THE ORGANIZATION
Bayside Church is a Christ-centered, Evangelical Covenant Church in north-central California, (northeast of Sacramento). Bayside is highly intentional about reaching out to the un-churched as well as growing believers in their spiritual maturity. Bayside serves all levels of the socioeconomic strata and is deliberate about embracing Biblical truth and values. These values are described in Addendum 1, “What We Believe,” “Our Core Values,” “Bayside DNA,” “Bayside Family of Churches Mission and Vision” as well the and Affiliations (Addendums 2, 3 and 4), located at the end of this document. Bayside is about seeking God and not about religiosity; it is about the Truth of Scripture played out in everyday life.
The Bayside Difference is all about…
- Passionate Discovery
Bayside believers are passionate about discovering all that Christ and his Word offers and seizing opportunities to share Him with others.
- Community Transformation
Bayside intentionally reaches out to others by serving their needs and sharing the gospel in relevant ways so that they can access the life of Christ.
- Authentic Relationship
Bayside engages in loving, authentic relationship with God and others.
- Compelling Environments
Bayside creates compelling environments that are conducive for the Holy Spirit to work in the hearts of people.
- Leadership
Bayside develops effective leaders who are ‘Spirit-led’ then ‘strategically focused.’
CHURCH HISTORY
Bayside was founded twelve years ago by Senior Pastor, Ray Johnston. Bayside has grown from a gathering of five families in a living room to a weekly attendance of 10,000. Weekend services are high energy, and much of the growth has come as a result of un-churched people finding Christ through the services and ministries. Eighteen thousand households representing over 32,000 individuals are now connected into the life of Bayside.
Our passion is to be a thriving church that produces thriving Christians by maintaining a balanced emphasis on 1) outreach, 2) spiritual growth, and 3) leadership development. We believe that God has called us to be a church with regional influence. In 2005 Bayside raised funds to plant 15 – 20 churches in the Sacramento region over the next five to seven years.
The organizational culture at Bayside may be described as:
- Committed to doing what is right, best and ethical.
- Committed to applying the practical truths, promises, and guidance of Scripture on a consistent basis.
- Committed to reaching the lost and developing the believer.
- Focused on continuous improvement, striving for best practices.
- Committed to serving others with humility, accountability, and professionalism, no matter the level within the organization.
- Team oriented, entrepreneurial and with a strong sense of direction and calling. Bayside is not bureaucratic yet values process.
- Committed to being proactive in furthering unity among the staff and congregation.
- Entrepreneurial, creativity-valued organization with a mission-focused, “we’re-all-one-family” feel.
- A comfortable, welcoming, casual experience, while recognizing and valuing the high level of organization and professionalism required to create that experience.
- A “can do/will do, make it happen” environment.
CHILDREN’S MINISTRY OVERVIEW
Bayside Church and the Children’s Ministry operates out of its main location in Granite Bay. There are nine current Bayside church plants in the greater Sacramento area. The main sanctuary seats 2,000 in its attractive auditorium and encompasses 42,000 square feet. The Children’s Ministry area includes 30,000 square feet of child-appropriate space, designated almost exclusively for Children’s Ministry. Children, ages Pre-K through sixth grade are encouraged to participate in age level classroom teaching as the adult services are not geared for younger children. Bayside’s overall church budget is $13.2 million per year of which approximately $1.1 million is allocated for Children’s Ministry. The ministry has a highly developed volunteer recruitment, training and retention history with many dedicated servant oriented volunteers. Bayside Children’s Ministry serves over 1600 children and 500 volunteers weekly during the worship services plus midweek and special event programming. The Children’s Pastor will oversee twelve fulltime employees and approximately 150 part-time paid employees plus volunteers.
THE LOCALE
The unincorporated Placer County community of Granite Bay had a population of about 20,000 residents at the 2000 census and covers an area of approximately 25 square miles. It is situated on the north shore of Folsom Lake about 25 miles northeast of Sacramento on the eastern edge of the Sacramento Valley at the base of the Sierra foothills.
