Student Pastor

The Student Pastor exists to lead ACF Students in becoming fully devoted followers of Jesus who love and disciple others. This role is dedicated to equipping parents as primary disciplers, developing and multiplying adult leaders, and cultivating a thriving student ministry culture firmly rooted in Scripture, prayer, biblical community, Christ's mission, and spiritual maturity.

Key Areas of Responsibility

1. Shepherding, Teaching, and Pastoral Care

• Spiritual Leadership: Guide middle school and high school students toward deep, authentic devotion to Jesus.

• Biblical Teaching: Faithfully communicate and apply Scripture in age-appropriate, gospel-centered ways across Sunday gatherings, Wednesday nights, retreats, camps, and special events.

• Pastoral Support: Provide intentional pastoral care for students and their families in close collaboration with parents, church staff, and elders.

• Culture Cultivation: Build a safe, joyful, humble, and holy ministry environment defined by grace, truth, and repentance.

2. Discipleship Pathway

• Strategic Growth: Design and execute a clear discipleship pathway moving students from first-time guests to mature, reproducing disciple-makers.

• Programmatic Alignment: Ensure that all weekly gatherings, small groups, Bible studies, retreats, camps, and mission trips cohesively serve the overarching discipleship vision.

• Milestone Tracking: Help students take active next steps in salvation, baptism, prayer, Scripture engagement, serving, leadership, and missions.

3. Leader Development and Team Building

• Adult Leadership: Recruit, train, shepherd, and multiply adult leaders to serve as faithful mentors and disciplers.

• Servant Culture: Foster a healthy team culture marked by clarity, consistency, safety, unity, and spiritual maturity through regular huddles, training, and communication.

• Pipeline Creation: intentionally develop student leaders, interns, residents, and future ministry workers.

4. Parent Partnership

• Primary Discipleship: Equip, encourage, and empower parents to act as the primary spiritual disciplers in their children's lives.

• Open Lines of Communication: Maintain clear, consistent communication regarding teaching schedules, events, spiritual formation, and student care.

• Collaborative Support: Partner directly with parents when students face spiritual, emotional, relational, or behavioral challenges.

5. Programming, Mission, and Community Engagement

• Comprehensive Oversight: Coordinate all facets of the student ministry calendar, aligning them seamlessly with ACF’s broader churchwide schedule.

• Community Outreach: Engage meaningfully within the Alliance Corridor, establishing healthy connections with local schools, teachers, coaches, and community organizations.

• Cultural Wisdom: Navigate the complex digital, emotional, and cultural pressures facing modern teenagers with biblical insight and pastoral care.

6. Administration and Communication

• Ministry Health: Keep executive leadership informed of ministry wins, challenges, future plans, and urgent pastoral needs.

• Stewardship: Manage the student ministry budget, administrative reports, safety compliance, and event registrations with excellence.

• Team-First Contribution: Assist other church ministries as needed, participate in staff meetings, and engage fully in churchwide events (such as Easter and Christmas Eve).

Qualifications and Requirements

• Spiritual Alignment: Full partnership at Alliance Community Fellowship, including a personal testimony of faith, believer’s baptism by full immersion, active small group participation, and a commitment to tithing.

• Integrity: Uncompromising moral, personal, and financial integrity.

• Doctrinal Alignment: Complete commitment to the vision, doctrine, and direction of ACF.

• Safety & Compliance: Successful completion of mandatory background checks.

• Key Character & Competencies: A deep love for Jesus, strong biblical conviction, emotional maturity, humility, teachability, administrative faithfulness, and a proven ability to partner with parents and develop leaders.