Family

Life

Minister

Position title: Family Life Minister Reports to: Lead Pastor Position type: Full Time, Exempt Church size: 100 Location: On-site (3816 College St SE, Lacey, WA) Our Mission Love God! Love Others! Make a Difference! Our Vision Reach! Train! Send! Summary New Horizon Christian Church is a non-denominational restoration church whose doctrine is the bible, preaching and teaching from it exclusively. The primary responsibility of the Family Life Minister will be the development and execution of a comprehensive program for Christian discipleship of families including partnering with and equipping parents, developing and overseeing ministry and outreach for children ages birth through senior high school. This pastoral position will develop and implement teaching, recruiting, training and deployment of volunteer leaders and provide support systems that will enable the families of NHCC to fulfill its mission of Loving God, Loving others and Making a Difference.

Responsibilities:

• Oversight of Youth and Children’s ministries
• Hands on involvement in leading Youth Ministries (High school and Middle school) with the assistance of volunteers.)
• Developing a strategy to equip and engage parents as the primary disciplers of their children.
• Develop and manage a budget to support all programs.
• Establish annual goals.
• Recruiting, training, coaching and appreciating volunteers or staff.
• Developing relationships with children, youths and families.
• Work with the Lead Pastor to ensure coordination and cohesiveness among the various ministries at NHCC.
• Responsible for communication related to Family Ministries (Email newsletters, texts, social media, videos etc.)
• Provide pastoral care to children/youth and their families in difficult times.
• Participate in preaching and teaching ministries of NHCC.
• Assist in helping to care for the congregational needs of the church.

Personal Responsibilities (While not specifically related to the position, following are personal responsibilities of everyone in leadership positions at NHCC):

• Maintain God-ordained priorities in your life by putting Jesus Christ first, your spouse second your children third and the ministry fourth.
• Exhibit personal generosity to NHCC through the giving of time, talent and treasure.
• Demonstrate a Christ-like attitude through all interactions with congregation, staff and volunteers.
• Achieve annual goals with measurable outcomes.

Essential Qualifications:

• The ideal candidate would have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited Bible college, university, seminary or equivalent with a concentration in student and/or family pastoral ministry or, is on track to become an ordained minister.
• A solid understanding of restoration theology and its practical implications for discipling parents and children/youth is essential.
• Experience with youth and/or children’s ministry is desirable.

In addition, the candidate must:

• Be married with children.
• Qualify as an elder as listed in 1 Timothy chapter 3:1-12, Titus 1:5-9.
• Have a strong personal relationship with Jesus Christ as evidenced by spiritual maturity and stability.
• Have a strong biblically, ground marriage and family dynamic, able to manage your household well (1 Timothy 3:3-5).
• Have a love for kids, students, and families and able to connect with all generations.
• Be experienced in recruiting, organizing, and developing volunteer and leadership teams.
• Be a high energy leader and team builder with passion for lost people in the community.
• Have strong conflict management and public relations skills.
• Be flexible and calm under pressure and/or emergency situations.
• Be self-motivated, results-oriented, independent worker with the leadership and administrative skills necessary to recruit, engage and lead teams and who also thrives in a collaborative environment.
• Have an understanding or at least an awareness for special needs children ministry dynamics.