ReDesign of Student and College Ministry |
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Due to the resignation of Walt Rogers as the Leader of our Student Ministry, the Student Ministry Staff, along with Dave Bartlett and Bruce Adkins, have developed the following plan. Orchard’s leadership wanted to be sure to keep our Student and College Ministry strong and growing. The Orchard Leadership Team approved this plan at its May 19 meeting.
Tim Walsten will move from Junior High Director to Event and Worship Director of Student Ministries. Tim’s strengths include his ability to create energy and focus within a large setting for the purpose of attracting students who can then engage in the programming and be drawn into small groups and individual appointments. In this role, Tim will lead worship bands for all three of our weekly student events - Chaos, Big House, and BASIC. He will lead the bands, choose the music, organize sound, and support the programming teams of CHAOS and Orchard. He will also be the point leader of our Big House Event on Wednesday nights. He will be the point leader of Caravan 2008 and Caravan 2009.
Kris Hoskinson will remain our Senior High Student Ministry Director. She will lead our senior high ministry focusing primarily on six things:
- Relationships with senior high students
- Recruiting, training, and supervising volunteers for Big House and other activities
- Missional engagement of students and volunteers
- Small groups - recruiting and matching students and volunteer adults at Big House and other times
- Administrating the city-wide Student Ministry Coalition
- Point leader of our Spring Break Mission trips
Jeff Mickey will continue as our College Director and will assume the responsibilities of leading our Student Ministry Program (7th-College graduates). As College Director, he will continue the effective ministries of our program: BASIC, College Lunch, small group Bible Studies, Sunday School class, appointments, relationships with UNI and other ministries, etc. Dave Bartlett will mentor Jeff into leading the Student Ministry Team: weekly meetings, goal setting and staff supervision. This will begin immediately and happen over the next year as Jeff gains experience in this position.
Karla Chestnut will move into more hours as a part-time College Director. Karla will move from 10 hours per week to 25 hours per week. She will continue with the good work she has been doing with appointments, small groups, volunteer recruitment, college lunches, mission trip and social events. This will help us backfill the additional hours that Jeff will use in overall Student Ministry focus and give additional hours needed in our College Ministry.
Natalie Brown will continue as Student Ministry & Caravan Administrator. She currently gives Student Ministry 50% of her time and Orchard Hill Church approximately 50% of her time in the area of publications and communication. Her hope is that in the future, as Orchard continues to grow, she could do more work in the areas of her call and passion which would mean more in design, graphics, and publication.
We will hire a Junior High Director (hopefully to be in place by July 1, 2008). We will seek local candidates, search on some national websites and work through our networks to find God’s person for this position. This person will be responsible for the following:
- Serve with or lead the CHAOS Team for Junior High Students on Wednesday nights
- Build relationships with junior high students and families
- Recruit volunteers to be involved in CHAOS and other junior high activities
- Motivate and engage Junior High Students on Sunday mornings
- Serve as a part of the Orchard Hill Staff
We will also possibly hire an additional part-time staff to fill relational and programming needs.
Summer 2008 Student and College Ministry Goals
- Implement strong summer ministry of relationships, follow-up, events, trips, and Wednesday night college events.
- Hire Junior High Director
- Rebuild a unified and synergistic Student Ministry Team
- Move the offices to get the staff into close proximity
- Clarify and write Job Descriptions
- Implement effective Caravan trip to Florida
- Evaluate Caravan 2008 and set plans for Caravan 2009
- Recruit volunteers for fall ministry
- Figure out representative on Staff Management Team
- Support Rocky Mountain High
- Write job description and hire part-time staff person
- Plan for fall ministries
- Recruit passionate people to create Sunday morning Junior High Class
- Continue to administrate and move teens into service on Sunday morning.
FAQ regarding current changes in student ministry team
Following the resignation of Walt Rogers as the Leader of our Student Ministry team, many great questions have been asked regarding the future of student ministry staffing at Orchard Hill. Below you will find answers to many of these questions. We want our church body to be informed and to know what we are doing to keep our student and college ministry strong.
Who is taking Walt’s position?
The short answer is – no one. Walt’s roles and responsibilities are being divided and shared by the student ministry team. Jeff Mickey will assume the responsibility of leading the student ministry team (Tim Walsten, Kris Hoskinson, Karla Chestnut, and the new staff we hire to lead our junior high program), with Dave’s mentoring and guidance. He and Karla Chestnut will continue to lead the college ministry with Karla moving from 10 hours per week to 25 hours per week.
Is Tim Walsten moving away?
No. But he is moving. Congratulations on the new house in Cedar Falls. We look forward to having his wife Shelby around more often as she enters her final year of PT school in Des Moines and completes some of her rotations in the Cedar Valley.
What is Tim doing?
Tim will become the Event and Worship Director for student ministries. He will utilize his excellent gifts and passion for creating large group worship events for junior high, high school, and college students. This will include recruiting, training, and leading band members to play at CHAOS, Big House, and BASIC. He will also be the point leader for Big House and bring creative programming ideas to CHAOS and BASIC. These events are foundational to our ministries at Orchard Hill as they provide a front door for students to enter into relationships where faith can take root and grow. Tim will also lead Caravan this summer and in 2009.
Is Kris still leading the high school ministry?
Yes! Kris is our Senior High Ministry Director. She will be focusing primarily on relational ministry with students, recruiting, training, and supervising volunteers, missional engagement with students and volunteers including pointing Spring Break trips, and administering the city-wide student ministry coalition. She will remain on the Big House team that Tim Walsten will now lead.
What about Junior High?
We are seeking candidates for a new junior high youth director. We are talking to local candidates and have posted the job description nationally. We hope to have a new staff in place by July 1, 2008. In the meantime, Tim will continue to work with his ministry partners from other churches to lead summer time events and ministry for our junior high students.
Who got promoted?
No one. There have been changes in job descriptions and assignments but no promotions. These changes empower our staff to better serve in their areas of strength, giftedness and passion while positioning the team to be most effective in ministry.
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