Minister of Youth and Pastoral Care

Living Faith Alliance Church - Vineland, NJ

Full-Time | $55,000-$75,000 plus benefits

Living Faith Alliance is seeking a new ministry leader to come join us at a critical time in the life of our church. We have been through a season of challenge, loss and also growth and believe God is giving us vision for our little outpost of His kingdom in Cumberland County. We have been learning to work together as a team, making prayer more central to all that we do, and trying to be more sensitive to God’s leading.

We want to be a people that are pursuing all of Jesus for all of life. We do that by focusing on 4 circles of relationship where we believe Jesus wants to strategically bring his influence: in our lives, in our homes, in our church family, and in our community. We are looking for a leader with experience who is still excited to learn together and partner together. If that's you and God is leading you to a new challenge and a new opportunity, get to know us by checking us out online at livingfaithalliance.org and prayerfully consider sending in your resume, with cover letter, references, and answers to preliminary questions to Elders@lfachurch.org.

Basic Qualifications

• 2 years ministry experience
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• In full agreement with The Christian and Missionary Alliance Doctrinal Statement (https://cmalliance.org/who-we-are/our-faith-and-mission/)
• Track record of growing disciples, caring for people and developing leaders
• Have lead or managed a team of people

Preferred Qualifications

• Licensed or ordained
• 10 years ministry experience
• Masters degree

Preliminary Questions

1. What is your linkedin profile?
2. Provide any other website?

Position Overview

The Minister of Youth and Pastoral Care is responsible to seek God for the development of a team of leaders for reaching and equipping middle school and high school students among our congregation and local community, producing a vibrant, equipped post-high school community pursuing all of Jesus for all of life.

The Minister of Youth and Pastoral Care is also working to honor the call in 1 Peter 5:1-4 to shepherd the flock entrusted to our care. The goal is to infuse a pastoral care approach to ministry through the entirety of the church. This is accomplished by syncing up the Pastoral Care Team, the Pastor's Team, with other key leaders to assess, discuss and work in cooperation with one another to implement care. The approach must be both organic and organized to have both accountability and a culture of care throughout the entirety of our church family.

4 things you will do:

1. You will pursue Jesus, to know him and love him, and to discern his heart for caring for the next generation and his sheep at Living Faith Alliance Church.

1. Participate in Executive Team
   1. Work on the Executive Team to help keep the pace of vision moving forward, troubleshoot vision, and co-lead the Leadership Community/Advisory Board for strategic assessment and implementation
   2. Part of preaching and teaching rotation and Worship Service leadership
   3. Help Provide Care among Pastors Team

1. Lead Care Team
   1. Care team that defines the scope of care from crises to long term care along with relational support for the growth of disciples and leaders.
   2. The scope of this role is from guest to meaningfully connected.
   3. The Care Team is a growing team with lots of vision and passion. It is currently made up of 5 smaller teams that are all part of the care team.
      1. Care Team
         1. General Care
         2. Crisis Care
         3. Assimilation and Small Groups
         4. Care Coordination
         5. Security Team

1. Lead Youth Ministry
   1. Pray for Leaders and Students
   2. Focus on developing and leading the leaders. Your primary role is the investing in the team that does Youth Ministry
   3. Create a student culture that experiences the presence of God, authentic relationships, the revelation of God, honors their parents, and lives mission. This will require partnership with the local and global missions teams.
   4. Partner with Families as the primary Faith nurturers
      1. Crisis Response for Students and Parents
      2. Implementation of Family Ministry Values and integration with Milestone Pathway into Middle School / High School and core competencies
      3. Oversee transitional steps into Middle school-into high school and out of high school
   5. Partner with Household Ministries, Treasure Seekers (1-5th Grade) and Early Childhood to ensure a unified approach for families and developmentally appropriate approach for disciplining the next generation.

To be considered for this position, please complete the application to include your testimony, resume and other background information related to the position.

If the district office has reviewed your application and they think you may be a potential match for the position, that the hiring manager will reach out to you for next steps.

This position may require licensing with The Christian & Missionary Alliance. To learn more about The Alliance and requirements for licensing, please visit our website

Please do not contact the church directly.