JOB PROFILE 2021 ASSOCIATE All Saints with Holy Trinity Loughborough A LETTER FROM BISHOP MARTYN Thank you for your interest in this role. They learn and grow together These changes Please be assured that there are many to build communities which are require not only people praying for this process of transformed, shaped, and moulded considerable flexibility discernment, and we trust that you will know from each other’s experiences. and adaptability from clergy God’s guidance as you explore this role. The , like every and lay ministers but also great Here in Leicester Diocese we have been diocese in the , is in resilience. This is why we also place blessed to receive a £2.5 million grant from transition. Our vision is the kingdom of a strong emphasis on wellbeing – the Strategic Development Fund of the God and we seek to enable growth in the seeing this as a partnership where you 2 Church Commissioners to enable Black, depth of discipleship, growth in numbers take responsibility for your own wellbeing, Asian & Minority Ethnic (BAME) mission and of disciples, and growth in loving service of while knowing that there is always support ministry within our city and county. As our communities. However, the way in which available from bishops and diocesan staff. a diocese the primary way in which we do this work is rapidly changing as we Additional support is also offered by our we are seeking to do this is through prioritise: partner organisations such as Launde Abbey what we are calling Intercultural (retreat centre), St Philip’s (interfaith centre), • New communities (fresh expressions of Worshipping Communities. Community of the Tree of Life (residential church and church planting) and dispersed community for young adults) The Intercultural Worshipping • Intercultural communities (greater and of course the Cathedral. Communities (IWCs) are a model for representation of BAME people) the renewal of Anglican Church life I hope that I may have the opportunity of across the Diocese of Leicester. They • Intergenerational communities (schools, meeting you in the near future, but in the are missional church communities churches and households) meantime be assured of my prayers. where people from different cultural • Eco-communities (eco-diocese status Yours in Christ and ethnic heritage deliberately and net zero emissions by 2030) interact with one another in order to deepen their understanding and • Reconciling communities (‘living well experience of God and together’ in church and society across of each other. our many divides) The Rt Revd Martyn Snow ABOUT THE CONTEXT Who we are variety of first- and second-generation All Saints with Holy Trinity is part of the immigrants. At our nearest Primary School Inclusive Church network sitting within the there are somewhere in the region of thirty liturgical and sacramental tradition of the languages spoken by pupils. There are two Church of England with a vibrant musical mosques, two Hindu and one Sikh Temple in tradition embracing choral, contemplative the parish. and contemporary worship. It is home The parish is also made up of new housing to a predominantly gathered and conversion developments congregation, made up of people of starter homes and houses of 3 from all walks of life and from a multiple occupancy alongside variety of church backgrounds. a range of post war former Currently we are a white council houses and Victorian majority church with a minority terraces. There are numbers of individuals from the diverse of students and University global diaspora that makes up staff in the parish and it is not our parish and university town. uncommon to meet people who Our parish is made up of two of came to study in Loughborough the most deprived wards in the decades ago and decided to county scoring highly in the index of multiple stay, testament to the vibrant sense of deprivation with all of the social challenges community that the town engenders. that come with high levels of poverty. Our Grade 1 listed historic building that The immediate community surrounding dominates the sky line on the east of the the Church is predominantly low-income town shapes much of our mission as we seek families, BAME and older people who face to make this sacred space accessible for issues of isolation and exclusion. There are the whole community. We have something two primary schools and one senior school of a cathedral ministry where visitors and in the parish serving families from a wide passers-by drop in to pray, seek solace or to ask for help. We invest in mission through music, running a community choir for homeless and vulnerably housed people, over the last twelve months grown opening up the church for concerts, bringing a successful weekly livestream series people together for one off projects such as called Ministers Muse which seeks to bring International Women’s Day and maintaining together a range of voices to reflect on the We have been supporting vibrant adult and children’s choirs. lectionary texts. We have used zoom for Christians at Pride over the last few The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated discipleship groups and continue to develop years and have a reputation in the area as 4 our expansion