Director​/Pastor Of Gen Ministries

About Anchor Bay Church

Anchor Bay Church (ABC) is a vibrant, relational, and justice-oriented community located on the beautiful seacoast North Shore of Massachusetts. Our vision statement is “transformation through loving Jesus, serving neighbors, and celebrating life!” We are a multi-generational church rooted in Scripture, shaped by grace, and committed to forming people who are curious, courageous, and deeply connected to Jesus and one another.

Our community reflects a wide range of ages, backgrounds, and experiences, and we seek to be a place where children, youth, and families are known, valued, and invited into meaningful participation in the life of the church. Guided by our core values of hospitality, curiosity, humility, authenticity, justice, creativity, and joy, we practice an invitational, Spirit-led approach to formation and are deeply committed to being “radically local” – partnering with our neighbors across the North Shore to seek the flourishing of our wider community.

We are part of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC).

Anchor Bay’s Kids, Youth, and Family ministries are built on a foundation of committed volunteers, established rhythms, and a strong relational culture. Over a third of our congregation is under the age of 18! This is a growing and thriving area of our church that we anticipate will continue to expand in the years ahead.

On Sunday mornings, we offer age-based programming for children from nursery through elementary school, supported by a team of volunteers. Our youth ministry currently includes regular Sunday evening gatherings and seasonal events, with a core group of engaged students and adult volunteers. Our church is also home to many foster and adoptive families, shaping a community that is especially attentive to care, flexibility, and belonging across a wide range of family experiences.

While there is meaningful work already underway, we are at a pivotal crossroads moment of growth where there is also significant room for culture-building, refinement, and long-term visioning. This role is not expected to build everything from the ground up, but rather to steward what exists, strengthen systems, recruit and develop leaders, and help shape the next chapter of ministry depth and growth with children, youth, and their families at Anchor Bay.

The Director / Pastor of Next Gen Ministries provides strategic, pastoral, and organizational leadership for Anchor Bay’s ministry with children, youth, and their families (birth through high school). The role exists to help cultivate environments where young people can encounter God, grow in faith at their own pace, and feel known, valued, and seen – while also equipping parents, caregivers, and volunteers as essential partners in that work.

This is a senior leadership role that requires systems thinking, relational depth, and the ability to hold complexity with clarity. Because the scope of Next Gen ministry is broad and relationally rich, this role is intentionally designed to be volunteer-led and staff-guided. A primary responsibility is developing leaders, strengthening systems, and creating sustainable structures that allow ministry to grow and thrive over time.

Success is measured not by doing everything personally, but by building healthy teams, clear pathways for growth, opportunities for continued learning, and sustainable ministry structures developed over time.

The Director / Pastor of Next Gen Ministries reports to the Lead Pastor and serves on the Staff Senior Leadership Team.

• This role may be titled Director or Pastor depending on the candidate’s training, credentials, and sense of call.

Anchor Bay approaches children’s, youth, and family ministry through a formation-centered, invitational lens rather than a program-driven or attractional model. We believe:

• Children and youth are active participants in their own spiritual journeys
• Faith formation should honor developmental stages, agency, curiosity, and mystery, including the ways faith, identity, and belonging are formed together over time
• The Holy Spirit is already at work in…