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Director of Traditional Music

Director of Traditional Worship will be a musically-gifted, spiritually-mature, biblically-grounded Christian to lead all
traditional worship ministries at our church under the direction of the Executive Director. The ideal candidate has experience
leading worship at a similar sized church and experience shepherding worship teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with the Senior Pastor to plan the traditional worship services.
• Lead the musical portion of traditional worship services.
• Develop a process to regularly identify and deploy new volunteers in the church’s traditional worship ministry.
• Shepherd, train, manage, and care for the volunteer traditional worship teams.
• Develop an annual worship ministry budget and be able to work within that budget.
• Look for ways to inspire non-musical worship experiences for the church body.
• Collaborate well with the church’s worship tech ministry.
• Work with youth and children’s ministry leaders to find worship leaders for age-graded worship experiences within the
church.
• Oversee the maintenance of all musical instruments owned by the church.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5 years experience leading worship in a similar church setting.
• Significant skill as a vocalist and instrumentalist.
• Broad knowledge of Christian worship music across multiple styles and generational tastes.
• Proficiency in reading music.
• Proven experience leading and managing teams.
• Bachelor’s degree. Some formal training in music (and specifically church music) is preferred.
• A lifestyle congruent with the biblical requirements for leaders (1 Tim. 3:1-13; 2 Tim. 2; Titus 1:5-9).
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

Executive Director

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Executive Director must be a Christ-led and business-minded ministry leader who can lead our staff and execute the
vision of our church. The ideal candidate is a committed Christian with experience leading organizations by creating
systems and processes. Candidate will be proficient at building and fortifying high performance teams for the
accomplishment of Advent’s goals.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Support and execute the vision of the Senior Pastor and Church Leadership Team.
• Manage and lead the everyday activities of the church staff under the authority of the Senior Pastor.
• Play an integral role in all personnel decisions within the church staff.
• Supervise staff in a way that maximizes ministry effectiveness and maintaining healthy culture.
• Create systems and processes that further the church’s ministry objectives.
• Align the ministries and departments of the church around the church’s core vision.
• Facilitate an annual strategic planning process to evaluate the ministry effectiveness of the church that
concludes in a strategic plan.
• Structure and facilitate Stewardship and Financial Generosity Initiatives to support ministry and
operations.
• Lead the church’s budgeting and financial planning processes.
• Serve as part of the church’s leadership team, helping to set the long-term objectives and strategies of
the church.
• Maintain an awareness of current trends and best practices within ministries of comparable size.
• Work with the Facilities Team to manage the church’s property.

REQUIREMENTS
• Proven and Successful experience managing large teams in either the church or business world.
• Excellent verbal communicator: Comfortable speaking before large groups of people.
• Able to speak the truth in love and deal wisely with conflict amongst the staff and the broader church.
• A growing personal relationship with Christ.
• Stated willingness to operate within our church’s statement of beliefs.
• Willingness to use technology to help the church further its ministry goals.
• Ability to engage people of all generations in the ministry of the church.
• A lifestyle congruent with the biblical requirements for leaders (1 Tim. 3:1-13; 2 Tim. 2; Titus 1:5-9).
• Ability to cultivate and nurture a healthy culture with staff and leadership committees.

Mommy and Me

Mommy and Me is for moms and their children preschool aged or younger to support each other through the joys and trials of motherhood while the kids play and get to know one another too.

Meeting Time: Fridays at 10:00 am, 1st & 3rd Friday
Location: Gym/PlayGround
Who: Mothers with Children

Congregational Vote

Dear Advent Family,

Most of you know that our congregation held a church-wide vote earlier this afternoon concerning our connection to the United Methodist Church. The vote came after we held two informational meetings for our congregation in January, numerous Lifegroup meetings, and after we had been providing materials through the eNews since September 2023. After much prayer, discussion, and discernment, our congregation voted 410 (49.8%) in favor of separating, and 414 (50.2%) against separating from the United Methodist Church. Since this was less than the 2/3 majority that was required under the conference process, the motion to separate was not approved.

Clearly there were members of Advent who held different opinions about this issue. And while those who voted to remain in the conference are surely pleased with the decision, we recognize that there are those who are deeply disappointed. Whether you voted for Advent to stay in the United Methodist Church or leave, our prayer is that you will stay at Advent and be a part of its future. It is the people of Advent, each seeking to make disciples, that has made Advent the wonderful church that it has been and is.

Advent will now remain a United Methodist congregation. Pastor Tim and Pastor Rachel will remain as pastors until the end of June. The cabinet will be projecting new appointments for clergy the last week of February. They will decide on a new senior pastor for Advent and will decide if Pastor Rachel will be re-appointed to Advent for another year.

It has felt like a long process. But the universal desire has been to keep Advent, Advent. That is our desire today. It is our intention to remain the church that we have been. There will be no major changes in our worship services, Lifegroups, mission effort, or our committee structure. Our mission will continue to be fishin’. We will still strive to be a church where disciples Gather for Worship, Grow in Groups, and Go to Serve and to Share. Please join us in our continued ministry.

Pastor Tim and Pastor Rachel

Stephen Ministry

Stephen Ministry is the one-to-one lay caring ministry. Stephen Ministry congregations equip and empower lay caregivers – called Stephen Ministers – to provide high-quality, confidential, Christ-centered care to people who are hurting.

