Position Description

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Our vision and Project information:

With a strong vision to build up next generation as passionate leaders, Peoples Gospel Church is excitingly planning our children and youth summer outreach and development with youth & children ministries from May to August 2025.

We are hiring ONE(1) Community Programs Director this year.  He or she will be the one who creates and develops a vibrant and impactful children and youth development program that builds up young lives.    This candidate will be mentored and supervised by the Family Pastor of PGC and closely working with 2 other pastors who are also building up young people.

Summer is a leadership and community building engine in our ministry.  This is a strategy aiming to invest in young people's lives through the existing resource of our church community so we can build a healthy, uplifting and serving group of young people who will be modelled to love children and youth.

Our vision is to create community building strategy to achieve a three-fold purpose of

1. Building a group of post secondary youth leaders (Youth Development Coordinators) to transform community.  You will get to know them, guide and empower them through this summer project with quality and meaningful project for growth of their own and that of the younger team they will be leading.
2. Ensure these coordinators to passionately develop a summer ministry for building Grade 8-12 youth team, so that they will become passionate and capable leaders to make an impact on younger children that reflects Christ's love for all people
3. Building up children spiritually by enjoying a fun-filled Bible camp experience led by Christian youth and young adults who are dedicated to mentor them. Let the little children come to Jesus and experience His love through us. We are looking for passionate and experienced young individuals for such exciting vision and mission.

Job Summary:

• During the job period, you are expected to join PGC Sunday services and post worship ministries so that you can fully connect and serve the community.
• As a Christian leader who has a passion to build up the next generation, you will be directed under PGC pastors and children/youth committee to learn and become mature through leading and outreaching to children and youth in summer months. 
• You will invest in youth and children's lives through the ministry of PGC, aiming to create a memorable and lasting impact to youth and children, where they feel the love and support from a vibrant community, and are encouraged to do the same as how you and your team model such passion and great character.  
• The purpose of this position is to equip and train an individual in the areas of leadership, planning, public speaking, youth engagement & outreach, and inter-personal skills.
• From mid-May to mid-June, you will be under direct mentorship of Pastor Connie Liu for your own spiritual growth as well the skills mentioned above. She will teach you to create and assist in various pastoral ministries where you will have lots of vibrant leadership roles to reach out to the younger youths.   
• You will be assisting in the planning and leading of children's and youth outreach and weekly program. You will be trained to lead pastoral duties including caring, visitation, praying, planning with volunteer leaders, delegating and empowering younger leaders, public speaking to a wide variety of audience groups, planning for a quality camp and organizing volunteer teams.
• From mid June to August, you will be focusing on directing and managing a 3 weeks' summer camp by supervising the Youth Development Coordinator's team.   You will supervise them to plan and deliver a dynamic, fun-filled, leadership building camp experience for the campers.
• The final week of August continues the routine of mid-May to mid-June with the addition of evaluating the whole summer experience to staff, debrief of the entire summer, as well as providing follow-up plan and guidelines for the following school year.
• Team leadership in Camp weeks
• You will lead the entire Youth Development Coordinators' team to mentoring and shaping younger Camp Counsellors and Counsellors-in-Training (CIT) in a team setting through children's summer camp.
• Your job will be busy and requires high commitment but it will be very rewarding. The ideal candidate will be an excellent leader, a multi-tasker in planning, organization, administration, people development and communication.
• This candidate must have vibrant spiritual life and proven ministry experience or reference shown in leading children and youth summer camp previously, shows genuine passion with proven ministry experience, both in children's ministry, and/or leading young people between ages of 13-18 so that they can enhance their spiritual development in Christ.

Location: TBD in Markham Unionville (We will update ASAP once we have confirmed a rental location)

Pay or honorarium:

Under Federal government CSJ criteria, the successful applicant will be paid in a range from $18 per hour up to $21.5 per hour (subject to experience and seniority) for minimum 30 hours per week for 13 weeks (according to the CSJ application approval). This pay is only made possible by Canada Summer Job (CSJ) funding approval under federal government.

Application contact: Pastor Connie Liu (pgckids@gmail.com)

Reporting to: Family Pastor of PGC

Work Term: May 20th to Aug 15th. Total of 13 weeks' term.

Summer camp tentative dates: July 14th to Aug 1st (3 weeks)

Hiring Condition:

This camp is made possible with the approval of Canada Summer Job Application and the success of renting a Markham camp site.

Camp must abide by all city of markham requirements with regards eto screening and vaccination requirements.

We thank all applications for their interest, however, only those candidates who are selected for interview will be contacted.

https://peoplesgospelchurch.org/summercamp/

Applications will be reviewed and suitable candidates will be invited for an interview.
Candidates who are successful will receive an offer shortly after the interview.
The application window will close once all positions are filled.

email:pgckids@gmail.com