We are looking for a visionary church planter to lead a planting team into the original town centre church of St Peter and St Paul as part of our diocese’s vision and strategy, supported by grant money from the national Church. If you have a passion to set culture to grow and make disciples of Jesus Christ, this is a remarkable opportunity for a stipendiary, ordained priest with a vision and a calling. Is this you?

Find out more at portsmouth.anglican.org/farehamplant.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Leadership Responsibilities

• Raising, empowering and leading a team to initiate and then lead the plant at P&P
• Planting and establishing a new worshipping congregation at P&P.
• Seeking the Lord for vision and direction and communicating and delivering this ongoing vision for P&P
• Helped by the vicar of St John’s, recruiting, deploying and managing staff
• Leading and preaching at P&P, including the new planted congregation and the existing parish Eucharist (for which there will be additional clergy support)
• Taking a leading role in the emerging governance structure for the church, with a view to becoming Priest in Charge, in due course

Church Planting, Discipleship and Pastoral Care

• Developing discipleship programme/structure for the adult membership
• Developing and overseeing small group network, including recruitment, training and supervision of leaders
• Developing and overseeing a pastoral team to care for both the new and the existing congregations
• Encouraging the entire church to take on a lifestyle of everyday missionary discipleship including a commitment to one another
• Dealing with pastoral situations
• Developing appropriate missional activities inside and outside of the church building with clear pathways to discipleship

Training, Discipleship and Deployment roles

• Developing a leadership pipeline to identify, train, mentor and develop current and new leaders across a range of ministries, including for potential ordained ministry and future church planters
• Delivering training courses and appropriate learning spaces
• Recruiting, line managing and developing ministry staff & wider volunteer team

Administration and Management

• Overall responsibility for the management of P&P working with newly formed shared Operations Team
• Budget holding for P&P finances
• Overseeing the refurbishment, development and maintenance of church facilities
• Ensuring smooth running of administration of the church

Other duties

• Lead occasional offices including preparation and follow-up visits
• Attend various deanery and area clergy and other meetings, taking a full part in the wider life of the diocese
• Lead and teach at services and meetings at both P&P and St John’s, as required

The attached profile will provide further information and a job description. For initial enquiries please contact Archdeacon of the Meon, Ven Kathryn Percival.

Read more about this ambitious project here.

• Deadline for applications for this post is Friday 23rd January
• Interviews take place on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th March.