Part-Time Position Available after July 1, 2025
Salary range is $16,000-20,000 based on experience with two weeks paid vacation time and flexible work hours.
General Position Expectations
Administers and produces all aspects of music for worship services. This position includes: arranging for special music, leading hymn-sing style services, directing a small choir, participating in worship planning. Music Program Director is expected to be available on Sundays and within reasonable means as needed for special services, weddings, funerals, and other music related church events. The senior minister supervises this position.
Congregation
The mission of First Christian Church is to: affirm our belief in God,
learn of God's purpose for us through study, worship, and prayer,
to grow and change in response to our understanding of God's will,
and to share faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior
by witnessing, teaching, and active loving ministry to others.
We are a small historic church in downtown Madison, Indiana. Our congregation is an accepting group of people who seek to build faith and strengthen relationships within the tradition of The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). We have a traditional weekly worship service on Sunday mornings at 10:30am. Our traditional services include hymns (primarily from the Chalice Hymnal), prelude and postlude, meditation music, and some choir participation accompanied by organ and piano. We are open to innovative worship which can complement a traditional worship service. We regularly invite musicians and soloists to share their time and talent including local bluegrass groups, members who want to share their gifts, and other local musicians. First Christian Church is home to a regularly maintained 15-rank 1992 Temple pipe organ, a Baldwin grand piano, and a 3-octave Schulmerich handbell set.
Desired Expertise
● Organization, administrative, and leadership skills
● Effective interpersonal and communication skills
● Understanding of traditional worship services and the Liturgical calendar
● Conducting a choir
● Organ and piano skills
