Children's Ministry Director

Children’s Ministry Director

Position Summary

The Children’s Ministry Director creates an engaging, welcoming, organized, and spiritually impactful ministry for children and families through leadership of Sunday programming, children’s worship, volunteer development, parent engagement, discipleship, and ministry environments.

The ideal candidate is relational, energetic, organized, creative, and capable of building both systems and culture.

Primary Responsibilities

Sunday Experience + Worship

• Lead the overall Sunday children’s ministry experience for 10 am service
• Coordinate weekly large group worship and engagement time for children
• Coordinate/schedule train teachers and helpers for individual class environments (B-K, 1-3, 4-6) – games, scriptures activities, interactive teaching
• Coordinate entry music, signage, decorations, and atmospheric elements
• Help create strong positive first impressions for visiting families
• Collaborate with Lead Pastor around Children’s Ministry Holiday Service involvement

Congregational Engagement

• Children’s Ministry Director participation in congregational services regularly

Examples may include:

• Communications/announcements
• Baptisms/testimonies/scripture memory recitation
• Coordinate with media team to showcase children’s environments

Parent + Family Engagement

• Build strong relationships with parents and caregivers
• Welcome and follow up with first-time families
• Maintain regular communication regarding ministry updates and events
• Coordinate seasonal events that support parents and children (date night, movie nights, parent classes)

Midweek + Digital Engagement

• Oversee/staff midweek childcare environments as needed
• Coordinate simple weekly or bi-monthly content for children and families
• Help maintain engagement throughout the week through communication and content
• Attend Tuesday AM prayer (2x/month) and Tuesday AM staff meeting (2x/month)

Environment + Volunteer Leadership

• Help maintain engaging and welcoming ministry environments including playground and family spaces
• Recruit, schedule, and develop teachers, helpers, volunteers
• Build healthy volunteer culture and team morale
• Ensure ministry spaces remain clean, safe, organized, and visually inviting

Desired Qualifications

• Strong relational and communication skills
• Positive, energetic, and welcoming personality
• Organized and dependable
• Comfortable leading groups and speaking publicly
• Proficient in Microsoft suite, Google suite, Planning Center, Clearstream, Mailchimp, social media, simple graphic design & simple video editing
• Ability to build culture, engagement, and systems
• Some college

Prior experience in children’s ministry, volunteer leadership, worship leadership, or family ministry

Formal ministry education is not required.

Alignment with SRCC’s Doctrine and philosophy of ministry required. Become a member of the church.

Ministry Philosophy

We believe children’s ministry should be joyful, Gospel-centered, relational, organized, spiritually meaningful, and family-oriented. Our goal is to create environments where children and families feel seen, welcomed, connected, and excited to grow in faith and community together.

Position: Part-Time (25 hours per week)

Compensation: $30/hour

Reports To: Lead Pastor

Santa Rosa Christian Church was founded in 1854 in Santa Rosa California! We are a small and vibrant congregation reaching our neighbors, community, and deeply partnering with the local gospel mission and our local elementary school. Our weekly attendance is about 115. We're committed to providing various opportunities for spiritual growth and community involvement. From Sunday worship services to groups for youth, young adults, adults, recovery and outreach programs, there's something for everyone here. We hired a new Lead Pastor 9 months ago and have seen growth in our Children's Ministry (15-24 kids a week) as we focus on connecting with younger families. This has led to the exciting need for us to expand our Children's Ministry Director role and we invite you to apply so we can get to know you and see how God is bringing our stories together for His exciting work. 

The best way to get a good feel for who we are is to visit our website @ srchristianchurch.org ! You can also check us out on FB/IG/TikTok or using the Church Center app.

We're excited to meet you!