Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission:
The Ridge exists to pursue people at all costs, so they can know Jesus, grow in Him, and serve Him daily.
- Christ-Centered: When individuals believe in who Jesus is and what He has done for them, their focus in life shifts from being self-focused and self-centered to Christ-focused and Christ-centered.
- Scripture-Led:The Bible is the very Word of God. A person becomes more Christ-centered as they are led by the Scripture. The Holy Spirit guides the Christ Follower as they read, study, obey, and live according to the Scripture.
- In Biblical Community: Christ Followers are to live in biblical community within the Church by gathering, loving, serving, submitting, honoring, and forgiving one another.
- Prayer-Dependent: Christ Followers have the privilege and opportunity to experience intimacy with God through prayer, trusting, and depending on Jesus moment by moment.
- Living Generously: We believe that following Jesus compels the Christ Follower to give generously of themselves—their time, energy, and resources—so that others may know, grow, and serve Jesus.
- Outward-Focused: Since the Christ Follower has experienced God’s love and forgiveness through Jesus, they seek to make more Christ Followers inside the church and also take that message outside the walls of the Church to reach the lost and serve the vulnerable.
- Multiplying Disciples: The aim of a Christ Follower is to help others grow into lifelong learners and followers of Christ; to multiply who they are in Jesus, and then help others do the same.
Staff Culture
Austin Ridge staff culture can be summed up in a few words: high bar, low ego. This is a team that works hard, prays together, and genuinely cares about each other beyond job titles and org charts. Excellence is expected, but it’s excellence in service of people, not performance. Meetings are lean because the expectation is that you’re out investing in people, not sitting in conference rooms. The Word is always open at staff gatherings, and prayer isn’t a formality here, it’s the foundation.
People who do well here are the ones who are what they appear to be, all the time. Consistent. Secure. Normal in the best sense of the word. Leaders who need to prove themselves or control their environment tend to struggle. Leaders who are quietly excellent, deeply relational, and genuinely mission-driven tend to flourish and stay. This team moves slower than some, and they’re at peace with that. Slow, sustainable, and faithful beats fast and flashy every time.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Weekend Worship: Plan, prepare, and lead Gospel-centered worship experiences each weekend that authentically complement the teaching and invite genuine congregational participation. Services are tight, intentional, and Spirit-led, not over-produced or performance-driven.
- Shepherd Your Team: Recruit, develop, and pastor a community of volunteer musicians, vocalists, and worship leaders. Your primary flock is your team. Getting the set right matters; getting the people right matters more.
- Build Scalable Systems: Create clear, reproducible processes for volunteer recruitment, development, and scheduling that don’t depend entirely on you to hold them together. Build infrastructure that outlasts any one person.
- Develop Disciples, Not Just Musicians: Move your team beyond weekly performance toward genuine spiritual formation. Lead discipleship, invest in emerging leaders, and build a pipeline of people who are growing in faith and musical craft simultaneously.
- Collaborate Across Campuses: Partner actively with the Worship Ministries Pastor and campus worship leaders across Austin Ridge to strengthen shared DNA and unified culture. The posture here is simple: don’t change us, but make us better.
- Plan Special Services: Lead the creative and logistical planning for two to three major seasonal services per year, including Christmas ,Easter, and worship nights that are worshipful, Christ-exalting, and well-executed.
- Champion Worship Beyond Sunday: Help your campus cultivate a culture of worship that doesn’t begin and end at the service. Model what it looks like to live as a worshiper every day, and inspire your congregation to do the same.
Key Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 years of ministry experience leading worship in a church context, with demonstrated growth in both skill and pastoral maturity
- Proven track record of building, developing, and spiritually investing in volunteer teams, not just filling slots on a set list
- Experience in or exposure to a multi-site church environment is strongly preferred; you understand the complexity and the opportunity that comes with a “one church, many locations” model
- High musical proficiency, including vocal and instrumental direction, as well as fluency with standard worship technology including ProPresenter, sound, lighting, and video projection
- Theological alignment with Austin Ridge’s convictions: a high view of Scripture, a belief that the Holy Spirit saves and builds the church, not production value, and a pastoral heart for volunteers as the primary ministry, not the means to it
- A self-starting posture, someone who takes initiative without needing to be told, and who builds proactively rather than reactively
- Elder-qualified character as outlined in 1 Timothy and Titus
- The kind of secure, unmanufactured presence that an authenticity-sensitive city like Austin will receive and respect