into the online world. We a hybrid approach to church life being being a safe space for LGBTQ+ Christians. adapted quickly by taking our rhythm of mindful of the challenges that different Our commitment to join the BAME project the daily office online, something which we people face in accessing the online world. of the diocese and to choose to become an continue to do along with live streaming our We have made the most of our closed and IWC was a natural extension of our work as Sunday morning services. Our Rector has reordered churchyard during the past year an Inclusive Church. We recognise we have holding a Christmas Eve service, regular a long way to travel and our starting point Taizé worship, installing a labyrinth, social has been to educate ourselves by listening occasions and most recently deeply to the voices and experiences of using the space for the town’s BAME Christians. Our focus on racial equity Mela which we have supported in during Lent of 2021, inspired by Azariah partnership with other local groups. France Williams book Ghost Ship, used Creative prayer also happens outside a variety of means to engage with the and our ordained pioneer minister plays issues opening up conversations within our an active role in working with community congregation. partners on the care of the Parish Green The Associate role comes at a key as it is called. We have a strong emphasis moment in our journey. We are hoping and on the environment and will be declaring praying for a colleague who will challenge a climate emergency as part of our and encourage us enabling us to model creationtide series of services and events in intercultural community at the core of our the autumn. ministry team. ABOUT THE PROJECT Description Through research From its inception in 1926, the Diocese conducted in 2017, It became of Leicester has witnessed a radical apparent that our churches transformation to the context in which were ill equipped to minister it is called to minister the gospel. Today to people of BAME heritage, and it is serving a cosmopolitan population that this was reflected in the lack with people from diverse geographic, of diversity within our worshipping cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. communities. A key driver of Developing ministry capacity to attend to this project is to create a network of 5 5 this diversity has become a key strategic Intercultural Worshipping Communities priority of Leicester Diocese. Building (IWC) in key areas across the diocese. All upon our fresh expression of Church Saints with Holy Trinity Loughborough is (fxC) projects and aligning aspects of one of these IWCs, and this role will play this strategy to the Diocesan Resourcing a key part within this context on their Church (RC) strategy, we have embarked continued journey to becoming and IWC. For upon a long-term project that has the more information on the project (i.e. specific potential to fundamentally transform our aims) please refer to the supplementary ability for mission and ministry. documents provided. ABOUT THE DIOCESE The Diocese of Leicester new international conflicts, terrorism and Founded in 1926, Leicester is one of the extremism pose new challenges. The city is youngest dioceses in England. The present also proud that it is now known around the Diocesan Bishop, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, world for football and for King Richard III. was welcomed in May 2016. The boundary Beyond the city and its expanding suburban of the Diocese is almost coterminous with communities are numerous rural villages, the county of Leicestershire which has a many with medieval churches, together total population of just over one million with market towns such as Loughborough 6 people. There are nine local authorities (where this role will be based), Market in the diocese and the county is diverse, Harborough and Melton Mowbray as well as including urban, ex-mining towns and deep areas with an industrial and manufacturing rural. There are areas of significant poverty heritage such as Coalville and Hinckley. On as well as some areas of considerable a simple count of churches, the diocese is wealth. predominantly rural with urban heartlands. The city of Leicester lies at the centre of the diocese and has a population of just Shaped by God – Every Day This central focus on Christian discipleship over 500,000 (including its outer suburbs). In 2006, the diocese developed a statement is now being worked out in a number of key It was one of the first cities in the country of purpose called ‘Shaped by God’ to guide areas with some exciting new initiatives. to have a majority of residents who are our ministry and mission Each church is being asked three key black, Asian or minority ethnic. The 2011 questions, the answers to which will help to meet the challenges of the future. census revealed that Leicester residents them develop an action plan: trace their heritage to over 50 different Shaped by God in our lives and communities 1. how are you growing, and enabling countries across the globe, making the city we seek the growth of His Kingdom in: others to grow in the depth of their one of the most ethnically and culturally • the depth of discipleship, discipleship? diverse places in the UK. 19% of the • the number of disciples of Jesus, population are Muslim; 15% Hindu; 4% Sikh. 2. how are you enabling growth in the Leicester is proud of this diversity although • loving service of the world. numbers of disciples of Jesus? 