Parish Profile WELCOME TO OUR CHURCH

‘Making Christ Known’ WELCOME TO THE PARISH OF WALTON BRECK.

A community of people effecting change by being changed into the likeness of Jesus.

Thank you for taking the time to read this profile and consider a role with us. In partnership with our Patrons, Simeon’s Trustees we are continuing to pray that God speaks clearly throughout this process, and is in fact speaking to you now as you read our parish profile and get to know us a little better.

We want to grow into We are looking for the likeness of Jesus Our vision is clear. We someone who can and be empowered by want to ‘Make Christ inspire us, unite us We are one parish with the Holy Spirit so we can Known’ through our and empower us to 3 places of worship but build relationships with actions and through the grow in our more importantly we those around us and people we are; in our discipleship and are people who want walk alongside the lost homes, our schools and mission. to make a real and the broken. our places of work. difference to our community.

‘Making Christ Known’ WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR We have been through many periods of change not just from our external environment, which has seen a shift in the housing around the surrounding area of our buildings, but also as a church we have seen many people leave us as they take on their own ministry. But God has been gracious and as people leave God has sent us new people to become part of our Church family. We want our new vicar to lead us into our next phase as we listen and respond to the things God is calling us to do. We want our vicar to be someone who strives to model their life on Jesus and be committed to caring ‘inwardly’ for our people, ‘outwardly’ to our community and ‘upwards’ to God. We want our vicar to be committed to: OUR COMMUNITY LISTENING TO GOD

•To be an active member of the board of OUR PEOPLE •To be attentive to what God trustees for ‘EAT’ our charity Everton and is calling us to do Anfield Together •To building a bigger church by building •To affect change by being •To help us build on our community links; our bigger Christians. changed into the likeness of schools, messy church, ‘ in the House’, •To build a church on shared Jesus foodbank etc. responsibilities •To unite our church family •To encourage discipleship •To network with other churches and share •To build up leaders to inspire, equip and good practice release people into ministry •To ensure that good pastoral care is available •To helping us belong ‘Making Christ Known’ WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR Job Description

Purpose of this To lead Christ Church and Holy Trinity in its people’s growth in: position · their relationship with God through Jesus Christ, · their love for one another, We want our vicar to · theirbe committedwitness to the toworld.: Relationships The incumbent is responsible to the of with whom (s)he shares the ‘cure of souls’ within the parish. (S)he acts as the leader of the church staff team, works in close liaison with the Church Wardens and is ex-officio chairman of the Parochial Church Council. (S)he is a member of the Deanery Chapter and Synod and of the local Fraternal.

Responsibilities 1) To maintain his/her own spiritual growth, particularly by giving time to prayer and the study of the Scriptures. Also, to engage heart and mind through wide reading in areas of theology, spirituality, etc. and to develop ministry skills through regular training. 2) To develop and then hold the church to the agreed vision. With other leaders, to determine priorities and to develop strategies to enable the church to work to that vision. Within this, to ensure that the church keeps appropriate forms of outreach high on its agenda. 3) To oversee and, with others, to develop the ministry of the Word of God through both preaching and teaching in all appropriate forms (in church services, small groups and one-to-one). 4) To hold overall responsibility for the leading of public worship, for the ministry of the sacraments, and for intercession for local and national concerns and God’s world-wide work. 5) To lead the staff team, managing individual members in their delegated responsibilities, building up the team and pastoring them and their families. 6) To develop lay ministry by overseeing the appointment, nurturing, management and training of Readers and all other lay leaders, enabling them to develop their distinctive gifts and ministries.

‘Making Christ Known’ WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR Job Description Responsibilities 7) To ensure that the decision-making processes of the church through staff team, Church Wardens, PCC, Standing Committee, and other groups are carried out effectively, with each body having a clearly understood role. 8) To serve the parish (and appropriate networks) by ensuring that Christ is proclaimed by word and deed, that pastoral needs are met, and that ‘occasional offices’ are conducted in an appropriate manner. 9) To ensure the church undertakes its responsibilities within the deanery and diocese and to undertake other specific and agreed responsibilities as We want our vicar incumbent to be committed (e.g. school governorships,to: local chaplaincies, synod membership). 10) To take proper care of him/herself and his/her family through adequate time for rest, recreation and family life (or, as appropriate, with friends) as an example to others. To be involved in some activity with those who have no church allegiance

Exclusions The incumbent is NOT expected to make the following a priority: · routine administration of the church and parish; · pastoral care which can be carried out by others; · areas of ministry in which (s)he is not specifically gifted and where work can be delegated to others; · areas of ministry not felt to be priorities at a given time. The incumbent may, however, hold certain responsibilities in other areas of Christian work (e.g. diocesan boards, national councils). All the above is to be read within the context of the canons of the .

