PGC Youth Development Coordinators 2024 Application
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 2024.
We are hiring a total of 3 Youth Development Coordinators this year. 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 6-12 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:
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 Pastor Iain and Pastor Andy 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 our three week summer camp July 15- Aug 2, preparing materials, activities, and outings.
On the week of Aug 6-9, the whole youth team will be do evaluation, transitioning camp to church ministry followup, as well as an exciting outreach initiative where we will reach out to the community children by helping a Taekwondo school to reach out to kids by repeating our bible camps materials. Half of the team will go 2 days and the other half of our team will go the other 2 days. When a team is not helping the school, we will be doing evaluation, followup and planning. A Team bonding and fun day will also happen in this week.
The final week of August 12-16 continues the routine of mid-May to mid-June with the addition of a debrief of the entire summer, as well as providing follow-up plan and guidelines for the following school year.
Team leadership in Camp weeks
This leadership team will invest in mentoring and shaping younger Camp Counsellors and Counsellors-in-Training (CIT), as well as Station Leaders and Leaders in Training (LIT) 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: All Saint Catholic Elementary School in Markham Unionville
Pay or honorarium:
Under Federal government CSJ criteria, the successful applicant will be paid in a range from $16.55 per hour up to $17 per hour (subjected to experience and seniority) for 35 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 21st to Aug 16th. Total of 13 weeks' term.
Children's summer camp tentative dates: July 15th to Aug 2nd (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/
Interviews will be arranged immediately for prospective applicants and successful applicants will be decided for the team hiring on a first come first serve basis.
Application deadline due Date: April 30th, 2024
(Late application will not be considered)
email:pgckids@gmail.com