Kids Pastor

Job Title:

Kids Pastor

FLSA Classification:
Exempt

Salary Job Class:
Pastor

Reports to:

Discipleship Pastor

Supervisory responsibilities:

Yes

The Kids Pastor serves Greenhouse Church families and children by creating spirit filled, dynamic, engaging, hospitable, and safe environments where children grow in love, faith, and knowledge of God. This leader champions a growing Kids Ministry marked by deep discipleship, an excellent Sunday experience, strong partnership with parents, meaningful inclusion of every child, and healthy teams of staff and volunteer leaders.

The Kids Pastor provides vision, leadership, creativity, and pastoral care for weekly ministry, family engagement, and larger-scale church events while contributing to the team spirit of the staff and congregation through fellowship, encouragement, cooperation, and prayer.

• Numerical growth and retention of both volunteers and kids in the Kid’s Ministry
• Creative ways to integrate kids into the larger Sunday church expression
• Deep discipleship for our kids
• Excellent communication and relationship building with parents as well as assimilation of new kids and families into Greenhouse
• Incredible, self-initiated recruitment and team building
• Formation of creative events that involve parents, increases parental participation, and bring in new families both on and outside of Sundays
• Maintain our reputation as a place that is welcoming to children with special needs

• Provide vision and strategic leadership for Greenhouse Kids, establishing goals and strategies that support spiritual growth, family engagement, ministry excellence, and sustainable numerical growth.
• Partner with the Youth Team to effectively transition rising 6th-graders into our Youth Group.
• Track and evaluate attendance, growth, engagement, and other key ministry indicators; develop strategies in response to trends and opportunities

• Oversee Sunday services and ensure the Kids experience remains Spirit-filled, dynamic, engaging, hospitable, safe, and excellent as the ministry grows
• Create intentional opportunities to integrate children into Sunday expressions, including worship leadership, children’s baptisms, and other appropriate moments in the life of the church
• Strengthen live worship in Kids environments by developing strategies that increase children’s participation in singing and create pathways for kids to help lead worship
• Develop Kids programming for larger-scale church events rather than functioning primarily as childcare (for example, a Greenhouse Conference Kids Track)
• Oversee curriculum and preserve the ministry’s commitment to biblically grounded, age-appropriate discipleship
• Oversee and champion Kids Camp as a key discipleship and relational environment

• Champion deep discipleship of children and equip parents and caregivers with resources and practices that support discipleship at home
• Maintain excellent, proactive communication with parents and caregivers, including relational and personal touchpoints from Kids leaders
• Plan and lead events that meaningfully involve parents and caregivers, increase parental participation, strengthen family discipleship, and create accessible on-ramps for new families

• Manage Associate Early Childhood Director/Coordinator
• Manage Associate Kids Director/Coordinator
• Manage FAM Coordinator
• Recruit and galvanize leaders with a high level of self-initiative, continually building the volunteer and leadership teams needed for current ministry and future growth
• Develop, train, shepherd, and appreciate Kids leaders, creating a healthy culture of ownership, growth, pastoral care,…