Church Musician

Lakeshore United Church is located in the town of Goderich, on the shores of Lake Huron.  We are a congregation of people who are seeking to grow  in our faith, who serve our church and community and who share generously of time, talent and treasures.  After many years of faithful service our current organist is retiring.

We are seeking a new church musician and are approaching our search with openness and flexibility.
Our ideal candidate:

•  approaches the role with musical enthusiasm informed by your faith
• can play the piano with finesse, rhythm, at tempo and as an accompaniment to the choir and congregation in a way that brings out our best singing and worship
• we would love it, if you could also play the organ
• we would love it, if you could play other instruments as well!
• we expect excellent people skills, which includes the ability to communicate well with our minister, choir, and other leadership
• we expect openness and flexibility on your part to work with a variety of musical genres, age groups and worship styles

We are a congregation of about 300, with an average attendance of 100-130.  We have a small but committed choir, which could grow with the right nurturing.  We offer you:

•  a warm and welcoming congregation
• stability:  we are financially stable and have solid leadership lay and ordained
• we have a Heintzman grand piano and a 3 manual Keates-Geissler pipe organ which was digitized in 2005.  We also have a variety of Orph instruments and a 3 octave set of Schulmerich handbells
• several in our congregation play instruments
• our current minister is musical and values the role of music in worship and congregational life
• our congregation has a long history of good music and our sanctuary is probably the best acoustic space in town
• we have current technology for worship;  we updated our Audio and Visual systems in 2018
• we can offer you studio and office space should you wish to have a roster of students
• we have a good library of music with a wide variety of genres which is organized
• Goderich and Huron County are musical communities with a community band and several community choirs

We anticipate the position would be for 10-12 hours per week, which includes a 1.5 hr choir rehearsal and Sunday morning worship.  We would hope you could be available for funerals, but understand during the week that may not always be possible.  Compensation to be negotiated.

To apply, or to get a more detailed job description, please send your letter of interest and CV or Resume to jobs@lakeshoreuc.org