Campus Discipleship Lead

Golden Valley Discipleship Lead

The Golden Valley Discipleship Lead serves as the primary discipleship leader for the Golden Valley campus of WLC, providing leadership and coordination across Kids, Youth, and Adult ministries. This role implements the vision, systems, and programs developed by the central Kids, Youth, and Adult Discipleship Directors while faithfully contextualizing them for the local campus. In WLC’s multisite model, the Campus Discipleship Lead helps ensure consistency, excellence, and strong local ownership as we pursue our mission to Follow Jesus, Multiply Disciples, and Transform Lives.

The Campus Discipleship Lead is responsible for the following:

Upholding Staff Core Values

• Fun : We bring joy to our work, laugh often, celebrate together, and genuinely enjoy being part of the team.
• Healthy : We pursue health spiritually, relationally, emotionally, and physically so we can serve others well.
• Humble : We ask for help, admit when we are wrong, treat people well, and put others before ourselves.
• Hungry : We bring grit, keep growing, refuse to give up, and intentionally develop ourselves and others.
• MacGyver : We approach challenges with creativity and resourcefulness, looking for a way forward instead of starting with “no.”

Job Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and coordination for all campus discipleship ministries, including Kids, Youth, and Adults, implementing centrally developed vision, systems, and programs in a way that serves the unique needs of the local campus.
• Implements the centrally developed discipleship vision, systems, and programs of the Directors of Kids, Youth, and Adult Discipleship—contextualizing them faithfully for the local campus community.
• Raises up Team Members, Team Leaders, and Team Coaches across all three discipleship areas at the campus, implementing the Leadership Pathway and cultivating an environment where people are actively participating in and owning the discipleship ministry.

Leadership Pathway (Volunteers)

• Invite and support Coaches, Team Leads, and Members across teams: Nursery (Sundays and holidays); Kids (Large Group, Small Group, A Team); Youth (Large Group, Small Group, A Team); additional support (Kids bags, event support); relational events (campus and all-campus events such as MSM, HSH, Mission/Gathering, milestones); and Adults (Campus Connectors, Coaches, Class teachers).
• Hold regular check-ins to build connection and relationship.
• Provide training both at the start of the year and periodically to support growth, in line with the Leadership Pathway.

Kids Discipleship

• Provide campus leadership for Sunday Kids ministry, including WLCkids, Nursery, Worship Adventures, and other Sunday support needs.
• Ensure Kids ministry environments are prepared, clean, welcoming, appropriately staffed, and supplied each week.
• Schedule and support teachers and substitutes, provide ongoing training and encouragement, and teach when needed.
• Coordinate room requests, setups, supplies, and other campus logistics in partnership with the central Kids team.
• Support and help facilitate all campus Kids and family ministry events under the leadership of the central Kids team.
• Build relationships with families through regular connection, care, new baby cards, birthday recognition, and other meaningful touchpoints.
• Encourage and support family participation in milestone opportunities, helping facilitate milestones as needed in partnership with the central team.

Youth Discipleship

• Provide campus leadership for weekly Wednesday Youth ministry gatherings, ensuring spaces, supplies, leaders, and logistics are prepared and ready.
• Schedule, equip, and support Youth leaders and substitutes, providing ongoing training, encouragement, and teaching support as needed.
• Coordinate room requests, setups, supplies, and other campus logistics in partnership with the central Youth team.
• Support and help facilitate all campus Youth ministry opportunities, including fellowship events, fundraisers, mission experiences, summer programming, and other ministry initiatives.
• Build meaningful relationships with students and families, and encourage Youth leaders to engage relationally with students beyond scheduled programming when appropriate.

Adult Discipleship

• Build relationships with adults at the campus and help connect them to meaningful discipleship opportunities, including Small Groups, Together Mentoring, the Disciple Life Experience, Bible classes, and Leadership Pathway opportunities.
• Recruit, equip, and support the Campus Small Group Connector and other Adult Discipleship leaders.
• Champion and promote the Disciple Life Experience and other centrally developed Adult Discipleship opportunities within the campus.
• Support campus specific Adult Discipleship opportunities in alignment with the central Adult Discipleship strategy.
• Coordinate supplies, calendar requests, promotion requests, room setups, and other logistical needs for campus Adult Discipleship programming.

Skills & Attributes

• A growing disciple of Jesus who is passionate about making and developing disciples.
• Strong relational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Ability to recruit, equip, coach, and develop volunteer leaders.
• Ability to lead through influence and collaborate effectively within a multisite ministry structure.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple ministry areas and priorities.
• Ability to implement established systems while appropriately contextualizing ministry for the local campus.
• Adaptability and effectiveness in a dynamic, collaborative team environment.
• A humble, teachable, and team oriented posture.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365, Planning Center, and other ministry technology platforms.
• Initiative to identify needs, solve problems, and strengthen ministry in alignment with WLC’s mission and vision.

Required Qualifications

• Associate degree required; bachelor’s degree preferred, ideally in Ministry, Leadership, Organizational Development, Education, or a related field.
• One to three years of ministry, leadership development, volunteer leadership, or related organizational experience preferred.
• Experience recruiting, developing, and leading volunteers strongly preferred.
• Previous experience in Kids, Youth, Adult Discipleship, or multisite ministry is beneficial.

Work Schedule: Full time, salaried position with a competitive benefits package.

• Typical workweek is Sunday through Thursday, with occasional Friday and Saturday ministry events as needed.
• Participates in the weekly Campus Team Meeting led by the Campus Pastor.
• Participates in the weekly Discipleship Team Meeting led by the Directors of Kids, Youth, and Adult Discipleship.
• Participates in any Campus Leadership Team meetings

Benefits