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Lead for Renew
Vacancy Reference cofe/TP/137/7804
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:
06/01/2025
Vacancy Category:
Mission
Business Unit:
Diocese of Portsmouth
Organizational Unit:
Diocesan Employed Posts
Introduction
Lead for Renew (Church planting and new worshipping communities development)
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 Renew you will enable church growth through church planting and the establishment of new worshipping communities.
Your key priorities will be:
- Embedding a strategic approach to planting
- Support and mentoring for planting leaders
- Development of planting opportunities
- Growing capacity for planting
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 Monday, 6th January 2025.
Interviews for this post will be held on Thursday, 16th January 2025.
