Children's Pastor

The Children’s Pastor oversees all aspects of weekly children’s programming (birth-5th grade) and special events. This role seeks to create a culture where kids love church, leaders love serving, and families feel supported.

Essential Job Functions

Lead a Thriving Sunday Children’s Ministry

• Ensure Sunday morning children’s environments are prepared, engaging, and spiritually impactful for Parkview children
• Oversee Sunday Elementary programming, ensuring volunteers are trained, scheduled, and equipped to run excellent ministry environments
• Foster a culture of high standards of safety and cleanliness among children’s programming.
• Guide the selection and implementation of children’s curriculum that supports children's spiritual development
• Manage the early childhood coordinator to ensure quality children’s programming across the ministry
• Evaluate and continually improve ministry environments, systems, and physical spaces to ensure they are effective, engaging, and scalable

Build and Develop Strong Volunteer Teams

• Create clear pathways and effective systems for recruiting, onboarding, and training volunteers
• Create effective structures to develop and coach volunteer leaders
• Care for volunteers and foster a culture of celebration

Strengthen Families and Church-Wide Ministry

• Develop programming and special events beyond Sunday to build community and foster spiritual development among our kids.
• Plan and execute events that support the entire family system.
• Provide occasional teaching and leadership support to Parkview Kids Camp
• Support the broader mission and ministry of Parkview Church as needed.
• Develop and provide parenting resources through seminars, classes, discussion groups, and equipping opportunities that encourage families in every stage of parenting.

Parkview Community Church is a welcoming and growing church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, committed to leading people into a relationship with Jesus and helping them grow through community, care, and service. Parkview strives to create meaningful opportunities for people to take next steps in faith, build lasting relationships, and serve others. The church is shaped by values such as Relationship over Religion, Grace over Guilt, Compassion over Complacency, Unity over Uniformity, and Curiosity over Certainty. Parkview’s also has four distinctives that shape its ministry and community life. These are about values, practices, and perspectives that inform their approach to ministry. They include: men and women serving at all levels of leadership, a commitment to justice, financial integrity, and a teaching-team approach.

Parkview is located in Glen Ellyn, a western suburb of Chicagoland and part of DuPage County. Glen Ellyn is a village of nearly 29,000 people, while the broader county is home to more than 934,000 residents and reflects increasing ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This context gives Parkview a meaningful opportunity to serve both its immediate neighborhood and the wider western suburbs with the hope, grace, and compassion of Jesus.