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Youth Minister Search
Thank you for your interest in the youth minister position at NSCBC!
We’re not looking for someone to simply run a youth program—we’re looking for someone to help imagine what discipleship can look like for teenagers in a culture of performance, pressure, and distraction. If you are energized by building relationships, cultivating community, integrating young people into the life of the church, and forging partnerships with other churches and organizations to help students follow Jesus in everyday life, we’d love to build that future together.
Below we have collected useful information about our church and area, the characteristics we would like to see in our youth ministry, a job description, and the link to submit an application for this position.
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About the Position
Our church’s vision is to see a gospel movement on the North Shore by saturating our communities with transformed disciples who make disciples. We believe this happens through long-term investment in youth, families, churches, and communities.
We believe youth and their families are crucial to both the present and future life of the church. We desire to help young people grasp and be transformed by the gospel, grow into spiritually mature adults, and live on mission in their everyday lives.
NSCBC is a regional church serving families from communities across the North Shore. As a result, many of our students come from different schools, activities, and social circles. While this presents challenges for building community, it also creates opportunities to extend gospel influence throughout the region.
We are seeking a youth minister who will faithfully disciple the students entrusted to our church while helping us develop new ways of engaging youth throughout the North Shore. We see evidence of spiritual openness in Gen Z and Gen Alpha, and we are looking for a collaborative and innovative leader who is excited to build upon the strengths of our existing ministry and help us discern how God is calling us to engage the next generation in our context.
Our middle school ministry has a strong foundation and healthy momentum. There is a challenge and opportunity to strengthen and develop the high school ministry in ways that fit our context, our philosophy of ministry, and the needs of today’s students. We have supportive parents, an intergenerational church who cares about young people, and typically 8 youth ministry volunteers (2 for middle school girls, 2 for middle school boys, 2 for high school girls, and 2 for high school boys.)
Job Description and Application
Youth Ministry Characteristics
Like all ministries of the church, the youth ministry takes its direction from and strives to embody the Vision, Purpose, Culture, and Values of North Shore Community Baptist Church. In light of this, the youth ministry is characterized by the following:
Gospel Centeredness
The gospel is the good news that God has rescued us through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is not only the power by which people are saved, but the power by which they are continually transformed.
Partnership with Families
We believe parents and families play a foundational role in the spiritual formation of their children. For that reason, the youth ministry does not seek to replace families but to partner with and support them in the discipleship of young people.
This partnership requires maintaining open lines of communication between youth leaders and parents or guardians, promoting a spirit of cooperation and mutual trust, and encouraging the active involvement of families in the lives of their children and in the life of the church. While we seek to partner closely with families whenever possible, we also welcome and care for students from a wide variety of family and faith backgrounds.
Integration with the Church-at-Large
We believe young people are not merely the church of the future—they are an important part of the church today.
For this reason, the youth ministry seeks to foster relationships between students and adults and to encourage meaningful participation in the broader life of the church. We believe every generation has something to learn from and contribute to the others, and that spiritual growth is strengthened when young people are known, valued, and engaged within an intergenerational church community.
Students are encouraged to worship, serve, lead, learn, and participate alongside the broader church family, growing not only as future leaders but as active participants in the church today.
A Relational Approach
We believe discipleship happens primarily through relationships. For this reason, the youth ministry seeks to cultivate environments where students are known, loved, encouraged, challenged, and supported by caring adults and peers within the church community.
An authentically relational approach to ministry involves meeting students where they are and walking alongside them through the ordinary realities of life. Because participation in programs is not necessarily an indicator of long-term spiritual growth, we place greater emphasis on building meaningful relationships, fostering intergenerational community, and equipping students to follow Christ in their everyday contexts than on simply increasing attendance at events and activities.
Embedded with Youth in the Community
We believe the youth ministry exists to be a part of seeing a gospel movement on the North Shore and so it exists not only to serve existing students of NSCBC but to reach out to the youth of the North Shore. This is an area where we desire to grow! For this reason, we desire our youth minister to be connected with youth out in our local community, through developing a new (or joining an established) missional expression that creates regular, genuine presence among teenagers outside our congregation, including those with little or no church connection.
We seek not only to disciple students within NSCBC but also to create opportunities for young people throughout the North Shore to encounter the gospel and experience authentic Christian community. Our youth ministry has a strong history of welcoming students from the community who have no family connection to our church, and we want to build on that foundation with greater reach and a willingness to go into the community to build relationships with young people where they already are. In recent years it has been exciting to meet young people with a strong desire to find out more about Jesus and we see this time as an opportunity to connect with more youth on the North Shore.
