CAYoungLives Coordinator

Position: CA523 Young Lives Coordinator
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** Job Specific

Working Conditions:

*** Position is not remote, candidates need to be living in or willing to move to Merced, CA in order to qualify for role.
* Young Lives Merced is seeking a Young Lives Area Coordinator, a visionary  developer who can lead existing and new teams to reach adolescent parents as  part of a thriving 15-year ministry to adolescents in Merced.  If you love Jesus,  love teen parents, and desperately want them to meet, then we should talk.
Young Lives Merced is ready to hire, our volunteers are ready to be led, and there  are a lot of adolescent parents here who need to know that they are loved by  God.

The Young Lives coordinator role requires a dynamic, vibrant personality who will  lead this specialty ministry in Merced. This person must have a high capacity to  operate with minimal daily supervision and must be a highly motivated self-  starter, vision caster and implementer of that vision. This person possesses the  perseverance to ask, inspire and motivate volunteers in the ministry. Additionally,  in this role, this person must feel comfortable carrying and leading a large number  of relationships as this position will be asked to lead across all spectrums —  adolescent parents, volunteers, donors and community leaders.

This staff person would work with the three other staff leading Young Life  ministries in the area but be responsible for directly overseeing the existing  Young Lives team and continuing to develop clubs in the area.## Young Lives Coordinator
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* Summary:

** The Young Lives coordinator serves, in accordance with the objectives, policies and procedures established by mission leadership, to develop and sustain Young Lives ministries in the respective areas.

** Essential Duties:
** Spiritual Development — “Following Jesus” includes prayer and spiritual disciplines, fellowship, growth and health and church relationships.  - Develop a yearly personal growth plan that fosters a vibrant spiritual life including time for solitude, retreat, reflection, prayer and a sincere commitment to understanding God’s Word.  - Seek and maintain relationships and disciplines, in the context of active participation in a church community.  

- Actively participate in the spiritual life of the Young Life community.  - Lead teams and individuals in spiritual development.  - Ensure that all Young Life ministry in the area, is designed and carried out with a dependence on prayer that takes place out of the overflow of a personal…