Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission:
- Live in God’s Story By Knowing Jesus and Loving All People
Values:
- Gospel: The Good News is our hope. We receive God’s grace because of who He is and what He has done.
- Scripture: The Bible is for everyone. We teach the Bible as the true story that changes lives.
- Discipleship: The good life is in Jesus. We learn to follow and worship Him by taking next steps.
- Community: The church is a family. We love one another by using our gifts as we gather, give and serve.
- Mission: The good news is for the world. We share Jesus with our neighbors and the nations.
Key Responsibilities
Implement Storyline’s vision of coming alongside families to disciple kids (birth-5th)
- Execute the scope and sequence for key discipleship outcomes within Storyline Kids
- Champion Family Discipleship Milestones within Storyline Kids
- Come alongside the Director of Family Discipleship to develop and implement a strategy to equip parents to become primary disciple makers at home
Oversee Storyline Kids
- Lead Storyline Kids staff team
- Manage the annual budget for Storyline Kids
- Maintain excellent and clear communication with parents and families
- Ensure leaders and families are loved and cared for by maintaining regular contact with them
- Execute events that provide discipleship and community outreach opportunities throughout the year (Ex. Leader Training, Kids Camp, etc.)
- Build ministry capacity through the recruitment and training of lay leaders and volunteers to ensure the effective implementation of ministry objectives, goals, and action plans
- Rotate with the kids team to schedule on weekends
Oversee Curriculum within Storyline Kids
- Work alongside the Director of Family Discipleship to create and implement curriculum in Storyline Kids, including but not limited to:
- 40 Key Events
- Alignment series
- Kids Camp
- Other discipleship tools
First Time Storyline Kids Families
- Manage First Time Guest Registration and first time guest follow-up, including profile editing
Serve on the Family Discipleship Team
- Attend Storyline staff meetings and staff-related events
- Attend and give input to team meetings within family discipleship
- Ensure we are in compliance with all abuse prevention policies
Key Qualifications
- High capacity and flexibility.
- Confidence and initiative to anticipate needs within this ministry lane and execute accordingly.
- Knowledge of developmental and faith stages for preschoolers and children, and the ability to strategically choose and implement appropriate programming for those stages is essential.
- Experience in a church leading in the spiritual formation area of children, and/or Christian education is preferred.
- Decisive and proven leader with the ability to encourage, empower, and coach other leaders and teams in the field of education.
- Organized, strong delegator and follow-through, ability to cast and execute discipleship vision.
- Ability to develop and organize effective ministry teams made up of staff and volunteer leaders.
- Ability to create a positive and intentional leadership culture.