and (3) statement of doctrinal convictions and ministry philosophy to [email protected]. We'll accept resumes through October 1, 2025, and will contact all applicants via email with an update on their status shortly afterwards, including next steps. A Glimpse of Ridgecrest Baptist Church Polity: We're a congregation ruled by Jesus, led by elders, and governed by the congregation. We currently have 10 elders (3 staff, 7 lay) who are affirmed by our congregation to lead the direction, doctrine, and discipline of RBC. Commitments: We want all RBC members to be committed to "Grow, Serve, Go." This means growing in discipleship, serving as a way of life, and going on mission. We just finished a series defining who we are, emphasizing our identity, ideals, instincts, and impact: Identity: We're a people who, for God's glory and in the Spirit's strength, look to Jesus alone for pardon, power, purpose, and pleasure. Ideals: Our core values are true biblical conversion and covenant community. God uses the Spirit, the word, and His people to create and keep His new covenant people. Instincts: Our instincts show the world who we are: a God-Centered Vision for Life, a Holy Life of Christlike Love, and a Stewardship Mentality. Impact: We're called by King Jesus to impact our world by saving souls through evangelism and maturing saints through discipleship. Staff: We have 7 full-time ministry staff, plus a part-time nursery coordinator and financial assistant. Doctrine and Membership: We're an SBC church affiliated with the Southern Baptist of Texas Convention. We have a statement of faith our members ascribe to, along with a membership process that includes a membership agreement. Bible Study: We offer 8 adult Sunday school classes, plus many for youth, children, and nursery. Our average attendance for Sunday School is between 250-300. Worship: Our normal Sunday morning worship attendance is 500-600. We offer nursery, children's church (through 2nd grade), and a special needs ministry. Preaching is expository, worship style is blended leaning contemporary, and dress is casual for most. Life Groups: During the school year, we have 15 Life Groups that meet on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday evenings, some in homes and some on campus to discuss the weekly sermon and build Christlike community together. Mid-week: Our mid-week program includes a meal followed by Awana, Ridge 5-6, Ridge Students, and 3 adult discipleship classes (men, women, and co-ed). The co-ed class, taught by our pastor, is called D3: Doctrine, Devotion, Delight, alternating between biblical counseling topics in the Fall and doctrinal topics in the Spring. Ministries: We have active men's and women's ministries, a benevolence ministry to meet community needs, a Celebrate Recovery group, and we're soon starting a Grief Share group. Missions: We have an Acts 1:8 team that oversees distributing church funds to adopted mission partners and church members for mission trips. There are many mission trip opportunities each year. We also host a local outreach called For the City, where area churches partner to be a light in our community through service projects and evangelism at the start of the summer. Current Student Ministry: Weekly Meetings: Our mid-week gathering is our largest meeting during the school year, featuring biblical teaching, student-led worship through song, and small group discussions with volunteer leaders. Recent topics have included Jonah, 1-2 Peter, Psalms, Romans 1-8, James, biblical conversion, church membership, and the "I am" statements of Jesus. Students also meet year-round for Sunday School with their ages and volunteer leaders, using The Gospel Project curriculum to encourage family discussions at home. Yearly Events: These include Uncommon Weekend (a D-Now) with other area churches in January, an I-Go Global spring break mission trip to Fort Worth, Dwell summer camp in Glorieta, New Mexico, and an I-Go Global summer mission trip to New York City. Summer Activities: Recent activities have included pool parties, daytime meetups to find the best burger in town, book studies, discipleship with youth interns, weekly pickleball and picnics at the church, a Rangers game, a concert, and other fun events. Co-laborers: We currently have double-digit volunteers in both Sunday school and mid-week meetings, plus 2 youth interns in the summers. We also have a staff counselor who's been helping with food, events, and administration for the student ministry for over 40 years. She's awesome! Space: Our students meet upstairs, which includes a stage, sound system, snack bar, and a separate adjoining game room with pool, foosball, gaming systems, and arcade games, along with classrooms for small groups. Numbers: We just graduated 10 seniors and have about half that number in the 2025-2026 year. On average, we have about 30 students on Sunday mornings and 50 on midweek gatherings. Last year, we had 50 at D-Now Weekend, 60 at summer camp, and 10-15 at our mission trip opportunities. Schooling: Our youth group represents a variety of schooling options: about 1/3 public school, 1/3 private, and 1/3 homeschool. Children: In 5th-6th grade, our children's minister leads Ridge 5-6, a program that prepares kids for youth ministry. Last school year, they averaged 25 students, with 10 moving up into youth this Fall. Before Ridge 5-6, we had a well-attended AWANA program, and our nursery is overflowing with 32 babies born in the last few years! Predecessors: Our Family and Community Pastor served in student ministry at RBC for 15 years before his role switched, and our most recent youth minister led for the last 4.5 years. He's stepping