Youth Director

• Create a vibrant and welcoming gathering for middle and high school students that is centered around worship and gospel-centered preaching and community
• Develop a volunteer leadership team that helps the youth ministry grow in the Salt Church core values
• Maintain a calendar that involves events like a Fall Kickoff, Fall and Spring Retreats, a Gospel leadership application process for volunteers, summer mission trips, teaching calendar, etc.
• Develop a partnership with parents to communicate youth ministry happenings and equip them with resources to equip their kids
• Build connections in the community and with schools to promote an evangelistic culture among students for their peers.
• Pray for students, parents, and volunteers. Model vibrant prayer life and communion with Jesus.

How will these responsibilities be accomplished?

• Communicate vision, mission, rhythms, Salt Church core values, and opportunities for future church plants to staff and students and parents (written, media, verbal)
• Create and maintain a pipeline for students to grow in their own discipleship and serve in the local church
• Maintain presence on middle and high school campuses. Attend events students are involved in outside of youth group when possible (sporting events, school plays, graduations, etc.)
• Recruit and develop student leaders to have roles during a youth gathering such as welcome team, worship team, set up/tear down, preaching, call to worship, leading from the middle, etc.
• Organize and equip volunteer leaders to lead breakout groups or DGroups
• Facilitate and provide opportunities for youth gathering, groups, retreats, and missions trips.
• Stay connected with Salt Company and help transition graduating seniors into Salt Companies around the country.
• Attend all staff meetings.

What does a successful outcome of this position look like?

• Disciples who embody the 4 core values of Salt church
• Students coming to know Christ, getting baptized, and then graduating and jumping into Salt Company.
• Not just a youth group for the pastors' kids, but a youth group reaching the lost students.
• Growing youth gathering where people feel connected and not forgotten.
• Students that are highly invested in the local church.
• Parents who feel cared for and are actively discipling their kids
• We take more students to retreats and missions trips every year
• A ministry that students brag about and belong to rather than attend and apologize for