The Kids Pastor at Trinity Church will lead a thriving children’s ministry that teaches the Bible with depth, makes Jesus fun, and partners with parents to disciple the next generation. This leader will oversee a ministry that serves kids at every weekend service and midweek, and will build the volunteers, staff, and systems that make it work. As Trinity prepares to move into a facility four times its current size, the Kids Pastor will shape the spaces, teams, and culture that let the ministry serve far more families. If you love shepherding kids and parents, multiplying leaders, and building a ministry where joy and discipleship go together, this is a rare opportunity.
About This Organization
Trinity Church is a fast-growing, Bible-teaching, Spirit-empowered church located in the heart of Scottsdale, Arizona. Founded ten years ago by Pastor Mark Driscoll and family, Trinity has become a home for thousands of young families, new believers, and people seeking a healthy, joyful, deeply biblical church community. With a mission to “open our Bibles to learn, open our lives to love, so that lives and legacies are transformed,” Trinity blends robust Bible preaching with vibrant worship, strong discipleship pathways, and a deeply relational, family-first culture. The church is entering its biggest season yet, acquiring a facility four times its current size, expanding parking dramatically, preparing for midweek programming, and anticipating explosive growth. Kids, students, young adults, and families are at the epicenter of that growth.
Mission, Vision, and Values
Trinity’s mission is simple and powerful:
- “We open our Bibles to learn. We open our lives to love. So that lives and legacies are transformed.”
Core values expressed throughout the church include:
- Living Kingdom Down: Word and Spirit; repent and forgive quickly; Holy Spirit-led living.
- Healthy Person: Emotional, spiritual, marital, and relational health prioritized in every leader.
- Burden Lifter: Serving, encouraging, and supporting one another’s work and ministry.
- Heart for the House: No silos; one unified team serving one mission.
Location
“The Phoenix area has everything I could ever ask for raising a young family. It has awesome parks and great neighborhoods and really unique things like the aquarium and train park while also having very low-key and quiet neighborhoods within comfortable driving distance of the church. It’s only two hours from an escape in the mountains, where there is snow at Christmas and an escape from the heat in summer. And I love living in a big city without it feeling as congested as some other major cities like Chicago. My wife and I truly love it here.”
Pastor Carl Steele – Campus Pastor
Key Responsibilities
- Shepherd and lead Trinity’s kids ministry from nursery through elementary, with a pastor’s heart for every child and family.
- Recruit, train, and care for a growing volunteer team that serves across every weekend service and midweek, and build layers of leaders beneath you.
- Lead and develop kids ministry staff, coordinators, interns, and part-time team members.
- Oversee Bible teaching and curriculum so kids learn Scripture, know Jesus, and understand the gospel at their level.
- Partner with parents and equip them as the primary disciplers of their kids, in step with Trinity’s marriage and parenting content.
- Create safe, secure, joyful environments, including check-in, safety systems, and the backyard worship and play experience.
- Lead kids ministry for major Trinity events such as Spring Training, Easter, Christmas in July, Trinity’s Birthday, and Fall Fest.
- Design kids spaces and midweek kids programming for the new facility.
- Collaborate with Student Ministry and Young Adults to strengthen transitions and move toward a unified family ministry.
- Manage the ministry budget, schedules, and systems, and run the ministry on EOS rhythms.
- Model a healthy marriage, family life, and walk with Jesus.
Key Qualifications
- A clear calling to kids ministry and pastoral shepherding.
- 3 to 5+ years of vocational kids ministry experience, preferably in a church of 1,000 or more.
- Proven leadership of adults and volunteers, not just kids.
- Experience building volunteer pipelines, small-group systems, and multi-layered leadership structures.
- Proven ability to teach kids the Bible in an engaging, practical way.
- Strong theological grounding: Reformed-leaning soteriology, openness to the gifts and work of the Holy Spirit, and alignment with Trinity’s complementarian convictions on pastoral leadership.
- A strong theology of family and discipleship that values the home as primary.
- Emotional intelligence, humility, teachability, and unity-oriented leadership, including a willingness to submit to spiritual authority.
- A healthy marriage (or a clear pursuit of marriage and family in the future).
- A bachelor’s degree is preferred; a master’s is a bonus. Seminary is not required. Character and biblical competency matter most.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, high-autonomy, high-accountability, growth-heavy environment.
A great match for this position would be:
- A true pastor with a shepherd’s heart for kids and parents, not a kids speaker or a platform builder.
- A gifted Bible teacher who brings Scripture to kids in a way that is biblical, Spirit-aware, and practical.
- A developer of leaders who recruits, trains, and multiplies volunteers and moves from doing the ministry to developing ministers.
- Someone who thrives in a Word and Spirit theological family: anchored in Scripture and open to the gifts and work of the Holy Spirit.
- A leader who thinks in systems, not just events, and who wants to build structure, clarity, and follow-through for a ministry that will scale.
- A spiritually and emotionally healthy pastor with a strong marriage and family life, ideally a parent who understands family life firsthand.
- A humble, teachable leader who sees Trinity as a long-term calling and a place to plant roots.
Challenges and Opportunities
- The new facility is four times the size of the current one, so this leader can design kids spaces and midweek programming from the ground up.
- Trinity expects rapid growth when the new building opens. The Kids Pastor must have the team ready before the doors open.
- Kids ministry runs a high volume of services every week. This leader will build volunteer depth and leaders of leaders so the ministry does not depend on a few people.
- Trinity has launched a School of Ministry (3 12-14 week units) preparing staff and volunteers for greater excellence in ministry. The Kids Pastor can build a kids-specific leadership pipeline on top of that foundation.
- Kids ministry has operated largely on its own. This leader will help connect it with Students and Young Adults, and will help shape the path toward a unified family ministry.
- Trinity keeps joy and depth together. The Kids Pastor will protect both: kids who have a blast and kids who learn and love the Bible.
