The Church of England
Mission (Cultivate) Enabler
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Are You Someone Who
- Is excited about enabling clergy and lay people to think about mission in new ways?
- Wants to see lay people released into planting and growing new worship communities?
- Is able to deliver training, workshops and mentoring in a relevant and engaging fashion?
We are looking for a gifted and passionate team member to work with local clergy and a local Cultivate team to grow mission locally and fulfil the diocesan vision of more people knowing Jesus, and more justice in the world. Both experience and the evidence suggest that a key strategy for church growth is the planting of new worship communities, and so we have developed a programme called Cultivate that catalyses the growth of new worship communities and releases, trains and supports lay people in this pursuit. Fundamentally, the essence of this role is to ensure that more people know Jesus and that churches in Liverpool Diocese are growing with disciples.
Cultivate Enablers will primarily be assigned to two particular deaneries and will deliver all aspects of Cultivate in each. Cultivate works with both Larger Single Parishes (LSPs) and Single Parishes (SPs), enabling them to become more missionally effective, and it attempts this in two ways. The first is supporting churches to “refresh” what already exists, enabling them to build missional capacity. The second is enabling a “fresh” wave of new worship communities and justice initiatives to spring up through envisioning, training and supporting lay leaders. Vitally, all clergy (and churches) engage with both pathways concurrently and all aspects of Cultivate are led by local lay and clergy teams. Through both the FFM and DIP projects, we have a remarkable opportunity to work with every church in the diocese, encouraging and growing missional capacity and encouraging the planting of new worship communities, and therefore we are particularly looking for people who are able to work across a broad range of traditions in the church.
Duties And Responsibilities
Cultivate will work, as we have said, to enable churches to grow in their missional capacity and to catalyse the planting of new worship communities, using the Cultivate pathways but adapting to the locality, in conjunction with local clergy and a local team. Therefore, the core tasks will be:
Establish Key Local Relationships
- Develop good relationships with local clergy in both LSPs and SPs
- Establish a local Cultivate team of both clergy and lay that will focus on the establishment of new worship communities and the development of lay planters in the area
- Together with the local Cultivate team, develop a work plan that focuses on the development of new worship communities and lay planters in their area
Ensure the establishment of new worship communities and development of lay planters
- Ensure the 6-week Cultivate course, in-person and online, is delivered to groups of emerging lay leaders and clergy
- Deliver workshops to clergy (including Mission Plan workshops)
- Help to grow and develop emerging lay leaders, alongside clergy
- Enable an ongoing system of lay leader mentoring by clergy to be set up
- Ensure additional training to emerging lay leaders is set up
- Help to organise the annual retreat for emerging lay leaders across the diocese
- Work with the New Worship Communities (NWC) Enabler to establish and grow Learning Communities, which will support learning and development for emerging lay leaders but will also be a catalyst for NWC planting in deaneries across the diocese.
Grow Missional Capacity In Existing Churches
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- Deliver the Church 360 tool to churches and existing worship communities, delivering workshops and 1-to-1 conversations, facilitating all aspects of the process and enabling the establishment and review of action plans.
Liaise With The Deanery And Diocese
- Be the Cultivate contact for the deanery, develop good relationships with key personnel (including, in FFM, the local Cultivate Lead, the Change Facilitator, the Change Lead, and the Team Coach), engage effectively with all clergy, foster good relationships with emerging lay leaders.
- Integrate work with the Vocations Team to ensure robust recruitment practices for Lay Leaders and support for vocational pathways for individuals including relevant learning and development opportunities.
- Ensure excellent communication with key stakeholders and adhere to agreed procedures for the full delivery of Cultivate.
- Measure and track delivery data
- Actively prepare the deanery for succession planning, enabling Cultivate to be delivered beyond the intervention period
Develop Cultivate
- Together with the rest of the Cultivate Project Team, seek to develop Cultivate (including the key tools, processes and procedures that underpin both Pathways) through consistent participant feedback, effective review, and development meetings.
About The Diocese Of Liverpool
Our vision and mission
The Diocese of Liverpool is the Church of England in a corner of the north west with churches from Southport to Widnes, Wigan to Warrington, and throughout the city of Liverpool. We are all working hard to fulfil our vision of asking God for a bigger church making a bigger difference with more people knowing Jesus and more justice in the world.