The community boasts of a very high quality of life due to its great location, sound community plan, first rate schools, low crime rate and excellent recreation opportunities.
Typically, summers are warm, while winters are cool with an average of 21 inches of rain per year. Summer average high temperatures are about 95 degrees, but with the usual cooling evening breezes average summer lows drop to about 60 degrees. Average temperatures in the winter range from highs of about 54 to lows near 40 degrees with an occasional frost.
The community was officially recognized as "Granite Bay" in 1987. As an unincorporated community, the Placer County Board of Supervisors is the local governing body, and a local Municipal Advisory Council provides input and advice to the Supervisors.
THE POSITION
Due to the rapid expansion at Bayside and the cities of Granite Bay, Roseville, and Sacramento, there is a need for a talented visionary leader to capitalize on the past growth and to take the Children’s Ministry to the next level. Bayside has a strong tradition of valuing children’s ministry as an integral part of the overarching strategy.
Currently, this position reports to the Ministry Manager, and indirectly, to the Executive Pastor/Chief of Staff.Peer positions include twenty two other Pastors. As a member of the pastoral team, this position will have input on vision and strategy for the church as a whole. There are twelve full-time and approximately one hundred fifty part-time positions reporting to the Children’s Pastor. The Children’s Ministry team is exceptionally talented, loyal to the ministry and, moreover, to the cause of Christ being faithfully facilitated into the lives of children and their families.
Bayside believes that no church can outgrow its Children’s Ministry and whoever wins the hearts of the children, wins the hearts of the entire community. Children’s Ministry at Bayside encompasses ministering to children from birth through sixth grade. The Pastor of Children’s Ministries is responsible for implementing a growing vision for Children’s Ministry that supports the broader vision of the church, and is responsible for acquiring and developing the staff, volunteers, and other resources necessary to support that vision. Bayside has existing programs for each age group, and initially the Children’s Pastor will develop ways to strengthen these programs. Over time, the Children’s Pastor can work with the Children’s Ministry staff team and Bayside leadership to make more fundamental improvements and changes to Children’s Ministry.
Bayside is committed to the “Bayside DNA” being planted throughout the greater Sacramento area and beyond, having planted nine independent churches with a vision for 200 more by 2020. The Pastor of Children’s Ministry will occasionally play a role in the training and development of Children’s Ministry staff at these new churches, though not directly supervising them.
The following sections represent ideal candidate attributes. It should be noted that it is understood that these are ideals and that the successful candidate may possess many, but likely not all of the desired attributes.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Be the primary visionary leader for the Children’s Ministry at Bayside of Granite Bay.
- Evaluate the current Children’s Ministry model, investigate possible alternative philosophies, build consensus with all constituencies, and implement approved changes, if any/needed.
- Build trust and rapport along all lines of involvement, including students, parents, volunteers and staff.
- Successfully work with peer levels of staff to ensure that the “Bayside DNA” is maintained.
- Insure that all policies and procedures are established and adhered to for all areas within Children’s Ministry.
- Develop and moniter annual goals, objectives and budgets in a timely manner.
- Work with Bayside leadership to understand the goals and objectives of the church and to understand the purposes and objectives behind all-church services and events. Pursue an understanding of leadership’s expectations of Children’s Ministry as it relates to the all-church goals, services, and events.
- Work with children’s ministry team to offer creative and fun, age-appropriate children’s program options for Saturday, Sunday, mid-week services and special events.
- Oversee Bayside’s annual kid’s camp, Breakaway (VBS).
- Create additional mid-week programs to build into the lives of children.
- Create outreach opportunities for children and their parents.
- Select and/or develop curriculum and age appropriate learning objectives for all programs.
- Recruit, nurture, equip, motivate, and encourage a large network (600+) of volunteers, and volunteer leaders to support these programs.
- Recruit and develop a large staff team including 10 – 20 full-time staff with a pool of over 150 part-time and seasonal, paid children’s ministry workers.
