Open Gates Coordinator

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Open Gates Coordinator

Full-Time - Kids Ministry

Summary of Position

The Open Gates Coordinator is responsible for assisting in developing and fostering the Open Gates Ministry at Faithbridge, providing care, shepherding, and leadership for individuals of all ages and families with disabilities. The Open Gates Coordinator is also responsible for helping to communicate the vision of inclusion throughout the Faithbridge staff. The team consists of the Open Gates Director and the Open Gates Coordinators.

Purpose

To provide high quality and excellent service, with the right heart attitude, offering a high level of coordination to the Open Gates ministry. In doing so, the mission and vision of Faithbridge can be carried out at all times.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

  1. Develop relationships with children, students, adults, and families within the Open Gates ministry helping them to experience the love of Christ.
  2. Help develop and use different strategies and techniques to help make worship experiences and events relevant and accessible to kids, students, and adults with disabilities in ways that help them to develop a stronger relationship with Jesus.
  3. Help develop and use different strategies to foster interactions and relationships between kids, students, and adults with disabilities and their age-level peers.
  4. Help develop and use different strategies to foster small group, worship, and serve opportunities for high school students and adults with disabilities.
  5. Assist in coordinating between volunteers and parents by collecting RSVPs for attendees for Sunday mornings and creating shadow serve schedules.
  6. Leading and developing shadows through prayer, intentional communication, and training
  7. Be on-site for the majority of Sunday morning services.
  8. Schedule volunteers for non-Sunday activities, including but not limited to Wednesday night Kids and Student events (4th and 5th grade Bible Studies and Small Groups,) Special Event Kids Programming (such as Fajitas and Faithbridge,) Pointbreak, Young Adults, Road Trainings and Journeys.
  9. Be on-site for the week of VBS, AM and PM.
  10. Envision, plan, and implement future opportunities to develop and grow Open Gates as a ministry, as well as develop new ways for families of kids with disabilities to develop stronger relationships with Jesus.

Needed Attributes:

Strong interpersonal skills, keen initiative, extremely detailed oriented, outstanding organizational skills, ability to use discernment in making decisions, and a team player. Spiritual gifts of administration, serving, creativity, leadership, and exhortation are helpful.

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