Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission:
- Make disciples who make disciples
Vision:
- Loving Jesus. Loving People. Plowing a Counter-Culture
Values:
- Fearless Gospel Proclamation
- Constant Improvement
- Radical Candor
- Simplicity
Staff Culture
- High ownership culture where leaders take initiative and get things done
- Team-first mindset with strong collaboration across ministries
- Driven by continuous improvement, always looking to get better
- Healthy balance of structure and flexibility in how ministry gets done
- Relational and supportive environment where people genuinely enjoy working together
- High expectations with a shared commitment to excellence
- Open and honest communication, valuing clarity and feedback
- Passionate about the mission, with a focus on real impact over activity
Key Responsibilities
- Provide vision, leadership, and strategic oversight for the entire Family Ministry from cradle through college.
- Personally champion and lead the children’s ministry.
- Recruit, coach, develop, and empower staff and volunteer leaders across Family Ministries.
- Create engaging, Gospel-centered environments where children, students, and families can grow in their faith.
- Build healthy systems that support continued ministry growth, volunteer development, communication, and execution.
- Partner with parents to help disciple the next generation at home.
- Collaborate with church leadership to create a unified discipleship strategy across every stage of life.
- Evaluate ministry effectiveness and pursue continual improvement through healthy metrics, feedback, and innovation.
- Foster alignment between children’s, student, and young adult ministries while maintaining excellence in each area.
Key Qualifications
- A clear and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
- A passion for reaching and discipling the next generation.
- Demonstrated success leading children’s ministry in a growing church.
- Experience providing strategic leadership across multiple NextGen ministries is preferred.
- Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain volunteer leaders.
- Experience leading ministry staff and building healthy teams.
- Strong organizational and systems leadership.
- Excellent communicator who casts vision and develops people.
- Ability to think strategically while executing with excellence.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, growing ministry environment.
- High ownership, humility, resilience, and adaptability.
- Alignment with Emergence Church’s theology, mission, vision, and values.