Delegation To lead a church, the Minister has to realise that a different style of leadership is called for. It is not possible to do everything that his or her counterpart in a small church may carry out. Whole areas of ministry have to be delegated to other members of staff (in addition to the involvement of laity in every area of ministry). So, the management of the staff team becomes an important element of the leader’s ministry. Hard choices must be made about priorities. (The list of exclusions is given so that the Ministers of churches do not feel guilty at delegating these items. They should beware of doing very much in these areas if this means that their priorities in ministry are neglected. For some, the temptation is to get back to the style of ministry they were used to in a smaller church and fail to offer proper leadership)

‘Making Christ Known’ HISTORY: A SNAP SHOT OF OUR JOURNEY

Three Places of Worship. One Parish, One Vision

Christ Church and Holy Trinity are In recent years we have seen steeped in history so much so that we many of our people move on to wouldn’t do it justice in such a short space. their own ministry and have We thought it would be much more been very much a sending interesting for you to know our most Church. We currently have 2 recent history which will help us to focus Our most recent place of worship comes in the form of experienced Readers and 2 on the future and what is to come next. Messy Church Readers in training. We have For many years we have been two Links with our local primary school Four Oaks means that we can seen an increase in members churches situated in two separate meet with parents and children and worship God through where English is not their first parishes. However the links between our activities and stories. Messy Church has seen a growth of language and have bibles which churches go back many years through congregation with around 60 adults and children attending Messy are translated into Farsi and having shared leadership and a shared Church after school, every other Wednesday during Term time. Kurdish. vision. In 2014 we took the step to link our church together and become one Parish. ‘‘Making Christ Known’ PARISH STATS ‘ABOUT THE PARISH This is an exciting time Sunday Morning Worship Amenities for you to join us. Anfield Services across 2 sites at 11am There are many shops in the area has been an area of ‘ with a choice of Supermarkets Joint family service at alternate Regeneration for over 15 The Parish of Walton close by. Both Church buildings are years and now we are churches every 4 weeks Breck consists of close to a main bus route to the seeing the plans coming to two Anglican churches, Housing city centre approx. 4 miles away. Holy Christ fruition. Old terraced houses evangelical and open to Within the area there are 3 sports Trinity Church Is predominately are being replaced by the work of the Spirit in centres, 2 with swimming pools, terraced, with new detached and semi-detached No. on Electoral Roll 115 Christ Church is near to a renewing our lives, detached and housing and shops are being mission and semi-detached community café, there are several Usual church 30 56 refurbished. attendance - adults community. houses there is a take-aways in the area and a beautiful Victorian park with a mixture of owned Usual church 9 9 Victorian Glass House converted and rented attendance - into a café and function suite children property. Church attendance 43 80 at Easter Christ Church If you like football you (postcode L5 1UW) is 92 ‘We are an Urban are close to 2 stadiums. Church attendance *57 opposite Liverpool Football Priority Area and like Liverpool FC is a at Advent Club & Holy Trinity is any UPA we have our close neighbour to Average attendance 60 located on Breck Road, issues around addiction, Christ Church. at Messy Church at Anfield (postcode L4 2QS). Four Oaks Primary poverty, educational Messy Church is located attainment, crime and Information taken from Statistics for Mission Jan to Dec 2017 in Four Oaks Primary health. *Advent figure for HT is taken from Stats for missions Jan to Dec 2016 School ‘Making Christ Known’ ABOUT CHRIST CHURCH: WALTON BRECK Do you feel called to our •The population of this parish is 7,901. Can you help community? •It ranks 24 out of 12,599, where 1 is the most deprived parish. •This means that the parish is among the most deprived in the country. us serve those around us?

Data taken from Church Urban Fund look up http://www2.cuf.org.uk/parish/220068 ‘Making Christ Known’ ABOUT HOLY TRINITY Can you Do you feel •The population of this parish is 3,991. help us to called to our •It ranks 7 out of 12,599, where 1 is the most deprived parish. serve those community? •This means that the parish is among the most deprived in the country. around us?

