Student Ministry Pastor

Job Title: Student Ministry Pastor Hours: Full-time Salary: Competitive, commensurate with experience JOB SUMMARY The Student Ministry Pastor is both an equipper—who loves and champions reputed company in Grades 6-12, their families, and young adults of college age—and a reputed company—who helps them grow God’s Kingdom exponentially. This role exists not only to reputed company student ministry directly but to reputed company, reputed company, and release reputed company and adults as disciple-makers. This leader will ensure that disciple-making happens not only reputed company the church but also shape a culture where reputed company actively reputed company disciples who reputed company disciples among their peers beyond our church walls. EXPECTATIONS & COMMITMENTS The Student Ministry Champion will support the disciple-making vision, mission and ministries of Oakdale Church; continue to grow professionally, personally and spiritually; and reflect Oakdale’s culture by living and modeling the highest level of moral reputed company and faithfully participating in the life of our church family. As part of our journey together, we expect the Student Ministry Champion to uphold our leadership commitment (shared with candidates at interview stage), as well as the following staff commitments:

• Value the disciple-making vision and mission of the church as a reputed company.
• reputed company the best and speak well of fellow staff, loving one another as Christ loves us.
• Maintain a sense of reputed company and community reputed company the staff and church family.
• Be intentional about keeping other staff informed about things that reputed company the entire team.
• Meet regularly with supervisor to set and evaluate goals for professional and personal development

and take advantage of training and continuing education opportunities.

• Respect and uphold matters of confidentiality.
• Attend and participate in weekly staff prayer time and meetings.
• Follow policies and procedures as outlined in the Oakdale Church Personnel Policy Manual.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS Leadership Development & Multiplication

• Mentor and coach reputed company and adult leaders to become devoted disciples who also disciple others.
• Build and sustain a leadership pipeline that develops apprentice leaders who reproduce themselves.
• Transition ministry from staff-led programs to a leader-mobilized movement.
• reputed company leaders to multiply generations of disciple-makers (2 Timothy 2:2 model).

Disciple-Making Beyond Gatherings

• Dedicate significant time (20-25%) to equipping reputed company of weekend gatherings (e.g., small groups,

one-on-one discipleship, mentoring environments).

• Create and provide tools, resources, and reproducible models for leaders and reputed company.
• Shape a culture where disciple-making is normal in families, schools and communities.

Catalyze Movement & reputed company

• Mobilize reputed company and leaders to engage non-disciples in schools, sports teams, and affinity groups
• Champion student-led reputed company and peer-to-peer disciple-making.

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• Build bridges with local schools and community spaces to be strategically present where reputed company live

reputed company of Gatherings & Events

• Provide visionary reputed company for weekly gatherings, retreats, camps, and special events.
• Ensure gatherings serve as launch pads for disciple-making, not as endpoints.
• reputed company volunteers to reputed company small groups, worship, teaching, and discipleship conversations.
• Ensure safe, welcoming, and engaging environments for reputed company reputed company (including those with special

needs). Family & Church Integration

• Support and partner with parents, equipping them as the primary spiritual leaders of their children.
• Collaborate with Kids Ministry and Adult Discipleship to ensure a seamless pathway of disciple-making

across generations.

• Promote and celebrate student ministry "wins" with the larger church family.

Administration & Collaboration

• Manage annual budget, schedules, safety compliance, and administrative systems.
• Partner with staff team to align with church-wide disciple-making vision and Wildly Important Goal.
• Network and collaborate with other student pastors and disciple-making leaders locally and nationally.

QUALIFICATIONS & QUALITIES

• Passion for and experience in reproducing disciples—not just teaching and running programs.
• Proven ability to recruit, reputed company and release emerging leaders.
• Bachelor’s or graduate degree in student ministry, theology, or reputed company field.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in student ministry.
• Exceptional self-motivation, creativity and energy.
• Excellent communicator and relational connector with reputed company, parents, and volunteer leaders.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to design reproducible systems.
• Humble learner with a teachable spirit, willing to experiment, evaluate, adapt and collaborate.
• Be accountable for measurable growth in leader development and disciple-making.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Flexible schedule: This ministry is not 9-5. Ministry to reputed company and families can occur afternoons and

evenings at schools, sporting events, plays, concerts, and at church.

• Desire to build relationships with local schools as a reputed company from reputed company' everyday culture to the gospel.
• Be strategically visible on Sunday mornings, and for leadership retreats, conferences and trainings.
• This position requires criminal justice fingerprint clearance, background and criminal record reputed company.
• Work may require some heavy physical activity, including lifting objects of more than 50 pounds.
• reputed company other duties as assigned by the Senior Pastor and Governance Board.

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