- provide a method for each church leadership team and parish to assess their spiritual health & vitality for themselves;
- coordinate the Revitalise pathway of the diocesan strategy;
- build capacity for revitalisation measures and projects;
- identify and prepare for further revitalisation opportunities in 2026 and beyond.
- Deadline for application is Monday, 6th January 2025 by 5 pm.
- Interviews for this post will be held on either Monday 13th January 2025 or Thursday 16th January 2025 - tbc.
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Strategy
Lead for Renew
CLOSING DATE: 06/01/2025 * Lead for Renew - to lead our diocese's work in church ... Read more
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Strategy
Lead for Revitalise
CLOSING DATE: 06/01/2025 * Lead for Revitalise - to lead our diocese’s work in the ... Read more
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13 December 2024
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28 November 2024
Paulsgrove project aims to create new congregations
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2 November 2024
Major investment will help diocese to rejuvenate
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Lead for Revitalise
Lead for Revitalise
(Revitalisation of parish mission and discipleship)
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 rejuvenate strategy to deliver the vision has children, families 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. Details here.
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. Details here.
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. Details here.
As our Lead for Revitalise you will enable church growth through church revitalisation.
Your key priorities will be to:
For more information on this role please see the attached job description.
Information on our diocesan strategy can be found on portsmouth.anglican.org/strategy, and information about the major investment we have received to deliver it is here.
Approaches to find out more are definitely encouraged. Please email the interim Director of Mission & Discipleship, andrew.hargreaves@portsmouth.anglican.org, to arrange a time to speak further.
Please apply for this post via the C of E’s Pathways site here.
The Diocese of Portsmouth is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce that represents our context and wider community. We are aware that those of United Kingdom Minority Ethnic/Global Majority Heritage, women and disabled people are currently under-represented among our clergy, and we particularly encourage applications from those with the relevant skills and experience that will increase this representation. The appointment will of course be based on merit alone. Enhanced DBS will be required.