Worship Pastor Job Description

Series Summary

A worship pastor is an individual who leads people in any denomination of Christianity. Worship pastors can spend most of their time in the church, preaching and teaching the word of God, or worship pastors can be involved mainly in the surrounding community, organizing outreach programs, ministry programs and helping the poor. Usually a personal calling, a worship pastor career is a selfless and demanding job. In this free video series on career information, an inner-city minister describes his job. Get an accurate job description of this religious leader position, and find out about the tools necessary for the job and salary options. Find out how to become a worship minister, and even discover why this pastor chose his profession. Through hard days and funny moments, worship pastors help those around them to lead better lives.

Video Transcript

"Whatever troubles you're going through today, it's not anything Jesus can't relate to and in one sense hadn't been through worse. A pastor at Belmont Church, we have a wide range of pastors, there's everything from our teaching pastor that preaches on Sundays to, I'm probably at the other end of the spectrum because I'm rarely in the church building. I do a lot of my ministry, if you will, my work outside of the church. So I'm talking to people that are on the streets that either have health problems, or looking for a job, or some kind of an addiction, and really trying to pray with them and help them get the resources they need to do what God's called them to do. My job responsibilities are mainly doing, as I said before, the local outreach to the poor. I speak at each of the, we do four lunches a week in two different locations that shifts seasonally, and I usually speak for about ten or fifteen minutes before each one of the lunches and try to share some encouraging word from the scriptures and then keep the, when you're serving that many meals a week, it's usually four or five hundred, just keep all that coordinated. Make sure the leaders of each outreach are getting the food they need, and the resources they need, the volunteers to help man the outreaches. I also mentor the guys in our men's home and meet with them and try to bring other mentors into that situation. We have a women's home where we try to bring other healthy females in, into the home to mentor the girls and kind of give them a target to shoot at, someone who's doing well and that they can ask questions and try to emulate. So I also oversee the cutting crew, which is our landscaping company,and make sure that that's running well and that the guys that are supervising are doing what they're supposed to be doing and just keeping the business running as smoothly as we can, watching the finances, that kind of thing. My daily schedule, I kind of like to tell people my daily schedule is, there really isn't a normal one, and there's never a dull moment in the type of ministry I do. So depend, a lot of times I'm involved in situations that come up maybe at the lunch, there's someone who needs a ride to the bus station, or needs to get to North Carolina. So it's trying to figure out how to resource that person first to make sure it's a legitimate request and then how to get the resources to get them where they need to go. Sometimes it's getting a prescription filled, sometimes it's giving somebody a ride to their job, sometimes it's getting them in a job training class, sometimes it's just some of the normal things I do besides the speaking and meeting with the guys at our home, our residential home, or is kind of the paperwork behind the scenes. And making sure that we have the paperwork necessary to get the food donations and when people donate that they get their tax letter for doing that, and kind of coordinating with the church at large what we're doing so that the people in our body know what's going on with Isaiah 58. And a lot of times they'll say wow, we didn't know you were serving so many meals, so my job's to be the communicator between what's going on in the streets and what's going on in the church building and trying to get people more involved. So, I guess my job's kind of split, 50% inside the church trying to get people involved, and 50% outside trying to help people that need help."