As we work towards that vision, we have four priorities
- Introducing people to Jesus
- Deepening discipleship
- Developing Christian leaders
- Working for justice
Our values, culture and working practices
The diocesan offices provide essential support services to our parishes with many specialist staff offering expert support to our frontline parishes. We have a reputation for being a creative organisation securing national church backing for a range of innovative projects.
We are a small, supportive team offering a flexible approach. We have adopted a hybrid model balancing office based with home-based working. We are serious about the work life balance with generous holiday allowances and access to an Employee Assistance Programme. Diocesan staff have a strong working relationship with Liverpool Cathedral and our offices sit in the shadow of this magnificent iconic building.
Liverpool Diocese is committed to treating our whole community with dignity and respect. We desire to represent diverse identities within our community whether this be by race, culture, religion, sexual orientation, gender, disability or social background of each person to ensure they fulfil their potential within a proactive, loving and caring environment.
Our values underpin the culture of working for the Diocese of Liverpool at St James House.
- Dynamic: This means we are creative, open minded and willing to adapt for the good of the organisation. We make things happen, embrace and drive change and do great things with enthusiasm, passion and enjoyment.
- Respectful: This means we respect and value the contribution of all colleagues and treat each other and those we serve with respect, courtesy and warmth. We try to respond promptly and appropriately to requests from others
- Professional: This means what we do, we do well and perform to the best of our ability, ensuring our knowledge is kept up to date. We demonstrate a ‘can-do’ attitude and take ownership of issues, aiming to exceed expectations
- Collaborative: This means we willingly share ideas, knowledge, expertise and experience and seek to understand and work with other teams. We help, support and guide each other, believing we do it better together.
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Our future - new strategic investment
Liverpool Diocese Is On a Journey Of Transformation With The Goal Of Enabling All Parishes, Church Plants, Fresh Expressions, Schools And Chaplaincies To Fulfil God’s Mission And To Make New Disciples Where They Are. The Church Of England Has Recently Awarded The Diocese a Substantial Financial Investment To Support Its Strategy Over The Next 7 Years. The Investment Will Enable a Significant Programme Of Work And Ministry To Catalyse Missional Growth, Equip Those In Ministry, And Work Towards Financial Sustainability. Key Areas Include
- Mission - investing in our youth and children’s work, growing our social and racial justice work, planting and revitalising churches, and establishing new worshipping communities
- People - strengthening our work in discipleship and formation, developing clear vocational pathways through Lifecall, and making training and development available for people in lay and ordained ministry
- Financial sustainability - supporting congregations to see giving as part of their whole life discipleship; provide advice and resources to ensure we make the most of our church buildings and assets; offering grants for mission and sustainability.
Our strategy - Fit for Mission
The Fit For Mission Programme Is The Central Part Of The Diocesan Strategy. It Provides Focus And Support To Work Together To Face The Significant Issues That Hold Back Mission And Growth. Fit For Mission Will Support Each Deanery In The Diocese Of Liverpool To Create Their Own Future. There Are Six Elements, And For Each Of Them The Programme Will Make Available Help And Specialist Resources
- A focus on developing our discipleship culture through training and support, including delivering ‘Cultivate’, a successful Local Missional Leadership programme. This programme is already contributing to the establishing of newly planted worship communities and justice initiatives.
- Creating core support-services in deaneries to support and resource mission
- Creating missional leadership teams of lay and ordained people over larger areas with responsibility for specific mission and worship communities.
- Developing agreed mutual support and accountability structures for all leaders.
- Work towards each deanery having one or two Larger Single Parishes. This will enable a more ‘joined-up’ and strategic approach to mission - catalysing new worshipping communities and more justice initiatives whilst retaining a sense of locality and diversity of worship; a ministry team able to ‘play to their strengths’; and centralised benefits to administration and support.
- Making sure buildings are fit for purpose, with building expertise available to assist in making good decisions on use, investment, or closure.
For more information on Fit for Mission go to www.liverpoolcofe.org/fitformission
Person Specification
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- Experience of presentation, public speaking, and/or training with high
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