- As a member of Bayside’s pastoral team, assist with the development of church-wide goals.
- Work with the children’s ministry team to develop an annual children’s ministry plan, and budget that supports the church-wide goals. Manage Children’s Ministry activities to stay within the annual budget.
- As the parent ministry behind the Bayside family of churches, play the lead role in any children’s ministry support of all-family events, such as services at the ARCO arena.
Mission Critical Responsibilities
- Proactively communicate, support and fulfill the mission, vision, core values, purposes and goals of Bayside.
- Build a volunteer and paid staff team who collectively and individually assists in accomplishing the Bayside vision.
- Maintain open and frequent communication with your supervisor, staff and team.
- Adhere to the Bayside Staff Statement of Ethics.
Bayside Children’s Ministry Will:
- Offer fun, creative, and relevant programs that children love to attend and bring their friends and where parents love to bring their children.
- Ensure each child learns of Jesus and has opportunity to choose to follow Him.
- Ensure each child matures in Christ, in their understanding of God’s word, and that knowledge and training are translated into action.
- Provide ways for children to serve.
- Provide the means to reach children in the community.
- Provide parents and the adult congregation with an understanding of children's role in ministry and with a vision for reaching children for Christ.
Required Qualifications
- A mature and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
- A definitive grasp of Scripture and proven application.
- Three to five years proven track record, preferably in fulltime ministry with emphasis in Children’s, Youth, Family or related ministry.
- A strong and clear calling to fulltime ministry, preferably in children’s service or a related field.
- A proven ability to balance being an advocate for Children’s Ministries while keeping the vision of the organization as a whole in focus.
- A sincere, genuine love for children wanting to see them become more intimate with Jesus Christ.
- An ability and desire to serve at Bayside Church a minimum of three to five years (subject to satisfactory performance and at the discretion of Bayside Church).
- Proven effectiveness as a business partner with senior leadership, peers, subordinates, volunteers and end-users. An ability to lead up, down, and across.
- Demonstrated leadership in creating a cohesive, people-oriented departmental team and being part of a leadership team with the same style.
- Experience working effectively with local organizations.
- Demonstrated experience in leading a ministry/organization with 200+ participants.
Desirable Qualifications:
- A Bachelors degree in Theology, Bible, Ministry, Child Development, Education, Business, Recreation Administration, Non-profit, or related. A Masters degree is a plus.
- Proven ability to develop and implement a strategy to recruit, train, and retain committed volunteers and/or staff.
- Ideally, experience in assisting a fast-growing, entrepreneurial organization to greater excellence in operations, polices and systems while preserving the culture.
- Experience in developing a mentoring/internship program for future Children’s Ministry professionals.
- Experience in related pastoral duties, including counseling, evangelism, visitation, child dedication, prayer, baptism, communion, teaching, etc.
Characteristics
This role focuses on the strategic aspects and planning for Children’s Ministry, however, previous experience in day-to-day administrative leadership/management would be beneficial. The candidate’s experience should encompass a “big picture,” large organization perspective and ultimate responsibility for a broad scope of functions. The successful candidate could come from the private, for-profit or non-profit sector.
The candidate must understand how organizations function best, exhibit great people management and team-building skills and demonstrate the ability to lead an organization operationally through sustained growth and improvements. The person must be comfortable operating in an environment where there are visionary “gray areas” that value the ability to explore new opportunities and doing things not yet done.
Bayside has been very successful at addressing the needs of the California culture by offering a variety of ministry choices. As a result, the successful candidate will embrace Bayside’s philosophy of trying to work around “this or that” decisions and offer “this and that” where possible. Bayside believes that God cares about lost people and we will continue to grow as long as there are people in our region who don’t know Christ. As a result, bigger is better if it means more opportunity to change lives.
