Director of Education

Queens Herald Church, C&MA (“QHC”) is a Chinese and English-speaking church of about 500 people consisting of a wide range of age groups, personalities, and giftings. The Chinese congregation averages around 250 in-person attendance.

QHC is seeking a Director of Education to lead its education-related ministries, including Children Sunday School, Children Summer Camp and other education-related program(s) that QHC Governance Board may decide to develop. The candidate must have a Bachelor of Arts in Education or possess a valid NYS teacher certification with at least 3 years of experience in leading and supervising children’s programs in a church setting.

He/she must have sound theological knowledge.

• Vision: QHC is a family where God’s love works.
• Mission:
  Empowering all peoples on their faith journey.
• QHC’s Critical Gospel Impact is to be a Chinese American church called to be a strategically positioned presence and resource of God’s healing and restorative love to multi-generational Chinese American immigrant families and people of all stages of life and faith. Our church is passionate about evangelism – sharing the gospel with our people groups and also partnering with our community to hold functions and activities.
  
  We believe that God has also blessed us with resources that are rather unique to the Asian American community. We have a dynamic youth group and children’s ministry. We recognize the fact that the health of our families needs a champion. We have decided to be that champion. We will know that we are in alignment with our critical gospel impact when we hear testimonies of dynamic encounters with God and sustained intimate relationships with Him as well as stories of life-change among individuals, families, the church, the other circles of influence.
• QHC is a regional church, located in Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York, home to one of the most linguistically and ethnically diverse populaces in the United States.
• QHC was founded in April 1989 to minister to the Cantonese-speaking foreign students predominately from Hong Kong, China. Over the next 25 years, QHC shifted its focus and grew into a multi-generational family-oriented church with Cantonese-speaking and English-speaking congregations. In 2015, Christ Herald Church, a Mandarin-speaking church plant, joined QHC to become its third congregation (for Mandarin speakers). Three separate services were held on Sundays until the start of 2020, when the Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking congregations began to have worship services together (though small groups and Sunday school classes continued to be held in the 2 Chinese dialects respectively).
• QHC currently considers itself two congregations (Chinese and English) united as one church. It has two vibrant Sunday worship services in Chinese (offering simultaneous translation in Cantonese or Mandarin) and English. The Chinese congregation has an average Sunday attendance of over 200 in-person and over 100 units live-streaming online. The English congregation averages around 130 in-person attendance, including approximately 40 youths.
  
  Our youth and college groups currently meet on Friday evenings. The children’s ministry averages around 70 children on Sundays. Other ministries include small groups, discipleship and leadership development, missions and evangelism, prayer and healing, community services, music school and children’s summer camp.
• There have been seasons of great celebration as well as seasons of deep loss in the 35 years of QHC’s history. By God’s grace, QHC has been healing, experiencing freedom and restoration. In the past two years, we’ve experienced so much of God’s favor as evidenced by our slow but intentional shift from a…