KINGDOM LIFE DIRECTOR22.5 Hours per week

VACANCY

Are you passionate about bringing God’s Kingdom to Harrogate? Does social injustice stir you to want to see a change in our community?

We have an exciting new role, essential in delivering the strategy and vision for St. Mark’s to build God’s kingdom here in Harrogate.

Working as part of the St. Mark’s leadership team, The Kingdom Life Director will be responsible for:

• Through a major review and community audit, developing our plans to build the kingdom both within St. Mark’s and the wider community.

• Engaging and encouraging the St. Mark’s family to use their skills and resources in serving our community.

• To developing and promoting St. Mark’s initiatives to address social justice, encourage social action and social enterprise. Overseeing outreach initiatives.

• Developing a programme of activities for parishioners and the community.

This is a paid roleThe closing date for applications is the 6th January 2014

Start Date 3rd March 2014

For more information or to receive an application pack please contact the Church Office.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

12 Hours per week

VACANCY

Effective communication is a fundamental part of our strategy to bring God’s Kingdom to Harrogate. We are looking for someone with a flare for Graphic

Design and the creative use of media to manage and enhance our communication within St. Mark’s and the wider community.

The Information and Communications Officer will be responsible for:

• Developing our communication methods using a variety of media formats including press releases and liaison with local media, Website, Social Media and the re-launch of a Parish Magazine.

• Quality managing all St. Mark’s communications ensuring we are communicating effectively, accurately and efficiently.

• Developing and enhancing of communication through the use of graphic design and interactive media.

• Develop a Communication Plan to enable us to engage with the wider community more effectively.

This is a paid roleThe closing date for applications is the 6th January 2014

Start Date 3rd March 2014

For more information or to receive an application pack please contact the Church Office

RESOURCES COORDINATOR4 Hours per week

VACANCY

We have an abundance of resources available at St. Mark’s and a wealth of tools available to us locally and nationally to aid the spiritual growth of people of all ages within our church community.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to pull our existing resources together and develop an accessible, functional resource centre for the congregation and community to access.

Working as part of the St. Mark’s Administration Team, The Resource Coordinator will be responsible for:

• Identifying and cataloguing all the resources we have available and identifying, through liaison with the Leadership Team, where new or improved resources are needed.

• Developing a literary resource centre at St. Mark’s.

• Overseeing the running of the Bookstall and develop the range of materials available for purchase or loan.

• Develop relationships with other churches in order to share our resources.

This is a voluntary positionThe closing date for applications is the 24th January 2014

Start Date 31 March 2014

For more information or to receive an application pack please contact the Church Office

PASTORAL DIRECTOR8 Hours per week

VACANCY

Taking care of our church family and those in our community is central to our mission. We are looking for someone with a gift and passion for pastoral care

to lead and develop our pastoral team in order that we can reach more people, more effectively.

Working as part of the St. Mark’s leadership team, The Pastoral Director will be responsible for:

• Through a thorough review and community audit, identifying the pastoral support needs of St. Mark’s family and those in the wider community and developing a strategy of pastoral and prayer support to meet those needs.

• Overseeing and supporting the development of the “big picture” of pastoral care and prayer ministry at St. Mark’s both corporately and for individuals.

• Ensure appropriate support, prayer pathways and resources are in place deliver effective pastoral care.

This is a paid, temporary, fixed term position for 12 monthsThe closing date for applications is the 6th January 2014

Start Date 3rd March 2014

For more information or to receive an application pack please contact the Church Office

PRAYER COORDINATOR6-8 hours a week

VACANCY

Prayer needs to be central to everything we do! Is prayer your passion? We are looking for someone with a heart for encouraging individual and corporate

prayer for the St. Mark’s family and the wider community.

Working as part of the St. Mark’s Worship team, The Prayer Coordinator will be responsible for:

• Supporting the development of prayer at St. Mark’s both through individual and collective prayer, engaging and encouraging the St. Mark’s family in a culture of prayer.

• Work directly with the Pastoral Director and team to expand access to prayer for restoration and healing.

• Taking prayer to the wider community.

• Facilitate effective support for prayer through web-based resources, workshops and prayer meetings.

This is a voluntary positionThe closing date for applications is the 24th January 2014

Start Date 31 March 2014

For more information or to receive an application pack please contact the Church office

NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE AT ST. MARK’S IN 2014

We are now starting to move forward in the plans outlined a few months ago…

The creation of these roles will help us to develop leadership which suits the size of church we are, and which helps the whole community to be resourced and supported as disciples.

They will give effective oversight and momentum to:

• Focusing our energies in Kingdom work and outreach...

• Developing our life as a community which is passionate about prayer...

• Ensuring that we can be growing in caring for the broken and welcoming those inside and outside the church

• Communicating well both within and outside the church community

• Developing and creating resources for discipleship

We are investing in seeing the vision we have as a church be realised

This is a exciting step, and it’s important that we have the right people to provide leadership. Please pray for God to lead us.

Thank you!

Love

Rev. Guy Donegan-Cross

Our heart for bringing God’s Kingdom to Harrogate

…….From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.

Colossians 1:20The Message Bible