Youth Pastor

Middle School & High School Students | Youth Parents | Ministry Volunteers

• Weekly gatherings are executed with a plan, enough trained volunteers, and lessons students remember.
• Every volunteer serving with students is screened, trained, and cleared before their first night.
• We know new students by name and follow up within the week.
• Students move from attending to belonging, into a small group, onto a team, or into leading something.
• Parents know what their students are learning and hear from the Youth Pastor before they have to ask.
• Retreats, conferences, and trips run safely and within budget, and each one is debriefed so the next one runs better.
• The middle school and high school worship team leads on a regular rhythm and keeps developing new student musicians.
• Volunteers are discipled and are still serving at the end of a full ministry year.
• The Youth Ministry Playbook is current enough that a new leader could pick it up and run with it.

• Lead PAC Youth week to week for middle school and high school students, owning the Sunday and Tuesday experiences from planning through follow-up.
• Cast vision for Youth within the Family Life strategy, so students, parents, and volunteers understand the ministry's purpose and where it's headed.
• Recruit, train, schedule, and disciple Youth volunteers
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• Maintain a Youth Ministry Playbook covering vision, rhythms, security, conflict management, and leader qualifications, with security procedures built on Family Life child safety standards.
• Teach and preach at Youth gatherings within the approved calendar, teaching Scripture in a way that makes it come alive for students and their specific context.
• Provide pastoral care to students, including follow-up with new and drifting students and first response when a student is in crisis, alongside the Family Life Team Leader.
• Carry out child safety standards in every Youth setting, including screening compliance, adult-to-student ratios, two-adult rules, and mandated reporting.
• Partner with parents in their students' discipleship, training and equipping them to shepherd their students well in a constantly changing digital age.
• Own communication with students, parents, and volunteer leaders, keeping schedules, event details, and changes clear, consistent, and on time.
• Plan and lead Youth retreats, the LIFE youth conference, summer mission trips, and other major events, co-leading with the Family Life Team Leader.
• Oversee the middle school and high school worship team, equipping students to serve and lead in worship and making sure worship is led at every gathering.
• Identify and develop student leaders, giving students real ways to serve and lead within Youth.
• Evaluate gatherings, trainings, and events after they run, and adjust what isn't working.
• Handle the administrative work of Youth ministry, including Planning Center Online, event registrations and logistics, and budget tracking, with shared support from the Discipleship & Development Ministry Assistant.
• Own the annual Youth budget, prepare it each year, and manage spending against it.
• Keep the Family Life Team Leader informed about victories, challenges, and student and family situations.

• Continually equipping and growing student leaders on the worship team and into the deeper life with Jesus.
• Guiding youth beyond basic doctrine so they can articulate their faith and actively live out their relationship with Jesus.
• Viewing parents as vital ministry partners, not just an audience for announcements.
• Showing up for youth beyond Tuesday nights and Sunday mornings.
• Creating an environment where both new and returning students feel welcomed and connected the moment they walk through the door.

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