We're Hiring · 2026–27

Youth Minister for Antioch & Emmaus

A paid, part-time position leading the shared high school and middle school ministry of four Mishawaka parishes, backed by a lay commission that carries the logistics so you can carry the ministry.

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CommitmentPart-Time Contract
Compensation$36,000 / Year
StartSeptember 2026
LocationMishawaka, IN

The Role

Lead a ministry with 25 years of history and momentum right now

Antioch, our high school ministry, celebrated its twenty-fifth year this summer. More than one hundred of our teens just came home from Damascus summer camp, and the Andrew Ministries small groups they return to keep eight in ten of them engaged in their faith. This is not a rebuild. It is a running start.

The Youth Minister runs Antioch and Emmaus, our middle school ministry, across four parishes: St. Joseph, St. Monica, St. Bavo, and Queen of Peace. The heart of the week is the Thursday night gathering at St. Monica. The heart of the year is two Antioch retreats, each built through ten weeks of preparation with a teen team, adult core, and host families. Around them: incoming eighth graders night, senior night, the Antioch Olympics, parent nights, and the summer pipeline to Damascus.

The work is discipleship: building a community where teens are known by name, encounter the Lord in the sacraments and in real friendship, and grow into leaders who bring their peers with them.

Who We Want

Three things at once

Parents and parishioners across our parishes have been clear about what this role needs to be. We listened.

Dynamic

A visible, energetic presence who fills a room, draws teens in, and is not afraid to be out front. Comfortable leading worship, giving a talk, running a retreat, and holding a gym full of middle schoolers.

Relatable

Someone who knows how to be with young people: not above them, not pretending to be one of them. A person teens want to talk to after the talk, and whose parents trust implicitly. Warm, funny, unhurried, and interested.

Orthodox

Fully and joyfully faithful to the teaching of the Catholic Church, and able to share it in a way that is winsome rather than defensive. A prayer life rooted in the sacraments. The kind of Catholic whose faith is the most interesting thing about them.

All three, not two out of three. If you are dynamic but doctrinally thin, this is not the right role. If you are orthodox but cannot connect with a fifteen-year-old, this is not the right role. We are looking for the whole person.

The Year

What you carry, and what we carry

You

The ministry.

  • Lead the weekly Thursday gathering at St. Monica: worship, catechesis, small groups, service, and fun.
  • Plan and lead two Antioch retreats, each with ten weeks of preparation.
  • Oversee and grow Emmaus, and raise Antioch teens sixteen and older to serve there.
  • Recruit and form adult core members and teen leaders.
  • Be a visible presence at Masses and in the local Catholic schools.
  • Pray, personally and with the community, and call others to their baptismal gifts.
The Commission

Everything else.

  • Event logistics, facilities, and scheduling across four parishes.
  • Budget, fundraising, and stewardship. Program costs are funded separately from your fee.
  • Communications, bulletins, social media, and family outreach.
  • Volunteer coordination, background checks, and Safe Environment administration.
  • A bi-weekly check-in with one supervisor, the Commission Chair. Not a committee.
The Commission is the trellis; the ministry is the vine. You report to one person, the Chair. The full Commission meets with you monthly for progress, wins and losses, needs, and budget. Twice a year, we help you prepare a report for all the parishes: the ministry, the numbers, and the glory stories.

Good now. Full-time later.

Our four parishes have funded this year in full, and they are building the support to make this a full-time Director of Youth & Young Adult Ministry. The person who leads this year well is the natural first candidate for that role.

We are hiring for one year and scouting for ten. If that sounds like a working interview, it is. We will treat it that way, and so should you.

Apply

How to apply

  1. Send three things: a cover letter, a resume, and three references, at least one of them a pastor or ministry supervisor.
  2. Tell us your story. The cover letter matters more than the resume here. Tell us how you came to love Christ and young people, and what draws you to this work.
  3. We move quickly. Applications are reviewed as they arrive and the position is open until filled. Strong candidates hear back within a week, then a video call, then a visit to a Thursday night.

Ready?

Email your application to the Commission. We read every one.

Email Your Application or write to ryan@kreagerconsulting.com
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Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

— 1 Timothy 4:12