This must be someone that others want to comfortably follow; someone who inspires confidence and enthusiasm. The management style that best fits the organization is consultative, participative and consensus-building, yet decisive, holding people accountable. The person should be a coach, teacher and able to delegate effectively rather than micromanaging tasks. Proven abilities to lead and manage those who manage others is critical. This person should have a gentle, enduring style, yet be firm when needed. This is a role for a “servant leader”; someone who is committed to serving those he or she leads and views the staff as serving one another and the community. It is crucial that people be heard and their input considered before making decisions. A demonstrated ability to confront and manage conflict in a healthy manner is needed as well as an openness to be flexible to meet unexpected opportunities.
The successful candidate will be a hands-on, high-energy self-starter, though might appear laid-back. Rather than merely reactive, he or she will be proactive in giving insights that increase efficiency, service or improved decision making.
Bayside is a large organization, and the successful children’s pastor will see the value of establishing new systems, or improving existing systems to enhance consistency, quality, and effectiveness yet without adding needless bureaucracy or stifling quick response time and the entrepreneurial spirit. One should respond quickly to new opportunities while keeping the mid and long-term ministry goals in focus. The candidate should be capable of establishing direction, motivating and inspiring both within and outside the department. The person should be a learner continuously asking the question, “What can I (or we) learn from this?” Taking calculated risks should be encouraged for the sake of finding better ways, growth, or learning from mistakes.
The candidate must be a person of integrity and have a consistent record of truthfulness, fulfilling commitments, maintaining confidences and handling personal affairs honorably. He or she must exhibit a vibrant growing relationship with Jesus Christ and be comfortable in leading corporate prayer and teaching.
The selected individual will be intelligent, articulate and persuasive. Presentation, verbal and written skills must be proficient, using technology relevant to the role. In addition to communicating well within a team, he or she will need to communicate effectively with the larger community, especially in terms of clearly relaying spiritual issues. Good negotiating skills that create win-win outcomes are also needed.
This person will be a solid and supportive team player who will help make things happen. The candidate’s people management and relational skills should be excellent. Being dictatorial, condescending, or insensitive would not be acceptable characteristics. Rather, while this person may have high expectations of his or her staff, the candidate should be fair, understanding, trustworthy and a good listener, mentor and team builder. The selected candidate should be good at developing relationships based on trust and candor.
While the position will usually be 45-50 hours a week, it is expected that the person will place family needs first. The right person will demonstrate the ability to balance the needs of the job and one’s personal life.
OPPORTUNITY
This opportunity will be attractive first of all because the person is drawn to the mission of the organization. Additionally the person will want to make a major difference as a key contributor to a fast-growing, dynamic organization with a positive management style. Bayside Church is offering a competitive salary and appropriate benefits, coupled with a mission that is Jesus Christ focused and a beautiful place to live. Assistance with the cost of relocation is available. The selected candidate will be eligible to participate in ministerial allowances as related to Federal Income and Social Security tax.
Bayside’s vision, financial position, excellent leadership and desirable location make this an outstanding opportunity. |
Addendum 1: Bayside Core Values
What We Believe
Our Faith is based on the following Truths:
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is God, along with the Father and the Holy Spirit. He set aside the things he could do as God, and became a man. He lived a perfect life, then died on a cross, paying the penalty for our sins. Three days later, Jesus rose from the grave, conquering death.
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is God, co-equal with the Father and the Son. From the moment someone asks Jesus to be in charge of their life, the Holy Spirit makes a permanent home in that person, guaranteeing salvation, God's strength, wisdom and guidance in their lives.
The Bible
The Bible is the Word of God. People who were chosen and inspired by God wrote it. We can trust the truth of the Bible completely. It is the only perfect guide for how to live and what to believe.
Humanity
God created all people. Our potential to be like God in our character was damaged when we decided not to follow God, but went our own selfish ways. The only way for us to recover our relationship with God and our wholeness is by asking Jesus Christ to enter into and lead our lives.
