Day: 3 September 2015

A forum for anybody interested in exploring the place of the charismatic gift of prophecy in the life and witness of fresh expressions of church and pioneering ministry.

Programme

10.30 arrivals and coffee

11.00 keynote address: Liz Evans – the gift of prophecy and the mission of God

12.00 stories from fresh expressions of church and pioneering communities

12.40 lunch (during which Epiphany will be available for personal sound portraits)

13.30 stories from fresh expressions of church and pioneering communities

14.15 Epiphany – prophetic use of music in a mission contexxt

15.15 listening to God for his Church (with Liz and Epiphany)

16.00 close

Cost

£5.95 per person, including a light buffet lunch.

Further details

For more information or to book, please visit the Eventbrite page. Bookings close at the end of October.

Are you considering starting a breakfast church? Are you already running one and want to grow disciples? Breakfast @ 9 are running a day conference for church leaders and children & family leaders.

The keynote speaker is Laurence Singlehurst.

Programme

1. What is Breakfast @ 9?

2. Experience of running Breakfast @ 9 in different contexts.

3. People-sensitive evangelism and sharing the gospel in language that connects with culture.

4. How to grow disciples that stick.

5. Creating a separate Breakfast @ 9 community, or how to connect with inherited church.

Cost

£10 including lunch.

Further details

For more information or to book, please contact Carrie on admin@canfordparish.org or 01202 882270.

BRF are seeking an Administrator to provide excellent support to the Messy Church and Who Let The Dads Out? staff team, Regional Coordinators, Regional Representatives and enquirers about these initiatives.

This is a full-time role, with a salary from £18,000 pa.

Main areas of responsibility

• Provide excellent support and information to staff, volunteers, churches and individuals.
• Seek opportunities to promote good practice, income streams and funding for Messy Church and Who Let The Dads Out?

Detailed responsibilities

Daily administrative tasks

• Be the first contact for all Messy Church and Who Let The Dads Out? enquiries.
• Provide administrative support for the Messy Church and Who Let The Dads Out? teams.
• Collate agendas for team meetings; write and circulate minutes.
• Assist the team with reminders about deadlines and regular commitments.
• Organise office supplies and stock for the team.
• Work with other departments to promote and sustain Messy Church and Who Let The Dads Out?
• Review and approve use of logo when contacted by individual Messy Churches.

Online

• Add content to the relevant websites.
• Review and publish new additions to the directory.
• Assist with any web queries regarding creating accounts, changing contact details and updating directory pages.
• Organise emails received via the websites, respond where appropriate or forward to appropriate team members.
• Be involved in social media including writing content, responding to comments and posting updates across the digital platforms.

Volunteers

• Assist in supporting the Regional Coordinators and Regional Representatives.
• Follow process for adding/changing/deleting members including Visma updates, sending welcome packs, updating website directory.

Events

• Arrange travel (including international travel) for team as required.
• Respond to enquiries about booking events.
• Arrange the booking of events and collect payment.
• Organise events such as training days and other events, including booking venues, publicising events, organising refreshments, collating feedback, and other admin.
• Occasionally provide support at events, which may be out of office hours.
• Process book orders from events on Visma and send invoices where appropriate.

Other

• Assist Customer Services in receiving enquiries phone calls.
• Support Customer Services in responding to enquiries emails.
• Provide occasional administrative support for The Gift of Years staff team

Skills and experience

• Understanding of social media channels and experience of using social media.
• Previous customer service experience.
• Ability to deliver high levels of customer service.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office, order processing and accounts packages.
• Experience of using CRM and accounts packages.
• Ability to work under pressure and multi-task.
• Ability to learn and retain information.
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
• Excellent keyboard skills.
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent telephone skills.
• Excellent at developing CRM.
• Reliable and consistent.
• Positive and helpful team player.
• Flexible and adaptable attitude towards sharing tasks and workloads.
• Enjoys being stretched and learning new skills.
• Committed to personal and professional development.
• Ability to analyse and report on data.
• Motivated by objectives and targets.
• Strong commitment to the aims of the organisation.

The Pursuit is a four-day, 24-7 worship, prayer, community and justice gathering. It's a weekend gaining a taste for eternity. A place to retreat and experience a raw and authentic encounter with God.

The Pursuit isn't a conference, it's a gathering. A community. A collective. A generation uniting to engage with God and be sent as Kingdom-bringers. It will be a place to belly laugh, cry, groan, lament and respond… possibly all at the same time.

