Job Description

Title: Director of Youth and Family Ministries

Gifts Needed:
• Committed Christian for more than five years
• A United Methodist (or Wesleyan) theological background (preferred)
• Demonstrate a sense of God’s call to youth and family ministry through a written statement of faith and call to ministry

Responsibilities:
• To live an authentic life of passion for Jesus Christ with integrity, vulnerability, and accountability.
• To spend significant time in prayer and the Word.
• Provide leadership for weekly junior and senior high ministry.
• Provide leadership for retreats, rallies, concerts, and mission opportunities
• Develop discipleship ministries with an emphasis on teenagers.
• Develop a vision for ministry and the implementation of various relation-building activities (weekly programming, retreats, camps, mission trips, and training opportunities for future leaders).
• Develop ministries for 1st through 5th grade students.
• Provide leadership for Confirmation Class and Scouting religious awards.
• Engage in relational ministry with students, not only at church, but in the schools and community.
• Develop an outreach plan to share the gospel with students not in the church.
• Equip students to minister in the church, their schools, and beyond.
• Be a leader of leaders by encouraging, equipping and releasing youth leaders to be ministers to students.
• Provide training, community building, and spiritual support for lay youth leaders.
• To develop a network of communication between students, lay leadership, parents, and the greater church body.
• Serve as part of the leadership team at Bethel, casting and promoting the vision of the church.
• Develop family oriented programs through activities involving entire family, including youth and children
• Attend and participate in continuing education in the area of youth and family ministries

Interactions:
• Must be able to do team ministry and work well with church staff, lay youth leaders, students, parents, members and guests of the church.

Physical Requirements:
• Must be physically able to participate in youth activities.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree (Youth Ministry and/or Christian Education preferred)
• Certification in Youth Ministry in the United Methodist Church (preferred)

Experience:
• One year with a church in Youth Ministry (preferred)
• Internship as part of educational training (preferred)
• Worked as a volunteer under the direction of a Youth Minister (preferred)

Other:
• Submit to an extensive criminal background, credit, and driving record check
• Provide at least three personal and/or professional references
• Submit to a psychological profile c