Eternal Life & Salvation
God did all the work to make eternal life possible. There's nothing we can do to earn it. When we realize that we've turned away from God we simply need to ask God for forgiveness and put our life fully in the hands of Jesus Christ. When this happens, we're reconnected with God forever. Those who believe that Jesus is God, that he died and rose again, and ask Jesus to take charge of their lives are saved and will live forever in the presence of God in heaven.
Faith & Practice
Bayside recognizes that it cannot dictate in areas where the Bible is silent. Rather, each believer is to be led in those areas by the Holy Spirit. We agree to disagree, and to love each other.
In short . . . we take the Bible and Jesus Christ seriously but we're not legalistic, which means...
In essential beliefs we have unity.
"May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus.”
-Romans 15:5
In nonessential beliefs we have liberty.
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then, and do not let yourselves be burdened by a yoke of slavery.”
-Galatians 5:1
In all our beliefs we show love.
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”
-I John 4:7
Addendum 2: Bayside DNA
Core Values of Bayside Church
- Biblically Based
We believe practical, relevant teaching is the catalyst for transformation in individual’s lives. Scripture is inspired by God, completely accurate and our authority regarding Christian beliefs and the guide for Christian living.
- Atmosphere of Acceptance
We believe all people matter to God and ought to matter to the church.
- Youth Ministries
We believe ministries to children and teenagers should be given high priority. We are committed to making Bayside a center for winning, building and developing the youth of our area.
- Small Groups
We believe Christian growth, life-change and pastoral care happens best in small groups. We consider it vital that every Christian participate in a small group Bible study.
- Inspirational Worship
We look for God’s love in our lives as the evidence that we have been truly worshipping Him.
- Discipleship
We believe that full devotion to Christ and His cause is normal for every believer.
- Equipping Leaders
We believe enabling people to discover and develop their gifts is God’s strategy for changing the world.
Core Philosophy
- Outreach – Sharing the love of Jesus with our community, region and world through our words and acts of compassion.
- Spiritual Growth – Demonstrated by an increased love for God, love for others and a desire to do good works.
- Leadership Development – Being equipped to use talents, abilities, passion and gifts for the work of God.
The Core Philosophy are reflected in yearly budgets and operational plans.
Addendum 3 -- Bayside Family of Churches Mission and Vision
Bayside of Granite Bay has launched a multi-year effort to plant churches and create the Bayside Family of Churches. The values, philosophy, and essential tenants of this effort are shown below. The following information was prepared in order to capture some of what we believe is the DNA of Bayside.
Mission: To transform the future of people living on the West Coast by planting churches that will reach the lost through outreach, grow people spiritually, and develop them as leaders.
Vision: By 2020 there will be 200 Bayside Churches in the Western Region of the United States that will be diverse economically, ethnically, and geographically
Core Essentials of a Thriving Bayside Church
- Evangelical Covenant Church with the name of Bayside
- Senior Pastor to commit to the mission of the Bayside Family of Churches expressed in:
- Determining future church planters and locations
- Intentionally connect, encourage and support other Bayside Family of Churches
- Developing a healthy thriving church
- Commitment to evangelizing the western region and their hub area
- Leadership of each church is a model of Biblical heath
- High connection with the other Bayside Churches
- Passionate commitment to reach lost people
- Pursuit of excellence that is exhibited by a spirit of humility and teachability
- Worship services are enjoyed, not endured
- Internally strong and outwardly focused
- Plan to reach the community, inspire the region, and impact the world
- Contextualize the core values and philosophy of Bayside to each targeted community
Acts 1:8 “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the world.”
Addendum 4: Affiliations
With its roots in the Protestant Reformation, the Evangelical Covenant Church is a denomination that holds to the affirmations of historical Christianity regarding the Bible as the Word of God and the only rule for faith, doctrine and conduct.
What makes the Covenant unique from other denominations is the fact that while it strongly affirms the clear teaching of the Bible, it allows believers the personal freedom to have varying interpretations on theological issues that are not clearly presented in Scripture. The Covenant affirms as central to its life and thought five evangelical emphases:
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