Employment at Northwoods Church
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Current Openings
Position Description
The Missions Associate (Local Impact) will primarily be responsible for developing local impact missional partnerships through cultivating relationships with local missions’ partners, recruiting and overseeing volunteer leaders, and growing Northwoods volunteer participation with local missions’ partners. Additionally, the Missions Associate (Local Impact) will cross-train to assist with Global Reach Missions and assist the Missions Pastor as needed.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Local Impact Ministry
- Partnership Development: Engage with local missions’ partners to develop ongoing relationship and facilitate participation from Northwoods congregation and volunteers.
- Leaders & Volunteers: Recruit and train Northwoods high-capacity volunteer leaders who will facilitate teams of volunteers to serve with our local missions’ partners. Shape and facilitate a Northwoods Local Impact Missions Leadership Team comprised of the volunteer leaders.
- Northwoods Ministry Serving Opportunities: Assist the various ministry teams of Northwoods with opportunities to help serve locally. Work with other Missions Associates and Directors to help effectively assimilate new volunteers into serving roles.
- Communicate: Assist other Missions Associates in communicating partnership events, needs, and opportunities.
Ministry and Leadership Development
- Partnership Development: Assist Missions Pastor in cultivating relationship through effective communication with ministry partners.
Missions Ministry
- Weekend Missions Communication: Assist as needed in serving at the Missions Counter on weekends.
- Volunteer Care: Care for the health of team volunteers and help align servants with their giftedness.
Administrative Responsibilities
- Budgets: Assist Missions Pastor in managing budget for Local Impact Missions.
- Development: Develop an annual ministry plan.
- Systems: Maintain accurate database records, ministry calendars, and effective communication methods.
- Meetings: Attend all meetings required of this position with staff and volunteers.
- Leadership: Provide leadership and communication with volunteers serving in local missions.
Commissioned Responsibilities and Expectations
- Commission: At Northwoods, commissioned staff are spiritually ready to minister to the congregation and community on a personal level.
- Care Responsibilities: The expression of care may include but not be limited to: Prayer, teaching, encouragement, shepherding, equipping, personal ministry, and visitation.
- Expectations: To be a spiritual leader in our community who contributes to the spiritual growth and formation of the people he/she leads and influences publicly and privately.
Interaction with Others
This person will work closely with the Missions Pastor and other Missions Associates.
Desired Skills, Abilities, and Characteristics
This individual should have high people skills, the ability to build teams, cast vision, and train individuals. Additionally, this individual should be competent in a variety of basic computer software and skills.
Beneficial Spiritual Gifts
Leadership, Administration, Shepherding
Education and Experience Required
College Degree, experience working with volunteers is helpful.
Pay and Benefits Information
Position Description
The Student Life Intern will assist the Student Life Team with leading the students and leaders for effective ministry and will perform programming and administrative duties.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Programming Duties
- Technical/Media: Assist with creating message slides, bumper videos, and other media content for Quest and Converge.
- Teaching: Be given opportunities to teach within Student ministries when requested. Work closely with the Quest curriculum to assist with editing and planning.
- Shepherding: Be given opportunities to develop as a servant leader through caring and ministering to others.
- Relational: Build relationships with volunteer leaders, parents, and students.
- Vision Echo: Support and promote the vision of Northwoods Community Church, specifically the AIM (Attract, Introduce & Mature) strategy.
Administrative Duties
- Team Building: Assist with recruiting volunteers and leading volunteers to effectively minister to students. This includes working in Planning Center Online to schedule and organize ministry teams.
- Programming: Assist with planning and executing Student Life events such as Converge-a-Palooza, Next Gen Weekend, and weekly Converge and Quest services.
- Administration: Assist with daily, weekly, and monthly tasks.
- Department Meetings: Attend weekly Student Life meetings as well as regular check-ins and developmental meetings.
- Staff Meetings: Attend staff meetings for global, visionary, and organizational matters.
General Duties
- Other: Perform other tasks as needed.
Interaction with Others
The Student Life Intern will regularly interact with the Student Life Team as well as other Northwoods Leaders, volunteers, parents, and students.
Desired Skills, Abilities, and Characteristics
Desire to be a servant leader. Highly motivated and self-disciplined. Team builder and goal oriented through relationships. Strong organizational and administrative skills with a focus for detail. A strong ability to be taught, coached, and trained for effective ministry. Able to lead leaders and love teenagers.
