Mission, Vision, and Values
Trinity’s mission is simple and powerful:
- “We open our Bibles to learn. We open our lives to love. So that lives and legacies are transformed.”
Core values expressed throughout the church include:
- Living Kingdom Down: Word and Spirit; repent and forgive quickly; Holy Spirit-led living.
- Healthy Person: Emotional, spiritual, marital, and relational health prioritized in every leader.
- Burden Lifter: Serving, encouraging, and supporting one another’s work and ministry.
- Heart for the House: No silos; one unified team serving one mission.
Staff Culture
Trinity’s staff environment is fast-paced, joy-filled, and highly relational. The culture is marked by:
- High trust, high clarity, and no gossip.
- Hard work and high celebration: Big events, big moments, and big wins for families.
- Deep discipleship: Weekly staff gatherings, leadership development, and pastoral coaching.
- Unity across all ministries: Centralized systems, shared vision, and team-first mentality.
- Strong marriages and spiritual maturity: Essential for every staff member.
The staff uses EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to maintain clarity, accountability, and alignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Shepherd and lead Trinity’s kids ministry from nursery through elementary, with a pastor’s heart for every child and family.
- Recruit, train, and care for a growing volunteer team that serves across every weekend service and midweek, and build layers of leaders beneath you.
- Lead and develop kids ministry staff, coordinators, interns, and part-time team members.
- Oversee Bible teaching and curriculum so kids learn Scripture, know Jesus, and understand the gospel at their level.
- Partner with parents and equip them as the primary disciplers of their kids, in step with Trinity’s marriage and parenting content.
- Create safe, secure, joyful environments, including check-in, safety systems, and the backyard worship and play experience.
- Lead kids ministry for major Trinity events such as Spring Training, Easter, Christmas in July, Trinity’s Birthday, and Fall Fest.
- Design kids spaces and midweek kids programming for the new facility.
- Collaborate with Student Ministry and Young Adults to strengthen transitions and move toward a unified family ministry.
- Manage the ministry budget, schedules, and systems, and run the ministry on EOS rhythms.
- Model a healthy marriage, family life, and walk with Jesus.
Key Qualifications
- A clear calling to kids ministry and pastoral shepherding.
- 3 to 5+ years of vocational kids ministry experience, preferably in a church of 1,000 or more.
- Proven leadership of adults and volunteers, not just kids.
- Experience building volunteer pipelines, small-group systems, and multi-layered leadership structures.
- Proven ability to teach kids the Bible in an engaging, practical way.
- Strong theological grounding: Reformed-leaning soteriology, openness to the gifts and work of the Holy Spirit, and alignment with Trinity’s complementarian convictions on pastoral leadership.
- A strong theology of family and discipleship that values the home as primary.
- Emotional intelligence, humility, teachability, and unity-oriented leadership, including a willingness to submit to spiritual authority.
- A healthy marriage (or a clear pursuit of marriage and family in the future).
- A bachelor’s degree is preferred; a master’s is a bonus. Seminary is not required. Character and biblical competency matter most.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, high-autonomy, high-accountability, growth-heavy environment.
Challenges and Opportunities
- The new facility is four times the size of the current one, so this leader can design kids spaces and midweek programming from the ground up.
- Trinity expects rapid growth when the new building opens. The Kids Pastor must have the team ready before the doors open.
- Kids ministry runs a high volume of services every week. This leader will build volunteer depth and leaders of leaders so the ministry does not depend on a few people.
- Trinity has launched a School of Ministry (3 12-14 week units) preparing staff and volunteers for greater excellence in ministry. The Kids Pastor can build a kids-specific leadership pipeline on top of that foundation.
- Kids ministry has operated largely on its own. This leader will help connect it with Students and Young Adults, and will help shape the path toward a unified family ministry.
- Trinity keeps joy and depth together. The Kids Pastor will protect both: kids who have a blast and kids who learn and love the Bible.