Next Gen Director

Bridge Cities Church
Bettendorf, Iowa, United States
Date Posted: 02/20/2025
Categories: Church/Ministry
Job Type: Full-Time
Employee Workplace: On-site
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Job Description:

NEXT GEN DIRECTOR
Reports to: Associate Pastor

PRIMARY PURPOSE
The primary focus of the Next Gen Director is to lead and implement the overall vision and strategy of Bridge Cities Church to students and families.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Firm Beliefs - Has a high view of Scripture and completely affirms and adheres to Bridge Cities Church’s Beliefs and Core Convictions
  • Gospel-Centered - Seeks to abide in Christ while speaking the Gospel to themselves and others
  • Proactively Relational - Regularly builds healthy relationships by reaching out, listening, and loving others well. Relationships are our priority
  • Can-Do Team player - Offers patience and grace to others and is eager to collaborate, assist, and serve the interests of the team sacrificially
  • Eager to Grow - Understands they have not yet arrived and can receive feedback to grow. Understands the value of continual, incremental improvement over an extended period
  • Clear Communicator - Represents themselves and BCC well through verbal, written, and nonverbal communication
  • Persistent and Focused - Can manage time, energy, and resources independently and responsibly so that they devote themselves to productive activities
  • Humble, Positive Leader - Has an authentic, joyful attitude and genuine desire and eagerness to engage, develop and lead others while humbly giving themselves to the task and people at hand

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Continue to grow in the Gospel to ensure that you are actively worshiping Christ in and out of Sunday morning
  • Participate in weekly staff meetings
  • Attend and/or serve at functions as needed
  • Participate and relationally engage in the life and ministry of Bridge Cities Church on Sundays and throughout the week
  • Work as a team player with a willingness and understanding that our roles may require flexibility and extra tasks according to need and skillset

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Primary teacher for student ministries
  • Direct the student ministry ensuring consistency with the BCC mission and vision
  • Establish teaching team, guest speakers, and annual message series map for students
  • Develop initiatives, trips, events and activities that present opportunities to students to grow in their personal relationship with Jesus and in Christ-centered relationships
  • Ensure relational discipleship opportunities are regularly available to students that are consistent with the overall church strategy developed by Associate Pastor.
  • Establish and maintain a leadership development process for student and adult leaders
  • Ensure healthy communication and partnership with parents in the spiritual growth of their student
  • Establish relationships within the area schools and student-centric organizations to create serving opportunities and relational connections with unreached students
  • Establish a focus on local serving opportunities and possible serving trips

YEAR ONE EXPECTED OUTCOMES

  • Establish relationships with adult volunteers, parents, and students
  • Identify key students to build a Student Leadership Team
  • Work with Music Director to continue growth of a student-led band
  • Assess ministry structure and format to establish an effective and productive Student Ministry that mirrors the BCC structural pillars (Gather, Connect, Serve, Build)
  • Establish partnerships with the Nursery & Preschool Coordinator and Kid’s Ministry Director in overall Family Ministry efforts

YEARS TWO-FIVE EXPECTED OUTCOMES

  • Work with Associate Pastor to further establish the Next Gen Ministry Team, assuring alignment from birth through young adult
  • Create Next Gen Parent workshops for family discipleship needs (i.e. - safe technology usage for various ages, discipleship in the home, praying with and for your children, etc.)
  • Assess the growth of the Next Gen Ministry for staffing needs 
  • Assess needs for young adult population at BCC and develop ministry opportunities
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About Bridge Cities Church

BRIDGE CITIES CHURCH OVERVIEW
In 2019, Barna Group released a study of the “Most Post-Christian Cities in the USA”. The Quad Cities was listed at #15 and in the top 5 in the Midwest. This has been a motivator for casting vision and assuring alignment and focus within the congregation to be disciple makers in our cities. We are building partnerships with other disciple-making efforts in the area and focusing on disciple making training to plant micro churches in areas that have the greatest need. Our staff is truly a team who fights for unity and is remaining focused on the Great Commission. We recognize that Bridge Cities Church must be a church for these cities and for all people. What God is doing through BCC is bigger than Sunday, bigger than Bettendorf, and will make an impact beyond our lifetime.

AVERAGE WEEKEND ATTENDNACE
700-800

OVERALL BUDGET (THIS FISCAL YEAR) 
$1.5 million 

OVERALL LONG-TERM DEBT
$3.5 million – This is the remaining debt from a 2020 building expansion. Our Lead Pastor is actively working with a Debt Reduction Task Force to eliminate this debt by the end of 2026.  

STUDENT MINISTRY HISTORY AND OVERVIEW
In the last 10 years, the Student Ministry has had two leaders, one with an 8-year tenure followed by a 2.5-year tenure. BCC overall has undergone significant refocusing and a ministry culture shift all post-COVID. All of this has left the Student Ministry in need of a quality season of rebuilding and alignment to the current BCC vision and mission. 
Currently, our 6th-12th graders meet for youth group on Sunday nights which includes snacks, games, music, large group teaching, and breakout discussions. On Sunday mornings, the middle school students break into small groups during the sermon time of our main Large Gathering. The high school small groups meet through the week. 
The average youth group attendance is 35 students (6th-12th grade). Sunday morning middle school small groups average 40 students and high school midweek small groups average a total of 15 students. There are currently 14 adult volunteers, many who are parents of current teenagers. Some of these volunteers serve only with small groups, others just during youth group, and a few cross over to both.
Bridge Cities Church has a widespread collection of families from the multiple school districts throughout the Quad Cities area. This poses some challenges with students relationally connecting but also creates positive opportunities for a diverse Student Ministry.

POPULATION OF CITY 
383,681 (in Quad Cities)  
39,327 in Bettendorf, specifically 

COMMUNITY OVERVIEW 
The Quad Cities Area (QCA) is a unique joining of five cities in two states that border the Mississippi River. Davenport is the largest of the Quad Cities, with a population of 101,109. Each of the cities offers many larger city amenities but without the singular concentration of one large city. Bettendorf, specifically, is the smallest of the Quad Cities but is the most affluent, with the newest and continual development of housing areas and expansion. People are very welcoming, and the largest employer is John Deere, as its headquarters are located in Moline, IL. Other large employers include the Rock Island Army Arsenal, Woodmen of the World, Arconic, 3M, and several others that provide good-paying jobs around the region. 

WHY PEOPLE LIKE LIVING HERE 
We truly have four seasons in the QCA. Our springs bring new life, summers are hot, our winters are cold and snowy, and the fall is just beautiful. People love the Mississippi River, and there are a lot of community activities that revolve around the river. The QCA is a very artsy community with some amazing museums and art districts. In Moline, IL, we have the Vibrant Arena at the Mark, which is an 11,000-seat arena that brings in big-name acts from great concerts, arena sports and more. Every year there is a large marathon called “The BIX” and it brings over 15,000 people from all over the world to run. Davenport, IA, is home to the Minor League baseball team, The Quad City River Bandits, a farm team for the Major League Baseball team, The Kansas City Royals. This is an easy area to fall in love with because the people are so welcoming.

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