Beneficial Spiritual Gifts
Leadership, administration, shepherding, teaching
Position Description
Working alongside the Discoveryland Staff, the intern would be responsible to carry out ministry to children in specified age divisions. The overall responsibility is to insure the readiness of the volunteer teams and the effective implementation of the programming elements.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Leadership
- Programming Implementation: Working closely with a Divisional Associate, prepare and present creative lessons, music, and drama to children during weekend services.
- Team Building: Recruit, organize, and lead a team of volunteers that effectively minister to children.
- Organize: Provide volunteers with clear, timely, and concise directions. Resources needed to implement programming elements will need to be anticipated and secured.
- Interaction: Interaction with others to develop goals will include (not limited to): Discoveryland Director, Discoveryland Staff Team, and Discoveryland Volunteer Teams.
- Communication/Training: Volunteers are often new volunteers. They will need immediate follow-up documentation for areas of responsibility and scheduling information.
Secondary Responsibilities
Department Support:
- Teamwork: Assisting the entire Discoveryland Team as needed.
- Community: Participate in community building events as offered to staff.
Meetings:
- Weekly: Discoveryland Staff Huddle Meeting: Team building and training.
- Monthly: Discoveryland Staff: Ministry coaching and accountability.
- Team Building Meetings: 2 times per month.
- Staff Meetings: Attend monthly Staff Meetings for global, visionary, and organizational matters.
Interaction with Others
This individual must be able to work well with other Northwoods staff, adult volunteers, and parents.
Frequent interaction with key Discoveryland leadership and the Children’s Ministry Associate for the
purpose of care giving, truth telling, listening and transparency is expected.
Desired Skills, Abilities, and Characteristics
- Leadership and team building skills.
- Organizational skills, communication, ability to properly delegate, self-discipline, self-starter, love of kids.
- General computer and word processing skills.
- Creative communication skills (music, drama, storytelling)
- Beneficial Spiritual Gifts should include leadership, administration, and shepherding.
Position Description:
The College Life Intern will be responsible for planning summer events for the College Life ministry. Vision casting and ministry development will also be part of the responsibilities.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Administrative
- Recruitment and Care: Recruit and develop volunteers to be a part of the College Life leadership team.Oversee the onboarding process.
- Development: Work with the College Life leadership team to develop long-term goals for the ministry.
- Schedule: Schedule 2-3 summer events for College Life.
- Communication: Communicate important information to volunteers and participants about College Life events.
- Resources: Purchase and organize necessary resources for College Life summer events.
- Staff Meetings: Attend all-church and departmental staff meetings. Attend weekly check-ins with the Executive Pastor of Family Ministry.
Personal Development
- Teaching: Take opportunities to develop the ability to prepare and teach lessons/devotions.
- Service: Participate in weekly service projects as part of developing a heart for loving and serving others.
General Duties
- Other: Perform other tasks as needed
Interaction with Others:
The College Life Intern will regularly interact with the Student Life Team as well as other Northwoods Leaders, volunteers, parents, and students.
Desired Skills and Abilities:
Desire to be a servant leader. Highly motivated and self-disciplined. Team builder and goal oriented through relationships. Strong organizational and administrative skills with a focus for detail. A strong ability to be taught, coached, and trained for effective ministry. Able to lead leaders and love teenagers.
Beneficial Spiritual Gifts:
Leadership, administration, shepherding, teaching
Education and Experience
Must have completed high school
Position Description
The Associate Pastor is responsible for the development, implementation, leadership, and management of Northwoods Freedom Ministries. Additionally, they support prayer ministries and contribute to the Setting Captives Free class and deliverance ministry.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Leadership
- Freedom Ministry: Examine and gain an understanding of the culture, vision, and goals of Northwoods for Freedom Ministry.
- Prayer Ministry: Assist the PRAYER PASTOR in all things related to prayer ministries, to include training, facilitating and recruiting for Altar Prayer, Prayer Room, and Prayer Appointments.
- Meetings: Hold necessary meetings to discuss Freedom content, development, goals, and implementation.
- Involvement: Meet with staff and volunteers to discuss development, implementation, and involvement in Freedom Ministry.
