Children, Youth and Families Worker

Christ Church Queensferry is a growing church family in the heart of South Queensferry. We are now looking for a gifted and gospel-hearted individual to lead and grow our ministry among children, youth, and families.

Responsibilities

- Children & Youth Ministry: Develop and oversee engaging discipleship programs, events, and teaching for children and young people. - Family Engagement: Support families in faith formation, providing pastoral care, resources, and opportunities for growth. - Mentoring & Discipleship: Encourage and equip healthy leadership teams within our children and youth ministry. - Community Outreach: Build connections with local schools, families, and organisations (such as Scripture Union) to expand the church's impact. - Training & Development: Opportunities for ongoing ministry training through external providers as well as hands-on ministry experience across the life of our church.

Required skills

The following are essentials for a successful candidate: - Living out a personal relationship with Jesus. - Committed to godly, servant-hearted ministry. - Affirmation from current church as to your suitability for a vocational ministry role. - Committed to the vision of Christ Church Queensferry and in agreement with our Statement of Faith. - Successful PVG check and a commitment to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. - Theologically trained or a willingness to pursue further study. - Experience of and passion for working with young people, with a desire to foster whole-hearted discipleship, engagement with not-yet-believing friends and clarity and compassion with cultural hot-button issues. - A strong team player able to give and receive feedback, with a desire to learn and grow. - Strong organisational skills, ability to plan effectively and work independently at times. - Able to communicate effectively in written and verbal form, to build relationships with children, youth, parents and ministry partners.

Other

Christ Church Queensferry is currently blessed with a growing group of 0-18s, for which we thank God. The growth is seen particularly in the nursery and primary aged children, but it also includes high school pupils (which we did not have when we first planted the church). We have an urgent need to strengthen our children and youth ministry in order to grow and nurture disciple-making disciples across our church family.