Steve Sept Email & Phone Number

Olympia, Washington, United States

Tumwater, Washington, United States

• 20+ years’ experience in pastoral care, Bible teaching, recruiting, training and management of volunteer/lay leadership, directing children, youth and family ministries.• Spiritual gifting includes pastoral care, leadership, teaching, and encouragement. People-oriented, collaborative servant leader with experience multiplying disciples.• Able to cultivate and train leaders, foster a team approach to ministry, and make spiritual truths simple to understand.• Creative, innovative, self-starter, with a vision and passion to see individuals and families reached with the message of the good news of Jesus.• Building community within/around the church by community engagement and outreach.

• Pastoral Leadership to Adult Education Program (8 years).• Taught and preached God’s Word with excellence in a relevant and creative manner.• Ran One-on-one mentoring and discipleship sessions.• Established and led weekly prayer ministries.• Established and led a ministry for married couples, named “Oxygen Marriage Night.”• Established, wrote and edited church blog on the church website.• Led home groups for adults and children.

• Directed Family Experience Fun Nights where local families were encourage to come and bond.• Planned and directed two All-Church Family retreats.• Created and directed a monthly Family Production, providing parents with tools and strategies for spiritual mentoring of their children.• Developed and directed Fall Family Festival Outreach/Trunk of Treat annually.

• Pastoral leadership of Children’s Ministry Program of the local church (20+ years).• Was a Group Bible Teacher to elementary and pre-school students on a weekly basis; adapting existing curriculum and writing original curriculum.• Oversight of volunteers teams for children’s ministry.• Directed annual week of Summer Ministry Outreach to children, and recruited/trained teams of volunteers.• Directed Summer Day Camp ministry for elementary children.• Led a 4-member team on a two-weeks’ children’s ministry mission trip to Mozambique in Africa (2011).• Led a summer ministry outreach for children in Ensenada, Mexico.• Designed pre-school ministries to coordinate with women’s ministries.• Established a Games-After-School ministry drop-in center.

• Pastoral leadership of middle and high school ministries of the local church.• Led discipleship initiatives and equipping other ministries for young adult into adult/senior ministries.• Led 4 annual service projects for teens/youth to Inner City Children’s Camp in South Bend, IN.• Led 2 mission trips of teens and adults to West Virginia for children’s ministry.

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