Mountain Home Church of the Nazarene (MHNaz) is looking for someone to come and lead our student and worship ministries. Our desire is to become a church where people of all ages can come as they are and experience a place to belong, the opportunity to grow, and find a place to serve.
MHNaz is a loving and supportive church for its staff members. Our people are so grateful and excited for the ministry that we have happening at our church. We have about 100 people who attend each Sunday for one service at 10:00am. Our staff team is loyal and supportive, leaning to middle to support one another when needed, whether it is due to personal or professional pressures.
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Desired Personal / Professional Strengths & Qualifications:
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Activator
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Creative
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Enthusiastic/Energetic
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Innovative Builder
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Team Player
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Consistently Follows through
Required:
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Passion for and relationship with God
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Loves students & ability to teach at age-appropriate levels
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Have a passion for leading worship
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Willing to be part of staff team
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Works well with volunteers
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District Licensed or on the licensure path
Preferred:
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Called to ministry, ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene
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2+ years of experience
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Experience in building up and equipping worship volunteer base
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Nazarene/Wesleyan theological background
Job Description:
To lead and provide oversight to all areas of ministry in our student and worship ministry departments.
This person will serve as the leader of our ministry to students from 7th – 12th grade by:
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planning and seeing to the implementation of ministry programming
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recruiting, training, scheduling, and supporting a youth staff, while maintaining and enhancing a positive, collaborative, equipping culture
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contacting new and established families of students, providing care and inviting participation
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continuing growing in the best practices of ministry and connecting with new students
This person will serve as leader of our worship ministries by:
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recruiting, training, equipping volunteers (worship leaders, musicians, vocalists, tech personnel) to lead worship with passion and excellence; leading worship 2-3 times per month, as needed
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help design and communicate worship service details and recruit our people to assist
To tend to and care for your own spiritual journey while tending to the needs of our people, incorporating actively into the life of our congregation, and becoming a connected part of the Mountain Home community.
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Job Classification & Compensation:
Full Time position, salaried, based on education and experience. Vacation offered according to consecutive time spent in full-time ministry within the Church of the Nazarene. Annual accountable professional expense of $1200/yr. Funding to attend seminars/conferences is available, subject to board approval.
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Congregational Overview:
We are a church that regularly sees about 100 people in worship each Sunday set in a rural community in Southwest Idaho. We are closely connected to the Mountain Home Air Force Base (about 10 miles away), and serve a small number of active duty service members and a decent amount of retired military personnels from all branches of military service. Pastor Trent Friberg came to serve as Lead Pastor in December of 2019.
Our youth group is comprised of about 30 students, with average attendance on youth group nights around ten students. The previous youth pastor was called to her next place of ministry and departed in May of 2024. Since that time, a highly committed group of youth staff volunteers have helped to bridge the gap over the summer by attending camps, planning and running youth group, adding summer events, and following up personally with students.
Our worship ministry is currently staffed by a number of volunteer worship leaders, as well as musicians, vocalists, and technicians. Our music is mostly contemporary music led by either guitar or piano. We have a rotating set of people who operate our sound board and lyrics display computer. We stream our services live on Facebook and post an edited version of our services on our YouTube channel.
Our church ministry staff is comprised of our Lead Pastor (FT), an Associate Pastor of Care Ministries (PT), a Children's Director (PT), and an office administrator (PT). We also employ a part-time janitor. Our church is completely debt-free and we own a shuttle bus for transportation to/from events. We are located approximately one hour from Northwest Nazarene University, enabling us fairly easy access to campus for events, conferences, and other continuing education opportunities.
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To apply, please send a letter of interest & introduction along with a resumé to trent@mhnazarene.org. To view a printable version of this listing, please click here.​
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Position will be open until filled.
