Children's Ministry Director

Georgia Baptist Mission Board; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

Midway Community Church in Alpharetta, GA, is seeking a part-time Children’s Ministry Director for Kidsway (birth through 5th grade). The role leads weekly and special events, trains volunteers, and manages the ministry budget while promoting gospel-centered ministry to kids and their families.

The director will work with the Senior Pastor and Youth Pastor to ensure a cohesive, gospel-driven approach across all ages, and will serve as an active member of the church community.

Qualifications

• Prior children’s ministry experience and ability to work with limited direction.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Love for God’s Word and personal spiritual growth.
• Agreement with Baptist Faith and Message and Midway Constitution, including Young Earth creationism, complementarian gender roles, cessationist gifts, Credobaptism, Great Commission, and Christology.

Responsibilities

• Organize, market, and run all Kidsway weekly and special events.
• Lead teacher for children in Sunday and Wednesday activities.
• Steward the Kidsway budget.
• Find, train, encourage, and bring excitement to Kidsway volunteers.
• Coordinate with Youth Pastor for cohesive ministry across ages.
• Attend weekly staff meetings.
• Be an active member of Midway Community Church.

Skills

Children's ministry

Communication skills

Job description

Midway Community Church | Children’s Ministry Director

Midway is a medium-sized Baptist church in Alpharetta, GA. Our mission: Glorify God by Helping People Follow Jesus – locally and worldwide. We are searching for ministry leadership for our Kidsway children's ministry. Kidsway is for birth through 5th grade. Regular activities are Sunday School and a Kidsway service on Sunday mornings plus Adventure Club on Sunday evenings. There are mid-week activities during adult prayer service.

This is a part-time position

Lead And Account For Kidsway Children’s Ministry

• Organize, market, and run all Kidsway weekly and special events
  • Special Event Examples: Vacation Bible School, Christmas Program (w/Worship Pastor)
• Steward the Kidsway budget
• Find, train, encourage, and bring excitement to Kidsway volunteers
• Honor the Lord in Kidsway execution, curriculum, and the relationships built
• Continually improve Kidsway ministry, innovating as needed
• Understand the times, pressures, and biblical worldview issues facing kids and their parents
• Encourage, educate, and embolden parents to train up their kids in the Lord
• Ultimately, help kids (and their parents) understand the Gospel and grow spiritually
• Lead teacher for children in Kidsway Sunday and Wednesday activities
• Promote Sunday School and other church ministries to Kidsway parents
• Coordinate with our Youth Pastor for a consistent, cohesive ministry approach across all ages of kids

Other Responsibilities

• Attend weekly staff meetings
• Other responsibilities as assigned by the Senior Pastor
• Be an active member of Midway Community Church!

Qualifications

• Prior children’s ministry experience; can execute with limited direction; excellent communication skills
• Personal and spiritual development:
  • Love for God’s Word as sufficient, with a consistent hermeneutic
  • Demonstrated growth in Christ
• In agreement with Baptist Faith and Message and the Midway Constitution:
  • Young Earth creationism and a historical Adam and Eve
  • Complementarian view of gender roles within the church
  • Cessationist view of miraculous / sign gifts
  • Credobaptism and regenerate church membership
  • Desire and call to the Great Commission
  • Jesus as fully man and fully God, sinless, the propitiation of sin, and bodily resurrected