Worship & Creative Pastor

Creative Pastor Ministry Expectations

Employment Type: Full-Time

Minimum Skills: Must be proficient in guitar or piano and lead vocally. 

Position Summary: To provide leadership for the creative ministry at Bridge Church. The ideal individual for this opportunity loves creatives and loves to lead people of all ages into a passionate worship experience. 

Your Win: To reach, grow, and provide leadership to Bridge's worship experiences and creatives. To weekly orchestrate a Jesus-loving creative culture that develops creative gifts in all ages and creates transformational worship experiences. 

Summary Of Ministry Expectations and Approximate Hours Per Week: 

1. Worship Leadership - Oversee and coordinate everything needed to make the Sunday worship experience at Bridge engaging and spiritually transformational. Duties will include scheduling, team member oversight, team building, personal preparation, pro-presenter preparation, and any other necessary responsibilities.
2. Creative Elements -  Pro-Presenter, sermon graphics, video, audio, lighting, stage design, etc… Assist in developing and implementing sermon graphics and other creative elements necessary for Sunday service and other events.  These may be created in-house or by utilizing different free resources to make the required assets. 
3. Team Building and Musical Culture Development - Worship team rehearsal and weekly team member connections.
4. Meetings, Finances & Miscellaneous -  Attend staff meetings and other necessary meetings. Financial oversight of the creative and student budget.
5. Livestream Oversight- Preparation for the live stream and scheduling team members.
6. Worship & Creative Outreach- Develop, lead, and grow the Creative ministry at Bridge. Bring the hope of Jesus to people far from Jesus through the creative ministry. 
7. Associate Duties- Leadership development, vision implementation, service organization, service hosting, Sunday messages, hospital visitation, and various ministry-related tasks.
8. Technology- Oversee and assist with all aspects of creative technology maintenance, new implementation,  upgrades, and purchases.
9. Other duties as assigned by the Lead Pastor.

Organizational Culture Expectations

Our Leadership Culture:

Empowerment with Boundaries. You will have clear direction, creative freedom, healthy boundaries, and flexibility. 

Honor and loyalty. We honor each other and protect each other. We honor those over us, alongside us, and those God has entrusted to us to lead. 

Grace-filled accountability. None of us are perfect, and we all fail. We understand that sometimes the best intentions, most diligent planning, and prayerfully considered steps don’t go as planned. You have the freedom to fail and learn. It’s part of life and leadership. 

Collaborative learning. We learn from each other. We listen to what we haven’t yet heard and look to see a different viewpoint. We believe you don’t know what you don’t know until someone who does know what you don’t know tells you what you don’t know. Teachability is the key to everything. 

Responsive creativity. We spur each other on. We take a good idea and make it great. We take a sketch from one person and create a masterpiece together. Together, we find the meat of an idea and set the bones aside. 

Our Worship Culture: 

Our Philosophy: We desire to create an atmosphere of “prayerfully organized spontaneity.” We are continually managing the tension between what we have prayerfully prepared and yet spiritually sense as we lead. We believe in lingering in the moments when the Holy Spirit is doing something we did not plan or program for. We also don’t want to get lost in a moment and miss what the Holy Spirit has next. We desire to create experiences where people see authentic worship occurring on stage and respond with genuine acts of worship themselves. We are open to adapting styles and songs for a specific demographic and age group. It is always about creating a set that provides a path to God’s presence. 

Our Influences: Elevation, Belonging Co, Charity Gayle, Hillsong, Life Church, Bethel, Gateway, James River, etc... If it sounds good and helps people enter into worship, we will explore it. Every song is filtered through this question, “Will this song help people express their love and devotion to Jesus easily and passionately?” 

The Ideal Person:

Spiritually: The ideal candidate is someone who possesses and is developing the following spiritual attributes. 

• Passion for Jesus. They don’t simply like Jesus; THEY LOVE HIM. Their passion and love for Jesus is evident. 
• Purpose-filled living. They live to know Jesus more deeply and make him known to others. 
• Persistent spiritual growth. They learn and live the words of Jesus. They pray through problems and obstacles. They worship with all they are and have in every season of life. They change and desire to live and love like Jesus. 
• Patience with the Church. When we love Jesus, we love his bride. With all its imperfections, inconsistencies, and missteps, we love the church of Jesus. We speak honorably about her. She is not perfect, but she is the bride of Jesus. 
• Prayer first living. They believe the first response is a prayerful one. The ideal person believes everything accomplished for eternity begins in prayer.  They also believe there is nothing prayer cannot change. 

Musically: The ideal candidate is someone who possesses and is developing the following skills. 

The ability to play by ear and is proficient in music theory and classical technique.

The ability to sense the direction of the Holy Spirit in a service and change plans accordingly.

The planning and spontaneity necessary to prepare properly yet lead spontaneously. 

The ability to lead vocally and instrumentally. 

The ability to attract, assimilate, and train quality musicians. 

The ability to play and lead various styles of music. 

The ability to train and prepare students musically. 

Verbally: The ideal candidate communicates with clarity, relevance, and anointing. They have the ability to connect with their audience and move them to action. 

Academically: A degree is helpful yet optional. We are looking for someone who has a natural God-given ability to lead others. Leadership is more than a title or degree. Leaders are learners and are focused on growing themselves and those entrusted to their care. 

Creatively: The ideal candidate is someone who possesses and is developing the following creative leanings. 

• Intuition... They can see what others don’t.
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  Innovation… They find a way to accomplish what needs to be done with what they have.
• Curiosity… They want to learn new things and explore new territory.
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  Vision... They dream big, take action, persevere to completion, and then dream again.
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  Infectious... They inspire others to innovate, explore, and create. 

Professionally: The ideal candidate is someone who has and is developing the following professional attitudes. 

The ideal person loves families, students, and children. They are passionate and driven to reach them, disciple them, and engage them with the message and hope only Jesus can give. 

The ideal person is self-motivated. They are excited about their church and the opportunity they have been given, and they look forward to accomplishing what needs to be done. 

The ideal person is teachable and welcomes direction. They are emotionally and spiritually mature and can engage in and through challenging conversations. They receive instruction, learn, and change. 

The ideal person loves to build teams. They believe winning together is way more fulfilling than succeeding alone. 

The ideal person embraces the dynamics of teamwork. They understand great teams trust, disagree, go all in, hold each other accountable, and celebrate team wins first and foremost. 

The ideal person follows and supports even when they cannot see what the leader sees. They believe the leader often senses what is around the corner before it can be seen. 

The ideal person is positive and finds solutions. They see a problem as a challenge to learn and grow through. 

The ideal person is honest about their failures, struggles, and shortcomings. They seek out help and support. 

The ideal person is a learner. They learn from the successes and failures of others. They listen to podcasts, read books and blogs, and continually grow. 

The ideal person is a pioneer. They know the road least traveled is not as smooth as those already paved, but they long to do something new and fresh. They would instead enjoy what they build than endure what they inherit. 

The ideal person sees an opportunity. They are up for the challenge and can’t wait to start.