away (with a good relationship to the church) to pursue a local non-vocational ministry career. Reports to: This position reports to our Family and Community Pastor, and secondarily to our Senior Pastor. These two will oversee the search process, along with some other youth leaders. Requirements: Our ideal candidate is a married, male, and mature born-again believer with a clear inward call (from the Lord) AND outward call (that others affirm) to gospel ministry. Must possess a life characteristically marked by the biblical qualifications for a pastor. We care deeply about doctrine and teaching ability, but Christlike character that's lived out and proven in your marriage, as a parent (if applicable), and in the world is also necessary. Must affirm our statement of faith and agree to our membership agreement. Must possess a clear testimony of biblical conversion, a clear grasp on the gospel's content and how it intersects with real life, and the ability to teach the Bible in a clear and compelling way. Must be humble, teachable, and flexible. Must have the proven ability to work well with a team, understanding student ministry is just part of our larger gospel ministry as a church, and being willing to help in shared ministry events. Must be able to distinguish between non-negotiable doctrinal matters and those we can hold with open-handedness and still partner together with those who believe differently. We're not looking for someone ready to die on every hill or who's unwilling to die on any hill. Must possess a personality that enjoys engaging with and moving towards students and parents, be committed to a ministry of presence in their lives, and prioritize people over processes and planning. Must have proven organizational and administrative competency. You'll need to communicate clearly and consistently with leaders and parents, and also plan events and trips. Must have meaningful and impactful experience ministering the gospel to students, preferably with full-time experience on a church staff. Must be able to point out clear examples of others who are more like Jesus because of your personal discipleship investment in them. Must be doctrinally sound and biblically knowledgeable. Bible college or seminary training preferred. Must be a man of spiritual devotion, consistent communion with the Lord through His word, and living a life of dependent prayer. You can't give away or model what you don't have. Must be an intentional and influential spiritual leader in his home. With your wife and children (if applicable), there needs to be a purposeful plan of discipleship and leadership that's consistent and compelling. As a leader, it should be easy for them to gladly follow your leadership. Must have a spouse wholeheartedly supportive of your call to gospel ministry, and glad to help partner with you in fulfilling that calling as a family. Your family will need to be committed, present, visible, and engaged in our student ministry, as well as the larger life of the body. Must be willing to relocate to the Greenville, TX area by early 2026 at the latest. Job Description: Your role as student minister will be to plan and oversee all areas of our student ministry, including but not limited to: Biblical Teaching: Lead a teaching ministry that equips students to know Scripture, learn to read and apply it on their own, be theologically sound and conversant, value the local church, and be equipped with a biblical worldview. We believe God's truth transforms us, and students can handle a healthy diet of it. A good mix of expositional Bible teaching, doctrinal focused teaching, and topical teaching on important matters for Christian teenagers is the best combination. Student Discipleship: Personally invest in and be available to our students and parents as a trusted counselor, truth speaker, and compassionate listener. We want our youth pastor and his spouse to be meaningfully and gladly present in the lives of students. We highly value our students having mentoring relationships with both them and our volunteer leaders outside of normal meeting times. Parent Equipping and Participation: Focus on creating opportunities to equip churched parents to be the primary disciple makers in their homes and navigate the season of parenting teens. We also want our student minister to tap into the giftedness of parents to help equip students as part of the ministry. Missional Opportunities: Lead students to live on mission locally and abroad. This includes our annual local church mission trip (For the City), but also beyond our city. We have mission partnerships to help facilitate this and are open to new ones. More than just big yearly events, we want to cultivate a culture of service and mission as a way of life. Meaningful and Memorable Events: Our church culture includes a good mix of being serious and having fun. We want that to be true in our student ministry as well, creatively and consistently planning activities students want to come to. Outreach to unchurched students: While most of our youth ministry focuses on walking alongside and discipling students of churched members at RBC, we also want our youth ministry to be a place for seekers to find belonging, ask questions, and be introduced to the gospel and the Lord Jesus. Culture creating: We don't want our student ministry to be a silo disconnected from the larger body. We value intergenerational relationships and want to equip students to love the local church long after their days as students. But we also want our student ministry to have an identity, to be a group where students belong, interact, laugh, learn, are known, supported, and share a vision and mission.