High School Pastor

The High School Pastor at Christ Community Church is a deeply relational, emotionally healthy leader called to create a genuine sense of family for students and volunteers alike. Rather than simply running programs and events, this pastor is expected to actively pursue teenagers in their everyday environments, ensuring that every student feels seen, known, and valued regardless of their background or spiritual starting point.

At its core, this role is about guiding students toward an authentic faith in Jesus through meaningful personal connections, compassionate theological curiosity, and hands‑on missional experiences. By pouring into a collaborative team of volunteer leaders and honoring diverse perspectives, the High School Pastor builds a safe, inclusive community where students are not just spectators, but are empowered to grow spiritually, wrestle with deep questions, and become active leaders within the broader church.

High School Ministry Leadership

• Lead strategic ministries that guide students toward authentic faith in Jesus.
• Provide relevant biblical teaching and model spiritual disciplines, discerning what students need to hear in each season.
• Create safe, relational environments where students are known and can grow.
• Create missional experiences that move students’ hearts toward others.
• Empower Student Leadership:
  Move high schoolers from the sidelines to the front lines by equipping them to actively lead and serve in the overall life of the church.
• Actively Pursue Students:
  Maintain a missional presence outside of weekly programming by intentionally pursuing students in their everyday environments, treating personal time with them as an essential priority.
• Recruit, develop, equip, pastor, and mobilize volunteers for connectional ministry, group leadership, worship experiences, and missional opportunities.
• Build healthy volunteer teams with clear expectations and care, cultivating a strong sense of family among the leadership team while honoring diverse perspectives.

Leader Development

• Create and foster a transformational context for emerging leaders.
• Intentionally develop leaders who understand the big picture and can move ministry forward.

Ministry Health, Safety & Administration

• Provide for the overall health and continuity of the high school ministry.
• Ensure child/youth safety practices and training are implemented.
• Develop scalable systems & manage administration:
  Build effective systems for discipleship and volunteer training, and efficiently manage administrative tasks so that operational work never hinders the pastoral priority of being with students.
• Partner collaboratively and comfortably alongside the other staff members of the Next Gen Team including the 5-8th Grade Pastor.
• Participate in all-staff meetings and collaborative planning.

The following describes many of the characteristics of the ideal candidate for the High School Pastor:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• 5 or more years of relevant experience in a church setting.

• Theological Communication: Skill in translating deep, in-depth biblical knowledge into engaging, accessible language for teenagers.
• Contextual Teaching Design: The ability to assess the specific spiritual and cultural needs of a student body in real-time to craft custom teachings and messages.
• Cross-Cultural Ministry Knowledge: An understanding of diverse local demographics, specifically knowing how to effectively engage and disciple students from a large variety of diverse backgrounds in the Greeley area.
• Experiential Ministry Facilitation: Skill in designing creative spiritual encounters that utilize worship, symbols, and sanctified imagination to foster spiritual formation alongside traditional teaching.
• Project Management: Strong logistical and project management skills to handle the multifaceted expectations of a large‑scale ministry, ensuring details of programs and events are executed with excellence.
• Strategic Calendar Planning: The ability to comprehensively plan and leverage the entire annual calendar for intentional ministry impact.
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