The Kids Minister at Venture Christian Church is a vitally important part of helping children know Jesus, grow in their faith, and experience the church as a place where they are loved, known, and discipled.

This role requires someone who loves to use their gifts of organization, communication, and training to build a dynamic Kids Ministry at Venture.

At Venture, our mission is empowering one another to journey with Jesus every day. We believe children are not simply the future of the church; they are part of the church right now. This role is vital to helping us create safe, joyful, gospel-centered environments where kids can come as they are and become who they’re meant to be in Jesus.

The Role

The Kids Minister will do a lot of work behind the scenes to help build a healthy, sustainable, and disciple-making Kids Ministry from the ground up. They will work to build and organize our volunteer teams, create systems and policies for healthy ministry practices, and keep both volunteers and parents up-to-date on pertinent information related to Venture Kids.

The Kids Minister’s primary job is not to do all the ministry, but to build the team, systems, environments, and culture that help children be discipled and volunteers be equipped.

The Kids Minister will work to onboard and train volunteers for continual growth in the ministry. 

This is a part-time position.

Because this is a part-time role in a church plant, the Kids Minister will focus on building simple, scalable, and sustainable systems that can grow over time.

The Church

Venture Christian Church is a church plant currently in the pre-launch phase, but quickly moving toward a Fall launch of Sunday services. We are an Independent Christian Church with roots in the Restoration Movement.

Our heart is to be a disciple-making, kingdom-minded, multiplying church that plants churches and starts ministries in Fort Wayne and beyond.

Our team is working toward launching Venture to be:

• A home for the broken and the searching – where healing, grace, and truth meet.
  

• A family of disciple-makers – who are anchored in Scripture, fueled by prayer, and empowered by the Spirit.
  

• A seedbed and sending base – for raising up leaders, starting ministries, and planting churches.

Your Team

This position reports directly to the Lead Pastor, with operational support and accountability from the Director of Operations.

Responsibilities

• Build, design, and maintain portable Kids Ministry environments that are safe, welcoming, organized, and easy for volunteers to set up and tear down.
  

• Oversee all ministry activities, strategies, goals, and environments for children (ages birth–5th grade), including Sunday mornings and special events (outreach, service opportunities, etc.).
  

• Be the chief equipper and mobilizer (recruiting and training) of people toward serving and discipling the children at Venture and in our community.
  

• Schedule volunteers for Sunday morning programming.
  

• Communicate with both parents and Kids Ministry volunteers to keep them up-to-date on pertinent info related to the ministry.
  

• Coordinate and on-board new Kids Ministry volunteers.
  

• Build up leaders within the Kids Ministry who are not simply given tasks, but are given authority.
  

• Choose age-appropriate curriculum for each age level.
  

• Partner with parents to equip them on how to disciple their children.
  

• Ensure Venture Kids operates according to Venture’s child safety policies, including volunteer screening, background checks, appropriate child-to-volunteer ratios, secure check-in/check-out, incident reporting, allergy awareness, bathroom policies, and mandatory reporting requirements.
  

• Manage smooth and safe check-in and check-out procedures on Sundays and track weekly Kids Ministry attendance.
  

• Develop and maintain a yearly budget.

Note: This role may require standing for extended periods, moving supplies, setting up ministry environments, interacting with children at their level, and navigating a busy Sunday morning environment. Reasonable accommodations may be made when appropriate.

Characteristics, Strengths, Skillsets

This is a ministry role that requires spiritual leadership, theological alignment, and the ability to disciple children, equip parents, and shepherd volunteers in a way that reflects Venture’s beliefs and mission.

• A growing, vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ.
  

• A life marked by growing obedience to Jesus, humility, integrity, and a desire to honor God in both public and private.
  

• Ability to motivate, train, encourage, and challenge leaders.
  

• Humble in heart and hungry to learn.
  

• A passion for children being discipled and growing in their love for God and people.
  

• Alignment with Venture’s core beliefs, values, strategy, and mission.
  

• Excellent communication skills (written and interpersonal).
  

• Proven organizational and administrative skills.
  

• Good team player and able to work closely with others in a common goal.
  

• Ability to learn and use basic computer software.

Qualifications & Experience

We are looking for someone who loves Jesus, loves kids, and can build healthy systems and teams of adult volunteers.

While experience in a church Kids Ministry is helpful, we also believe experience from other fields may prepare someone well for this role.

Relevant experience could include:

• Teaching, classroom leadership, or elementary education
  

• Early childhood education, preschool, daycare, or childcare
  

• Volunteer coordination or nonprofit leadership
  

• Team leadership, training, scheduling, or people management
  

• Event planning, hospitality, or guest experience
  

• Operations, administration, project management, or systems-building
  

• Camp ministry, youth programs, coaching, or children’s programming
  

• Experience working with children with special needs or different learning styles

The right candidate does not need to have done this exact job before. We are looking for someone who can help build a safe, joyful, organized, and gospel-centered Kids Ministry where children are discipled, parents are supported, and volunteers are equipped.

Schedule & Compensation

This position will require 20 hours per week. 

Breakdown: Sunday mornings are required. Additional hours may include volunteer training, staff meetings, planning, special events, outreach events, and occasional evening or weekend responsibilities.

Compensation: $25,000 per year.

To Be Considered

Please submit Resume and Cover Letter to [email protected].