Part-Time Children’s Ministry Director

Bexley United is looking for a dynamic and committed educator to lead programs that equip children and their parents to understand, experience, and embrace the Christian faith through participation in the life of the church

Responsibilities:

• Oversee Sunday morning Christian education for children up through elementary school age, including curriculum selection, volunteer teacher recruitment and training, and managing the schedule of assistants to the Nursery Coordinator.

• Plan, organize, and implement seasonal family fellowship, educational events, worship or service projects.

• Work with Associate Pastor on transitioning older elementary youth into youth programs.

• Build a leadership team of persons who care about and are gifted in nurturing faith and love in children

• Connect with families around baptism in coordination with the pastor.

• Make opportunities to connect with families in the Bexley United Methodist Preschool (BUMP).

• Oversee scheduling nursery care for occasional non-Sunday church events.

Required experience:

• active participation in a Christian church.

• classroom experience teaching and developing lesson plans for children in the range of ages up through fifth grade.

• experience recruiting and equipping volunteers.

Desirable experience:

• an education degree and participation in long-term adult Christian education and Bible study

Salary: $30,000 20 hours/week

Bexley United MC is an open and affirming neighborhood church in suburban Columbus that offers both contemporary and traditional worship services with Christian education offered alongside both services. We speak from the center of the United Methodist theological tradition. Bexley United's vision is to be an inviting community, filled with people who are all at different points in their spiritual journey, but who all share a common commitment to one another, to Christ’s teachings, to spreading love, and to pursuing spiritual health, growth, and peace for all who seek it. Bexley United MChurch is a community where everyone is invited to worship, heal, thrive, love, and work together, not only to pursue their own spiritual growth, but also to help others realize theirs.

Our Core Values

• LOVING: Through God’s love for us, our love of God, and the love we share with everyone; we are all made stronger.

• LEARNING: By learning and spreading God’s teachings, we help others and ourselves grow in faith.

• HEALING: Whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, we are all in need of healing, and we are all capable of helping others heal.

• CHAMPIONING: Together, as a community of believers, we fight for the inclusion, dignity, fair treatment, and spiritual health of all people