Principle Function: The Minister of Music is primarily responsible for providing leadership and direction for planning, conducting, and evaluating a comprehensive music ministry. The Minister of Music will assist with assigned administrative tasks of the ministry as well as serve in a supporting role to the Pastor in the total operation of the church. This is a full-time salaried position.
Standard of Christian Commitment
The divine mission of New Home Baptist Church mandates that all personnel must demonstrate a commitment to the purposes of the local church. Every employee must be a born-again, baptized believer in Jesus Christ and be in full agreement to the Baptist Faith and Message 2000. It is expected that conduct becoming a follower of Jesus Christ will be portrayed in the community, including social media.
Qualifications
- Be an active member of New Home Baptist Church (or transfer membership immediately following employment start).
- Possess the character qualities listed in 1 Timothy 3:1-7.
- Support the church’s position in using the King James Version of the Bible in our corporate studies.
- Have a strong working knowledge of music.
- Have good teaching and leadership skills.
- Have a good personal appearance.
- Have good interpersonal skills.
- Possess and utilize good organizational skills.
- Have a working knowledge of the church sound equipment.
- 1-3 years’ experience leading congregational worship is desired.
Job Description
- Work with the Pastor to plan music for worship services that supports the message for that service.
- Direct the choir in practices and worship services, adhering to our practice of blended worship.
- Plan and direct a minimum of 2 musicals per year: Easter and Christmas Cantatas as a minimum.
- Participate in weekly rehearsals & sound checks on Sunday mornings at appointed time.
- Prepare annual budget and report music usage to CCLI and appropriate agencies as required to meet the needs of music and outreach ministries.
- Coordinate with the church technologies team to ensure necessary support.
- Coordinate participation of instrumentalists, soloists, ensembles, and choirs for rotation in worship.
- Utilize common church computer programs such as Easy Worship, SongSelect, and Planning Center.
- Assist the Pastor in the function and spiritual operation of the church, including visitation, pastoral care, and planning and implementing ministry programs and events.
- Work with the deacons to evaluate and report benevolence needs.
- Furnish own transportation in fulfillment of the above-mentioned job requirements.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Pastor.
New Home Baptist Church (NHBC) of Perry, Florida is a Mission Minded, Southern Baptist, New Testament, Evangelical Body of Believers, located in the Big Bend area of the Florida Panhandle. Perry is fifty-two miles southeast of the Florida State Capital in Tallahassee on US Hwy 19. We use the King James Bible in our corporate studies and align with the Baptist Faith and Message 2000.
We are a Pastor Led, Deacon Served Body of Believers engaged in regular church services, including Sunday School, Children’s Church, Lamplighters, Youth Ministry, and Senior Adults. Our members serve the local community through a wide range of ministries. Additionally, our church is active with the Men’s Brotherhood Ministry, Women’s Mission Union (WMU), Hearts and Hands Ministry, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Florida Baptist Disaster Relief and other Missions through the Taylor Baptist Association and Florida Baptist Cooperative Program.
Our Church currently lists 358 members with 153 regularly attending Sunday morning service and 96 regularly attending Sunday School. We also hold mid-week services which include a family meal before children and youth programs and adult prayer meeting. Our 2023 VBS Program participation was 96 youth and adults. Our Church has recently recognized an increase in membership and attendance; however, we do have church members serving multiple support roles. Morale of the Church Family remains high as evidenced by our VBS participation and our Fall Festival.
New Home Baptist Church was established on October 5th, 1941, through the gift of a family who provided the property and built a wooden structure for worship. Other buildings were built and used as the Church grew and a new sanctuary was built in 1962, followed by the Family Life Center in 1985.
Additional Facilities include Sunday School Classrooms, Fellowship Hall/kitchen, and two outbuildings as well as open grounds where Church events are held. Our Family Life center houses our Church Administrative offices, a large gymnasium, and 18 educational rooms.
Our Regular Church Staff includes:
- Pastor
- Administrative Assistant
- Janitorial Staff
- Nursery Coordinator
Our Church members are prayerfully anticipating God’s placement of a Minister of Music to provide leadership in our music ministry, adhering to our practice of blended worship, and assist our Pastor in leadership of the church as well as in cooperative service to our community.
Perry Florida is a city between Tallahassee and Gainesville. It is the seat of Taylor County, Florida and was named for Madison Perry, the fourth Governor of Florida. We are a quick 21-mile drive to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city of Perry has a population of about 7,000 people. Perry has that small town feel, rich in history and heritage where many of the streets are still canopy lined in magnificent oaks. Despite Hurricane Idalia making landfall on our coast less than a year ago and blowing right through Perry, the townspeople have pulled together and are recovering in quick fashion. Perry hosts multiple festivals annually at our Forest Capital Museum State Park. A Bluegrass Festival, BBQ Festival, and our very popular Florida Forest Festival.
Taylor County is nestled in the “Big Bend” region of Florida with a population of about 27,000 residents and was deemed the “Tree Capital of the South” in 1965 by then Governor W. Haydon Burns. The county spans over 1,200 square miles and has one of the longest coastlines in Florida. With approximately 982 square miles of woods, ponds, creeks, and coastline Taylor County is prime for some of the best hunting, freshwater and saltwater fishing to be found.
The residents of Perry are employed by a wide range of businesses and professions in the area. Unfortunately, Taylor County suffered a blow in late 2023 with the closing of our local cellulose paper mill which was a major employer since the 1950’s. Despite the setback to the lumber industry Perry still has a wide range of employment opportunities. In addition to popular retail and grocery stores, we also have private manufacturers making everything from potato chips, munitions, to aircraft shelters.
Perry and Taylor County have both public and private educational facilities for early and primary students. Taylor County High School (TCHS) is home to the Bulldogs. Perry is also home to Big Bend Technical College with programs to prepare students for careers in nursing, welding, and mechanics just to name a few. North Florida College, a community college has a Perry location and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges.
Our Church Covenant
Having been led, as we believe by the Spirit of God, to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior and, on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we do now, in the presence of God, angels and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another as one body in Christ.
We, engage, therefore, by the aid of the Holy Spirit to walk together in Christian Love; to strive for advancement of this church in knowledge, holiness, and comfort; to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines; to contribute cheerfully and regular to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor and the spread of the gospel through all nations.
We also engage to maintain family and secret devotions; to religiously educate our children; to seek the education of our kindred and acquaintances; to walk circumspectly in the world; to be just in our dealing, faithful in our engagements, and exemplary in our deportment; avoid all tattling, backbiting, and excessive anger; to abstain from the sale of, and use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage; to be zealous in our efforts to advance the kingdom of our Savior.
We further engage to watch over one another in brotherly love; to remember one another in prayer; to aid one another in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and Christian courtesy in speech; to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation, and mindful of the rules of our Savior to secure it without delay.
We moreover engage that when we remove from this place, we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God's Word.
