Station Hill’s Next Generation & Student Minister leads a comprehensive disciple-making strategy for preschoolers through high schoolers at Brentwood Baptist’s largest regional campus. This leader carries direct, hands-on responsibility for Student Ministry (grades 6–12), while providing vision, supervision, and alignment for the Preschool Minister, Kids Minister, and Next Gen Administrative Assistant. Reporting to the South Region Associate Executive Pastor, this role champions the church/home partnership, implements Brentwood’s Disciples Multiplying Disciples (DxD) strategy, and builds a discipleship pipeline that spans birth through high school graduation. It’s a role for someone who would rather develop leaders than do it all himself, and who wants to help a rapidly growing community raise up the next generation to follow Christ.
Key Responsibilities:
Grow spiritually and model to the church, staff, leaders, and parents a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ.
• Equip and lead the ministerial and administrative staff serving Embrace, Preschool Ministry (birth–kindergarten), Kids Ministry (grades 1–5), and Student Ministry (grades 6–12).
• Develop and implement the DxD strategy across every age-graded ministry to ensure alignment with Brentwood Baptist as a whole.
• Serve as the primary champion of Family Ministry for the campus, ensuring programming, events, and branding reflect the church/home partnership.
• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of Station Hill Students, implementing the DxD framework through gospel conversations, groups, going, gathering, and giving (the 5Gs).
• Oversee recruitment, vetting, and training of Student Ministry workers in alignment with MinistrySafe policies.
• Develop student ministry leaders, launch new groups, oversee curriculum, and shape experiences that are engaging, creative, and biblically grounded.
• Plan and strengthen Station Hill’s student pathways, including weekly programming, catalyst events, and mission opportunities.
• Collaborate with campus and regional Next Gen leaders to keep philosophy, strategy, curriculum, and spiritual formation aligned across all Brentwood campuses.
• Provide counseling, care, and support to students and families as needs arise.
• Oversee Student Ministry administration, including strategic planning, budgeting, facility use, and curriculum approval.
• Serve as a contributing member of the Station Hill ministerial team and be available for preaching, weddings, funerals, and other ministerial functions as assigned.
Requirements
- A mature, growing follower of Jesus Christ who leads by serving and equipping others rather than doing ministry alone.
- Three to five years of leadership experience in student ministry, next generation ministry, or a comparable ministry role, ideally with some experience supervising staff or volunteers.
- A gift for galvanizing volunteers and staff around a shared vision, paired with the diplomacy to keep relationships steady across every age-graded ministry.
- A proven track record of recruiting, equipping, and developing leaders, not just running programs.
- A genuine passion for partnering with parents and helping families make the home the center of godly influence.
- Full agreement with the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 and a heart for Brentwood’s Disciples Multiplying Disciples (DxD) strategy and 5G ministry philosophy.
Why We Love This Opportunity
I love this search because Station Hill is a growing, sizable ministry with real momentum, and this role has a track record of preparing leaders for what’s next in their calling. Pair that with a healthy, settled team, a clear discipleship strategy, and one of the fastest-growing mission fields south of Nashville, and you’ve got an incredibly compelling Next Gen opportunity.
About Brentwood Baptist Church (Station Hill Campus)
The Church at Station Hill is one of nine campuses of Brentwood Baptist Church, a multi-campus church serving Middle Tennessee with a shared mission of engaging the whole person with the whole gospel of Jesus Christ anywhere, anytime, with anybody. Founded in 1969 as a mission of Woodmont Baptist Church, Brentwood Baptist has grown into one of the region’s most influential congregations, and Station Hill, established in 2010 to serve the rapidly growing Spring Hill and Thompson’s Station communities, has grown into the largest of Brentwood’s regional campuses. Today it’s a vibrant, multigenerational congregation of roughly 1,200 to 1,500 in weekend attendance, marked by a strong commitment to biblical preaching, gospel-centered worship, and disciple-making that spans every stage of life. As one campus within the Brentwood Baptist family, Station Hill exists to faithfully serve its own community while advancing the church’s collective mission of seeing lives transformed by the gospel for the glory of God.
About Brentwood
“As a staff member at The Church at Station Hill, living in the Spring Hill area has genuinely shaped how I do ministry because the people here value relationships so deeply, trust comes easier, and doors open faster than they might elsewhere. Spring Hill’s small-town feel paired with big-city amenities means I get to live life alongside the very people I serve, running into families at the grocery store or school events, which turns ministry from something I do into something woven naturally into everyday life.”
David Reed – Groups and Care Minister
“Spring Hill is a great place to raise a family and build community. It’s big enough to have a lot of opportunities, such as restaurants, sports, schools, and small enough to not feel like a big city. Columbia is just south of us, and has a small-town charm, and Nashville is to the north, with sporting events, concerts, plays, and more. Neighborhoods are friendly and people want to get involved, but we aren’t living in a bubble. We are still surrounded by people of many different faiths and backgrounds, and there are a lot of opportunities to share the gospel. We are also far enough south to escape harsh winters, but far enough north to get all four seasons (though snow almost always arrives after Christmas, not before). Spring Hill has a lot of middle class and some upper middle class.”
Amy Keys – Preschool Minister
“I love living in Spring Hill because it still has that small town community feel even though it’s a city of its own. I can’t go to Walmart without running into at least one person, if not three or four people I know from church. The Tennessee scenery is magnificent, and there are so many walking trails that it’s easy to transition from office work to nature in the same afternoon. All in all, it is a great place to raise my family.”
Stephanie Prince – Connections Minister
