Vacancy for a Youth Pastor and Children's Ministry Worker! And another one! And another! And....!
Captain Sensible writes: The job vacancy pages of Christianity magazine in November again reveal a very worrying picture of the church in the UK today. We know there is a desperate need for more men in the church. So you would think that every church would be seeking to focus on outreach to men, and if they can afford it, advertise for a full-time men's ministry worker. You'd think that, wouldn't you? So why is it, yet again, that the November issue is full of advertisements for youth pastors and children's ministry workers? Here is a list of the job titles that feature in the pages of the magazine, in the order in which they appear, highlighting the vacancies aimed at youth and children's ministries in bold (and bear in mind that Christianity magazine is aimed at the whole church, not specifically youth and children's ministries!):
Children's Team Leader
Youth and Children's Worker
Qualified Youth Worker
Youth and Children's Worker
IT Manager
Children's Worker
Quality People Wanted (this is a sales role in a Christian company)
Christian Service (various roles at outdoor centre)
Schools Worker
Lay Worker (Pastor)
Lead Youth Worker
Youth Worker
Resident Couple
Youth Development Worker
Youth Pastor
Accommodation Officer (Students Club)
Youth Worker
Children's Pastor
Youth Pastor
Youth Worker
Youth Ministry Leader
Youth Worker
Children's and Youth Worker
Buildings Manager
Youth Worker
Children's Worker
Children's Church Pastor
Children's Worker
Children's and Young People's Development Worker
Youth Worker
Church Resource - Senior Manager (youth organisation)
Film Team Leader (youth organisation)
Assistant Manager and Team Member (conference centre)
Youth Minister
Pastor
Director of Youth Ministry
Youth Pastor
Fusion Worker (youth ministry)
Youth Worker
Youth Worker
Director of Youth and Student Ministries
Sales Representative
Youth Worker
Children's Director
Youth Worker
Youth and Community Worker
What does this say to you about the primary focus of the church in the UK at the moment? And is it the correct focus? Did we see the early church focusing primarily on outreach to children and youth? Did we see them neglecting to outreach to grown men? Rather, didn't they outreach to men and then instruct those men to tell their whole household? Do church leaders know that if a man is led to Christ, then in 93% of cases, he does bring his whole family too? Can any children's or youth ministry, no matter how good, substitute for having a Christian father at home? Are there new families waiting to be born by bringing more single men into the church? Wouldn't the church body as a whole be stronger for having an appropriate ratio of men in it? Will we one day have to give an account of why we neglected to reach out to generations of men? What am I missing?
Children's Team Leader
Youth and Children's Worker
Qualified Youth Worker
Youth and Children's Worker
IT Manager
Children's Worker
Quality People Wanted (this is a sales role in a Christian company)
Christian Service (various roles at outdoor centre)
Schools Worker
Lay Worker (Pastor)
Lead Youth Worker
Youth Worker
Resident Couple
Youth Development Worker
Youth Pastor
Accommodation Officer (Students Club)
Youth Worker
Children's Pastor
Youth Pastor
Youth Worker
Youth Ministry Leader
Youth Worker
Children's and Youth Worker
Buildings Manager
Youth Worker
Children's Worker
Children's Church Pastor
Children's Worker
Children's and Young People's Development Worker
Youth Worker
Church Resource - Senior Manager (youth organisation)
Film Team Leader (youth organisation)
Assistant Manager and Team Member (conference centre)
Youth Minister
Pastor
Director of Youth Ministry
Youth Pastor
Fusion Worker (youth ministry)
Youth Worker
Youth Worker
Director of Youth and Student Ministries
Sales Representative
Youth Worker
Children's Director
Youth Worker
Youth and Community Worker
What does this say to you about the primary focus of the church in the UK at the moment? And is it the correct focus? Did we see the early church focusing primarily on outreach to children and youth? Did we see them neglecting to outreach to grown men? Rather, didn't they outreach to men and then instruct those men to tell their whole household? Do church leaders know that if a man is led to Christ, then in 93% of cases, he does bring his whole family too? Can any children's or youth ministry, no matter how good, substitute for having a Christian father at home? Are there new families waiting to be born by bringing more single men into the church? Wouldn't the church body as a whole be stronger for having an appropriate ratio of men in it? Will we one day have to give an account of why we neglected to reach out to generations of men? What am I missing?
posted by Captain Sensible at 11:55 PM
1 Comments:
The church is scared silly of actually doing outreach with men because it's scared of normal men and of adults.
A public reading of the whole of Isaiah would help churches. Isaiah talks openly about how a sinful nation suffers because God makes boys their princes and women will all run after the same man begging him to be their protector.
It is for times such as these that the prophecies about Jesus Christ are made in Isaiah. I bet most people in our churches don't realise this. The Servant of God in Isaiah is a 'wonderful counselor', a ruler, who dares to lead his people in the path of right and away from sin. He isn't the soppy imaginary boyfriend in heaven that the worship music of most evangelical churches promote.
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