Worship Arts Director

REPORTS TO : LEAD PASTOR
FULL OR PART TIME: PART TIME
EXEMPT / NON - EXEMPT : NON - EXEMPT

PURPOSE
It is the primary purpose of the Worship Arts Leader to develop a worship ministry capable of providing inspiring and engaging worship services that encourage the body to enter into corporate and personal worship to the glory of God.

KEY VALUES: Excellence, Authenticity, & Humility
Excellence: Attention to excellence through setting a standard for high musicality through being prepared, on time, and execution at a high level of excellence.

Authenticity: Displaying an authenticity through the song selection and living a lifestyle of worship, not just on the weekends.

Humility: Shepherding the worship team to walk with each other in humility. It takes humility to be on a team which demands considering other’s needs, forgiveness, flexibility and a heart that is pure towards the Lord.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the congregation toward authentic worship, through modeling and encouraging such worship.
• Leads the worship arts team to include the singers, instrumentalists, sound techs, and computer techs.
• Provides guidance in the development and implementation of the highest quality worship possible by working to coordinate instrumentalists and vocalists in groups or as individuals.
• Meets weekly with the Pastor for worship planning.
• Plans, schedules, leads, and coordinates the operation of corporate worship services.
• Prepares for and holds rehearsals for worship team during the week and Sunday morning, including the music charts and sound set up.
• Ensures worship order for the bulletin is communicated to church secretary.
• Oversees the worship software of the lyrics/PowerPoint for the screens of the worship services.
• Oversee the recruiting, scheduling, and development of instrumentalists, vocalists, songwriters, sound technicians, and computer technicians.
• Finds new songs to introduce in worship and prepares the music charts for them.
• Performs other duties assigned by the Lead Pastor.

REQUIRED CHARACTER AND SKILLS

• Maintains personal, spiritual and professional growth
• Possess a growing, personal, committed relationship with Christ

MUST-HAVES:

• Worship leading experience
• Formal Bible training preferred

COMPENSATION

• Negotiable

COORDINATION
All the duties and responsibilities shall be accomplished through timely coordination and cooperation with the Elders and the church office.

SUPERVISION
This person will serve under the general supervision of the Elders, directly reporting to the Lead Pastor.

CHURCH PARTICIPATION
The church believes that every staff member should be a positive example of a committed church member. This staff member (and their family if applicable) is required to be an active member of Grace on the Ashley and in agreement with GotA’s Statement of Faith as well as the church’s Personnel Policy.

GRACE WORSHIP STATEMENT
The elements of our worship at Grace on the Ashley Church include, prayer, singing, giving, proclamation of the word, the Lord’s Table, baptism, baby dedications, the reading of scripture, personal testimony and anything else that encourages the congregation to worship our holy and awesome God. These elements allow us as a congregation to recognize God for who He is and to humbly invite Him into the rightful place in our lives. With this in mind, the worship leader must be a committed follower of Jesus Christ who each week is spiritually prepared to lead the congregation, and who has the skill to lead.

The worship leader, in preparing the worship services, should be sensitive to the needs of the body, using both old and new songs with a full range of instruments. The worship leader will weave together the various elements of the service in such a way that God is glorified, Christ is lifted, and the worshipers are invited to humbly enter into the presence of God. In choosing music for our worship services, we don’t want to be restrictive or formulaic, but we want to give the worship leader the freedom to draw from the great songs of old as well as the songs that are being written in this generation. In our music, we want to be both celebratory and reflective. All songs selected should be Biblically and theologically sound and performed in a way that invites the congregation to sing with hearts full of praise to our God.

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