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Looking for Youth Professional

2009-07-25T22:42:00.003-04:00

Job Description

For

Part-Time Children’s and Youth Ministry Director

Denbigh Presbyterian Church

Newport News, Virginia

(757) 877-2048

Qualities and Qualifications:

Children’s and Youth Ministry Director:

1. Will be a person of strong Christian faith and character with a strong commitment to the Christian education of children and youth.

2. Will be committed to the theology and polity of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

3. Will show a capacity for developing warm personal relationships with children, youth, youth leaders, parents and other adults

4. Will be someone who loves children/youth, relates well to children/youth, is good at mentoring children/youth and in whom kids and parents can trust.

5. Will be a person able to develop and maintain effective and healthy relationships with volunteer leaders, teachers and parents.

6. Will be organized.

7. Will be an effective and timely communicator of all children’s and youth events to parents and youth using a variety of means (e.g., phone, Digest, bulletin, Face Book, texting, etc.).

Responsibilities:

LOGOS:

1. Coordinate LOGOS ministry.

2. Participate in LOGOS ministry (music, teaching, where needed).

3. Will recruit, train & supervise leaders.

4. Will publicize programs in timely manner to members of the church and community.

5. Will organize registration of participants from the church and community.

6. Will develop annual budget requests and monitor budgeted funds.

7. Will organize and lead special LOGOS events.

8. Will work with LOGOS Bible study teachers to select curriculum which is relevant and applicable for our students (K-12).

Sunday School:

1. Will organize children’s and youth Sunday School teacher training.

2. Will work with Sunday School superintendent to select curriculum for children’s and youth Sunday School classes which is age-appropriate and applicable for students.

3. Will teach a children’s or youth Sunday School class.

Youth Groups (Elementary, Middle and High):

1. Support & guide youth and adults in planning and programming children’s and youth events

2. Develop & assist adult leaders in planning children’s and youth service projects & retreats.

3. Work with youth leaders to communicate & publicize children’s and youth activities.

4. Attend children’s and youth events when feasible.

5. Along with Chair of Children’s and Youth Ministry Committee, provide training for and be a resource person to children’s and youth group leaders in the church (e.g., prayer, faith development activities, handling relational and life issues).

VBS:

1. Support the leaders of Bible School, helping choose the curriculum and train those who will teaching the Bible.

Children’s Church

2. Participate and help plan the Children’s Church Service once a month.

General:

3. Attend Sunday morning worship services at Denbigh Presbyterian Church

4. Will have authority to sign vouchers for Youth Ministry expenses considering (or utilizing) budget constraints.

5. Individual is accountable to DPC Staff Committee and pastor

Hours of Job:

20-25 hours per week

Vespers service - 6 PM 1 March

2009-02-25T23:17:00.000-05:00

Quiet service of prayer and reflection. We will be serving communion by intiction.

Reason to Continue

2009-02-25T23:15:00.000-05:00

Well there is a reason to continue this. Somebody will need some info sometime and maybe it will be here. It's the 21st century, and this is the way we roll!

Any reason to continue?

2008-12-26T09:27:00.003-05:00

Is there any reason to continue this blog? Is anyone reading it? If you have found any worth in it, would you please make a comment here? Thank you.

Nov 23 Vespers - 9 PM

2008-11-19T09:37:00.006-05:00

Note we are holding Vespers at 9 PM, following our Agape Community Service on Nov 23.

Everyone is welcome to both or either of these services.

Vespers lasts a little under half an hour, and is a quiet time of scripture and guided silent prayer.

Vespers will return to its regular 5 PM time next week.

New Adult I Sunday school class

2008-11-15T22:37:00.001-05:00

BE GLOBAL: The winter quarter begins December 7 for the Adult I Bible study which is based on the International Lesson Series used by many Christian denominations around the globe. From the Gospel of Luke through various books of the Old Testament, you will be invited into “the lives and circumstances of people who chose commitment over convenience, action over apathy, and risk over reward.” A student book is provided to enhance the Bible study. Class begins at 9:15am in the conference room. Join your brothers and sisters around the world in discerning God’s Word for these days.

Prayer Requests from our Haiti Missionaries

2008-11-10T08:39:00.003-05:00

We received the following prayer requests
in an email from Bruce Robinson. Please pray
for the following issues. If your time is limited,
see the last one.

