PT Worship Leader

Brief description of Christ Church Intown:

Christ Church InTown is a PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) church plant in Jacksonville's historic Murray Hill neighborhood. Now in our tenth year, we are a gospel-centered, missional community committed to sharing God's story of redemption through our liturgy, teaching, and life together. Our worship thoughtfully blends contemporary and traditional elements, uniting the richness of the church's heritage with faithful expressions for today.

We emphasize biblical teaching, authentic community, warm hospitality, and equipping believers for Christ's mission. Learn more at www.christchurchintown.org.

The Role
The worship leader cultivates a culture of worship by leading the congregation in song, instrumentation, and spoken liturgy that directs hearts and minds to God's Word. This role includes shepherding and developing worship team members, fostering a spirit of servanthood, and nurturing a commitment to prayer. Above all, the worship leader is called to musically embody the beauty and wonder of God's redemptive story, helping the congregation glorify and enjoy Him together.

Essentials:
Active believer
Team Builder
- Your job isn't to lead the church in worship every week yourself, but to develop our volunteers with a focus on empowering and equipping them to also lead the congregation.
o For example, several of our volunteers are capable of selecting songs and leading. As the leader of the team the goal is to continue to empower them and others in this practice so the team grows.

Align with church's doctrinal beliefs.
- For a fuller articulation of our beliefs you can read the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms.
o These can be found online as pdf files at https://www.pcaac.org/bco/westminster-confession/ or digitally at https://opc.org/confessions.html

Hours:
Part time - 20 hours / week
$2000 / month
Available for Sunday morning worship services and weekly Wednesday evening rehearsals.
Potential opportunity for growth as the church grows.

Qualities:
- Leadership - Administration
- Team development - Preferred - Able to laugh and have fun! We are laid back and joyful congregation.

Overview / Responsibilities:
- Prayerfully plan, manage, and organize the worship team including oversight responsibility for quarterly scheduling and ensuring any availability gaps are covered.
- Select songs in cooperation and alignment with the Senior Pastor's sermon series and/or text for Sundays.
- Coordinate the administration of song selection, choosing song keys appropriate for the team and congregation to sing along.
- Lead musically and relationally for rehearsals on Wednesday evenings and Sunday morning worship services.
- Work together with our administrator to ensure lyrics and songs are sent for accurate bulletin printing along with ProPresenter slides for service. Our administrator creates the weekly slides, but you will need to port them over to our laptop.
- Oversee and work in cooperation with the audio and visual team for helping with equipment and execution of needs pertaining to the worship ministry for rehearsals and Sunday mornings. We don't have to setup/tear-down each week, but since we are in a shared space we do have to set up and remove mics, stands, etc. each week.

Qualifications:
- Willing to become a faithful member of the church and congregation.
- Strong and affirmed ability to lead worship in singing while playing guitar and/or piano.
- Technical aptitude for sheet music and chord charts as needed.
- Experience leading worship and managing volunteers in a church context or para-church ministry context.
- Team driven and open to feedback with a willingness to adapt to changes involved within the life of a church.

How to apply? What's the process?
Please provide your cover letter, current resume and brief video example of one or two worship songs. Email by clicking the "Reply by Email" form
Upon review, we will contact you if we feel you are potentially good fit for the role.