Pastor of Worship Arts and Prayer, St Moses Church, Charles Village Campus

Pastor of Worship Arts and Prayer (F/T)

St. Moses Church

Overview

St. Moses Church (Saint Mo’s) is a multi-ethnic, intergenerational evangelical church in the heart of Baltimore City. We have two campuses. One is in the Hamilton neighborhood, near Morgan State University. One is in the Charles Village neighborhood, near Johns Hopkins University.

The Pastor of Worship Arts and Prayer is responsible for the worship and other creative arts ministries of the Charles Village location of St. Moses Church as well as for the prayer ministries of the church broadly.

This is a full time position, reporting to the Lead Pastor, and reviewed annually. 

Pastors do not sit on the elder board (with exception of lead pastor), but they are expected to demonstrate the biblical qualifications for church officers (see 1 Timothy 3, Titus 1, Acts 6). Pastors have significant theological training in historic Christianity, whether formal or informal, (all equivalencies considered) and are proven leaders with a track record of successful ministry building.

Qualifications

• Committed follower of Jesus
• Skillful instrumentalist
• Skillful vocal leader
• Facility in multiple styles of worship and experience leading in multiple genres for multi-ethnic gatherings
• Creative gift for developing a culture of creativity in the worship arts
• Deep personal prayer life and passion for corporate prayer
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to recruit and develop volunteers
• Able to build teams
• Facility with video and music editing
• Facility with social media platforms

Worship Responsibilities

• Plan and implement music and production at weekly worship services with Lead Pastor and Charles Village Campus Pastor.
• Work with the Lead Pastor to craft worship services supporting our values.
• Lead various non-musical elements of services as necessary. 
• Develop and train Saint Mo’s musicians to participate as well as to lead worship at weekly gatherings, nurturing both their theology of worship and their skill for music and leadership. 
• Regularly attend worship team rehearsals to offer support and coaching to musicians and a/v volunteers.
• Nurture and guide a culture of creativity at Saint Mo’s to include creative input in preaching diet, sermon series planning and broader arts engagement with the community.
• Lead church musicians in collaborative and individual song-writing and other creative practices that generate beauty and resources for the broader church community of Baltimore City. 
• Work with volunteers or contractors to improve, repair and optimize all music and production related technology.
• Supervise  a/v volunteer team leader and volunteer worship leaders.
• Set weekly, monthly, and annual goals for leadership and for the areas of supervision
• Attend staff functions (meetings, events, staff retreats and trainings)
• Work with volunteer team leaders to recruit, develop and train volunteers for lighting, live-stream and a/v teams. 
• In an average month, optimally, the Worship Pastor would lead 2-3 weeks, be on the team in a non-leading capacity 1 week and exchange locations with the Hamilton Campus worship director 1 week per month.. 

PLUS

Prayer Culture Responsibilities

• Develop, equip and supervise prayer team leaders 
• Nurture a culture of expectant, ardent, disciplined, multi-dimensional prayer at Saint Mo’s. 
• Envision, plan and execute semi-regular worship and prayer services.
• In coordination with lead pastor, build toward weekly prayer gathering open to city-wide partnership with online and in-person options.
• Other responsibilities as designated by lead pastor.

In order to apply

• Submit a current resume and cover letter to jobs@saintmos.org
• Send two video examples of you leading worship. At least one example should highlight your instrumental and vocal abilities and at least one example should demonstrate your ability to lead a team. These videos can be sent as attachments or google drive or dropbox links to jobs@saintmos.org.

Saint Mo’s is a 10 year old multi-ethnic, inter-generational church in the heart of Baltimore City. We stand in

the deep center-current of historic Christianity. We have two locations, each deliberately in a part of Baltimore City where people from different backgrounds converge, near major universities, where we have the opportunity to build bridges between different groups of people.

We enjoy a strong reputation among churches in Baltimore for collaboration, for generosity and for deep community, for vibrant worship and rigorous preaching.