New church leader wanted

Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:05

searching for new church leader We're looking for a second church leader to work alongside our existing leader, Peter.
Pray! Pray! Pray! As we hunt around for the right new person. Pray for them and for us.

This is how we described ourselves in the "advert" sort of thing we have written to tell people who might be interested about who we are and what we get up to:

Since starting in 2002, we have stumbled from a handful of people to a network of eleven home based groups across a wide area without a central building.

We are incarnational; most were not in church on joining; many have disabilities and painful stories; a number have professional jobs; weekly group meetings are the iceberg tip of sometimes chaotic community life; some come to the monthly whole church meeting on Sundays, many come on great church holidays and share meals together. ( incarnational means to be how Jesus would be and do what Jesus would do in Southend. Which would be different to how we shoul dbe in another place)

We are just at the beginning of becoming what we might be.

Our mission? Living out our four values in Southend on Sea.

We value Jesus at the centre (we love him!)

We value Building community (organising around this and mission, not services)

We value All people (yes all)

We value Living life to the full (rubbing out the sacred:secular divide. That means rubbing out the divide between life and God - he's interested in all of it!)

God is blessing us with growth but we need help from a creative and flexible person to consolidate, organise and develop our community life for mission. Could you become one of us and work alongside our existing leader, to develop the learning and pastoral dimensions of CFS, increasing our capacities by building and facilitating teams?

Once you arrive we plan to send our founding leader increasingly to the frontiers to plant more of CFS and half-time to facilitate church planting in the region.