Youth Pastor

Bethany Baptist Church – Student Minister

700 35^th Ave.

Moline, IL

Reports to:

Senior Pastor

Objectives:

• The Student Minister is a part-time (for now) position whose responsibility is to biblically lead, oversee, and develop disciples within our Student Ministry (grades 6-12)

• The Student Minister will prayerfully develop, implement, and enhance a comprehensive approach to Student Ministry including:
• Discipling students into a personal relationship with Jesus.
• Creating an environment conducive to the spiritual growth and development of students.
• Develop, organize, lead and oversee a strong volunteer team.
• Implement sound biblical teaching that connects with students.
• Support and assist parents/guardians as they disciple their children.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, develop and implement all aspects of a spiritually healthy and balanced Student Ministry.
• Mentor and invest in the lives of students (and their parents).
• Participate in continuing education and training opportunities when possible.
• Recruit and train and pour into volunteers. This is for good ratio of leaders to students as well as safety for all involved in the ministry. 
• Serve as a liaison between the church and community organizations that are supportive of student ministries.
• Select and teach appropriate curriculum.
• Communicate effectively with students and parents using all available resources. This will include personal contact as well as social media.
• Be available to encourage, challenge and counsel students. This will include lunch at schools, extracurricular activities and support during times of crisis.  (As this is a part-time position for now, Bethany understands this will not be something that can happen all the time.  This will be a truly “when available” part of your responsibilities.)
• Being a Team Player. You and the Senior Pastor (with 20 years of full-time youth ministry experience and is very supportive of youth ministry) will have a strong working relationship.
• Attend weekly staff meetings. If education/work schedules does not allow for this, finding a time to meet with the Senior Pastor will be required.
• Ensure all volunteer leaders are in compliance with the child protection program.
• Must attend Sunday Worship services at Bethany Baptist.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrate a clear, observable commitment to Jesus.
• Must model the love of Jesus through the way you live and love others.
• Must be hungry, humble and people smart.
• Form a vision for the Youth Ministry, that will match up well with the mission, vision and direction of Bethany Baptist Church.
• Must be able to skillfully resolve conflicts within the student ministry between students, and between students and adult leaders if they arise.
• Love to laugh
• Consider youth ministry to be like working with wet cement…still able to mold the students into the role models they can be.

What You get:

• Salaried position
• Supportive Church Leadership and supportive church body
• Generous youth budget
• Ability to use the material already here, or can purchase new teaching material
• Paid leadership training opportunities
• Office
• Gymnasium where the youth group meets
• A chance to grow into your calling with real world experience. Will become full-time as the youth group grows.  This is our goal anyway!

Send resumes to employment@bethanymoline.com with Youth Pastor in the subject line.