Children’s Minister

NCA Church
**Location**:Naremburn/Cammeray, NSW
**Date advertised**: 15th November 2024

**Job Type**:Full time
**Closing Date**:6th December 2024

**Role**: Children’s minister
**Location**: Naremburn Cammeray Anglican Church
**Position Type**: Full-time
**Remuneration**: In line with Sydney Diocesan guidelines

At NCA Church, we long to _see a North Shore that knows Jesus by making disciples who prepare for Jesus’ return, all to the glory of God_.

Our five adult congregations and associated children’s and youth ministries work in partnership to achieve this, both in our parish and beyond. We are seeking a godly woman to lead our ministry to children, in the context of a broader team that oversees and directs our whole ministry.

As we seek to make and build disciples, we want to keep strengthening our trellis-and-vine team-ministry culture that equips and develops lay leadership, and we want to grow in our effectiveness in local evangelism, including of children.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**T**o oversee and lead our parish-wide children’s ministry (up to yr5) by:

- letting your progress in life and doctrine be a model for others
- prayerfully leading the Bible teaching of our ministry to children
- strengthening our existing structures of ministry to children (currently at three family congregations across two sites, Friday Kids’ Club, SRE in two schools, mid-week creche, and two holiday kids’ programs)
- recruiting, training, and overseeing the ministry of lay children’s ministry leaders
- ensuring that our children’s ministry structures both edify and equip our children for growth in Christ and evangelism
- partnering with congregational ministers to equip parents in family discipleship
- ensuring that all our children’s ministry complies with Safe Ministry practices

To serve as a member of the ministry team in the leadership of NCA Church-wide ministries, through:

- teaching, and leading the recruitment for, local SRE at one of our local primary schools
- serving in occasional kids’, youth, or community ministry events
- being part of our church-wide evangelism strategy

**Requirements**:

- abiding conviction that ministry grows through the prayerful teaching of God’s Word and the gospel
- theological training (ideally degree level) and relevant ministry experience
- willingness to work in a team that has conservative reformed evangelical convictions, including a complementarian understanding of the roles of men and women in ministry
- personal spiritual maturity for a significant ministry leadership role
- gifted in handling the Word of God, and bringing it to bear in people’s lives faithfully, creatively, and practically, both in public and in private
- the ability to disciple children, partner with parents, and train others in this work
- proven ability to build, oversee and direct a ministry team
- a commitment to investing heavily in the lives of children’s ministry leaders
- valid Working With Children Check, up-to-date Safe Ministry Training, and a commitment to full compliance with Faithfulness in Service

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