Worship Pastor
On-siteOswego, Illinois, United States
Oswego, Illinois, United StatesOn-sitePart Time
Part Time
Job Summary
Plan, lead, and oversee all corporate worship services, including weekend, special, and seasonal events, while coordinating rehearsals, scheduling, and production elements for audio, visual, and staging. Recruit, train, and disciple worship ministry volunteers, vet outside musicians, and manage the ministry budget and equipment stewardship. Collaborate with the Senior Pastor on sermon series planning and select biblically grounded music that balances excellence with congregational accessibility. Lead pastoral duties including counseling, weddings, funerals, and teaching, while fostering a culture of unity and accountability within the worship team.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training, either seminary or Bible degree
- 3+ years of experience leading Worship in a church or similar setting
- Strong musical ability (vocally and/or instrumentally) with familiarity in contemporary worship styles
- Ability to balance creative, pastoral, and administrative responsibilities
- Comfort with modern worship, media, and communication technology
- Including production software such as MultiTracks EcoSystem
- ProPresenter, LightKey, and Planning Center
- Loyalty to other staff and commitment to team unity and team building
- Excellent team based leadership and training abilities
- Exceptional communications and organizational skills
- Great interpersonal skills with adults of all ages and backgrounds
- Full agreement with Harvest's doctrinal statement
- Must be able to effectively organize, empower, and develop the Worship and Young Adult Ministries
- Must be available for weekend services
- Must be available for special services
- Must be available for seasonal events (e.g., Christmas, Easter, Jamboree)
- Must be able to lead corporate worship services, demonstrating pastoral presence, humility, and spiritual authenticity
- Must be able to impart a theology of worship that incorporates a solid grasp of scripture and biblical mindfulness of relevant contemporary issues in Christian worship
- Must be able to implement a philosophy of worship that not only leads believers to a closer walk with the Lord, and also exposes unbelievers to the greatness, majesty and love of our God
- Must be able to recruit, train, disciple, and oversee worship ministry volunteers, including vocalists, instrumentalists, and worship leaders
- Must be able to develop emerging leaders within the worship ministry
- Must be able to foster a culture of unity, excellence, accountability, and servant leadership among worship teams
- Must be able to coordinate rehearsals, scheduling, and preparation to ensure consistency and readiness
- Must be able to provide vision and leadership for worship-related production elements (audio, visual, lighting, staging) in collaboration with technical teams
- Must be able to partner with creative, media, and communications teams to support worship services and special events
- Must be able to ensure worship environments are engaging, distraction-free, and supportive of spiritual formation
- Must be able to vet all outside musicians/bands being considered for concerts, special appearances, conferences, etcetera, to ensure consistency with Harvest's theology and philosophy of worship
- Must be able to develop and manage the worship ministry budget in coordination with church leadership
- Must be able to ensure compliance with music licensing and copyright requirements
- Must be able to oversee stewardship of worship-related equipment and resources
- Must be able to evaluate worship services and implement improvements as needed
- Must be able to participate in Harvest's counseling ministry
- Must be able to fulfill other pastoral duties as needed (weddings, funerals, teaching, preaching, visitation, baptisms, communion)
- Must attend the new member class at HNB in order to become members of HNB within 6 months of being hired
Desired Qualifications
- A heart for young adults and a willingness to lead that ministry at Harvest
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