Spiritual Formation · Family Partnership · Team Development · Safe Ministry
Kids Pastor
E2 Church is seeking a spiritually mature, relationally strong, and operationally dependable Kids Pastor to lead eKids—our ministry to children from birth through fifth grade. This leader will create a safe, exciting, biblically grounded ministry where children encounter Jesus, families receive meaningful partnership, and leaders are developed to carry ministry with consistency and care.
The Kids Pastor builds more than Sunday programming. This role strengthens child discipleship, develops staff and eTeam leaders, protects safeguarding standards, partners with parents, and expands ministry capacity so more families can attend, return, invite others, and engage in the life of E2 Church.
What you will lead
- Develop and carry the eKids ministry philosophy, vision, and birth-through-fifth-grade discipleship pathway in active partnership with the Lead Pastor and in alignment with E2 theology, culture, and whole-church priorities.
- Build safe, welcoming, biblically faithful, age-appropriate ministry environments where children worship, pray, learn Scripture, form relationships, and take meaningful next steps with Jesus.
- Recruit, coach, care for, and multiply staff, coordinators, team leads, and eTeam leaders through clear expectations, training, feedback, accountability, and pathways into greater responsibility.
- Own Sunday readiness across classrooms, check-in and release, staffing, curriculum, supplies, technology, cleanliness, accessibility, parent communication, and emergency response.
- Maintain and enforce strong child-safety practices, including screening, background checks, supervision, mandated reporting, incident response, documentation, and appropriate adult-to-child boundaries.
- Build trust with parents and caregivers through warm presence, practical spiritual resources, honest communication, predictable follow-up, and coordinated pastoral support.
- Maintain an evolving strategy that expands capacity for more children and families without weakening safety, care, culture, or operational excellence.
- Partner across Programming, Creative, Production, Youth and Young Adults, Guest Experience, Outreach, eCare, Systems, Facilities, and Events while honoring approved decision rights and ownership.
What we are looking for
- Five or more years of progressive children’s ministry, family ministry, pastoral, education, or comparable leadership experience; equivalent demonstrated experience may be considered.
- A spiritually mature, biblically grounded, emotionally healthy leader who receives pastoral leadership, feedback, correction, and changing direction with humility and follow-through.
- Proven ability to recruit, train, coach, correct, care for, and multiply staff and volunteer leaders.
- Working knowledge of child development, age-appropriate discipleship, classroom leadership, parent partnership, child protection, mandated reporting, inclusion, and emergency response.
- Strong teaching, communication, planning, delegation, problem-solving, conflict-resolution, administrative, and follow-through skills.
- Cultural intelligence and the ability to serve children and families across racial, cultural, socioeconomic, family-structure, ability, and spiritual-background differences.
- Comfort with church-management, check-in, scheduling, project, calendar, document, and communication systems—or the ability to learn E2 systems quickly.
- A related bachelor’s degree and ministry credentialing are preferred but not required when character, competence, ministry fruit, and experience are demonstrated.
What success looks like
- Children receive consistent, age-appropriate spiritual formation and clear next steps.
- Families trust eKids and experience it as a compelling reason to participate in the life of E2 Church.
- Sunday environments are safe, fully prepared, well staffed, welcoming, and able to grow.
- A healthy leadership pipeline produces trained leaders, backup coverage, and future successors.
- Data, family feedback, and ministry review lead to focused improvements in safety, capacity, discipleship, and whole-church health.
How to apply
Apply online in a few short steps: your basic info, your faith and church, a 60-second video on why you feel called to apply, and your resume. It takes about ten minutes. A background check will be conducted as part of the hiring process.
Application timing: Open until filled.
What happens next: our hiring team reads every application. If we’d like to take the next step, we’ll email you a link to choose a time for a short screening call. After that come a few deeper questions, interviews with our team (including time with us in person), and reference checks.
Role-specific materials
- Examples or a brief summary of your experience leading children’s ministry staff and volunteers.
- Examples of team development, family partnership, ministry growth, and child-safety systems you have led or strengthened.
- Any relevant ministry portfolio, teaching samples, program materials, or project examples you would like the hiring team to consider.
E2 Church exists so that people far from God will be made alive in Christ. We encounter God’s presence and expand God’s purpose through a culture marked by Passion, Unity, Servanthood, Urgency, Excellence, Generosity, Joy, and Multiplication.
E2 Church is a faith-based religious organization. Employment decisions are made consistent with applicable law and the religious, mission, conduct, and safety requirements of the position.