Hours
Part Time
20
Description of Job
Community Minister
The family of Christ Church Chineham (CCC) is pretty special. We’re not perfect of course, but we’ve emerged from the pandemic years in good health, and are growing numerically, in diversity and love for one another and our community.
As well as being a Church, we also run Chineham’s main Community Centre, and we have hundreds of locals visiting each week for community or church-run groups. God has been very good to us, and we have many more opportunities to reach out with the Gospel good news that we can take advantage of. So we wish to appoint an assistant Minister to support our Lead Minister to help us develop our ministry both internally and within our wider community. We want to grow as disciples in all of life, to release more of our existing gifts into ministry, and to share Jesus more widely.
We’re therefore asking God to lead us to men or women who will help us make disciples and cultivate a loving and spiritually mature network of relationships and community, embracing the evangelical, ecumenical and informal DNA of CCC. Particular responsibilities and titles aren't as important to us as discovering how the team can together best use our God-given gifts and abilities to join in God’s work of building his Kingdom. But the Purpose of the role is clear:
1. To help grow the internal and external communities of CCC, strengthening our mission and ministry, working collaboratively with the Lead Minister and with other Ministry Leaders and staff.
2. To be part of the Leadership Team helping discern what God wants us to focus on, and ready to respond in prayer and faith.
We're just finalising details for this role for 20-25 hours/week. The salary will be in the usual range for ministers, and we have a contributory pension scheme. We will need you to work some evenings, weekends and public holidays.
Note: In accordance with the Equality Act 2010 it is a genuine occupational requirement that the post holder is a practising Christian. The post holder will also need to have a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Christ Church brings together four Christian denominations (Baptist, Church of England, Methodist, United Reformed) as one Christian congregation, though we welcome people of all denominations or none. More simply, though, we're a group of Christians from many different backgrounds, seeking to be faithful to Jesus in our lives and our witness. Our mission statement "to follow Jesus in every way" expresses our desire to model our own lives upon that of our Lord himself, to follow him as disciples, to show his love practically and to help people come to faith in Jesus Christ.
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