Jacob Poettker
McPherson,KS
Summary
Enthusiastic Worship Leader with proven musical talents and technical knowledge to successfully run contemporary services. Strengths include creating collaborative worship experiences, discipleship, and raising up new worship leaders. Advanced user of ProPresenter, LightKey, Subsplash, Planning Center, and Ableton Live. Seeking to dedicate abilities to a new Worship Leader role with an expanding church.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Worship Pastor
Revolution Free Methodist Church
McPherson , KS
2020.08 - 2024.04
- Planned, managed, scheduled, and led practice sessions for the praise band.
- Designed and managed All A/V equipment, maintaining and upgrading when needed.
- Recruited new volunteers for various roles including vocalists, instrumentalists, worship leaders, and A/V Technicians.
- Cultivated relationships with local churches in order to collaborate on joint worship initiatives.
- Engaged in outreach programs within the community by leading musical performances at other local ministries
- Created visually appealing promotional materials like posters and flyers for advertising upcoming events, and sermon series.
- Created and managed church website and app through Subsplash.
- Put together lyrics presentations for congregation and performers through ProPresenter and Planning Center.
Creative Arts Director
Serve Community Church
Prairie Village , Kansas
2018.12 - 2020.08
- Cultivated relationships with local churches in order to collaborate on joint worship initiatives.
- Planned worship schedules and sequences of events to keep members engaged and active.
- Coordinated special event worship, camp worship sessions and revivals.
- Put together lyrics presentations for congregation and performers.
- Chose songs and organized materials for every worship service.
- Implemented special programs for holiday and church events.
- Brought in and managed volunteers to fill ranks of morning worship teams.
Barista
Starbucks, Barista
Mission , Kansas
2020.09 - 2021.08
- Prepared specialty coffee drinks such as lattes, cappuccinos, macchiatos, mochas, and Americanos.
- Operated cash registers to process customer payments.
- Maintained a clean work environment by wiping down counters, washing dishes, and cleaning floors.
- Stocked shelves with ingredients needed to make coffee drinks.
Worship Leader Intern
McPherson Free Methodist Church
McPherson , Kansas
2015.08 - 2018.03
- Organize the music portion of each Sunday morning service
- Schedule worship team members to play on each Sunday
- Record new arrangements of songs through Logic Pro X
- Adjust, fix, and up-keep any tech used in the sanctuary
- Lead a weekly practice to prepare for each service
- Report all songs played into the CCLI database
Education
Bachelor of Science - Contemporary Christian Music
Central Christian College of Kansas
Mcpherson, KS2018-05
Minor - Worship Arts
Central Christian College of Kansas
McPherson, KS2018-05
Skills
- Leading Worship
- Music theory knowledge
- Recording & producing music
- Biblical knowledge
- Proficiency in guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals
- Audio/Video tech proficiency
- Social Media Engagement
- Team Collaboration
Affiliations
- Running a podcast called to help the church have better conversations on how God is moving and working in pop culture, called, "Pop Culture Redemption."
- Independent Christian artist: Jacob Poett.
- Performed opening sets for CCM artists: Colton Dixon & Jason Crabb
Websites
Timeline
Barista
Starbucks, Barista
2020.09 - 2021.08
Worship Pastor
Revolution Free Methodist Church
2020.08 - 2024.04
Creative Arts Director
Serve Community Church
2018.12 - 2020.08
Worship Leader Intern
McPherson Free Methodist Church
2015.08 - 2018.03
Bachelor of Science - Contemporary Christian Music
Central Christian College of Kansas
Minor - Worship Arts
Central Christian College of Kansas
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