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For post secondary students who are currently attending post secondary college or university

Summer Youth Development Background:

• Peoples Gospel Church is excitingly planning our children and youth summer outreach and development with youth & children ministries from May to August 2025
• This is a strategy aiming to build a synergic team where we will match each coordinator to their mentor, while each coordinator can focus to mentor and develop a specific group of younger youths.
• During the summer project period, you will all be reporting to the Community Programs Director. Together with the Director, the whole team will be reporting to the Family Pastor.

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

1. Building Grade 8-12 youth team to become passionate and capable leaders to make an impact on younger children that reflects Christ's love for all people
2. 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 be actively interviewing youth leaders who apply as volunteers in children and youth development camps
• You will invest in children and youth'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 PGC pastors in your own spiritual growth as well the skills mentioned above. They will teach you to create and assist in various pastoral ministries where you will be coached to study, plan, to develop and to lead.  This quality work will help you to reach out to the younger youths and help them grow in the community.  
• You will be assisting in the planning and leading of weekly youth programs with youth-aged leaders. Opportunities will be given for the individual to lead sports nights, public outings, and to teach Bible lessons in the context of a youth audience. Through participating and shadowing in visitations (where appropriate), this person will also observe the personal caring side of pastoral ministry.
• From mid June to August, you will be focusing on planning and delivering a dynamic, fun-filled, leadership building camp experience for the campers.
• This position includes assisting the PGC Community Programs Director in overseeing, and organizing PGC Summer Camp. This includes but is not limited to, training and equipping camp counselors, organizing children's summer camp preparing materials, activities, and outings.
• On the following week after all camps are done, the whole youth team will do evaluation, transitioning camp to church ministry follow up, as well as providing follow-up plan and guidelines for the following school year. Team bonding and fun day will also happen in this week.  

Team leadership in Camp weeks

This leadership team will invest in 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 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 $17.2 per hour up to $18 per hour (subjected to experience and seniority) from 30 to 40 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.

In case of no funding approval to our church, this position will become volunteer basis as in all other churches' ministries, but the church will provide an honorarium after the camp.

Application contact: Pastor Connie Liu (pgckids@gmail.com)
Reporting to: Community Programs Director & Family Pastor of PGC
Work Term: May 20 to Aug 15th. Total of 13 weeks' term.
Summer camp tentative dates: July 14 to Aug 1 (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 to screening and vaccination requirements.

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

https://peoplesgospelchurch.org/summercamp/

Application opens Jan 29th, 2025

Applications will be reviewed and suitable candidates will be invited for an interview ASAP.

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