Musical Worship Leader

1. The Role of Musical Worship Leader

We are looking for a visionary leader who is passionate about musical worship and who will help us offer to God worship that inspires and builds our faith. We are looking for someone who is Jesus-centred and Kingdom Seeking and who is able to develop missional opportunities within our local Church of England School, our village, and church to create for us a truly multi-generational worshipping community.

Our church is in the ‘foot-hills’ of inspirational musical worship. Our 10:30am Sunday service has a blended musical balance of hymns and songs. We have an organ and a small choir that leads our hymns, and a small music group that leads our songs. The traditional and contemporary elements are balanced, integrated and work well together to serve our mission. We have just launched a new worshipping community in our primary school that combines children; families; teachers; and church. 

We pray that over the next three years, we will see the musical worship leader spearhead and encourage the development of:

• confident, heartfelt worship at our 10:30am Sunday service, enriched by inspirational music from the choir, music group, and organ;
• a thriving After School Service that becomes a new worshipping community, supported by high-quality contemporary musical worship;
• a new, multi-generational Sunday afternoon service designed to engage new generations;
• musical outreach to the community.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop with the Vicar and PCC a whole-church strategy for musical worship.
•  Pioneer the development of a contemporary worship service in the school and on a Sunday afternoon in church
•  Manage the delivery of inspiring musical worship for our 10:30am service in both traditional and contemporary form.
•  Build on our excellent relationship with the local CofE Primary School to enhance and deliver music for their corporate worship (Assemblies and Flourish Activities)
•  Attract, lead, equip and encourage new musicians to lead our worship and help them integrate into our music ministry.
• lead our sound desk team to ensure that the music and visual production is of the highest standard. Ensure that we have the right equipment to support our mission.

We hope that the successful applicant will also develop the above proposed music ministry in ways that may be more specific to their skill profile to develop our outreach.

 Our Commitment to You

We will encourage you to undertake your work in a way that helps you to grow personally towards maturity in Christ. 

We will create a working agreement with you that will seek to provide you with the support you may need

We will assist you in developing your strengths and gifts in the context of our life and mission together.

We will offer you collaborative, affirming and encouraging leadership.

We will support you in prayer, as a partner alongside us in our ministry, as a friend and colleague.