Position Summary

The Children’s Ministry Lead provides spiritual, strategic, and organizational leadership for all aspects of Children’s Ministry at Flipside Church, serving children from nursery through sixth grade and partnering with their parents and families.

This position oversees Children’s Ministry during Flipside’s three Sunday services, the weekly midweek children’s program, volunteer development, family discipleship, safety systems, and major seasonal events.

The Children’s Ministry Lead is not expected to personally perform every ministry task. The primary responsibility is to build, equip, lead, and care for the teams that carry out the ministry.

Position Purpose

The Children’s Ministry Lead exists to partner with parents in leading children toward a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, establishing them in biblical truth, connecting them to the life of the church, and developing the leaders and systems necessary for a safe, loving, growing, and reproducing Children’s Ministry.

Essential Responsibilities

1 Spiritual and Ministry Leadership

·       Lead the Children’s Ministry in alignment with Scripture and Flipside Church’s doctrine, mission, values, culture, and ministry philosophy.

·       Cultivate a ministry culture characterized by prayer, biblical truth, grace, joy, safety, and belonging.

·       Ensure the gospel is communicated clearly, consistently, and appropriately for each age group.

·       Model spiritual maturity, integrity, humility, teachability, and servant leadership.

·       Provide appropriate ministry care to children, parents, volunteers, and Children’s Ministry staff.

·       Assist families with questions regarding salvation, baptism, Communion, spiritual growth, family challenges, and child development.

·       Pray regularly for the children, families, and leaders entrusted to the ministry.

·       Participate as a ministry leader in the larger life of Flipside Church, being faithful in serving, giving, witness, and worship.

2 Children’s Discipleship

Develop and oversee a comprehensive discipleship pathway for children from nursery through sixth grade.

·       Establish clear age-appropriate outcomes for biblical knowledge, spiritual formation, and Christian character.

·       Teach the storyline and central truths of Scripture, the gospel and salvation, prayer, worship, Scripture reading and memorization, Christian character, wise decision-making, generosity, service, evangelism, baptism, Communion, and belonging to the local church.

·       Select, develop, and evaluate biblically sound curriculum.

·       Ensure consistency between Sunday, midweek, seasonal, and family discipleship efforts according to our Belong / Become / Give / Go flow.

·       Develop a deliberate process for transitioning sixth-grade students into Student Ministry.

·       Coordinate the discipleship pathway of Belong / Become / Give / Go with the Next Gen Pastor.

3 Sunday Children’s Ministry

Provide leadership for Children’s Ministry during all three Sunday services at 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00 a.m.

·       Ensure every classroom and ministry environment is prepared, adequately staffed, and properly supplied.

·       Maintain appropriate adult-to-child ratios.

·       Recruit and schedule teachers, small-group leaders, classroom assistants, nursery workers, check-in volunteers, substitutes, and service captains.

·       Oversee curriculum preparation, teaching materials, classroom activities, and supplies.

·       Ensure consistent ministry quality across all three services.

·       Establish a designated leader or service captain for each service.

·       Develop contingency plans for volunteer absences, attendance surges, classroom issues, and emergencies.

·       Provide Children’s Ministry huddles for volunteers who are not present for the 7:20 a.m. church-wide huddle.

·       Create a welcoming, understandable, and secure experience for guest families.

·       Oversee classroom setup, transitions, cleanup, and room reset.

·       Respond appropriately to behavioral, medical, parent, or safety concerns.

4 Midweek Children’s Ministry

Provide primary leadership for Flipside’s weekly midweek children’s program.

·       Select or develop an appropriate Bible-centered ministry model, such as AWANA or a comparable program.

·       Establish the program’s discipleship goals, annual calendar, curriculum, and scope and sequence.

·       Recruit, train, and supervise a dedicated midweek leadership team.

·       Oversee registration, attendance, communication, rooms, supplies, check-in, dismissal, and security.

·       Incorporate Bible teaching, Scripture memory, prayer, relationships, service, and evangelism.

·       Connect with families whose children attend the midweek program but whose parents do not regularly attend Flipside.

·       Coordinate shared facilities, calendars, and resources with Student Ministry and other church ministries.

·       Evaluate the program annually and recommend appropriate improvements.

5 Volunteer Recruitment and Development

Volunteer development is one of the Children’s Ministry Lead’s highest priorities.

·       Maintain a continual volunteer-recruitment process.

·       Develop clear written descriptions for every volunteer role.

·       Interview, screen, place, and orient prospective volunteers.

·       Match volunteers with roles appropriate to their gifts, maturity, experience, and availability.

·       Ensure that background checks, references, and required training are completed.

·       Provide initial, ongoing, and role-specific training.

·       Develop age-level leaders, service captains, coaches, and coordinators who can lead other volunteers.

·       Maintain a trained substitute team.

·       Communicate schedules and expectations with sufficient notice.

·       Provide regular encouragement, appreciation, coaching, and ministry care.

·       Address performance, conduct, or safety concerns promptly and graciously.

·       Develop apprentices for the significant Children’s Ministry leadership roles.

·       Build a healthy serving culture in which volunteers can serve faithfully without being unnecessarily overworked.

6 Parent Partnership and Family Discipleship

Recognize parents as the primary spiritual influence in their children’s lives and equip them accordingly.

·       Communicate regularly with parents regarding lessons, events, policies, and ministry opportunities.

·       Provide discussion questions, family devotionals, Scripture memory resources, and other practical discipleship tools.

·       Equip parents to address faith development, discipline, anxiety, technology, sexuality, cultural pressures, and biblical worldview.

·       Help parents have gospel, baptism, and spiritual-growth conversations with their children.

·       Respond promptly, graciously, and clearly to parent questions and concerns.

·       Create opportunities for parents to meet and build relationships with ministry leaders.

·       Partner with the Connections Pastor to help new families become connected to the larger life of Flipside Church.

·       Coordinate parent-equipping initiatives with the Next Gen Pastor.

7 Special Events

Oversee or provide leadership for VBS, Harvest Party, Parent Nights Out, Christmas and Easter programs, family ministry events, child dedications, family worship experiences, camps and retreats, service and missions projects, promotion weekends, and other approved events.

·       Define the ministry purpose and desired outcomes.

·       Develop the planning timeline, budget, registration, promotion, and parent communication.

·       Build the volunteer leadership structure and coordinate facilities, setup, and cleanup.

·       Oversee curriculum, activities, supplies, check-in, dismissal, medical, safety, and emergency procedures.

·       Complete guest follow-up and post-event evaluation.

·       Ensure programs and events support the church’s mission and Children’s Ministry discipleship pathway.

Full description and details available upon request.