The Bishop of Leicester is seeking to appoint a full-time priest to serve as Oversight Minister for the Launde Deanery Minster Community, leading the ordained/lay Minster Community Ministry Team.
Launde Minster Community has a population of around 7,700 in 7 benefices made up of 23 rural parishes within the Launde Deanery alongside Launde Abbey and the Church Schools of Church Langton, Billesdon, Hallaton, and Tugby. We work together in mission and closely with our church schools, with an intergenerational minister soon also to be appointed.
We believe that the Launde Minster Community is a worshipping community, called to be those who build the ‘Kingdom of God’ and who equip one another for following Jesus for the whole of life.
We seek a person who:
- is a skilled enabler of others in mission, able to mentor and encourage
- brings experience of, and a heart for, rural ministry
- has good interpersonal skills, is encouraging, supportive and a good listener
- is energetic with a passion for growing faith in people of all ages
- is able to lead in difficult decision-making situations
- is able to convene and lead ministry teams and co-ordinate the gifts of others
- as a strategist, has experience of growing the ministry of others in both inherited church and fresh expression situations.
For an informal conversation about the post, please contact the Archdeacons’ Office on 07454620223 or email the EA to the Archdeacons Paige.Bradshaw-Jones@LeicesterCofE.org
Application forms can be requested from Paige.Bradshaw-Jones@LeicesterCofE.org
Closing date for applications: 4th September at noon
Interviews: 25th September
This post is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure.
There is an occupational requirement for the appointed person to be an ordained member of the Church of England under the 2010 Equality Act. Part 1. Schedule 9
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