Job Board

Purpose: This full-time position exists to contribute to the whole of pastoral ministry at LifeSpring by providing opportunities for middle and high students to connect with Jesus, caring adults, and each other so that they will grow as mature followers of Jesus, feel right at home in this family, and serve faithfully in and outside the church.

Qualifications:
• Devoted and growing follower of Jesus.
• Passionate about seeing students participate in the mission of LifeSpring.
• Team Builder and Team Player — able to create, lead, and empower teams within student ministries and contribute to the work of teams outside of student ministries.
• Thoughtful and Teachable – possesses a clear vision for student ministry and is a life-long learner.
• Servant-leader — able to humbly and effectively guide students and adult volunteers in mission.
• Self-aware and safe – engages in honest self-evaluation, reflection and is mature and trustworthy.
• Self-caring and Self-starter – takes initiative and stewards time and resources well.
• Experienced and Equipped— a minimum of three years of experience working with students in some capacity and a college degree, preferably with Biblical and theological education. Must have or be willing to obtain a ministry license/permanent credential in the Evangelical Covenant Church.

Priorities of the Pastor of Student Ministries
1. Student Care
• Provide biblically based, Christ-centered teaching and mentoring for students to help them grow deeper in their relationship with Jesus so they are equipped and led into mission with Jesus.
• Facilitate a culture of caring community through small groups and one on one meetings.
• Foster a culture of generosity and hospitality where students are encouraged to reach their friends with the Gospel.
• Facilitate pathways for healing and wholeness through teaching, being trauma informed and connecting students to trusted resources.
2. Volunteer Equipping and Encouragement
• Recruit, equip, inspire, train and care for a team of volunteer youth leaders who can help accomplish effective ministry with students.
• Provide opportunities for volunteers to grow in their relationships with Christ.
3. Parental Partnership
• Support parents in their work of helping their middle school and high school-aged children grow in wisdom, faith and vision.
• Encourage parents to bring conversations and questions to you and other leaders.
• Provide mechanisms for parents to be aware of the teaching topics and opportunities for their students to grow.
4. Pastoral Presence
• Help refine the church’s vision and contribute to ongoing and new initiatives to accomplish the vision.
• Preach four to six times per year depending on time, desire, and the discernment of the Lead Pastor.
• Be a full participant with the ministry staff, supporting one another, praying for one another and building up one another in Christ.
• Integrate students into the multigenerational life of the church. Encourage them to participate fully in worship, mission, service and outreach.
• Serve in various other church ministries (weddings, funerals, young adults) as needed and time allows.
5. Self-Care
• Provide spiritual nurture and care, and model spiritual health to your family (if applicable).
• Discipline yourself to observe a Sabbath rest each week.
• Schedule longer times away quarterly for renewal, rest and prayer.
• Practice healthy rhythms and boundaries
Why? Because every interaction is an opportunity to invite people to take another step toward/with Jesus. The Pastor of Student Ministries is accountable to the Lead Pastor. The Pastor of Student Ministries will provide the Lead Pastor with yearly ministry goals. Raises are based both on performance and the financial well-being of the church.

We ask that all LifeSpring Staff regularly review and live by our Relational Covenant (below):
LifeSpring’s Relational Covenant: A Covenant for our Life Together
Holy Manners for a Faith Community: How will we walk hand in hand when we don’t see eye to eye?
As the people of LifeSpring Covenant Church we commit to the following ways of working together:
Charitable Love
· Believe the best of each other and give each other the benefit of the doubt. (Phil 4:8-10)
· Respect and honor the leadership of the church. (I Thes. 5:12, Hebrews 13:1)
· Seek to discover what is best for our church as a whole, not what may be best for us or for some small group in the church. (Phil. 2:3-6)
Tough Love
· Accept disagreement, conflict and evaluation as normal and natural. (Phil. 4:2-3)
· Seek to communicate clearly, humbly, and directly with the person with whom you have a concern. (Col. 3:14-16, Matt. 18)
Redeeming Love
· Forgiveness is a mark of Christ among us; as forgiven people, we will reject bitterness and instead choose to forgive one
another. (Ephesians 4:32)
As we at LifeSpring Covenant Church commit to this covenant, we will seek to be a body unified in prayer and submission to the Holy Spirit.