Christ Church Contemporary Worship Leader

Christ Church United Methodist is looking for a Worship Leader for its contemporary service. It is located in Kettering, a southern suburb of Dayton Ohio.

About The Gem City Church Collective: The Christ Church Network is currently a family of 5 campuses whose mission is to build healthy congregations that transform lives and communities. The vision of the Collective is to intentionally plant, adopt and connect churches in order to connect the community to God. This is lived out within the local context where God has placed the campus. Each campus lives out ministry within the local context but enjoys the benefit of being connected to a larger family of churches that harnesses the collective power of multiple campuses.

About Christ Church: Christ Church is a 73-year-old congregation located in Kettering, a southern suburb of Dayton Ohio. Christ Church has planted 4 campuses over the last 13 years. It is located across the street from Kettering High School and 2 blocks away from Kettering Middle School. The mission is to change lives through the transforming power of Christ and the goal is for each person to learn how to love like Jesus every day, where they live, work and play. We have three worship services, two traditional and one contemporary. The contemporary service makes up 50% of the worshipping congregation.

Position Description:

The Contemporary Worship Leader must be a Christ-centered team player with the ability to provide musical expertise and strong worship leadership from the platform in order to model excellent and authentic worship for our church body. The Worship Leader will ensure that the services are engaging and meaningful, inspiring people to deepen their spiritual journey. This position also serves as Production Director of the contemporary and traditional worship experience and executes the vision of Christ Church. The Contemporary Worship Leader must be adept at fostering a team environment in working with volunteers, staff and pastors. Contributing to the Worship design team for song selection, scheduling of musicians, tech team and coaching volunteer teams are a necessity.

Major responsibilities and duties:

Schedule contemporary worship team, assign roles, and enter into Planning Center Online (PCO).
Select music based on vision from Pastoral staff with prayer, conceptual forethought, theological accuracy, and musical appropriateness.
Upload all necessary materials for Worship Team into PCO. Musicians – music and charts; media – song lyrics; sound crew – input list.
Arrange music and transcribe as necessary including input of new songs in PCO.
Lead worship team in weekly rehearsal in preparation for Sunday Worship. Work with musicians as needed in music and vocal technique.
Prepare team spiritually and musically for Sunday worship.
Lead and engage with congregation in worship with the goal of leading people into the presence of God.
Recruit worship team members and carry out auditions with a team.
Lead worship team to be accountable to the Christ Church Worship Team Guiding Principles.
Available for special worship services as needed.
Manages Sunday production for traditional and contemporary worship (Audio/Visual/stream)
Manage, recruit, and schedule audio and visual technicians for all Sunday worship services, Joyful Sounds concerts, and special worship services.
Oversee maintenance of Audio-Visual systems in Activity Center and Sanctuary.
Prepare ProPresenter scripts for all Sunday worship and special worship services in coordination with pastoral and communications staff.
Other duties as assigned by pastoral staff.

Qualifications needed for the position:

Profess a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Willing to be a member and involved at Christ Church.
Manage time efficiently and effectively, with a strong emphasis on effective organizational and planning skills.
Demonstrate an ability to build teams and provide leadership that encourages spiritual growth, church connection and expression of musical talent.
Must possess a gentle and humble spirit and be willing to grow and be taught.
Accomplished musician with ability to lead worship vocally and with guitar and/or keyboard.
Demonstrate competent knowledge of music with ability to execute and teach.
Demonstrated experience in leading contemporary worship.
Demonstrated experience in planning, preparing, and performing.
Desire and willingness to learn new worship methods for online communities.
Team player with a respect for leadership and ability to work in collaboration with pastoral lead team and across the collective.
Must be a self-motivated, resourceful and show ability to complete tasks.
Experience in audio, video, lighting, ProPresenter, PCO, and production a significant plus.
Ability to work independently and interdependently.
Display a servant heart.

Education & Experience:

At least two years plus of hands-on experience in worship planning and leading in a contemporary format.
Experience in recruiting, training and leading volunteers.

Christ Church Staff Team Values

Family/Ministry Life Balance - pursuing whole life health and joy on the journey
Teachability - demonstrating the desire to learn and grow
Collaboration – we are better together
Excellence - consistently honoring God and others with excellence

Christ Church Staff Spiritual values

Practice 10% tithe or a plan to reach it.
Regularly participate in worship.
Identify and keep a Sabbath.
Pursue spiritual growth and healthy lifestyle.

Please email your cover letter, resume and a video that represents your worship leading ability to Laura Ruetschle at laura@christumc.org.

Resumes will be accepted through July 12th.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

Dental insurance
Health insurance
Vision insurance

Ability to Relocate:

Dayton, OH 45429: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

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