PreTeen Pastor

JOB SUMMARY The Pre Teen Pastor provides spiritual leadership, pastoral care, and ministry direction for students in grades4th–5th. This position is responsible for creating and leading engaging, age-appropriate environments that help preteens develop a strong biblical foundation and grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. The Pre Teen Pastor  recruits, equips, develops, and pastors staff and volunteers who serve within the ministry.

This role partners closely with parents, church leadership, and other ministry teams to support the spiritual development and overall well-being of preteens and their families. The ideal candidate demonstrates biblical maturity, strong leadership and relational skills, and a genuine passion for discipling the next generation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Provide leadership for the church’s preteen ministry, ensuring alignment with the church’s mission, values,theology, and overall ministry strategy.

Develop and lead age-appropriate worship services, teaching environments, small groups, discipleship programs, events, retreats, and outreach opportunities for preteen students.

Recruit, train, equip, schedule, encourage, and pastor volunteers and ministry leaders, creating a healthy and sustainable volunteer culture.

Teach and communicate biblical truth in a manner that is engaging, relevant, age-appropriate, and consistent with the church’s statement of faith and doctrinal beliefs.

Build strong relationships with students and provide appropriate pastoral care, encouragement, prayer, and spiritual guidance while maintaining appropriate ministry boundaries and safeguarding practices.

Partner with parents and caregivers by providing resources, communication, and opportunities that equip families to disciple and spiritually support their preteen children.

Collaborate with church staff and ministry leaders to ensure effective transitions and continuity betweenchildren’s, preteen, and student ministries.

COMPETENCIES Biblical and Theological Knowledge:
Demonstrates a strong understanding of Scripture and the ability to communicate biblical truth accurately and effectively.

Pastoral Leadership:
Demonstrates spiritual maturity, sound judgment, integrity, humility, and a genuine pastoral heart for students, families, and volunteers.

Relational Intelligence:
Builds authentic, appropriate, and trust-based relationships with students, parents,volunteers, and staff.

Leadership and Team Development:
Effectively recruits, develops, motivates, delegates to, and empowers staff and volunteers to accomplish ministry objectives.

Communication:
Communicates clearly and effectively through teaching, preaching, written communication, meetings, presentations, and interpersonal interactions.

Organization and Execution:
Demonstrates strong planning, time-management, administrative, andevent-coordination skills while effectively managing multiple priorities.

Adaptability and Creativity:
Able to understand the unique developmental, cultural, and social needs of preteens and create engaging ministry experiences that effectively reach and disciple them.

POSITION TYPE/EXPECTED HOURS OF WORKThis is a regular full-time position (36-40 hours per week). Evenings, weekends and on-call rotation required based on ministry needs.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to do the following:

Ability to stand, walk, and move throughout church facilities for extended periods while leading or participating in ministry activities.

Ability to lift, carry, push, or move equipment, supplies, tables, chairs, and other ministry materials weighing approximately 25–50 pounds as needed.

Ability to participate in and oversee activities that may require extended periods of standing, walking,bending, reaching, or moving between indoor and outdoor environments.

Ability to participate in or supervise ministry activities, games, retreats, and events that may involve varying physical environments and activity levels.

Ability to travel locally and periodically travel for retreats, conferences,…