JOB DESCRIPTION

Ministry Title
Worship Arts Team Leader

Position Purpose
The Worship Arts Team Leader provides leadership in the corporate music and worship ministry of the church, usually in the area of contemporary or emerging worship. The Worship Arts Team Leader is considered the lead worshiper; he or she is someone who has cultivated a personal and growing relationship with Jesus, skills and abilities in music and worship, and who desires to establish a corporate worship setting that is relevant to people’s everyday lives. The Worship Arts Team Leader oversees and plans all worship services and is responsible for coordinating scheduling for sacrament preparers and servers, hospitality hosts, readers, AV operators, and musicians. The Worship Arts Team Leader is also responsible for presenting an accurate report to the Leadership Team of all Worship Arts activities and needs.

Responsible to
Leadership Team and Congregation

Ministry Description

  1. Promote spiritual and devotional life of the congregation and team including but not limited to worship planning and events, music, hospitality, drama, visual arts, and worship environment.
  2. Plan and carry out varied, creative, innovative, and relevant corporate worship services.
  3. Schedule, plan, and lead both meetings and rehearsals of the worship ministry instrumentalists and vocalists.
  4. Recruit and audition all musicians, as well as sound, lighting, and other technical personnel needed to lead and present excellent worship services.
  5. Ensure that the church’s music ministry and worship team personnel display a demeanor or attitude that brings glory to God and doesn’t draw attention to individuals or the “performance” of the worship team.
  6. Create worship team budget, including purchasing of music, instruments, equipment, music licenses, sound equipment, lighting, and other worship-related needs.
  7. Coordinate with other worship ministry staff and/or volunteers, particularly pastor, drama ministry, children’s or youth music ministry, etc. to integrate other appropriate elements into each service.
  8. Communicate regularly with the pastor about the theme of each worship service, selecting music and other elements that reinforce the teaching topic, when possible.
  9. Know the congregation and be able to respond to their needs during worship services.
  10. Teach and model principles of worship to the worship team and to the congregation.

Time requirements
The time commitment is approximately 15-20 hours per month.

Term
The Worship Arts Team Leader will serve for at least two years. The first year will be spent serving as an assistant alongside the preceding Worship Arts Team Leader, learning the various Worship Arts activities, and gaining ideas and visions for where God is leading the Worship Arts Team. The second year will be spent serving as the Worship Arts Team Leader, fulfilling the responsibilities and duties listed, recruiting and training volunteers to assist and carry out Worship Arts opportunities. The Worship Arts Team Leader should also recruit an assistant for succession. The Worship Arts Team Leader may be invited to serve for additional one-year terms thereafter.

Training/Resources
Attend conferences, seminars, and workshops on leadership, contemporary worship, and music training; develop local or long-distance mentoring or networking relationships with worship team directors in other churches; listen to worship recordings released by Christian music publishers; develop self and team as worshipers, leaders, and in musical or technical skills.

Qualifications, skills, and gifts

  1. Vibrant and growing personal relationship with Jesus.
  2. Organizational and planning skills.
  3. Communication and interpersonal skills.
  4. Ability to motivate and recruit those who fit the congregation’s purpose and goal for worship.
  5. Ability to encourage and develop people, both spiritually and musically.
  6. Passion for seeing people drawn closer to God through the worship ministry of the church.
  7. Sensitivity for meeting the needs of the congregation.
  8. A listening ear and a thick skin to respond appropriately to critical comments about worship from church partners, who dislike musical choices, style, etc.
  9. Spiritual Gifts: craftsmanship, evangelism, faith, hospitality, leadership, music.

Benefits to the Volunteer
This is an opportunity to create fulfilling and meaningful worship services that greatly affect the life and ministry of the church. It also provides an opportunity for using musical skills and creative gifts for self-expression and service to others.