Family Pastor

Cambridge Community Church in Cambridge, Ontario is looking for a part-time _**Pastor of Family Ministry**_ developing and overseeing our children’s and youth ministry for children ages birth through senior high school. This position will have primary responsibility as pastor of the nursery through Grade 6 students and provide oversight to the junior and senior youth (Grade7-12) programming, ensuring that all age-levels are operating at a high standard and with the support and resources they require. The Family Pastor will develop and implement teaching, recruiting, training and development of volunteer leaders for this ministry and, alongside the Staff Team and Leadership Team, provide support systems to ensure members of different ages and diverse backgrounds are served effectively to fulfill CCC’s vision of “Transforming lives and communities with the love of Jesus.”

The Family Pastor will work with the staff, Leadership Team and volunteers to fully support the vision and mission of the church in all areas of ministry, working collaboratively on shared goals and supporting wider ministries of the church as appropriate while representing the interests of the children and youth in church life integrating youth and children into the larger church community where all ages are valued and can contribute. This person must be knowledgeable in stages of child development and spiritual understanding of children and teens and have the ability to create safe and fun environments to engage these children and students so they are able to experience and embrace the saving grace of Jesus and grow in spiritual maturity. They will relate well with children and be able to communicate and build relationship with parents/ guardians and adults of the congregation.

Our church culture is casual and contemporary.

**The CCC Family Ministry Pastor will**:

- Provide overall spiritual and strategic leadership of family ministry (i.e. nursery, Sunday school, pageants, family events, and youth programs) including supervision of volunteers and programs.
- Give oversight and training to volunteers for the library.
- Meet regularly with the Youth team and youth pastor to provide oversight, support and training as needed and to coordinate the youth vision and purpose of “Belong, Believe, Become.”
- Conduct regular curriculum review, evaluation and development ensuring the curriculum used at each level connects with that spiritual developmental stage and connects to the next stage, is engaging and age-appropriate.
- Provide for an engaging and biblically-based Sunday School experience for Grade 7-Grade 12 (frequency TBD).
- Recruit volunteers and provide regular training to equip them to effectively minister to children, students and the parents in these ministries.
- Oversee the safety of children, youth, and volunteers by ensuring all volunteers have met the required safety protocols and ensure all paperwork is completed and handed in to satisfy CCC’s safe and secure policies, remaining current with all appropriate laws and guidelines to ensure full compliance of this ministry.

73 Pollock Ave. Cambridge, Ontario Canada N1R 2B4 P: 519-624-8411 W: ww.cambridgecommunity.ca
- Manage the Family Ministry budgets (nursery, Sunday School, events, etc.) and oversee the Youth Ministry Budget spending.
- Oversee/manage the CCC website up-dates for the family ministry areas and oversee the CCC Family Face Book page as well as maintaining ministry bulletin boards.
- Connect regularly with the parents/families to ensure communication of programming and to support family life and oversee all internal and external communication that represents CCC children’s department.
- Participate in child dedications with other staff.
- Use the CCC Kid’s Ministry Purpose and Mission Statement to continue to grow and develop the current kids’ ministry program of “Real Kids, Real God, Real Life.”
- Provide reporting to the Leadership team as requested to review vision, challenges and any other issues related to these ministries.
- Track and document hours of work per week, identifying the different areas of ministry for record-keeping and clergy residency deductions.
- Participate in leadership and professional development through conferences, seminars and self-directed continuing education (reading, listening to training resources), etc.
- Participate as a member of the CCC Leadership Team.
- Perform other duties as may be required by the Leadership Team to achieve the overall outcomes and vision of CCC and the CCC Family Ministry.
- Meet with the Youth Pastor to complete their annual performance review on behalf of the Leadership Team.
- Participate with the Leadership Team in an annual performance review.
- The Family Pastor works with the Staff Team and is responsible to the CCC Leadership Team and Board directly.
- This job role requires approximately 20 hours per week.

**Requirements**:

- Be a committed Christ follower maintaining