Youth Pastor

Job Description: Youth Pastor
Classification: Full Time
Our Mission and Vision: Live. Love. Lead.                                                                                                     Live in obedience to Christ’s guidance; loving others as Jesus does; and leading them into genuine intimacy with Him.
Position Summary: The Youth Pastor will lead and organize an effective youth ministry, implementing fellowship, worship, biblical teaching, discipleship, service, and evangelism. The overall objective of the Youth Pastor is to make Christ-like disciples, and then train and mobilize them to make Christ-like disciples.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Build a strong and vibrant youth ministry within the Lake View Park community, rooted in the LVP values and practices
2. Provide leadership, pastoral care, coaching, and direction to LVP Youth Ministry
3. Recruit, train and shepherd staff and volunteer leaders
4. Serve on the LVP pastoral leadership team
Specific Areas of Responsibility:
1. Build a strong and vibrant youth ministry within the Lake View Park community, rooted in the LVP values and practices.
• Plays a key role in creating worship opportunities that guide students into a relationship with God.
• Model and foster being with God in one-on-one time with Him.
Being with one another
• Oversees opportunities for students to have discipleship and accountable relationships with each other.
• Provides opportunities for students to use our gym in sports and games.
Being With People Who Don’t Know Jesus
• Lead an “open arms” culture of invitation within LVP Youth that reaches students outside the LVP Community.
• Personally develop trusted, redemptive relationships with others outside the LVP community.
Living generously
• Foster a LVP youth culture in which students serve.
• Create avenues and opportunities for students to serve inside and outside the church.
• Teach and live a generous sharing of resources and tithing.
2. Provide leadership, pastoral care, coaching, and direction to LVP Youth Ministry
• Implements and executes the vision of LVP Youth.
• Leads with grace and responsibility when handling ministry-related issues.
3. Recruit, train, and shepherd staff and volunteer leaders
• Holds regular and meaningful partnership meetings with youth staff and lay leaders; guides their goal setting and helps them reach their ministry goals.
• Commits to timely checkups and documentation.
• Actively recruit and train volunteer leaders to serve in LVP Youth.
• Regularly celebrates the service of volunteers.
4. Serve on the LVP pastoral leadership team
• Participate in the evaluation and development of the overall church ministry.
• Develop and stewards the LVP Youth budget.
• Serves as the voice and advocate for LVP Youth in the larger church context.
Qualifications and Position Requirements:
• Exhibits a personal and growing relationship with God, a teachable spirit, and a healthy personal life.
• Strong, conservative, biblical and theological background.
• Has a high level of administrative and organizational skills to ensure effective programming, communication, and execution.
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a related field (ordination or in process preferred), experience in ministry, basic administrative skills, and a personal spiritual life congruent with biblical mandates for leaders                   (1 Timothy 3:1-7); is committed to continual learning.
• Self-motivated leader; energized; demonstrates ability to create and execute a long-term vision for youth ministry.
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment, and has a strong desire to coach and lead others to achieve their ministry goals.
• Called to ministry and service; strong relationship capability; has a passion for reaching people for Christ.
• Self-starter, decision-maker and capable of directing others and implementing projects within a team.
• Is in agreement with Church of the Nazarene Statement of Faith
• Lives a lifestyle in full agreement with the Church of the Nazarene Covenant of Christian Conduct and Covenant of Christian Character.
Reports to: Senior Pastor, Susie Shellenberger