Lake Center Bible Church is an intergenerational church committed to: Living Timeless Truth, Passionately Worshipping Christ, and Sacrificially Serving Others, all in a culturally-relevant way. Lake Center Bible Church is committed to love, teach, and lead individuals and families in Portage and all of the Southern Kalamazoo County area to become authentic followers of Jesus Christ. We are in search of a Pastor/Director of Worship Arts that meets the following profile:Has ability to draw others into a passionate, contagious, authentic, shared worship experience.
Has minimum of 5 years experience.
The candidate must be current with contemporary and culturally relevant worship music using secular, sacred, and multiple genres.
Has a proven track record of thinking outside the box creatively in leading, and allowing others to lead, in worshipping God.
Has a history of being a team player that has the ability to build, equip, and enable teams to carry on the ministry of leading worship.
Has ability to interact with people from a wide variety of musical points of view without necessarily being solely wed to one form and unable to relate to other forms.
Have a strong track record of good leadership skills and the ability to see the administrative elements of planning a worship ministry (planning, coordination, teams) from start to finish.
Has ability to recruit, train, and equip worship personnel both spiritually and musically.
Has ability to arrange music.
Understands the Scriptures and can communicate and teach them through worship, a formal biblical education a plus.
Has ability to study modern culture and infuse relevancy into worship without compromising the message.
Strongly prefer ability to vocally lead worship from piano/keyboard and/or guitar.
The candidate must be obsessed with transforming peoples' lives through the ministry in a high energy, fast paced environment that has grown 35% over three years.
Has ability to develop worship arts teams.
Has the ability to infuse creativity into all aspects of the church's worship experience (music, drama and literary teams).
Has a basic understanding of audio/visual and multimedia equipment as well as vision for future broadcasting.
First consideration will be given to those who provide a DVD.
Please mail sample DVD to:
330 New Hampshire
Portage, MI 49024
Send resumes to: LakeCenterWorship@yahoo.com
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