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Open Door?

Thank you for your interest in working at Open Door! We’re glad you’re considering linking arms with us to serve our church family inside and outside of our walls! Our team is vibrant and growing as we seek to live out our vision and mission; knowing we haven’t arrived but we are on the journey of becoming like Jesus.

Please send a letter of interest and resume to employment@thedoor.org

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Open Door Student Pastor(Full Time)

Job Title: Open Door Student Pastor 

Job Status: Regular, 40 hrs a week, Exempt (includes evening and weekend hours) 

Ministry Area: Open Door Students and Kids 

Reports to: Lead Pastor  

Reports to this: TBD 

Last Updated: July 2024 

 

Summary of role:   

Provide pastoral leadership and vision for student ministry (6-12 grade) that fosters a mentor leadership culture, is rooted in relationship and nurtures the faith of student’s by creating pathways for them to practice  

  

What this role looks like:  

Develop and maintain relationships, shepherding and discipling others in their relationship with Christ. 

  • Walk alongside and help develop the youth staff team, connecting them with helpful training, resources, prayer and care to ensure they can serve students and leaders well.  
  • Recruit, equip, support and serve volunteers, ensuring they have what they need to lead students and grow in their own relationship with God. 
  • Grow and deepen relationships with students, supporting their spiritual formation and equipping them to share and serve from their own personal relationship with Jesus.  
  • Collaborate with other Open Door ministry areas to enrich the student environments and experiences (i.e worship collective, missional life etc.)       

  

Ideate and create student environments that foster student growth.  

  • Develop a teaching flow and strategy that connects with the life of students and invites them into closer relationship with Christ. 
  • Stay dialed into current youth culture and the students’ everyday life experiences and using that information to creatively implement ideas to connect students to Christ in ways they can relate to, understand and that helps them to practice their faith within their everyday lives. 
  • Lead, collaborate and ideate with youth team to create fun and effective environments and events for students (i.e. mission trips, retreats, special events, opportunities to serve etc.) to grow in relationships with Christ and each other. 
  • Implement a process for review and prayerful discernment that identifies areas within ministry that are going well, need adjustments and identify helpful changes that will maintain a healthy culture of spiritual formation for students, volunteers, youth team and families. 

 

Continue to build and lead a healthy community radically committed to spiritual formation for the sake of others. 

  • Maintain a welcoming, healthy and safe environment where students and leaders can be honest, vulnerable and give and receive support and prayer. 
  • Cultivate and maintain a culture of prayer, worship and dependence on God for students, volunteers, youth team and families. 
  • Create pathways for students to engage with Scripture and spiritual practices so that their faith becomes a foundational for their everyday life (i.e. bible studies, opportunities to try new spiritual practices, worship events etc). 
  • Foster a community culture that prioritizes serving and engaging with others, helping students make connections between their faith and relationship with others, creation and the world around them (i.e service environments, outreach events and inviting friends and neighbors into the community). 

  

What’s needed for this role: 

  • A personal relationship with Jesus and commitment to spiritual formation for the sake of others. 
  • Experience in leading, supervising and developing a team of staff and/or volunteers. 
  • Highly relational with a deep love for people. 
  • Strong communication skills; oral and written. 
  • Collaborative and enjoys working with a team towards a mission. 
  • Ability to delegate to and support those under their leadership. 
  • Attention to detail and ability to keep multiple projects moving forward simultaneously. 
  • Adaptable and flexible and enjoys work that changes, grows and develops sometimes quickly. 
  • Ability to be non-anxious presence while shepherding and responding to students and families going through hard life situations.

 

The bigger story: 

You are part of a larger story!  Join us in the journey of becoming fully alive in our relationship with God through prayer, the leading of the Holy Spirit and grounded-ness in the word of God.  We are in this together and you will be joining a larger team that links arms to serve our church family inside and outside our walls.  We seek to live out our vision and mission knowing that we haven’t arrived but we are in the process of becoming like Jesus.