We're hiring a part-time worship director for our vibrant music ministry!
Partner with the Rector to cultivate a culture, liturgy, and people of worship through music, musicians, and arts so that our family of neighbors, nations, and generations can experience a new day in Jesus. They will affirm and seek to live out our value of the “Celebration of Beauty — Being so captivated by the radiant beauty of Jesus that we sing, dance, write, create, and worship him with our whole selves.” This person will be a spiritually and emotionally mature leader who will prayerfully plan worship, lead and collaborate with our music, tech, and arts teams, and serve for the equipping and building up of the body.
City of Light is an Anglican Church in Aurora, IL worshiping bilingually in English and Spanish. We were planted in 2015 out of Church of the Resurrection, Wheaton and are called to be a family of neighbors, nations, and generations finding a new day in Jesus. We are growing cultures of neighborhood presence, generational disciple-making, healing rhythms, reconciliation of nations, and the celebration of beauty. We are captivated by the vision of the multicultural church in Acts 2 that is fully sacramental, fully Scriptural, full of the Spirit, freely sacrificing, and focused on the salvation of others. To find out more, visit cityoflightanglican.org.
Our music and tech teams have three lay worship leaders and around 20 members who see their role as serving and supporting the congregation’s participation in worship. We sing contemporary songs, hymns, and chants in a folk style and instrumentation that includes vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin, bass, drums, percussion, violin, cello, and flute. The music teams also write original worship music, some of which has been recorded and released here: cityoflightaurora.org/pages/music.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead Musical Worship
- Work with the Rector to further the vision and culture of worship in our congregation
- Prepare spiritually to pray, plan, serve, and prophetically lead in musical worship.
- Regularly lead worship for Sunday services and special feasts and fasts while also scheduling and supporting lay worship leaders in our congregation.
- Lead the music and tech teams by recruiting, scheduling, training, organizing equipment, shepherding, etc.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Spiritual and emotional maturity to pastor team members and parishioners through the music ministry.
- Leadership, communication, and team building skills to recruit and develop other arts leaders and teams.
- Musical and technical skills to lead in worship and support other musicians
- Cross cultural experience and bilingual competency (English and Spanish) preferred
Special Considerations
- Paid work hours include vacation and prayer days
- Regular hours include working on Sunday morning; during the week, hybrid work from home options are available
- Ability to perform light lifting, arranging chairs, transporting supplies, etc.
- Excited to become a member of our church community at City of Light Aurora in the Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest and Anglican Church in North America.
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