Worship Pastor, FirstNSB, New Smyrna, FL

Denomination: Baptist – SBC

Weekly Attendance: 348

Location: New Smyrna Beach, Florida

The Role: Worship Pastor

Contact Individual: Ellie Mixon

Contact Information: eleanor@vanderbloemen.com, 817-832-0252

Mission: Our mission is to make disciples of Jesus.

Vision: Our vision is to be a multigenerational disciple-making church that is growing in our love for God and all people, and that is raising up the next generation of disciples to reach our community and the world for Jesus.

FirstNSB is a family church—a family of believers in Jesus and a family of all ages. Our church was founded as First Baptist Church in 1906. For over 100 years, we have been reaching the city of New Smyrna Beach with the good news of Jesus. Our church is growing, and we are excited about bringing a worship pastor onto our team!

The Worship Pastor’s Responsibilities Include:

  • Worship Service Planning and Production
  • Plan worship services in conjunction with the lead pastor and the discipleship pastor.
  • Utilize Services (Planning Center) for worship service planning and communication.
  • Provide oversight to the production of worship services for both onsite gatherings and online live-streaming.
  • Oversee the incorporation of additional worship elements, including ministry highlight videos, sermon bumpers, and other elements that helps to enhance the worship service.
  • Produce, procure, and maintain worship enhancement materials such as congregational lyrics, music charts, and lead sheets, lyric cues, lighting cues, and accompanying backing tracks.
  • Worship Team Development: Develop a worship team that leads congregational worship with excellence.
  • Lead and participate in all aspects of musicianship and band leadership. This includes preparing for rehearsals, scheduling musicians and vocalists, and preparing sheet music.
  • Audio/Visual Team Development
  • Give oversight and direction to the AV ministry leader.
  • Implement technical solutions, training, and documentation for lyric display, live streaming, lighting cues, lyric cues, backing tracks, audio mixing, acoustics, and video switching/distribution onsite and online.
  • Online Ministry: Develop and implement a plan to engage with people online during Sunday worship gatherings and throughout the week.
  • Work alongside the discipleship pastor in developing our online and social media ministries.

Education & Experience:

  • A Bachelor’s Degree is preferred.
  • Ordained by a Southern Baptist Church is a plus.
  • Minimum of 2 years previous experience in worship/music role previously.
  • Experience leading worship with guitar, keys, piano, and band.
  • Experience with live sound technology such as soundboards, mixing, audio routing, recording, live streaming, and lighting.
  • Experience using, creating, and implementing backing tracks, loops, and click tracks.
  • Experience automating lighting cues, lyric cues, and video cues.
  • Experience using social media to encourage and engage the church throughout the week.
  • Experience producing and using video elements during worship gatherings.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • General knowledge of vocal parts and developing vocalists.
  • General knowledge of reading music, chord charts, and sheet music.
  • Personal Characteristics & Qualifications
  • Be a disciple of Jesus Christ—believe in Jesus, live for Jesus, grow in Jesus, and make disciples of Jesus.
  • Be a member of FirstNSB.
  • Support the purpose, mission, vision, and strategy of FirstNSB.
  • Work with the lead pastor, church staff, and membership to advance the mission and vision of FirstNSB.
  • Practice the 4Gs—Gather, Group, Give and Go.

Relationship to the Lead Pastor:

  • The worship pastor and lead pastor will be partners in ministry at FirstNSB.
  • The worship pastor will report to the lead pastor and will be supervised by the lead pastor.
  • The lead pastor will write an annual review of the worship pastor’s performance based on this job description and other assigned duties.
  • Recommendations for compensation increases will be made at the discretion of the lead pastor.

 

If interested, apply here: https://www.vanderbloemen.com/job/first-baptist-church-of-new-smyrna-beach-worship-pastor


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