3. how are you serving your community, Further details of diocesan vision and and enabling others to love and serve strategy may be found in the supplementary those around them? documentation for this application, or on Alongside these three ‘Key Questions’ we our website www.leicester.anglican.org , are currently engaged in creating a new in particular the Shaped by God Together diocesan framework for mission, a process section www.leicester.anglican.org/about- known within the Diocese as Shaped by God us/sbgt together. This process is working within 5 strategic priorities through which we want 7 to reshape our work in the coming years, namely growing: 1. New communities, [establishing as many fresh expressions of church (including church plants) as there are inherited churches]; 2. Intercultural Worshipping Communities (we have received a Church Commissioners grant for this work); 3. Intergenerational communities; 4. Eco-communities, in particular achieving Eco Diocese status; 5. Reconciling communities, to ‘live well together’ in church and society across our many divides; ABOUT THE ROLE Diocese of Leicester Interim Associate Priest, All Saints with Holy Trinity Loughborough

ROLE TITLE Associate Priest INTERCULTURAL Congregational Development and WORSHIPPING COMMUNITIES Intercultural Mission. PURPOSE 8 The Intercultural Worshipping Communities The Associate Priest will play a lead role in (IWCs) are a model for the renewal of Congregational Development the continued development of All Saints Anglican Church life across the Diocese A key part of this role with be the facilitation as an IWC, with reference to two key of Leicester. They are missional church and development of the congregation areas: Congregational development and communities where people from different in three core areas with some of the Intercultural mission. They will work under cultural and ethnic heritage deliberately anticipated responsibilities outlined below: the incumbent and alongside colleagues to interact with one another in order to deepen provide leadership to an intercultural and their understanding and experience of Belonging intergenerational core team. God and of each other. They learn and grow • To develop a welcome course and together to build communities which are structures that allow new people to find transformed, shaped, and moulded from their feet in the congregation paying each other’s experiences. This is an exciting particular attention to how individual opportunity for a priest with a passion for cultural identity and expression growing a culturally and ethnically diverse is proactively welcomed and not church who will join the journey that we are subsumed by the dominant culture. on towards our inclusive, intercultural vision. • To facilitate opportunities for relationship building within the congregation. ROLE OVERVIEW This is an Interim Associate post of three Learning years to help the us on our intercultural • To oversee the development of a range journey. The role will be focussed around of opportunities for people to grow in faith and understanding including whilst in Loughborough. Make more of Charnwood Arts on projects that bring the contributing to the development of the links with SCM and the University whole community together and meet local a rhythm of termly small groups and Chaplaincy. To proactively outreach to need. seasonal sermon series. students particularly to those of the global diaspora. To follow up with the Principal OTHER DUTIES Serving and Releasing of Loughborough College who is keen for Alongside the work outlined above, the • To foster the vocation of all the baptized, her students to have access to inclusive successful applicant will be expected to: encouraging the growth and releasing of spiritual support. • Play a full part in the sacramental the gifts of the people of God particularly priestly ministry team of All Saints. For 9 in relation to developing loving service of Local Schools example, preaching, presiding, crafting our community. To forge new relationships with the two liturgy and the leading of occasional primary schools and one senior school in the offices. Intercultural Mission parish who serve a highly diverse population. All of the areas below are ready to be We have limited but positive contact which developed and are of equal worth, however could be built on especially if developed in the first instance the Associate will from a place of meeting their needs. We take identify and agree one core focused area occasional assemblies and host the schools of mission that relates to their gifts and for church visits and shared in a period experience. This will be identified through poverty project prior to the pandemic. the application and interview process so that the successful candidate will arrive Local community relationships with a clear remit and focus. To continue with the existing good relationships, we have with different