Job Title: Kids Pastor

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Salary Job Class: Pastor

Reports to: Discipleship Pastor

Supervisory responsibilities: Yes

Job Purpose

The Kids Pastor serves Greenhouse Church families and children by creating spirit filled, dynamic, engaging, hospitable, and safe environments where children grow in love, faith, and knowledge of God. This leader champions a growing Kids Ministry marked by deep discipleship, an excellent Sunday experience, strong partnership with parents, meaningful inclusion of every child, and healthy teams of staff and volunteer leaders. The Kids Pastor provides vision, leadership, creativity, and pastoral care for weekly ministry, family engagement, and larger-scale church events while contributing to the team spirit of the staff and congregation through fellowship, encouragement, cooperation, and prayer.

Primary Outcomes

Numerical growth and retention of both volunteers and kids in the Kid’s Ministry
Creative ways to integrate kids into the larger Sunday church expression
Deep discipleship for our kids
Excellent communication and relationship building with parents as well as assimilation of new kids and families into Greenhouse
Incredible, self-initiated recruitment and team building
Formation of creative events that involve parents, increases parental participation, and bring in new families both on and outside of Sundays
Maintain our reputation as a place that is welcoming to children with special needs

Duties and Responsibilities

Vision, Growth & Direction

Provide vision and strategic leadership for Greenhouse Kids, establishing goals and strategies that support spiritual growth, family engagement, ministry excellence, and sustainable numerical growth.
Partner with the Youth Team to effectively transition rising 6th-graders into our Youth Group.
Track and evaluate attendance, growth, engagement, and other key ministry indicators; develop strategies in response to trends and opportunities

Sunday Experience & Programming

Oversee Sunday services and ensure the Kids experience remains Spirit-filled, dynamic, engaging, hospitable, safe, and excellent as the ministry grows
Create intentional opportunities to integrate children into Sunday expressions, including worship leadership, children’s baptisms, and other appropriate moments in the life of the church
Strengthen live worship in Kids environments by developing strategies that increase children’s participation in singing and create pathways for kids to help lead worship
Develop Kids programming for larger-scale church events rather than functioning primarily as childcare (for example, a Greenhouse Conference Kids Track)
Oversee curriculum and preserve the ministry’s commitment to biblically grounded, age-appropriate discipleship
Oversee and champion Kids Camp as a key discipleship and relational environment

Discipleship & Family Partnership

Champion deep discipleship of children and equip parents and caregivers with resources and practices that support discipleship at home
Maintain excellent, proactive communication with parents and caregivers, including relational and personal touchpoints from Kids leaders
Plan and lead events that meaningfully involve parents and caregivers, increase parental participation, strengthen family discipleship, and create accessible on-ramps for new families

Leadership Development & Team Building

Manage Associate Early Childhood Director/Coordinator
Manage Associate Kids Director/Coordinator
Manage FAM Coordinator
Recruit and galvanize leaders with a high level of self-initiative, continually building the volunteer and leadership teams needed for current ministry and future growth
Develop, train, shepherd, and appreciate Kids leaders, creating a healthy culture of ownership, growth, pastoral care, and multiplication
Teach at Leader Trainings and provide ongoing vision casting that connects leaders to the mission, values, and direction of Greenhouse Kids

Inclusive Ministry

Ensure inclusive ministry practices and systems that enable children of varying needs and abilities to participate meaningfully in Greenhouse Kids.

Stewardship

Manage kids budget
Champion and oversee child safety policies, volunteer screening, check-in and check-out procedures, classroom coverage, incident response, and other systems necessary to provide consistently safe Kids Ministry environments
Ensure staff and volunteers are appropriately trained in and consistently follow Greenhouse child protection and safety policies

Foster and Adoption Ministry

Supervise and provide leadership to the FAM Coordinator and Foster & Adoption Ministry.
Oversee recruitment, training, and development of foster/adoptive families, Family Advocates, volunteers, and wraparound-care teams.
Lead Foster Care and Adoption awareness initiatives, educational opportunities, and related ministry events, including TBRI training initiatives.

Family Connection

Build pastoral relationships with children and families through home and hospital visits as needed and presence at meaningful day-to-day moments such as plays, games, and school events
Connect families experiencing needs with appropriate pastoral, ministry, church, or community resources.
Follow up with families on children’s baptism and get them plugged into GH Kids

Church Staff Meetings

Participate in required ministry meetings, staff prayer, retreats, and other staff gatherings.

Required Team Norms & Character Attributes

Must Be Willing to Uphold and Champion the Following Team Norms:

We are passionate disciples who reorient their lives around Jesus’ call to serve, win souls, and make disciples.
We will fight to abide first every day.
We will lift the faith in every room we walk in.
We believe the best in people and care enough to confront.
We work hard and laugh often.
We have an insatiable desire to grow.
We show up with our best, working with all our hearts unto the Lord.
We live lives of adventure and generosity, allowing God to lead us to spend ourselves for those who could never pay us back.

Must Have the Following Character Attributes:

Places a high value on unity (According to Ephesians 4:3)
Lives a life above reproach (1 Timothy 3)
Models a life of holiness, purity and integrity (Hebrews 12:14)
Has a good grasp of scripture and not given to untested points of view (Colossians 2:8)
Devotes themselves to prayer (Colossians 4:2)
Has a persevering spirit and soul (James 1:4).
Is strong and stable and not given to double-mindedness (James 1:8)
Is quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to be angry (James 1:19)
Has a calmness of spirit and does not overreact (Proverbs 29:20)
Displays loyalty to other team members (2 Timothy 4:9-18)
Displays a positive attitude (Philippians 4:8)

Work environment: Church; Office

Physical demands: Able to lift up to 30lbs pounds and move furniture

Travel required: Minimal

Time requirement: 40 hours weekly

Required Schedule: Sunday - Thursday (Sunday mornings & Wednesday nights required)

Any changes in schedule to be pre-approved by direct report

Other Hours: Set schedule approved by direct report

Spiritual & Ministry Qualifications

Demonstrates an active and growing relationship with Christ and a consistent life of prayer and Scripture.
Meets Greenhouse Church's biblical qualifications and expectations for pastoral leadership.
Is a participating member of Greenhouse Church and actively engages in Greenhouse discipleship and community in a microchurch.
Demonstrates ongoing commitment to personal, spiritual, and ministry leadership development.

Required Skills and Abilities

Continues to grow in this area of ministry by reading books, attending ministry-specific leadership conferences, and listening to podcasts.
High competency in recruiting, galvanizing, and gathering people
Strong organizational and administrative skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, systems, and follow-up.
Experience leading volunteers or ministry teams is preferred
Strong interpersonal, written, public speaking, and vision-casting communication skills.

Preferred education and experience

College degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant ministry experience preferred.
Previous experience leading children's ministry, staff, and/or volunteer teams preferred.

Other duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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