-The church building at La Corne
(at Trois Rivieres just this side of the
river from town) is done enough that it
is useable. First service was just
before we left in August. They are trying
to start an elementary school
there in the building also. They need a
latrine and we have started building
one on faith. We expect to spend around
$3000 on a latrine with 8 places. Can't
have a school or church without basic
sanitation. This church was meeting
under a tarp until August.

-Please pray for us as we work on
permanent repairs on the water systems
for Poste Metier and Passe Catabois.
Together they serve around 20,000 people.
They were damaged in a couple key places
by the two hurricanes. Patched together
now with permanent repairs that will
take much of next year needed. Pray for
weather that is dry enough to be able to
on these two systems. There is money on
the way to do this work and what we need
is prayer for us, the crews, and the weather.

-Before being distracted by the damage from
the hurricanes we were working on a drainage
project that would eventually put 2200 acres
into irrigated agricultural production. Work
we have already done in an adjacent area had
really increased plantain production until
the plants were mostly destroyed by the
hurricanes. We have a Quonset Hut type building
that is in crates on the ship ready to be
unloaded at Port-de-Paix as I write this.
Pray that we will be able to get this building
 up in the first six months of next year to use
as a base of operations for this work.

-We need to add a utility room onto our house
and replace two walls in our kitchen that are
badly damaged by earth tremors (because they
were not well constructed by the previous owner).
Haven't figured out how to do this exactly
since our kitchen is where Deb cooks all the
meals for the teams. Anyone who has ever done
a remodel knows that it will take more time than
you planned and cost more than you estimated,
but it is time to get the kitchen fixed for Deb
so she is better able to serve the teams that
come to help each year. This is a personal need.
Would like to start after the first of the year.

-We delivered 25,000 packages of vegetable
seeds in the last couple weeks and have more
on the way. Also working on a project to get
corn and bean seeds to help people that lost
all their crops. Please pray that there would
be a harvest and food this winter. Also that
the plantains that we knocked down by the
floods would grow back quickly. Some were not
completely washed away. People are hungry and
need food.

-In all this pray for people to come to Christ.
May we being the loving hands of Christ as we
minister to them to show them His love.

November 9 Vespers

2008-11-07T13:09:00.000-05:00

There will be a vespers service at 5 PM Nov 9 in the sanctuary.

It will be a Service of Light and Evening Prayer.

Communion will be served.

All are welcome.

November 25 Thanksgiving Service

2008-11-01T20:16:00.000-04:00

Community Thanksgiving Service
Tuesday, November 25, 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Denbigh Presbyterian Church PC(USA)
Corner of Denbigh Blvd. and Old Lucas Creek Road

You are invited to prepare for our national day of
Thanksgiving with readings from Scripture and
selected documents of our civil and sacred history,
traditional hymns, and prayers for our nation
and the world. Children are welcome.

November 2 Vespers at 5 PM

2008-11-01T20:01:00.000-04:00

This will include an All Saints' Day Service of Healing and Wholeness.

Communion will be served.

All are welcome.

SHARE food program

2008-10-28T09:06:00.001-04:00

We are considering establishing a SHARE program at the church in 2009. We would need some people to take sign-ups, go to LINK once a month and pick up bulk food, re-bag it for each family, and be at the counter for distribution. If you are interested in leading this team or serving on it to do one or more of the described jobs, see Connie Seburn or Bill McCullough.

Thank you.

General Thread Two

2008-10-19T16:52:00.001-04:00

Whatever else....

General Thread One

2008-10-19T16:51:00.001-04:00

Whatever...

Sunday Sermon, 10/19/09

2008-10-19T16:49:00.000-04:00

Pretty creative, equating our ringtones to our behavior....

Agape Community Worship

2008-10-19T16:47:00.000-04:00

We have held one of these services so far. We thought it was pretty successful. The next will be November 23 at 7 PM.

Opening Statement

2008-10-19T16:34:00.000-04:00

There are many reasons to have a church blog, but I am not going to list them here. Just write about what moves you that is related to our church. Let me know if you want to start threads. As of today, Jane Martin, Shirlie Anson, Verni Saunders, Reverend Dail and myself can start threads, but only because those are the only people I had time to talk to! I will open a couple general threads to start with, and some specific ones that may be of interest. Have fun!