Directors, Religious Activities and Education
Community and Social Service
The job is building and running a congregation's education and activity programs: choosing curricula and class structures, setting goals with other ministry staff, and training the people who teach. Recruiting volunteers is a regular task, as is scheduling camps, conferences, meetings, seminars, or retreats. The practical side is ordering materials, booking speakers and rooms, and keeping the calendar workable. Counseling comes up too—people bringing interpersonal, health, financial, or religious problems. A better match for those who like organizing programs, training instructors, and mixing calendars with one-to-one guidance.
Typical education: Bachelor’s Degree (4-year)
Annual Median Wage in Field (2025)
$52'100
Median Wage Market Position
$52'100
What you might do
- Design study courses and religious education programs
- Choose lesson plans and class formats for programs
- Recruit and train volunteer teachers and staff
- Schedule camps, conferences, and retreats
- Counsel people on money, health, or faith issues
- Order materials and reserve space for programs
Skills that matter
- Training religious education instructional staff
- Counseling on interpersonal, health, or money problems
- Curriculum choices for study programs
- Volunteer recruiting for congregation work
- Scheduling camps, conferences, and retreats
- Goal-setting with other ministry members
AI & the future of this role
Program coordination and outreach still depend on community trust, pastoral judgment, and in-person leadership that tools struggle to replicate. Scheduling, materials, and routine communication may become easier to automate, but relationship-driven guidance is likely to remain central.
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