Connections Minister Full Time

Lead people to take their Next Steps in their faith journey: Church Membership, Life Groups, and Serving, by casting vision for and organizing the volunteer teams and connection systems that make Cottonwood Creek a friendly, welcoming place to belong and grow.
Essential Functions:

Develop and lead the vision and strategy for helping guests and members take their Next Steps: Church Membership, joining a Life Group, and Serving.
Recruit, train, schedule, and shepherd volunteers to ensure every Worship Service volunteer role; Ushers, Door Greeters, Connect Wall Host, and others, is filled each week.
Cast vision to the congregation for serving and connecting, and lead volunteer leaders with clarity, encouragement, and accountability.
Guide guests and members toward the Next Step that fits their season, personally connecting them to Life Groups, serving opportunities, membership, and giving.
Partner with Children’s and Youth Ministry leaders to identify and refer volunteers whose passions and gifts fit better in those ministries; not directly responsible for leading those volunteer teams.
Own the Sunday guest experience: greet, host, and follow up with guests to ensure a positive first impression and a clear path to their next step.
Build and maintain simple, systematic tools to track volunteer coverage, connection activity, and Next Step progress.
Collaborate cross-ministry to communicate volunteer needs and connection opportunities, and to coordinate a unified guest and assimilation experience.

Requirement

Job Requirements and Personal Qualifications:

Education: High School Diploma required; bachelor’s degree preferred. Experience recruiting, organizing, and leading volunteer teams in a church or comparable setting.

Job Skills: Proven ability to recruit, train, and lead volunteers, and to organize systems that keep ministry areas fully staffed. Strong vision-casting and communication skills. Ability to build simple processes for tracking connection and volunteer engagement. Must be dependable, organized, and professional.

Personal Qualifications: Must be a mature, growing follower of Jesus Christ with consistent evidence of fruit in their personal life. Outwardly visible love and joyful passion for God and people. A desire to fulfill Ephesians 4:12 to equip others to serve and develop leaders. Motivated to help people take their next step of faith. Ability to consistently use good judgment. Must possess a friendly, welcoming, and shepherding interpersonal manner.

Other Information:

Work Schedule: Primarily Sunday-Thursday, including all Sunday Worship Services and special events.
If not currently licensed, you will be required to take our licensing class to become a licensed minister.