CrossPoint Kids Director

Mission & Values
CrossPoint Community Church exists to: Follow Jesus. Love People. Make Disciples. Our leadership and staff relationships are shaped by Love, Humility, Lordship, and Discipleship.
Every role at CrossPoint contributes to building up the body of Christ and making disciples.

Leadership Structure & Collaboration
• This role reports directly to: Lead Pastor
• This role works in collaboration with: Shepherding Team and CrossPoint Kids Team
• This role supports the direction of the Lead Pastor and Elder Team


Role Summary & Purpose
The CrossPoint Kids Director provides spiritual, pastoral, and leadership oversight for CrossPoint Kids (CPK) while developing staff, volunteers, ministry leaders, children, and families toward deeper discipleship.
This role exists to build healthy leaders, thriving ministry teams, and effective disciple-making environments that help children and families follow Jesus, love people, and make disciples.

Core Ministry Mandate
This role exists not only to accomplish ministry tasks, but to:
• Build people
• Develop leaders
• Make disciples
Success in this role is measured not only by what gets done, but by who is being developed in the process.

Primary Responsibilities
1. Provide Spiritual and Pastoral Leadership
• Serve as a member of the Shepherding Team, helping provide spiritual leadership and care for the church.
• Ensure CPK remains aligned with CrossPoint’s mission, vision, doctrine, and values.
• Provide pastoral care, counsel, encouragement, and spiritual support for children, families, volunteers, and ministry leaders.
• Nurture a culture of discipleship, prayer, humility, and dependence on Christ throughout the ministry.
2. Lead and Develop CPK Staff
• Directly lead, coach, and develop other CPK Directors and key leaders while releasing them to grow in their skills and giftings.
• Create environments where staff members are growing in collaboration, leadership, effectiveness, shared ownership, character, and ministry capacity.
• Ensure ministry structures, teams, and systems support long-term sustainability.
• Participate in strategic planning, budgeting, goal-setting, and ministry evaluation.
• Foster unity and partnership across departments and ministries.
3. Provide Direct Elementary Ministry Oversight and Implementation
• Provide direct leadership, oversight, and implementation for Elementary Ministry programs, environments, systems, and discipleship pathways.
• Ensure Elementary Ministry environments are effective, safe, welcoming, and aligned with other children's ministry age groups.
• Support curriculum strategy, family discipleship initiatives, and ministry innovation for Elementary Ministry.

• Recruit, develop, train, and care for Elementary Ministry volunteers.
4. Recruit, Develop, and Shepherd Volunteers
• Lead the CPK team to create and/or maintain sustainable systems for volunteer recruitment, onboarding, training, care, and retention.
• Equip volunteers to serve confidently and effectively in alignment with CrossPoint’s ministry philosophy.
• Shepherd volunteers spiritually and relationally.
• Lead the CPK team to develop future ministry leaders through intentional mentoring and leadership multiplication.
5. Partner with and Equip Families
• Champion the biblical responsibility of parents as primary disciple-makers of their children.
• Engage and equip families to pursue spiritual growth together.
• Provide pastoral support for families navigating spiritual, developmental, or relational challenges.

Qualifications
• Growing and mature relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Alignment with CrossPoint's mission, values, and statement of faith.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing leaders and volunteers.
• Proven ability to recruit, train, and shepherd ministry teams.
• Strong relational leadership and collaboration skills.
• Experience providing pastoral care and spiritual guidance.
• Ability to think strategically while leading ministry operations.
• Effective communicator in both group and individual settings.
• Emotional maturity, humility, and relational health.
• Formal Bible or ministry training preferred.

Key Strengths for Success
• Passion for children’s ministry
• Understanding of the elementary age group
• Organizational and personal leadership development
• Volunteer recruitment, engagement, and care
• Pastoral shepherding
• Relational and collaborative leadership style
• Team building
• Family discipleship
• Strategic thinking & problem solving
• Clear written and verbal communication