- Recruit: Recruit and develop Freedom Ministries Team of facilitators for implementation of Freedom Ministries. (Paid staff and volunteers.)
Strategic Development and Implementation
- Material Development: Work with Executive Pastor of Adult Ministries & Missions and the Senior Pastor to develop material for Freedom Ministries. Assist with any development of prayer and Setting Captives Free material.
- Teach: Teach and implement course materials with staff and church community and assist as needed with prayer and Setting Captives Free teaching and implementation.
- Training: Train others to teach Freedom Ministries core content. Assist with prayer and Setting Captives Free training.
- Facilitate: Define and facilitate core classes and experiences that would be a part of Freedom Ministries.
- Collaborate: Work with Executive Pastor of Ministries to understand, develop, and implement staff team member’s role in Freedom Ministries.
- International: As assigned, develop Freedom Ministries with our international partners.
Administration
- Team Meetings: Meet with ministry staff for planning, coordination and development.
- Staff Meetings: Attend staff meetings for the global, visionary, and organizational matters.
- Staff Prayer: Attend staff prayer times.
- One on One: Meet with supervisor at scheduled times.
Pastoral Responsibilities and Expectation
- Credentialing: Pursue and maintain ministerial credentials through Fellowship of Evangelical Churches (F.E.C.). Be an active participant in F.E.C. denominational events and initiatives.
- Care Responsibilities: The expressions of pastoral care may include but not be limited to: Prayer, teaching, encouragement, shepherding, equipping, personal ministry, and visitation.
- Officiant: Specific functions pastors officiate include weddings (and pre-marital counseling), funerals, baptisms, and communion.
- Pastor On Call Rotation: Every Pastor will serve on a scheduled rotation, with the assignment to meet emergency needs and after-hours care to our congregation. Expectations include being available 24/7 by phone, responsible management of requests, needs, and emergencies, and ensuring hospital visitations are being made
- Benevolence: Be familiar with case details for benevolence and how the team comes to a final approval. Be exposed to the Benevolence Team and their meetings as well as any related reporting.
- Counseling: Provide short-term personal ministry to individuals, couples, and families using biblical principles and providing effective treatment goals. (One-to-one sessions).
Prayer Team
- Support Prayer pastor as needed in all aspects of prayer ministry to include get prayer, prophetic prayer appointments, deliverance and other various prayer ministries.
Teach
- Develop/Teach: Help develop and teach Get Free, Freedom Weekend and Setting Captives Free. Support Prayer pastor as needed.
- Training/Teaching: Help provide Northwoods ministries and multi-sites needing/requesting prayer training.
Pastoral Care Ministry
- Hospital Care: Help in the development, oversight, participation, and coordination of the Pastor On Call (POC) and Hospital Visitation Teams. Oversee how the information is dispersed to the right people and pastors. Help to provide training for those involved.
- After Care: Help to develop teams to track Northwoods attenders recuperating after a hospital stay utilizing volunteers, phone calls, and the prayer ministry.
- Counseling: Provide short-term personal ministry to individuals, couples, and families using biblical principles and providing effective treatment goals. (One-to-one sessions)
- Funerals: Be familiar with the implementation of funerals, funeral luncheons, and teams caring for those going through bereavement.
- Weddings: Be familiar with the implementation of weddings, wedding receptions, and teams caring for those planning a wedding.
Commissioned Responsibilities and Expectations
- At Northwoods, commissioned staff are spiritually ready to minister to the congregation and community on a personal level.
- Care Responsibilities: The expression of care may include but not be limited to: Prayer, teaching, encouragement, shepherding, equipping, personal ministry, and visitation.
- A spiritual leader in our community who contributes to the spiritual growth and formation of the people he/she leads and influences publicly and privately.
Interaction with Others
This person will work closely with Executive Pastor of Adult Ministries & Mission, the Prayer Pastor and other members of the Life Help Team.
Personal Development
Continual learning and growth in Freedom Ministries.
Desired Skills, Abilities, and Characteristics
Relational, Communication and Personal Ministry skills, Strategic Thinker and Implementer, Leader, Team Player, Ability, and desire to Disciple.
Beneficial Spiritual Gifts
Discernment, Leadership, Mercy, Shepherding, Teaching
Education and Experience Required
A bible college education is preferred and experience in building teams and systems is important. A degree and experience in counseling is an asset.
Pay and Benefits Information
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