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Children's Pastor - Victory City Church
About Victory City Church
Victory City Church is a growing, multi-generational Assemblies of God church located in the Chicago-Land area with a passion to lead people into a faith-filled, focused, and passionate life in Christ. Our vision is to see families transformed through intentional discipleship, Spirit-empowered leadership, and strong biblical foundations.
As part of our church-wide 2026 theme of FOCUS, we are committed to building ministries that move beyond programming into intentional pathways of spiritual formation for the next generation.
Position Summary
Victory City Church is seeking an experienced Kids Pastor to lead and build a dynamic ministry for 200 children (birth–5th grade) each weekend. This individual will provide vision, leadership, and systems to ensure that every child and family is discipled through a Spirit-led, Bible-centered environment.
This is not a classroom management role — this is a leadership position responsible for developing volunteer teams, equipping parents, building scalable systems, and aligning children's ministry with the overall discipleship strategy of the church.
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide vision and leadership for all Kids Ministry environments (Birth–5th Grade)
- Recruit, train, and shepherd a large volunteer Dream Team
- Build and oversee systems for volunteer onboarding, discipleship pathways, family engagement, and child salvation & Spirit-baptism moments
- Develop engaging, age-appropriate, Pentecostal curriculum environments
- Partner with parents to equip them as primary spiritual leaders in the home
- Ensure safe, secure, and excellent ministry environments
- Collaborate with Executive and NextGen leadership teams
- Develop future leaders within Kids Ministry
- Minimum 5 years of experience leading Children's Ministry in a church of 500
- Experience leading volunteer teams of 50 preferred
- Proven track record of ministry growth and team development
- Strong organizational and leadership skills
- Passion for Spirit-filled ministry in the next generation
- Excellent communication and relational abilities
- Bachelor's Degree required (Ministry/Theology preferred)
- Master's Degree a plus
- Must hold or be willing to obtain Assemblies of God credentials