The Commons Church

East Lansing, MI

WHO WE ARE

The Commons Church is located in East Lansing, MI, just 4 minutes away from Michigan State University and is part of The Salt Network (thesaltnetwork.com), a network of churches that focuses on planting multigenerational churches in major university centers throughout North America. The Commons is a three and a half year old church that launched in September of 2019.

SNAPSHOT

• 4 years old
• Average Sunday worship attendance: 975
• The Salt Company (college ministry) averages 600 students on Thursday nights
• Staff team is currently 18 people
• We have network partnerships with the Salt Network, the Send Network, and the Strategic Launch Network.

VISION

Our metro area has 475,000 people and is home to both Michigan State University (51,000 students) and the state capital of Michigan. East Lansing is a very influential city right in the middle of the state of Michigan that lacks a strong gospel presence. In addition to that, within a two hour drive there are 12 other significant university centers where we hope to plant churches over the next few years. This is a dynamic context to serve in. We are looking for someone who is very gifted vocally and musically but who also has a strong leadership ability. We are passionate about reaching college students and planting churches, which means we are passionate about reaching, raising up and releasing the next generation of leaders!

LINKS

• The Commons Church Website
• The Commons Church Instagram
• The Salt Company - Michigan State Instagram
• The Salt Network Website

JOB SUMMARY:

DIRECT SUPERVISOR:

Noah Brown (Worship & Executive Pastor)

MENTOR: 

Noah Brown/Dalton Shaffer

JOB TITLE:

Worship Leader (this is a full time staff position)

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Help cultivate, maintain and execute the vision for our worship culture
• • Work with The Commons leadership to help execute the vision for our worship culture
  • Help raise up new leaders (empower the gifted & raise up the next generation of worship leaders and team leaders)
  • Define goals for the teams you lead
  • Recruit, train and resource the volunteers on the worship team
  • Be creative w/special events, service design, holidays, stage design, song selection and song writing
• Discipleship, Growth, & Development
  • Regularly meet with a staff mentor for discipleship and development as a leader both spiritually and musically
  • Have monthly calls with your mentors
  • Identify and pour into key leaders to pass on what has been shared with you
• Help execute and lead The Commons/The Salt Company music and production teams
  • Function as one of the primary worship leaders while maintaining a culture of plurality in worship leadership
  • Help lead the music and production teams
  • Plan and coordinate all worship service components
  • Communicate and resource music teams to provide undistracting excellence in services and growth in volunteer musicianship
  • Work closely with The Commons leadership team to coordinate and plan
  • Help develop and raise up worship leaders for The Commons Youth
  • Train and become proficient on all things tech with an emphasis on live sound mixing
• Help shepherd and lead the church to worship
  • Model a heart of worship
  • Lead the church to worship Jesus, not just sing
  • Be led by the Spirit of God 
  • Be radically Christ, Gospel-centered, and theologically accurate
  • Execute all musical and technical elements with excellence
  • Be authentic, lead out of strengths and weaknesses
  • Care for your team members
• The Commons Church Staff Member
  • Full participation in The Commons church at large
  • Full participation in staff related meetings/events.
  • Love and disciple people in our community (focusing on leaders and the lost)
  • Other responsibilities assigned by direct supervisor

In a sentence, your responsibility is to help shepherd our church and The Salt Company by using your worship leadership gifts and your heart for discipleship to reach the lost and equip those who are part of our church to be sent out locally, regionally and globally. Our focus is more than just creating and leading a vibrant/healthy worship culture here at The Commons... We want to be a catalyst for raising up and sending out leaders to create and lead vibrant/healthy worship cultures in other contexts as we plant new churches.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree
• A clear call to vocational ministry and that call being affirmed by others
• Some level of previous ministry leadership (i.e. student leadership role in college ministry or greater)
• Can carry the responsibility of leading worship on a Sunday or a Thursday (this includes the musical aspects as well as the team leadership & character aspects)
• High character that is affirmed by others