Youth Minister​/Director of Youth Ministry, West Monroe, LA

Youth Minister/Director of Youth Ministry, West Monroe, LA

Family Church (FC) is a thriving church of 600 with a middle and high school youth ministry of 85 students and 16 volunteer leaders. Our campus includes a preschool, and elementary through high school with over 500 students on campus each day. They are seeking a Youth Minister/Director of Youth Ministry.

• Students are growing in a real relationship with Jesus, understanding God’s Word, discovering their gifts, serving others, and learning to make disciples.
• Parents feel informed, supported, and equipped to lead spiritually at home.
• FC Youth is a fun, safe, welcoming place where students can belong, build healthy relationships, ask honest questions, and grow together.
• A healthy, trained, and spiritually growing volunteer team is actively discipling students – not simply helping run programs.
• Students are connected to the larger life of Family Church and see themselves as an important part of the church now, not just someday.

• Lead FC Youth:
  Develop and lead weekly youth services, small groups, events, retreats, camps, and discipleship opportunities that are engaging, relational, biblically grounded, and aligned with the vision of Family Church.
• Teach and disciple students:
  Communicate God’s Word in a clear, relevant, age-appropriate way and create pathways for students to pursue God, grow in spiritual disciplines, use their gifts, serve, share their faith, and make disciples.
• Build leaders:
  Recruit, train, shepherd, empower, and retain a strong team of adult volunteers who model a growing relationship with Jesus and intentionally build discipling relationships with students.
• Partner with parents:
  Communicate consistently with parents, help them understand what students are learning, and provide practical tools that strengthen family discipleship at home.
• Create a safe, healthy culture:
  Maintain and enforce Family Church safety, screening, child-protection, and ministry policies. Build a culture where students are cared for, included, and protected.
• Stay connected to students:
  Be present in students’ lives beyond Wednesday night through appropriate school, community, church, and relational touchpoints.
• Strengthen the whole church:
  Help students participate in Sunday worship, serving, outreach, groups, and intergenerational relationships across Family Church.
• Collaborate:
  Work closely with the Family Ministry team, church staff, Claiborne Christian School, and Claiborne Christian Preschool where appropriate to create a connected discipleship pathway from childhood through graduation.
• Lead with excellence:
  Plan ahead, communicate clearly, manage the youth ministry budget responsibly, evaluate ministry effectiveness, develop volunteers, and continually improve ministry systems and experiences.

• A committed follower of Jesus with a growing personal relationship with Him and rhythms of Scripture, prayer, worship, Sabbath, Christian community, tithing, and fasting.
• A disciple-maker who is more interested in developing people than simply producing programs.
• A leader who believes parents are the primary spiritual influence in a student’s life and wants to equip and encourage them.
• A strong communicator who can teach Scripture to students with clarity, authenticity, and practical application.
• A relational leader who can shepherd volunteers, build trust with parents, and work well as part of a staff team.
• A creative, organized, dependable self-starter who can turn vision into an executable ministry plan.
• A humble and teachable leader who receives feedback, communicates honestly, handles conflict in a healthy way, and protects unity.
• Someone who fully embraces Family Church’s vision,…