PURPOSE:

The Pastor/Director of Worship Arts is to provide spiritual and administrative leadership for all Worship Arts ministries of Lake Center Bible Church (LCBC).

OBJECTIVES:

1. To teach the biblical foundations supporting the worship philosophy of LCBC.
   
2. To establish clear goals and measurable objectives for the worship arts ministries at LCBC.
   
3. To oversee through delegation all of the facets of the worship arts ministries at LCBC.
   
4. To recruit, train, and supervise the leaders of the worship arts ministries at LCBC.
   
5. To assist the Senior Pastor in other areas of ministry when deemed necessary by the Senior Pastor.
   

POSITION TITLE:

Pastor/Director of Worship Arts.

REQUIREMENTS:

1. Be born again and living a dedicated, separated Christian life.
   
2. Agree with the Doctrinal Statement, Constitution, Articles of Faith, and Bylaws of LCBC.
   
3. Be committed to the mission, vision, values, and ministry philosophy of LCBC.
   
4. Be a self-starter who also demonstrates a willingness to operate as part of a team.
   
5. Manifest leadership qualities as well as organizational and communication skills.
   
6. Possess the spiritual gifts of administration and leadership.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Prepare worship ministries for weekly meetings.
   
2. Recruit, train, and oversee all leaders of the worship arts ministries.
   
3. Develop strategies, opportunities, and ministries to disciple individuals involved in the worship arts ministries.
   

WORK TASKS:

1. Oversee corporate worship ministry of LCBC through regular group and leader meetings.
2. Develop/implement creative worship elements for all worship services and special events, including choir, praise teams, ensembles.
   
3. Attend meetings of the Board of Elders.
   
4. Meet weekly with the Senior Pastor for encouragement, counsel, advice, and prayer.
   
5. Attend weekly staff meetings.          

ACCOUNTABILITY:

He/she will be directly accountable to the Senior Pastor.

STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE:

1. He/she will support the Doctrinal Statement, Constitution, Articles of Faith, and Bylaws of LCBC, and should conduct himself at all times in such a manner as set forth in the Word of God for a servant of God.
   
2. He/she will accomplish his duties and responsibilities in a professional manner and should demonstrate, along with the fruit of the Holy Spirit, the standards of excellence, faithfulness, loyalty, and maturity.
   
3. He/she will be above reproach in all relationships, and will maintain moral purity and a healthy relationship with his/her spouse, who should be thoroughly supportive of his/her ministry.

EVALUATION:

His/her role description and ministry performance will be evaluated annually by the process set up by the Senior Pastor.

DETAILED PROFILE

• Has ability to draw others into a passionate, contagious, authentic, shared worship experience
• Has minimum of 5 years experience
• Is current with contemporary and culturally relevant using secular, sacred and multiple genres of worship music.
• Has a proven track record of thinking outside the box creatively in leading, and allowing others to lead, in worshipping God.
• Has a history of being a team player that has the ability to build, equip, and enable teams to carry on the ministry of worship leading.
• Has the ability to interact with people from a wide variety of musical points of view without necessarily being solely wed to one form and unable to relate to other forms.
• Has a strong track record of good leadership skills and the ability to see the administrative elements of planning a worship ministry (planning, coordination, teams) from start to finish.
• Has ability to recruit, train and equip worship personnel both spiritually and musically.
• Has the ability to arrange music.
• Understands the Scriptures and can communicate and teach them through worship. Formal biblical education a plus.
• Has ability to study modern culture and infuse relevancy into worship without compromising the message
• Strongly prefer ability to vocally lead worship from piano/keyboard and/or guitar
• Must be obsessed with transforming peoples’ lives through the ministry in a high energy, fast paced environment that has grown 35% over three years.
• Has ability to develop worship arts teams.
• Has ability to infuse creativity into all aspects of the church’s worship experience (music, drama and literary teams)
• Has a basic understanding of audio/visual and multimedia equipment as well as vision for future broadcasting.
• First consideration to those who provide a DVD