Part Time Worship Director with Musical Instrument Skills (Sundays and Limited Time During the Week)

Living Water Community Church

Position Description

Title:

Worship Director

Reports To:

The Elder Team

Date of Revision:

9/19/2024

Purpose of Position:

The worship team is an important part of leading the Body of Christ, by example, in corporate worship. This ministry leader is a part-time (average of 7-11 hours per week) position who is responsible for building, leading, and organizing worship and technology teams. These teams are responsible for helping the congregation give all honor, glory, and praise to God as they lead worship in song and manage the video and sound for each worship service. This ministry is comprised of those who have a talent for worship, leadership, and technology, and who desire to use their gifts in creating an atmosphere of God-honoring worship.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Recruit and organize teams comprised of individuals with different musical and technological gifts who will work well together to create an atmosphere of God-honoring worship.

2. Lead the congregation to sing directly to God who deserves all the honor, glory, and praise.

3. Choose the songs for each worship service and read (and, in some cases as you are led by the Spirit, expound) on scriptures that pertain to the worship songs so that the congregation can better understand the lyrics they are singing.

a) Working with the teaching pastor, choose a scripture or scriptures that pertain to each of the songs chosen.

4. Manage the Planning Center program, pushing the schedule and the songs to all who are serving in the appropriate capacity each weekend.

5. Work alongside and encourage other leaders and team members within the worship team and the technology team (those who manage the sound and the video), and the pastors/ elders/ overseers to prepare songs that contribute to the message for each God-honoring worship experience.

6. Oversee the audition of musicians, vocalists, and those who serve on the technology team. Choose those who will best fit into the specific teams.

7. Work in tandem with pastors/ elders/ overseers to confirm new candidates for the worship team.

8. Be willing to incorporate worship into training, conferences, seminars, etc. that are put on by Living Water Community Church.

9. Be willing to participate in community worship opportunities in which Living Water Community Church may take part.

10. Be an encouraging leader to those who serve on the worship and technology teams, demonstrating a positive attitude and being friendly both on and off the stage.

11. Lead the church in regular, corporate prayer.

12. Attend (virtually or in person) regular coaching with the teaching pastor concerning managing the goals and the tasks of the job.

13. Build out the PowerPoint slides for the worship music lyrics making sure they are easy for the congregation to read.

14. Demonstrate that your life is in submission to Christ through regular study of God’s word, prayer, and a humble life that displays that you are following Jesus.

15. Other duties as may be assigned.

Accountability and Direct Reports:

1. This position reports to the elders/ pastors/ overseers and meets with the full-time teaching pastor for regular coaching.

2. Other worship team leaders report to this position.

3. All worship team members report to this position.

4. All technology team members report to this position.

Authority:

1. To create ministry descriptions and objectives for all serving in the worship and technology ministries that are consistent with God-honoring worship

2. Work with the pastors/ elders/ overseers and speakers to pick songs for use in God-honoring worship.

3. To recruit and place worship team and technology team members on teams that will be able to create an atmosphere of worship for the weekend corporate worship.

Core Competencies:

1. Musical ability: Proficiently sing and play guitar, piano, and/ or drums. Ability to solely lead worship if needed.

2. Contains valuable insight into the spiritual discipline of worship.

3. Have strong organizational skills to plan and carry out the ministry.

4. Have strong technology skills to help aid those in both the worship and the technology ministries.

Spiritual Expectations:

• The worship director, worship team members, and technology team members need to be able to adequately express, in words, their belief in Christ and what He has done in their life - i.e., share a testimony. (1 Peter 3:15-17 (NKJV) 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; 16 having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. 17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

• Leading the congregation in worship is a focal and central part of corporate worship with the congregation. The worship team and the technology team members should be publicly living a life that reflects the character of Jesus Christ daily. (Philippians 2:14-16 (ESV) 14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing, 15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16 holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.).

The worship director and worship team members are viewed with an assumed authorityregarding Worship. They need valuable insight into the spiritual discipline of worship. (Romans 12:1-2 (NIV2011) 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.)

Physical Expectations:

In a desire to strive for excellence and bring worthy offerings to Christ, the worship director and the worship team members (who are serving the subsequent Sunday) are required to attend the preceding week’s practice. The technology team is not required to attend the practice, but is required, as are the worship team members to arrive at early practice on Sunday morning. (Psalm 29:2 (HCSB) 2 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due His name; worship Yahweh in the splendor of His holiness.)

• The ability to safely lift at least 40 lbs.
• The ability to safely climb on a ladder as needed.

Performance Indicators:

• The worship element of the weekend corporate worship meeting will be running smoothly and with purpose.
• The worship teams are working with a sense of cohesion and effectively create an atmosphere of God-honoring worship.
• A spirit of worship will be evident and active in the culture of Living Water Community Church.

Position Overview:

1. An average of 6 - 11 hours per week (infrequently, some weeks may include fewer or more hours but the overall average remains constant)

2. The position allows 4 paid weekends off for illness or vacation (not Easter/ Resurrection Sunday or Christmas Eve) with authorization of overseeing elders/ pastors.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $725.00 per month

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Work Location: In person

Salary : $725