We also encourage students within NSCBC to see themselves as followers of Jesus sent out by him into their schools, friendships, activities, neighborhoods, and communities.
Collaboration
Because NSCBC seeks to participate in a gospel movement across the North Shore, the youth ministry desires to be part of a broader network of relationships, ministries, and churches through which God is at work. We value opportunities to learn from, support, and partner with others who share a commitment to the gospel and the flourishing of young people.
We believe collaboration often advances Christ’s mission more effectively than isolated efforts, and we desire to model the unity and partnership that characterize the broader body of Christ. We would like to grow in our deliberate collaboration with other churches and/or parachurch ministries.
Biblical and Theological Formation
We believe young people are capable of thinking deeply about Scripture, theology, and the Christian life. For this reason, the youth ministry seeks to help students develop a rich understanding of Scripture, theology, and the gospel’s relevance to everyday life.
Grounded in Scripture and centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ, we desire to cultivate thoughtful disciples who can navigate the opportunities and challenges of contemporary life with wisdom, discernment, and hope. This includes helping students engage questions of identity, belonging, purpose, relationships, technology, achievement, and culture through the lens of the gospel.
As students mature, we hope they will be equipped to articulate their faith with humility, conviction, and grace and to live as faithful witnesses to Christ in their communities and throughout the world.
Church Profile
Why NSCBC?
NSCBC is a healthy, intergenerational church with a strong culture of grace, community, and collaboration. Our congregation includes both long-time believers and people who are newly exploring or rediscovering faith. Many have found this to be a place of healing and renewed hope.
We are served by a trusted Senior Pastor, a collaborative staff team, and a congregation marked by unity and a shared commitment to God’s mission. Our church is supportive of our young people, and our youth ministry has an established foundation with plenty of opportunity for innovation and growth. For the right leader, this is a chance to serve in a supportive environment while helping shape the future of discipleship for the next generation.
Our Mission, Vision, Values, and Statement of Faith
We are ordinary people united by an extraordinary hope, transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ and called to live on mission together. Discover what this means here.
Discipleship
A gospel movement comes about through the lives of transformed disciples who make disciples. See our discipleship resources here.
Our History
Learn about our nearly 200-year-old church’s history here!
Our Staff Team
Our staff work together closely as a team, using their complementary gifts to help one another. Find out about the staff team here.
Other Info
More information about our church can be found throughout our website but particularly in the Connect section.
The Area we Serve
Community Description
NSCBC is located in the village of Beverly Farms at the eastern residential end of Beverly on the beautiful North Shore of Boston. The church is located minutes off MA 128, a four lane, limited-access, divided highway providing easy access to the historic communities of Boston’s North Shore. Because of this strategic location, we are able to serve people from the coastal communities of Gloucester and Rockport some 15 miles northeast of Beverly to the cities of Danvers and Peabody some 5 to 8 miles southwest of Beverly. In between, NSCBC draws people from greater Beverly and surrounding towns including Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Topsfield, Danvers, Salem, and Wenham. These communities are characterized by horse farms, large estates, modest homes, stone fences, and large tracks of preserved land. NSCBC also draws students from Endicott College in Beverly, Gordon College in Wenham, Salem State University in Salem, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton.
A large segment of our congregation is from Beverly itself, which is a vibrant city of some 22.6 square miles with a population of just over 40,000 people. Beverly boasts a growing arts community fostered by the presence of Montserrat College of Art, an expanding downtown restaurant and pub district, several additional small shopping areas, and all that a healthy city has to offer. Like many of the other towns and cities of the North Shore, Beverly is rich with history, culture, and natural beauty, including forest preserve land, wetlands, rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, parks, and marinas.
Located less than 30 miles north and east of the Boston metroplex, two North Shore commuter trains from Rockport and Newburyport pass through the Beverly Depot, creating convenient and easy access for North Shore residents to reach Boston for work, healthcare, and the abundant culture, history, shopping, theatre, museums, and our beloved sports teams. With Endicott College, Montserrat College of Art, Gordon College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Salem State University situated on the North Shore, it’s not surprising that 32% of Beverly residents work in the education sector.
While the North Shore does not lack for church buildings or congregations, Gospel-centered churches are scarcer. Around 37% of the population of Essex County considers itself Catholic with only 3-4% identifying as Evangelical Protestant. Nevertheless, NSCBC recently formed a Gospel Partnership with multiple other churches on the North Shore – some historic churches, and several newer non-traditional Gospel-centered churches who are united under the vision of reaching the people on the North Shore with the transforming power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is our prayer that this is the beginning of a much-needed revival in this area, and we see youth as a key part of this transformation.
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