WHO WE ARE

Music Director

Cornerstone

Bowie, Maryland

Overview

This is a full-time position reporting to the Worship Pastor that consists of a minimum of 40 hours per week. These hours will encompass but are not limited to, music work – music preparation, research, band rehearsals, services, service planning, loop, stem, and click track creation, and providing music at church events when needed. This position requires invention, imagination, originality, or talent in a recognized field of artistic or creative endeavor.

THE STORY OF CORNERSTONE CHURCH

Pastor Mark Lehmann has served as the Lead Pastor of Cornerstone
Church for twenty-eight years. His heart is to build a church that looks like
and acts like Heaven. From the humble beginnings of around 100 people, the
Lord has blessed them in incredible ways, creating a diverse and outward-focused congregation representing some 75 nations. Now approximately 3000 people call Cornerstone their church home. Through God’s amazing
faithfulness, Cornerstone is becoming the body of believers He designed them to be.
The phrase “One Church Can Change the World” is a vision that the entire
Cornerstone family has embraced. That Kingdom-minded emphasis has
people from all over the region joining together to send and support more
than 300 missionaries in 110 nations. Whether it’s local outreaches, campus ministry, trafficking intervention or international feeding programs Cornerstone is engaged and committed to giving away at least 35% of its income each year.
Of course, none of this is possible without devoted prayer. Each year
Cornerstone starts the first three weeks with a time of prayer and fasting. It
sets the tone for the rest of the year. For over twenty-five years, Saturday
night prayer has been a concentrated time of worship and calling out to God
for the needs of the world. The continued growth of this ministry is impossible…without prayer.
The culture in our nation is divided by many things but Cornerstone keeps
the focus on being Christ-Centered, prayer-focused, and outreach-driven.
Moving forward they see God’s preparation for a new season of impact and
growth as local families are looking for answers and hope. Their heart is to
equip the Cornerstone family to be an “Authentic Community, Lifting up
Jesus, Growing in Him, and Touching our World”, through weekend
experiences (services), discipleship & growth groups, serving teams, and
outreaches both locally and globally.

CORNERSTONE CHURCH CORE VALUES

We Are A:

  • House of Prayer
  • House of His Presence and Obedience to His Voice
  • House Dedicated to Holiness and a Hunger for God
  • House of Serving
  • House of Generosity
  • House of Unity and Harmony
  • House of Hospitality for all Nations and All People
  • House of Healing and Harvest

JOB SUMMARY

This is a full-time position reporting to the Worship Pastor that
consists of a minimum of 40 hours per week. These hours will
encompass but are not limited to, music work – music preparation,
research, band rehearsals, services, service planning, loop, stem, and
click track creation, and providing music at church events when
needed. This position requires invention, imagination, originality, or
talent in a recognized field of artistic or creative endeavor.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Read and write charts
  • Transcribe and call out music to bands and singers (via talk-back microphone) by using the Nashville Number System
  • Create and use loops, stems, and click tracks
  • Schedule and upload resources to Planning Center Online
  • Recruit, schedule, develop, rehearse, and play with bands comprised of volunteers from the congregation

CANDIDATE COMPENTENCIES

  • Must have a heart for the Church and be a growing follower of Christ
  • Proficiency in Music Production software required (Ableton LIVE, ProTools, Logic Pro, etc)
  • Effective leadership and team-building abilities
  • Highly relational and encouraging to others
  • Multi-generational exposure to songs of the church – past, present, and future
  • Works well under pressure and constant change
  • Possesses strong musical abilities as well as guitar experience
  • Well-versed in a variety of styles – Pop, Gospel, Rock, R&B, Funk, Country, and Hymns
  • Multi-DAW proficiency in Ableton, Logic, and Pro Tools (required)

BOWIE, MARYLAND

Bowie enjoys a rich and diverse historic and cultural heritage. This
historic City traces its roots to 1870, when land developers subdivided the
area into more than 500 residential building lots, creating a large town at a
major junction of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad. Since incorporation
in 1874 as Huntington, the city has changed its name (in honor of local
resident Governor Oden Bowie) and has become a dynamic community,
rivaling the most prosperous cities in the region.
Bowie and the surrounding area is the perfect location for anyone
looking for a new place to call home and to serve in an exciting, diverse,
and world-changing place. Washington D.C. is only 30 minutes away as well
as Annapolis, the state capital, is just a twenty-minute drive. If you want a
change of scenery, you can travel two hours to the beach or two hours to
the mountains. Besides the influence and the history, the best part of the
area is its people. They have come from different backgrounds, nations, and
histories, but have all chosen to come together to this vicinity to live, to
grow, and to find hope in Jesus. There really isn’t anything else like it
around–the diversity of ethnicity and age you see is also well reflected
inside the walls of Cornerstone Church.