Key Tasks
- Be a Mentor and Coach to Fresh Expressions and Church Planting leadership teams, sharing best practice and providing effective support.
- Take a key role in the diocesan response to new housing developments.
- Deliver and signpost training for fresh expressions and church planting teams, including working with the national fresh expressions team to develop an innovative, modular approach to the MSM course.
- Create a network of mentors for new leaders.
- Advise churches who are considering the place of a blended economy in their parish.
- Invest deeply in a few key pioneer leaders.
- Be a key part of the team moving forward the “new worshipping communities” section of the diocesan growth strategy.
Experience
The post holder will have had experience in leading church planting or fresh expressions teams. They may be lay or ordained. If ordained it is a necessary condition of this employment that they will hold a licence of the Bishop of Guildford.
It is envisaged that they will worship in a fresh expression of church but not be its main leader.
Remuneration
You will be employed by the Diocese of Guildford.
Salary £33,000.
15% pension contribution.
The post will run for five years.
Diocesan Strategy
A new diocesan growth strategy is due to be launched in September 2016, but a key element in its formation is a finding in a diocesan wide survey that listed “new forms of worship service” as a key area of growth. The final strategy is likely to contain something like the following statement as a key goal:
To encourage the development of 100 new worshipping communities by 2027 in areas of greatest need and opportunity.
These communities will vary from new churches on large housing developments to small scale fresh expressions of church aimed at particular groups – and everything in between. This post is a next step in supporting that goal.
For a fuller explanation of why the post is being created, see the accompanying “Concept Paper” which was used to secure agreement for creating the post.