Worship Resident

The Commons Church

East Lansing, MI

WHO WE ARE

The Commons Church is located in East Lansing, MI, just 4 minutes away from Michigan State University and is part of The Salt Network (thesaltnetwork.com), a network of churches that focuses on planting multigenerational churches in major university centers throughout North America.  The Commons is a 6 year old church that launched in September of 2019. 

SNAPSHOT

• 6 years old


• Average Sunday worship attendance: 1500+


• The Salt Company (college ministry) averages 900+ students on Thursday nights


• Staff team is currently 25+ people


• We have network partnerships with the Salt Network, the Send Network, and the Strategic Launch Network.

VISION

Our metro area has 475,000 people and is home to both Michigan State University (51,000 students) and the state capital of Michigan.  East Lansing is a very influential city right in the middle of the state of Michigan that lacks a strong gospel presence.  In addition to that, within a two hour drive there are 12 other significant university centers where we hope to plant churches over the next few years.  This is a dynamic context to serve in. We are passionate about reaching college students and planting churches, which means we are passionate about reaching, raising up and releasing the next generation of leaders!

LINKS

• The Commons Church Website  


• The Commons Church Instagram


• The Salt Company - Michigan State Instagram


• The Salt Network Website

JOB SUMMARY:

DIRECT SUPERVISOR:

Worship Director

JOB TITLE:

Worship Resident (Full-Time)

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Grow as a worship leader, pastor and potential church planter
  
  
  
  • The focus of a residency at The Commons is development for the purpose of mobilizing you for long-term ministry.  This is a full-time job that will carry real leadership and responsibility, but all of it is targeted toward your development.
  
  
  • Part of your residency will include a regular meeting cadence with the Worship Director as well as the Lead Pastor 
  
  
  
  


• Cultivate and Build on our Worship Culture
  
  
  
  • Work with the Worship Director and other worship leaders on our team to help create, execute, and maintain the vision for our worship culture.
  
  
  • Help cultivate worship gatherings that exalt Jesus, engage our people (we want them to sing!), follow the leadership of the Spirit, and aim for excellence.
  
  
  • Lead your teams to set goals that will help us grow in the way we worship as a church
  
  
  • Be creative w/special events, service design, holidays, stage design, song selection and song writing (yes, song writing!)
  
  
  • Help care for and shepherd worship and production volunteers and work to create comradery and community among team members
  
  
  • Model a heart of worship, be led by the Spirit of God, be Gospel-centered and theologically accurate, execute all musical and technical elements with excellence, and be authentic.
  
  
  
  


• Raise Up and Empower New Leaders
  
  
  
  • Though you will function as one of the primary worship leaders for our weekend services and/or Salt Company, one of the key responsibilities of this role is to raise up new leaders for our worship teams and production team and empower them to lead.  We have a culture of leading in plurality, we’re in a college town (aka. a hub for up and coming leaders), and we’re a sending church!  Raising up and empowering new leaders is mission critical.  
  
  
  • Work with the Worship Director to execute the systems and processes that are part of our pipeline for developing the next wave of worship and production leaders.  This includes developing them in both their competency (skill) and their character (heart).
  
  
  
  


• Help Execute, Lead and Give Oversight to our Worship Services (Sundays & Salt Company)
  
  
  
  • Work with the Worship Director to plan and execute our different worship gatherings.  This includes set planning, scheduling teams, communicating with teams, rehearsals, and evaluating these worship gatherings on the back end.
  
  
  • This will also include training and becoming proficient on tech and production
  
  
  
  


• Support and Resource other ministries in our church
  
  
  
  • Give support to and resource the music and production needs of other ministries in our church (ie. The Commons Youth, The Commons Kids, special events, etc…)
  
  
  
  

OTHER DUTIES:

All staff members are expected to model flexibility and a willingness to take part in church activities and initiatives that may be outside of their normal day-to-day responsibilities and to model servant leadership in their position at all times.  

SUMMARY:

The Worship Resident will work with our Worship Director to help shepherd our church and its various ministries by using your worship leadership gifts and your heart for discipleship to lead our worship gatherings and to develop and empower people in our church to use their gifts in leading worship.  All of this will be undertaken while developing your gifts and abilities in order to mobilize you for long-term ministry. 

CHARACTER:

The successful candidate will have a healthy, vibrant walk with God, will already be actively involved in the leadership of the church, and will be committed to being in authentic gospel community.  Their lifestyle will be marked by being a servant leader, generous with their money, time and giftings, joy and love for spending time with the Lord.  A growing desire to shepherd others in their relationship with the Lord and to raise up leaders is necessary.  They will be people of integrity in all areas of life!  This person must be hungry and humble!

COMPETENCY:

The leadership competencies required: team building, vision-casting and training leaders for ministry; ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment; growing working knowledge of the Bible; tactical thinker with ability to equip leaders and organize functional structures; able to connect multi-generationally; proven to be skilled and strong enough musically and vocally to not only lead the church in worship but to be able to lead volunteers and other staff to grow in their musicianship.

8 KEYS FOR THIS ROLE:

1. Humility


2. Hunger


3. High Capacity


4. Team Player


5. Multi-Tasker


6. Skilled musically and vocally


7. Servant-Hearted


8. Spirit-Led


9. Heart for Excellence

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

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  • Clear, vocational calling to ministry
  
  
  • Currently serving, leading and tithing at your local church
  
  
  • Proven ministry experience
  
  
  
  

• Desire for seminary training (seminary is included as a benefit of this residency)