Job Description for the Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry
Our Vision:
Hackberry Creek Church is committed to sharing Jesus Christ with others and growing as His disciples. We aim to create an intergenerational community where everyone feels welcome, connected, loved, and inspired to dive deeper into their faith. Our church
is currently home to congregations from three different continents. Our hope and prayer is that at some point in our future, we’ll all be worshipping together. We believe this vision may be realized first and most fully by the Youth and Young Adults of our
Church.
Youth Vision
As you grow into our church family, we want you to help the church minister to our youth and young adults by inviting them to join you in this ministry. As Jesus encourages us to be “yoked to Him”, in a similar way, we want you to activate the Body to minister
with you, to youth and young adults.
Who We're Looking For:
We’re on the search for a dynamic, energetic, and passionate Director of the Youth & Young Adult Ministry (DYYAM) who’s all about empowering our youth and growing them as disciples of Jesus Christ. If you're ready to dive into authentic relationships with
students and the Hackberry Creek Church (HCC) family, we'd love to meet you!
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Getting Creative: Plan and lead awesome retreats, trips, monthly special ministry opportunities, and regular weekly events like Sunday School and Youth Bible Study/Worship, plus, facilitate young adult activities.
- Connecting: Being more than a smiling church face – “know and be known”. Engage with our students and young adults outside of the church walls to become personally connected. Showing up to their extracurricular activities (basketball,
football, volleyball, choir, concerts, etc.), having lunch at their school or close to where they work are just a couple of ideas. It is also important to be present at the HCC weekly gathering/assembly to build and foster relationships as we all draw closer
to God.
- Leading with Heart: Inspire, train, and coordinate with church members to create a Youth Ministry Team and a Young Adult Group that's ready to support each other. Encouraging both the youth and young adults to lead and support each other
at their events and in their own lives - not just relying on church leadership.
- Staying Organized: Manage the budget, plan the calendar, and keep everything running smoothly - to the best of your ability (don’t worry, help is always close at hand as needed!)
- Building for The Future: Create a sustainable youth ministry through passion and collaboration for future youth and volunteers.
- Growing Professionally: Attend conferences and classes for continued education plus professional development and growth in this role.
Who We're Looking For:
- Christ-Lover & People-Person: You love Jesus and keep Him at the center of your life (not forgetting the Lord and Holy Spirit too). You care about faith, people and relationships.
- Passionate and Seriously Fun: You LOVE connecting with the Youth and Young Adults and can speak their language. You create opportunities for them to grow in their relationship with the Lord while connecting with each other.
- A Strong Leader: You can inspire, plan and encourage other church members to help and activate the larger vision of our Body where you direct the church in how to minister to its youth and lead us in doing that.
- Real & Inclusive: Genuine and welcoming to all
- Trustworthy & Accountable: A desire to earn the respect of the young adults, students and their parents plus have an ability to work collaboratively and effectively with the HCC session (elders) and staff
- Education & Experience: Got a Bachelor's Degree or working on it? Do you have 2-3 years of experience with youth? Even better!
- Humble & Ready to Learn: Be a continual learner, self-motivated to study, learn and grow
Note: This isn't a set-in-stone description; it's a guide. Your unique gifts and the evolving needs of HCC may lead to some additions and/or revisions.
The Nuts and Bolts!
This full-time opportunity is forty (40) hours per week. You will be working closely, and reporting directly to the Senior Pastor, collaborating, designing and rolling out programs and activities for students and young adults.
Breaking that down into further detail, your responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
- Attend weekly worship service at HCC.
- Be available to youth (text/talk/GroupMe)
- Visit the youth outside of regular church meetings, examples: school lunch, extracurricular activities, etc.
- Visit the young adults outside of regular church meetings, examples: lunch, game night, bible study, etc.
- Stay after Sunday school or at events making connections and spending time face to face
- Organize monthly events, examples: Bible study, games, meals, etc.
- Organizing ministry outreach events such as “Many Helping Hands”
- Learn a creative program to create flyers or brochures for events, example: canva.com. If you are not creatively inclined, reaching out to somebody that can help.
- Keeping an ongoing directory of youth including school, age, parents, and contacts, and one for young adults.
- Keep up-to-date photos throughout the church and website photos, including adding new photos when new people visit and/or join
- Working with the Senior Pastor to help remind the congregation to familiarize themselves with the youth and young adults to encourage them to connect.
- Write monthly session reports to keep them up to date on what has happened and what will happen.
- Create/develop a youth team (varying ages and genders for ideas) and have quarterly team meetings.
- Create/develop a Young Adult team to help carry the vision supporting one another and to encourage their own initiation of activities
- Prepare for weekly, youth Sunday school
- Working with the Senior Pastor to ask for volunteers to help with: events, teaching, testimonies, small group leaders, youth team, hospitality, etc.
- Keeping the youth room organized
- Planning for camps, mission trips and projects
- Assist in vacation bible school (VBS) in the summer each year
- Help start new, young adult get-togethers
- Seek out, invite youth and young adults as needed to events etc.
- Communicate with parents through email, messages, texts and/or calls
- Create a Youth and Young Adult annual events calendar
- Begin a multi-year curriculum template for youth
- Create job descriptions for volunteers
- Plan and manage annual youth and young adult ministry budget
Benefits
Including, but not limited to:
- Competitive salary
- Paid time off – thirteen days (104 hours). The traditional view would be: two-weeks (80 hours) of vacation and three days (24 hours) of sick leave. NOTE: PTO is accrued/earned per each month of full-time employment, at the rate of 8.67 hours per month.
- Two-weeks (80 hours) of study leave
- Study allowance for professional development, books and materials
- Department budget for extracurricular activities and events
Want to Join Us?
Whether this job sounds like the perfect fit, or you just want to learn more, we’d be delighted to meet you!
Please reach out to us at admin@hackberrycreekchurch.com by sending a resume and letter of interest in this position.
We can’t wait to meet the next member of our church family!
