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Lead for Revitalise
Vacancy Reference cofe/TP/137/7803
Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Employee
Salary/Stipend:
The role is remunerated as a clergy stipend with housing or stipend plus housing allowance, or as a lay role on a salary of £44,000 p.a.
Working Hours:
Full time
Location:
Portsmouth
Closing Date:
01/12/2024
Vacancy Category:
Mission
Business Unit:
Diocese of Portsmouth
Organizational Unit:
Diocesan Employed Posts
Introduction
Lead for Revitalise (Revitalisation of parish mission & discipleship)
Over the last few years, with much prayer, learning from experience, and working together to build relationships and trust, we have developed a Diocesan vision: “the Diocese of Portsmouth longs to be a rejuvenating community of Jesus-centred, Kingdom-seeking disciples”.
Our strategy to deliver the vision has Rejuvenation, children and young people, as the intentional focus of everything we do. Our primary strategy to have congregations full of children and young people is to have flourishing churches.
Our strategy themes are:
Revive: a call to deeper prayer for all our clergy and lay leadership to experience a continued personal refreshing of the wonder of God’s presence in our life. Key to this is the establishment of small peer-to-peer “Benedictine style support networks” capable of developing realistic revitalisation plans.
Revitalise: grow our existing churches, connecting ministries together to form a pathway that reaches people who are unconnected with church and supports them as they journey to become committed disciples who own for themselves Jesus’ mission.
Renew: in communities where there is no effective church presence, we believe it is right to plant/transplant new congregations to focus on outreach and younger generations.
As our Lead for Revitalise you will enable church growth through church revitalisation.
Your key priorities will be to:
- Provide a method for each church leadership team and parish to assess their spiritual health & vitality for themselves
- Coordinate the Revitalise pathway of the diocesan strategy
- Build capacity for revitalisation measures and projects
- Identify and prepare for further revitalisation opportunities in 2026 and beyond
For more information on this role please see the attached job description.
Approaches to find out more, are definitely encouraged. Should you require further information please contact Revd Andrew Hargreaves, Interim Director of Mission and Discipleship on andrew.hargreaves@portsmouth.anglican.org
Information on our Diocesan strategy can be found at:
www.portsmouth.anglican.org/strategy and https://www.portsmouth.anglican.org/news/2024/11/01/major-investment-will-help-diocese-rejuvenate/
Deadline for application is Sunday, 1st December 2024.
Interviews for this post will be held on Monday, 9th December 2024.