You're involved: you get to add to, and join in, the fun. We're inviting those coming along to bring their instruments and join one of our campfire worship spots. There will alsbe space to busk and a place for you to bring your paints and pencils to create your own art in worship.

From the the moment we start the worship will be 24/4 (imagine 24/7 but only 4 days). Some moments we will be led by a full band, others by a local individual. The big deal is this, you can come and go for as long or short a time as you like. This is about creating space to pursue God and rest in his presence.

We are doing away with the aim to be perfect, instead we create space that is honest, real and authentic. We're not searching out the 'big names', although we recognise people only become known because God is moving through them, but we want grass roots, raw, people to inspire us – both young and old.

We have a strong focus on community life so our accommodation is less 'hotel' and more 'family''. You can book and pay per person and then tell us your sharing preferences for rooms and apartments. There are single rooms, twin rooms and a few triples, all grouped around shared bathroom facilities. If you want to meet new people, just leave the sharing preferences blank and we'll introduce you to others of the same gender. There's a dining hall where we can eat together, chat, laugh and encourage each other. There will also be a café and a bar to relax and make new friends.

Our speakers will be real people doing 'the stuff'. Think you have a story to tell? Then maybe you could share… Short, sharp talks – There's a venue where people will get to share their 12 minute idea, dream, vision or experience. Imagine a place high on passion, where local church stories, encouragement and inspiration can spread, be engaged with, and then taken home to impact your world. When there are talks we expect heckling. Dialogue is encouraged.

We're not going to be spending large sums of money on the worship venue. It's going to be fun, quirky and stripped back so that the focus is on the very thing we want to focus upon… Jesus. That spurs us into faith in action. We want to make all the links between worship, justice, and kingdom living. We desire to see action put to faith.

Cost and booking

Weekend tickets are £150 (or £180 with a donation), £125 for students/unwaged, £80 for children under 14. Day tickets are available for £35 (Sat or Sun) and £15 (Fri or Mon).

For more information or to book, please visit The Pursuit website.

The brand new Dover Town Group are looking for a Mission Priest to join the Team Rector in the task of designing and developing an entirely new pattern of mission and ministry in the historic town of Dover.

The five parishes have already gone through a 2 year period of structural and legal change. Now there's the opportunity to build on those changes with the long-term goal of creating a wide-ranging college of ministry across the town that will encompass every aspect of its life.

Your role will have three dimensions:

• first, to work with the Team Rector and the newly-formed Ministry Leadership Team to build vision, develop our strategic plan and encourage our diverse parishes to work more closely with one another;
• second, to take the lead across the Group for helping us to develop mission, both as evangelism and as community engagement. You’ll need to work in partnership with a wide variety of churches and other agencies and have a passion for empowering others;
• third, to have pastoral oversight of the parishes of Buckland and Charlton. You'll need to love and nurture their Anglo-Catholic tradition as well as finding innovative ways to help them fulfil their calling, and to grow both spiritually and numerically.

This is a moment of great opportunity. Here is the chance to be involved at the very beginning of a new ministry, to help shape it, direct it and enable it to become fruitful.

The post of Mission Priest is funded by a rolling 5-year Mission Grant from the Diocese of Canterbury.

Roles and responsibilities:

• to work with the Team Rector and other ministry colleagues in forming a strategic plan to develop ministry and mission within the Dover Town Team and Group.
• to take the lead across the Team and Group for developing mission initiatives within that plan, including community partnerships and evangelism.
• to create, lead, facilitate and support teams of lay people to deliver specific mission and community projects throughout the Team and Group.
• to have special pastoral responsibility for the parishes of Buckland-in-Dover St Andrew with St Nicholas Buckland Valley and Charlton St Peter & St Paul.
• to work with the leaders of Cross-Links, an ecumenical fresh expression of church in Buckland, in developing a strategy to expand its ministry.
• to participate fully in all aspects of the collegiate ministry of the Dover Town Team and Group.
• to take full advantage of opportunities for personal and professional development. 

They are looking for someone who:

• is able to demonstrate a commitment to a collegiate style of ministry.
• will encourage and develop the ministry of lay people.
• has a good understanding of the theology of mission and its application to local contexts.
• has experience of working in partnership with other agencies and groups within a local community.
• has experience of participating in and sustaining mission initiatives.
• has a good understanding of and love for Anglo-Catholic liturgy, but an ability to work within a wide range of liturgical traditions.
• is at ease with both the inclusive and also the more conservative theological perspectives embraced by the faith communities within the Town and Group.
• is adept at giving pastoral care both within and outside the faith community.
• has a stable rhythm of personal spiritual practice.