Kaelia vayda
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With an empathetic spirit, Kaelia loves, developing, growing, and creating opportunities alongside others; helping them to connect and feel belonging.
Kaelia’s Roles & Responsibilities
Young Adults Pastor
I have been entrusted to help set the table for young adults to experience God in real ways.
Wins
- Averaging 5 groups every season
-Created a successful house party model for young adults, averaging 50 people in a single home
-Coached 10 leaders through a 7-week discipleship course
-Averaged 12-15 leaders every season
-Averaged 40 young adults attending monthly gatherings
-Weekly leadership meetings to coach, care for and equip our core team of young adult leaders.
-Hosted over 7 family dinners
May 2021-Present
Associate Worship Pastor
To pastor and lead our English and Spanish worship team has been a wild and beautiful journey. My role looks like; leading services and rehearsals, recruiting and auditioning our singers and band, creating spaces and gatherings for our community of musicians to deeply connect and belong, and pastoring and leading our people to grow in their craft and grow as disciples of Jesus.
Wins
-Leading worship for over 3,000 people at our main Chula Vista campus every week
-Equipping our English and Spanish teams for rehearsals and services every week
-Pastoring and leading four services every week
-Creating gatherings every quarter for our team of 30 people
May 2021-Present
Young Adults Groups Coordinator
A huge part of my job is to coordinate gatherings and build teams within our Young Adults Ministry. Since my involvement, this ministry has grown from 15 participants to over 50 young adults and grown from 1 group to 7 Young Adult Groups each season. Throughout this growth, I have learned what it means to lead a tribe of people and build a culture of belonging, friendship, and faith. This is the beginning of a ladder of leadership within the church which all begins with a deeply personal relationship that loves big and challenges fearlessly.
May 2019-May 2021
Student Ministry
My heart is for students to grow and thrive. I have played an active role in pastoring our student ministry for over 5 years. I have led over 7 groups, led over 7 camp cabins, and the coffee dates have been well over 100. Growing up in our student ministry, was an honor to step in and lead worship and speak. I led our team in rehearsals, services, meetings/gatherings and coached them individually in order to lead meetings where we focus on holistic development & faith. I have found joy in coaching our team to grow into their God given gifts in order to live into them in their leadership.
May 2017-May 2021
Associate Worship Leader
After graduating college, I stepped into a full time position. . In this position, I work alongside our Worship Pastor, creating worship sets and experiences, learning how to care for our team, hosting workshops, and so on. One of the most beautiful things that has come out of this position are the relationships I have been privileged to be part of within my team. Over time, these relationships have produced one of the most important qualities: trust. With this trust, we have been able to lead together in a way we never have before. Foundational relationships have allowed us to lead boldly, create spaces for or congregation to connect and rely on God, and see our key leaders feel safe to be themselves and lean on one another when times get hard.
May 2019-May 2021
Network Worship Leader
One value we stand by is to be fluid, flexible and adaptive. Over time, this meant traveling to multiple campuses to lead and pastor. Doing this instilled in me a love of stepping up where there is an apparent need or struggle producing results that are better than where they were originally.
May 2018-May 2019
Worship Leader In Residence
Over the past 10 years, I have faithfully and wholeheartedly committed myself to serve at EastLake Church. After graduating high school, I was offered the opportunity to to work as a Worship Leader in residence. This is basically a training ground to truly know what it meant to thrive as a worship leader. Today, I lead thousands of people in worship each weekend while simultaneously caring for our team, managing events, auditions, and taking on administrative tasks like scheduling leaders, creating worship sets, and planning and communicating our gatherings.
May 2017-May 2018
Kaelia’s degrees
Associates Degree In Liberal Arts
Southwestern Community College | 2.5 years
Bachelors Degree In Christian Studies
Point Loma Nazarene University | 2 years
Kaelia’s Skills
Disc- Encourage (Is)
Kaelia tends to be outgoing and open with others, and driven by intuition when making decisions.
StrengthsFinders
Empathy, Positivity, Developer, Restorative, Woo, Harmony, Consistency, Adaptability, Includer, Activator
Myers Briggs- ESFP
No other personality type is as generous. Entertainers are people of action. They have a contagious enthusiasm for life. Performers have the special ability to delight those around them with their warmth, their good humor, and with their often extraordinary skills in music and so on.
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Our Thanksgiving themed young adults gathering with over 90 young adults present.
Every year EastLake Church holds a creative worship night in addition to our normal services. We usually have over 1,000 people attending each one.
Kaelia sharing her thoughts in reflection to the guest speaker, as well as what she felt her young adults need to hear and be encouraged by.
Kaelia was a Resident Assistant in the summer of 2018 going into the spring to the summer of 2019. Here she led around 20 students on an all women RA Team! They were an awesome team as they checked in weekly with their hall of students, hosted dorm events, and led with integrity for their Hall Guidelines as well as fostering connecting and care always.
One of over 7 times I led a Cabin of High School And Middle School girls. I had the privilege of walking with these ladies for their whole high school experience. I love what I do.
We have an amazing team from all walks of life.
Hosting our young adults leadership group in our backyard! Not a bad spot for the covid season.
This is at Camp United, a summer camp in which Eastlake Students Ministry curate a four day experience for 400 of our Church’s Middle School and High School Students. They also take 70+ Adult Leaders as well. Kaelia led the worship team as Jake hosted.
Jake and I get to pastor and lead our students together on a regular basis! As pastor’s we where many hats.
Every year we kick off fall season groups at our Hope Haven House; to eat, worship, take next steps, and create a space for new comers and regulars to connect in community and in their faith.
We hosted 2 classes on relationships and boundaries. We will continue to bring back classes that teach and give our young adult community practical tools to thrive.