Data taken from Church Urban Fund look up http://www2.cuf.org.uk/parish/220076 ‘Making Christ Known’ ‘ABOUT ANFIELD

‘Making Christ Known’ WHO ARE WE We would describe ourselves as a We are a mixture of people who Sunday morning worship is our We have diocesan child friendly low evangelical Church. live both in and outside of the main corporate meeting, and we status and encourage our children parish. Many of our members have run messy church for one of our to take part in Holy Communion. We have seen many changes over a long history with Holy Trinity and local primary schools on a the recent years but we are Christ Church and have been part Wednesday. Our children have their own style committed to the life of our of the church since their of worship on a Sunday but are We have very close links with two church and the Anfield area. childhood. encouraged to take part in the life primary schools in the area and of the church. We strive to be a community of We have recently seen an increase host church services and collective people affecting change by being in the Syrian and Kurdish worship for both schools. Each month Christ Church hosts a changed into the likeness of community worshipping with us Boys Brigade parade service. At We have Holy Communion twice a Jesus. which has added to the richness of this service children take part and our family. month at Christ Church and once lead services. Many of our volunteers don’t at Holy Trinity. Robes are only attend church on a Sunday. Our We are not afraid to try new worn at Holy Communion services, We expect children to act like vision has in recent years helped things and welcome differences to baptisms and weddings. children during our worship. us to shape our church as we our patterns of worship. We have recently set up a joint reach out to the community

family service at alternative around us. churches which will run every 4th

Sunday.

‘Making Christ Known’ OUR VISION

‘Making Christ Known’ OUR LINKS

Alcoholics Sophora Debt Scouse in the House Anonymous Advice Boys Brigade

Supporting Ogongola in Uganda Messy Church OUR

Brownies Foodbank CHURCH

Guides Four Oaks Primary School

House Groups Mothers Anfield EAT Narcotics Union Community Road Anonymous Café Primary School ‘Making Christ Known’ ’ OUR PEOPLE

‘Making Christ Known’ OUR LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE Self Governing Groups

We have a well organised PCC and Building Maintenance Group some self governing groups.

1 PCC We have one bank account with one Finance Group set of accounts. 1 BANK ACCOUNT Our congregation is encouraged to EAT Charity take part in the life of the church including reading and leading our Standing Committee 1 APCM prayers at our Sunday Services.

We have dedicated teams who run a Children’s Ministry structured programme of worship activities for our children. ‘Making Christ Known’ OUR FINANCES HEALTH & SAFETY AND • In 2016 both church accounts broke even. SAFEGUARDING • The church pays its full parish share. • Risk Assessments for groups and activities are reviewed • We have links with a church in Onogora and along with annually. other churches financial support development work through Tear Fund. • Gas and other safety checks are carried out regularly.

• There is a trend towards a continuing decrease in • All volunteers and children workers are subject to a full stewardship giving due to ageing population. DBS check .

• There are money reserves for 3 months general running costs and 6 months administration costs. OTHER TRUSTS

• There are money reserves for building work and • St Simons Trust - a restricted fund for educational maintenance. purposes.

• Accounts are audited and verified. • EAT – Everton and Anfield Together - registered charity who employs a community link pastoral worker. • Investments and budgets are reviewed 4 times a year and reports are presented to PCC. OUR BUILDINGS AND VICARAGE

 Letting of  ‘We are blessed with  Quinquennial community space  ‘Both 2 Church buildings, under Holy Trinity survey buildings in both different but both Church has been completed very good offering their own finalised benefits repair

Christ Church Vicarage Holy Trinity •30 years old •Located at the back of Christ •150 years old Surrounding Area •Flexible seating Church •Church pews •Local shops •Sports hall / community space •30 years old •Music group •New housing •Hosts football teas •4 bedrooms •Hosts bible study group •Main bus routes to city centre •Opposite Liverpool Football Club •Recently had new double glazed •Hosts ‘Sophora’ (knitting and •2 Victorian parks within walking •Music group windows fitted crochet with the love of Jesus) distance •Bible study group •Large kitchen •Hosts ‘Foodbank’ •A choice of sports centres and •Community cafe •Separate dining room •Has disabled access public swimming pools within a •In an area of regeneration •Separate study •New roof and internal refurb short journey •Hosts uniform groups •Recently had a new boiler fitted recently completed •Hosts ‘Scouse in the House’ •Gardens front and back •Separate children’s area •Has disabled access •Off road parking and garage •Visible from main road with high •Has recently had new lighting •Alarm and CCTV fitted church spire fitted •Well maintained Willis organ ‘Making Christ Known’ Thank you for taking time to look at our parish profile. We hope through prayer that you are considering joining our community to lead and encourage us in our work with Jesus.

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