Executive Worship Leader Pastor Jobs in Kansas City, MO

The Campus Worship Leader provides strategic leadership for the Sunday worship experience at the Northland Campus of Abundant Life Church. Operating within a portable campus model, this role requires adaptability, logistical oversight, and the ability to build and develop high-capacity volunteer worship and production teams. The Campus Worship Leader leads worship gatherings, develops volunteer musicians and production teams, and helps establish a sustainable worship culture that reflects the AL Worship culture, Abundant Life’s theology, values, and mission, while operating within the realities of a weekly setup and teardown model.

Personal Responsibilities

• Be committed to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18; 1 Peter 2:2) by assembling for instruction in God’s Word and engaging in the personal study of God’s Word.
• Responsibly use the resources at your disposal to foster the mission and vision of Abundant Life (1 Peter 5:1-4).
• Participate in an Abundant Life group (Acts 2:41-42) as well as the discipleship ministry (Matthew 28:18-20).
• Live in a way that glorifies God and aligns with the staff core values (1 Timothy 3:1-7, Titus 1:5-9).
• Be committed to the ministry of giving to the needs of the saints (2 Corinthians 8:1-7 and 9:12) and to seek to abound in this ministry (2 Corinthians 8:7).
• Become a member of Abundant Life.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Work under the direction of the Campus Pastor and Executive Pastor of Worship (dotted-line supervision) to plan, lead, and execute all worship services and worship-related ministry for the campus.
• Lead all bands, worship leaders, rehearsals, and service flow with musical, technical, and spiritual excellence.
• Lead worship within both permanent and portable church models, coordinating setup/teardown and partnering with Production, Set-Up, Tear-Down, and Guest Services teams to ensure consistent, excellent environments.
• Oversee repeatable systems for portable worship execution (equipment flow, stage layout, sound checks, transitions), with an eye toward long-term scalability as the Northland Campus grows.
• Recruit, train, schedule, and shepherd a volunteer worship and production team; identify, mentor, and reproduce leaders to build sustainable ministry capacity.
• Provide pastoral care, encouragement, and spiritual leadership for all worship and production volunteers.
• Plan and execute worship for all campus-related needs, including Student/Next Gen ministries, weddings, funerals, and special events.
• Manage service planning, programming details, communication, and service flow using Planning Center.
• Maintain oversight of the music library, instruments, and worship-related equipment and supplies.
• Collaborate with Central Worship and CP to prepare and manage the annual worship budget.
• Embrace an “all hands-on deck” mindset, serving flexibly beyond traditional worship responsibilities to support overall campus needs.
• Attend required meetings and planning sessions with the CP and AL Worship.
• Exercise discretion and confidentiality in all matters related to staff, volunteers, and ministry operations.
• Demonstrate a willingness to serve outside traditional worship responsibilities during the launch and early growth phase of the campus.

Skills and Qualifications

• Character consistent with Abundant Life Staff Core Values: Synergy, Excellency, Integrity, Tenacity, Humility, and Loyalty.
• Thrives in a start-up, pioneering ministry environment and is energized by building systems, teams, and culture from the ground up.
• A servant-leader posture engaging in hands-on setup, problem-solving, and conflict management.
• Familiar with related music software, editing and sound/lighting.
• Comfortable leading worship in environments without permanent infrastructure and able to maintain excellence despite constraints.
• Possesses a strong theological understanding of worship and the pastoral instincts to care for volunteers.
• The Campus Worship Leader position requires a trained musician with band leadership experience and the ability to communicate at a high level.
• The skills, qualifications, and responsibilities listed here are not intended to be all-inclusive of the abilities needed to perform the job.

Experience

• Two years of leadership experience in a worship role are required.
• Two years of ministry leadership/care experience is required.

Benefits

• Abundant Life offers a competitive employee benefits package to all full-time employees. Details are available upon request.