Worship Pastor

Vision Statement

The Worship Pastor provides leadership and supervision of all worship ministry, sound technology, and livestream across the campuses of Westchester Christian Worship Center.  He/she will identify emerging needs and will establish strategies and corresponding leaders to meet those needs across the WCWC organization.

Worship Ministry Responsibilities

1. Recruit— Worship Pastor will be constantly recruiting new ministry team members to supply sufficient vocal and instrumental support for our worship needs.
2. Develop—Worship Pastor will always be developing worship team members to achieve their God given potential as worshippers
   1. Development of team members will require a consistent evaluation process that will highlight positives and areas needing improvement.
   2. Development will provide opportunities for the worship team members to grow in their skills and knowledge by providing secondary training opportunities.
   3. Development of team members will provide opportunity for increased opportunities of ministry in areas of worship leading, solos worship/performance.
   4. Development of team members will provide for continual evaluation and coaching in vocal tone quality, harmony, and blending.
   5. Development of team members may necessitate temporary or permanent removal of a team member that is not meeting the established standards or whom is having a negative impact on the church worship experience. Team members who are removed from the ministry should not be surprised and must have experienced a season of coaching and counseling. No ministry team member should be removed from the worship ministry without first consulting the Lead Pastor.
3. Schedule—Worship Pastor will be responsible to ensure the adequate supply of worship leaders, instrumentalist, and back-ground vocals to meet the needs of the worship experience
4. Song selection—Worship Pastor will ensure weekly song selection that is theologically correct, worship appropriate and stylistically compatible with WCWC.
5. Spiritual Development—Worship Pastor will pastor those in the worship ministry to ensure their continued spiritual development.

Sound Technology Responsibilities

1. Will be responsible to ensure optimal sound quality in all services.
2. Will provide instruction and feedback to sound team for the continual improvement of sound quality.
3. Will continually evaluate hardware needs to provide continual improvement and replacement of hardware when necessary.
4. Will work with Sound Team ministry leader to ensure adequate supply of sound technicians at all WCWC campus.

Administrative Duties

1. The position of Worship Pastor is a full time role necessitating time allotted to office hours, team building, rehearsal, and services
2. Shall maintain an organizational environment to foster effective worship ministry to include; sufficient staff meetings, evaluations, communiqués, and other means of coordination and control.
3. Shall enforce the allotted line item budgets assigned to the worship ministry in the church’s annual budget and shall remain accountable to the Board of Trustees in doing so
4. Will report expenses in accordance with organization policies.
5. Shall fulfill other duties that may be added to this job description as deemed necessary by the Lead Pastor.