O'Fallon Church of Christ - Youth Minister

O’FALLON CHURCH OF CHRIST

POSITION

Youth & Family Minister

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Our highest priority for a new Youth & Family Minister is the spiritual growth of our teens.

The minister's first goal should be promoting the adoration of God and bringing glory to the name of the Lord. He should be a man who through his teaching can effectively communicate God's love for us and lead others (teens, children, parents) to worship and adore God in response.

The minister's second goal should be building up the saints, preparing God’s people for works of service. Our desire is for someone who can teach Biblically from the Word of God and passionately from the heart, someone who is a positive motivator and encourager, someone who can help the youth learn and understand how to apply the Word of God to their lives. He must not be afraid to call sin what it is, and must be able to demonstrate how counter-cultural Christians must be in our world today. He should promote the fostering of strong personal relationships within the church family and should build such relationships himself, especially with the youth and their parents. He should be able to bridge the generation gaps and relate to the varied classes of people in our congregation. He should be a man who, through his teaching and example, is able to lead teens and parents alike to exercise constructively their own spiritual gifts to fulfill the mission of the church.

The minister's third goal should be creating disciples, seeking and saving the lost, leading them to give their lives to following Christ. This is the mission of the church, and the ultimate purpose toward which the spiritual talents of all in the church should be directed. We want to have some investment in foreign mission work, but we want our focus to be on local missions in our own community. The Youth & Family Minister should desire to be a part of this outreach and should enable the youth to become active in outreach outside the church.

The Youth and Family Minister should be goal oriented, with the ability to organize and promote activities, including participation in area-wide youth activities such as Neotez (summer camp) and TABS (Teen Area-wide Bible Study). He should be willing to work with other staff in helping coordinate the church calendar.

A second area of responsibility for the Youth & Family Minister will be oversight and coordination of of our children's ministry. The Youth & Family Minister should give guidance and direction to those working in Children's Education and Power Hour, and will serve as a committee member for the Learning Place Pre-School (an outreach ministry of our congregation).

A third area of responsibility is to the parents of the youth. The Youth & Family Minister should consider his ministry as a partnership with parents and consider it his goal to enable parents to minister to their own children. He should foster parental involvement in working with the youth and children's ministries. Parenting is a huge challenge for many families, and the Youth & Family Minister should be willing to work with parents, for example by helping organize training opportunities for parents.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

Required:

At least an undergraduate degree in a Bible-related discipline
Some experience in the practice and techniques of youth & family ministry
The desire and ability to relate effectively to youth as well as parents and older Christians
The ability to appreciate and apply basic principles of education which are in harmony with God's word

Good skills in the English language

Preferred:

Not just out of college, but with some post-college experience in youth & family ministry
Married, with some experience in raising a family

Work experience outside of ministry

CHURCH DEMOGRAPHICS

We are a varied group in terms of age, income, religious upraising, spiritual maturity, geographical background, education, political views, race, and family demographics. We have over 125 family units, roughly 60 with children, 15 young single / young married, and the rest empty nesters / single-again. We have over 200 adults and 140 children. Ages of children are distributed very evenly with around 40 pre-school, 40 elementary, 40 teens, and 20 college (mostly away). At the moment, the majority of the teens are in middle school.

O’Fallon, Missouri, is located in Saint Charles County in the northwest part of the greater Saint Louis metropolitan area. It is a growing area, and we frequently have people moving in while others are moving away. Our church has grown over the last 10 years, and we believe we have the potential to continue growing.

The Saint Louis area has an active area-wide youth ministers organization. Our youth minister has been an active member of this group, and our youth participate in a number of events and activities organized by this group.

Please browse around our church website to see the ministries with which we are involved, our other staff members, our recent church bulletins, etc.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you are interested in applying for the position of Youth & Family Minister at the O’Fallon Church of Christ, please send your resume to churchcentral@msn.com

If you have any questions, please contact our Youth & Family Minister Search Team leader, Allen Burnett (deacon), or Gary Horn (elder).

Allen Burnett
(636) 936-0707
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Gary Horn
(636) 300-0312
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Posted: 6/26/08