Brandon Poninski
Committed To Discipling Others To Walk In The Light And Love Of Christ Locally And Abroad
Goodyear,AZ
Summary
Christ-centered and genuine people person successful at developing positive relationships with the community, congregation, and staff through the leading of the Holy Spirit and by the example set forth by Christ and the pastoral Epistles written by Paul. Approaches each situation with alertness, compassion, love, and concern. Developed great leadership, ministry planning, in-person and online communication, Spirit led, and biblically centered teaching and preaching skills through various ministry experiences ranging from being the Youth and Young Adult Pastor over a church with overall attendance around 1,300+ people, Academy Pastor of a K-12 Christian academy overseeing discipleship of over 100 students and teachers, director of the Alpha program, teaching/preaching to an adult congregation, and leading baptisms and a variety of events. Extremely passionate about sharing Christ with others, seeing souls saved and discipled, and glorifying God. Now serving as the Next Gen Pastor overseeing nursery through young adults.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Next Gen Pastor Pastor
CCFS Church
03.2024 - Current
- Cast vision for both youth and young adult ministries
- Have been successfully and consistently building youth ministry with 3 services a week, large scale events, and discipling them
- Have seen youth attendance grow from 5 kids to over 65 kids showing up to events and services
- Successfully co-led large revival/outreach event for youth and young adults called Faith Over Fear, where people gave their life to Christ and were baptized
- Created social media channels for youth ministry that has seen videos reach nearly 9,000 views and grown follower of channels over time
- Have experience leading youth, young adult, and adult staff and volunteers in ministry related tasks
- Experience teaching Saturday and Sunday adult service, and counseling individuals and couples going through variety of issues, such as marital counseling, with Bible truth
Academy Pastor/Youth Pastor
FourteenSix Christian Academy/CCFS Church
7 2023 - 03.2024
- Oversaw spiritual well-being of over 100 students and teachers on Monday-Friday basis
- Delivered Christ/Bible centered messages to entire school once a week
- Saw about half the student population come forward to formally receive Jesus after salvation message was preached
- Discipled multiple students, which were dealing with depression, past trauma, and suicidal thoughts
- Preached to adult congregation on more than one Wednesday night service
- Oversaw baptisms of adults and youth
- Administered communion and prayed over tithes/offerings for church multiple times
Ministry/Pastoral Leadership Volunteer
Pure Heart Church
08.2019 - 06.2023
- Served as Alpha director/Pastor for 2 years planning implementation of program, directing team under supervision, and saw it result in people coming to Christ and receiving water baptism after 3 separate Alpha experiences.
- Served as youth pastor for Peoria campus preaching and teaching to teenagers on volunteer basis
- Served alongside facilitators in recovery ministry at Glendale campus.
- Spoke at men's devotional breakfast to around 50 men.
- Developed sermon planning, ministry leadership, preaching/teaching, and program development skills at this church.
- Logged over 180 hours of supervised ministry leadership under Lead Pastor Jon Jennings during course of master of divinity program.
Police Officer
City Of Goodyear
07.2016 - 02.2023
- Worked as Field Training Officer training over 10 new and lateral officers as their supervisor.
- Served on SWAT team resolving more than 50 critical and highly stressful incidents. Also served as mentor to new operators training them as supervisor on team.
- Attained numerous instructor certifications and was instructor for entire department responsible for training over 130 sworn personnel.
- Developed ability to handle crisis situations, communication skills, and problem solving skills.
- Scored top 50 in nation for all SWAT Operators on national SWAT operator physical test, NTOA PFQ.
Member Services Supervisor
Lifetime Fitness
08.2012 - 06.2016
- Responded and solved numerous customer calls and emails regarding issues with products and services.
- Resolved situations in ways that assisted retention and drove sales.
- Trained more than 10 new employees on customer service, policies, and served as leader.
- Excelled at generating relationships and bringing people in to increase sales.
- Had retention numbers of saving more than 8 memberships in one month
Education
Master of Arts - Master of Divinity
Grand Canyon University
08.2019 - 03.2023
Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice And Criminology
Arizona State University
08.2012 - 05.2016
Skills
- Spiritual Leadership
- Youth/Young Adult Pastoring
- Vision Casting/Planning
- Experience Running Social Media Channels For Ministry
- Sermon Planning/Preparation
- Discipleship (Adult, Young Adult, and Youth)
- Program/Event Planning
- Preaching/Teaching to All Age Levels
- Experience Leading Teams/Volunteers/Staff
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Certification
Ordained Pastor
Timeline
Next Gen Pastor Pastor
CCFS Church
03.2024 - Current
Ordained Pastor
07-2023
CPR/AED
07-2023
Ministry/Pastoral Leadership Volunteer
Pure Heart Church
08.2019 - 06.2023
Master of Arts - Master of Divinity
Grand Canyon University
08.2019 - 03.2023
Police Officer
City Of Goodyear
07.2016 - 02.2023
Member Services Supervisor
Lifetime Fitness
08.2012 - 06.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice And Criminology
Arizona State University
08.2012 - 05.2016
Academy Pastor/Youth Pastor
FourteenSix Christian Academy/CCFS Church
7 2023 - 03.2024
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