Pastor/Director Worship Arts
About The Position
The Pastor/Director of Worship Arts provides spiritual, musical, creative, and strategic leadership for Worship Arts and Production at Grace Fellowship Church. This role blends pastoral shepherding with ministry direction, requiring a leader who is both musically proficient and capable of leading worship environments from the platform and through others. The leader ensures worship gatherings are theologically grounded, musically excellent, and spiritually engaging, while aligned with the vision of the Lead Pastor. They develop people, builds systems, and cultivates a healthy ministry culture that multiplies leaders and sustains excellence across campuses.
Requirements
- Demonstrates a vibrant and growing relationship with Jesus Christ
- Aligns fully with the theology, mission, and values of Grace Fellowship Church
- Leads with humility, emotional maturity, and strong relational intelligence
- Proven ability to lead both people and systems effectively
- Strong communicator, team builder, and culture shaper
- Able to balance pastoral care with executional excellence
- Experience leading worship in a church of similar size or complexity
- Experience developing leaders in a multi-team or multi-campus environment preferred
- Strong musical proficiency, including vocal leadership and the ability to lead congregational worship with confidence and clarity
- Instrumental proficiency preferred (e.g., guitar, keys, or similar)
- Working knowledge of production environments (audio, lighting, video)
- Formal ministry training or ordination preferred but not required
- Must submit video samples of leading worship in a live congregational setting (required for consideration)
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing leaders in a multi-team or multi-campus environment
- Instrumental proficiency (e.g., guitar, keys, or similar)
- Formal ministry training or ordination
Responsibilities
- Provide pastoral care, discipleship, and spiritual oversight for worship and production leaders
- Foster a culture of spiritual health, humility, and unity across teams
- Ensure theological integrity in all worship elements
- Participate in pastoral duties as assigned (care, weddings, funerals, crisis response)
- Lead the planning and execution of weekend worship gatherings
- Design service flow in collaboration with teaching and production teams
- Ensure excellence across in-person and online environments
- Provide musical direction, shaping song selection, arrangements, and execution
- Regularly lead or co-lead worship, modeling both musical and spiritual leadership
- Oversee rehearsal strategy to ensure preparedness, engagement, and excellence
- Recruit, train, and develop volunteer and staff leaders
- Build sustainable leadership pipelines across all campuses
- Coach campus worship leaders and key team members
- Create a culture of multiplication where leaders develop leaders
- Partner with the Creative Director to shape cohesive worship environments
- Align worship, production, and creative elements with the Lead Pastor’s vision
- Lead planning for key services and events (e.g., Christmas, Easter, vision gatherings)
- Lead and develop Worship Arts staff
- Build systems, structures, and rhythms that support healthy ministry growth
- Oversee planning, rehearsals, and execution processes
Benefits
- Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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