Stephen Ministers are laypeople who have trained 50 hours to provide one-to-one care to people experiencing a difficult time in life. The identity of those receiving care and what takes place in each caring relationship remains private.

Meeting Time: Varies Monthly
Location: Education Building, E112
Who: Men and Women, All Ages

Me and My Parkinson’s

You are not alone. Me and My Parkinson’s is a support group for those diagnosed with Parkinson’s and their spouses to share their experiences with one another. Join us at Advent from 6:30-7:30pm on the first Thursday of each month. For more information, click here to email the group.

Meeting Time: 6:30pm, First Thursday of the month
Location: Education Building, E112
Who: Those with Parkinson’s and caregivers of those with Parkinson’s

Scuffletown Book Club

This book study group meets each Sunday at 6:00 pm in with Alan and Mary Russell

Meeting Time: Sundays at 6:00 pm
Location: Off Campus
Who: Men & Women, all ages

Scuffletown Couples

This group meets each Sunday at Noon with Heather and Will Jones.

Meeting Time: Sundays at Noon
Location: Off Campus

Grateful Initiative

“You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us.” – 2 Corinthians 9:11 (NRSV)

The primary goal of the GRATEFUL Initiative is to help all of us in our growth as disciples by reminding us of all that we have to be GRATEFUL for in Christ’s atoning sacrifice for us and the faithful response that that requires of us. Our hope is that everyone will take their next faith step in financial giving by placing trust in God through extravagant generosity. Sharing God’s gifts enables our great church to expand ministry impact and realize all we have to be GRATEFUL for.

Click the Grateful Image above to view the booklet for the Grateful Initiative!

FAQ’s

Your financial gifts allow Advent to share the good news of Jesus Christ as we set out to accomplish our mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. Your financial gift will fortify plans for fostering personal spiritual growth and expanding our ability as a congregation to make a kingdom impact in our community, region and all the world. The GRATEFUL Initiative is asking all of us to pledge our giving to our missional and ministry initiatives, multi-campus expansion, capital improvements as well as the general operating budget of Advent. This new GRATEFUL Initiative combines the needs of the annual ministry operating budget and the over-and-above giving opportunity of our congregation into one simple, straightforward twenty-four month financial commitment.

Our church family’s generosity is the reason Advent is able to carry out or mission and all that accompanies every discipleship effort. The founders of Advent made a commitment to dedicate at least 10% of our annual operating budget to missions. To provide a few examples, your generosity provides houses for those transitioning out of homelessness (Homes of Hope/United Ministries), meals for children who would otherwise not eat over the weekends (Backpack Blessings), provisions for our partners at Harvest Hope Food Bank, home repairs through Salkehatchie, international ministry funding with partners like Compassion International, Full Dimension Ministry, and so much more!

Your generosity also helps transformation in the lives of those in our congregation. Throughout each week discipleship happens as the Lord ministers to the hearts and minds of our children, students and adults in community with each other. You also enable events like Advent Community Christmas, VBS, Christmas Under The Stars, Student Messy Night, EggVenture, etc., all of
which bring guests onto our campus and provide an entry point for them to make Advent their church home.

Commitment Sunday for GRATEFUL will be November 19, 2023 and your commitment begins in January 2024. This is a two-year ministry plan for 2024 and 2025 that will assist with budgeting, allocating financial resources in a manner that advances our mission. Our hope is that the initiative will also become part of a life-long commitment to discipleship and growth, particularly in relation to financial generosity. We also believe that prayerfully making a commitment to the GRATEFUL Initiative represents a step in faith that the Lord will use in mighty ways.

Advent’s goal is that everyone takes the next step in their financial generosity. fI you don’t currently give, we hope you will begin giving intentionally, whatever the amount or percentage of your income you bless Advent with. If you already give an amount under 10%, we hope you will take a step closer to 10% of your income. Once you have made your decision, you can see all the ways to commit to GRATEFUL in the Ways to Pledge section of this page.

Ways to Pledge

  1. If you are currently attending Advent or are a member of Advent, you can make your online commitment to the GRATEFUL Initiative through your Realm account. You can make your pledge in Realm here. If you have not joined Realm yet and would like to request an invite, please click here.
  2. If you are new to Advent or do not have a Realm account, you can make your commitment online by clicking here.
  3. If you have a printed commitment card, you can turn in your commitment card on Commitment Sunday, November 19, 2023 at Five Forks for either worship service (9 am or 10:30 am) or at our Scuffletown campus at 10 am, you can mail it to Advent United Methodist Church, 2258 Woodruff Road, Simpsonville, SC 29681, or you can bring it by the church office.
  4. If you do not have a printed commitment card but would like to make your commitment in person, please join us on Sunday, November 19th at Five Forks for either worship service (9 am or 10:30 am) or at our Scuffletown campus at 10 am for Commitment Sunday. Printed Commitment Cards will be available at both campuses.
Make Your Commitment in Realm
No Realm Account? No problem. Make Your Grateful Commitment Here

Questions?

For questions about the GRATEFUL Initiative, you can contact the church office at (864) 288-8217, email us at [email protected], or use our online contact form!

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