Leaving a Youth Ministry Job is tough, in this video, we're going to explore some top Youth Pastor job switch questions, such as: Is it wrong to look for a new church job? When you start looking, when should you share that information with your current church? How can someone go about expressing concern about current job frustrations without burning bridges?

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🕰️TIMECODES

00:00 Should You Stay or Go?

00:26 4 New Job Principles

07:12 Tell Them Early

10:42 Tell Them in the Middle

12:41 Tell Them at the End

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TRANSCRIPT

00:00:00 :05 - 00:00:23 :21

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

In this video, we're going to look at when a youth pastor takes a new church job. What are some principles that you can live by? And I, as a 15 year youth ministry veteran, have made several job transitions. But I've learned some things along the way, and I want to talk about some of the pros and the cons about when you choose to share this with your church leadership and what I recommend doing.

00:00:23 :24 - 00:00:44 :26

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show, everybody. Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show. My name is Nick Klassen and in this episode we're going to be answering this question. What are some what is some advice for looking at other church jobs while you're still working at your current one? Specifically, according to this anonymous poster, they said they're currently in negotiations with their current church.

00:00:44 :26 - 00:01:10 :13

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

They love the place. However, the workload is undoable. They're not willing to budge on adding staff to the student ministry instead of looking at other jobs to get an idea of what other church staffing ratios might look like. And in the midst, they may have found what seems to be better circumstances over and over again. Should they let their current church know that they're applying, or should they wait until they get a real response in interviews from the other churches?

00:01:10 :15 - 00:01:34 :19

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

I know it's not, but it almost is. I can go on behind their back, but my main goal is to really see if I'm off on what I'm asking for. If you've been in this place before or have any advice, please help. Well, the first thing that I want to say is that I believe that there are four principles when it comes to looking for a new church job that you should just, you know, be aware of and like, have kind of on your horizon.

00:01:34 :19 - 00:02:01 :12

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

Number one is it's not disloyal to look like there's nothing wrong with looking for I, I understand it like you say, saying here, like it feels like I'm doing something wrong. I'm going behind their back. I understand that feeling. I've had that feeling. But you got to understand that there is nothing inherently or morally wrong. Now, if you're doing something sneaky or you're lying, like if, of course, there's like a moral, you know, a moral obligation baked within to that.

00:02:01 :12 - 00:02:20 :21

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

But like in the grand scheme of things like you haven't done anything wrong. The other thing is, like you don't you're not obligated when you're like looking for other jobs to tell your church. That's my personal opinion. And that's what I believe from like a moral, ethical like dilemma. Right. Hey, quick break. Let me ask you a question.

00:02:20 :21 - 00:02:41 :02

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

And you can grab that pack right now and start becoming a master at social media and hybrid ministry. In your youth ministry context, rooting for you as you are crushing it this fall in your student ministry. The third one is like you should try to keep an open communication about your workload. And according to this question, it sounds like you are.

00:03:42 :03 - 00:04:10 :24

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

Or at least you're attempting to. And like I would. This is why I am such a strong, proponent and advocate for regular one on one check ins. So like, for example, at one church I worked at, my boss had like an open door policy and it was like, hey, come find me if you need me. And like for my personality type guy who, like, doesn't really like to be told what to do and doesn't really like, love taking advice from other people, wants to kind of figure it out for themselves.

00:04:10 :24 - 00:04:30 :09

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

Like I never needed him like. But there are times he's like, you never come to me. And like, he took that as like me being uncomfortable and teachable and just, like, wasn't like my vibe, right? But my very next job with my very next boss. Regular one on ones. Not my favorite thing, to be honest. Because again, same thing personality like do things on my own.

00:04:30 :12 - 00:04:49 :09

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

However, it helped me stay just like in the loop of like how he was feeling about me, how he was feeling about my job performance. Like what I could do better. And like when you when you in a regular one on one get feedback about like what you could be doing better, like what you're doing well like that's a natural normal thing when you're never having regular one on ones.

00:04:49 :15 - 00:05:11 :13

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

Like then when you do have like a talking to, so to speak, with, like your boss, like then you're getting in trouble. And so if you don't have regular one on ones, first of all, that's on your manager. But second of all, like an opportunity for you to lead up in this moment and ask like, hey, can we have the regular check in where we can evaluate and analyze like how this is going and like what we could do, you know, to make it better?

00:05:11 :18 - 00:05:31 :11

Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry

And one thing I say to the staff that I lead is like, don't just bri