Full Time Youth Pastor | Pinellas Community Church

St. Petersburg, Florida

Pinellas Community Church is looking for a full time Youth Pastor to lead, shepherd, and grow our student ministry in beautiful St. Petersburg, Florida. PCC is a multicultural and multigenerational church with around 600 to 800 people gathering on the weekends. Our youth ministry currently has around 35 to 50 students regularly attending.

PCC loves God and loves people… and we want to help students follow Jesus for a lifetime, grow in their gifts, build meaningful relationships, and be better prepared for life as adults.

We are looking for a spiritually mature leader who loves Jesus, loves students, works hard, takes initiative, builds strong relationships, and thrives in a team environment. Our staff culture is relational, flexible, collaborative, and a lot of fun.

About the Role

Our Youth Pastor will lead and build a healthy, growing ministry for middle and high school students. They will cast vision, teach Scripture in a way students can understand and apply, disciple and care for students, partner with parents, and recruit and develop great leaders.

Our heart is to have a ministry where students feel known, loved, connected, and excited to follow Jesus.

Worship experience is a big bonus, as there may also be opportunities to help with weekend services.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and grow a healthy youth ministry for middle school and high school students.

Develop and oversee the Young Adult Ministry.

Create a safe, fun, and relational environment where students can feel seen, ask honest questions, learn from God’s Word, and encounter Jesus.

Teach biblically faithful and engaging messages that students can understand and apply.

Disciple students toward spiritual growth, personal faith, servant leadership, and mission.

Recruit, train, encourage, and care for adult youth volunteers.

Partner with parents through clear communication, support, and trust.

Plan youth events, retreats, outreach nights, service projects, and discipleship opportunities.

Connect students to the church through worship, serving, and relationships.

Collaborate with PCC staff to support the church’s mission and health.

Oversee youth ministry communication, calendars, volunteer schedules, budget, and safety.

Qualifications

A growing relationship with Jesus and a life marked by spiritual maturity, humility, and integrity.

A clear calling and passion for youth ministry.

A strong biblical foundation and the ability to teach Scripture in a relatable and practical way.

Highly relational with students, parents, volunteers, and staff.

Self motivated, dependable, organized, and hard working.

Able to lead teams, develop leaders, and build healthy ministry systems.

A strong communicator who works well with others.

Agreement with the mission, values, and theological direction of Pinellas Community Church.

Prior youth ministry experience, Bible college, ministry training preferred, but not required.

Compensation and Benefits

This is a full time position with pay commensurate with experience. Full health, dental, and vision benefits are provided for the employee and spouse.

PCC also offers a flexible schedule, a relational and collaborative staff culture, and the opportunity to serve and build ministry in a growing, diverse, multigenerational church in St. Petersburg, Florida.

About Pinellas Community Church

Pinellas Community Church is located in St. Petersburg, Florida. We are a non denominational, multicultural, and multigenerational church that loves God, loves people, and wants our city to feel loved and drawn closer to Jesus.

We believe youth ministry is about so much more than a weekly program. We want students to know Jesus personally, discover the gifts God has placed inside of them, build meaningful relationships, have a whole lot of fun, and learn what it looks like to follow Jesus in everyday life.

We want PCC to be a place where students know they belong, know they are loved, and are challenged to become everything God created them to be.

To Begin the Conversation

If you believe God may be leading you toward PCC, we would love to hear from you.

Please send the following to:  jcountryman@pinellaschurch.com

• Resume
• Cover letter sharing your call to youth ministry
• Brief description of your ministry experience
• Video teaching sample
• 3 references… coworker, friend, and pastor or ministry leader