University/College community and faith organizations within To build on the small numbers of students the parish and to look for ways to increase who find All Saints by accident every partnership and the missional overlap within year by fostering the development of that. In particular work with Equality Action, All Saints as a viable home for students Fearon Hall Community Association and • Develop the intercultural competency of the congregation through contextual means, which might include developing a sermon series or small group resources. • Play a key part in the IWC steering group and relevant governance THE ROLE REQUIRES cultures and ethnicities structures helping to embed cultural Calling • Comfortable working in an inclusive 10 change at every level of church. • A clear calling from God to serve in this church • Develop a collegial working exciting and challenging position. • Ability to work under authority relationship with the rector based on • A commitment to intercultural and • Commitment to Anglican Identity a regular rhythm of shared prayer and intergenerational ministry • Commitment to share good practice in bible study. • A calling to reach people who are not the Deanery and Diocese • Cascade intercultural learning across yet part of any church community other contexts within the team ministry Competence or across the diocese. Character The gifts necessary to both serve and release • Contributing to the online church • Prayerful the congregation of All Saints Loughborough. presence of All Saints through worship • Imaginative, Innovative, and Creative These may include but are not limited to: and mission. • Compassionate and Courageous • Ability to reflect on the impact of During 2022 we accept the need to be flexible • Emotionally mature race, culture and identity in relation to as life continues to adjust to a new normal • Ready to learn Christian belief and belonging. post pandemic, which may mean needing to • Collaborative leader • Understanding of the challenges faced engage virtually more than normal. However by diaspora communities we believe that our calling is to reach out Chemistry • Comfortable leading worship and missionally to our local community. As the • Ability to maintain healthy preaching in a range of contexts. pandemic begins to reach an end it is expected relationships and boundaries • Track record of developing vocations and that this ministry will be conducted largely in • Ability to engage well with conflict enabling others in ministry. person rather than by virtual means. • Approachable to people of all ages, • Experience and understanding of life and ministry in culturally and ethnically innovative programme to grow the church. diverse contexts. • Welcoming congregation and clergy • Able to use the online world for mission keen to work collaboratively. and ministry. • The opportunity to engage with the • Ability to harness and release the gifts of diocesan network of intercultural others. practitioners. • Reflective practitioner. • The chance to work and live in a vibrant • Good cross cultural communication skills. and dynamic diocese. • Ability to lead well from the second chair. 11 KEY RELATIONSHIPS RESPONSIBLE TO • The Incumbent This is an Associate Priest level post • All Saints PCC sharing responsibility of ministry within the • Members of the Ministry Team parish of All Saints with Holy Trinity. The including Pioneer Minister, and post holder will be responsible to Wendy Director of Mission through Music. Dalrymple, Rector of the Benefice. • All Saints IWC Steering Group • The BAME Mission and Ministry Team THE ROLE OFFERS: • The BAME Mission and Ministry • The opportunity to work with a gifted Enabler and enthusiastic team. • A chance to actively participate in a key strategic priority for Leicester Diocese and help revitalise the church in Leicester Diocese. • Opportunity for ongoing personal development including mentoring and coaching. • A chance to build a team to lead an APPLICATION INFORMATION Applicants are required to apply by The closing date for applications is Anticipated start date filling in an application for, which is September 30th 2021 1st January 2022 or shortly thereafter available from the diocesan website Shortlisting will take place in early October There is an occupational requirement that www.leicester.anglican.org following the deadline and every effort will the post holder is a practising Christian. In addition a Clergy Current Status Letter be made to contact applicants as soon as This post is subject to Enhanced Plus DBS will be sought from the Diocesan Bishop of possible after shortlists have been drawn up. disclosure. Anglican clergy applicants. References are Interviews will take place on 25th October The successful applicant will need to normally taken up prior to interview: please 2021. provide proof of right to work in the UK 12 indicate any referees to whom an approach We are keen to do interviews in person but before taking up post. should only be made after the interview. recognise that nearer the time there may be Applications should be sent circumstances both general and individual • by email to Wendy Dunnington: that might mean that some or all interviews [email protected] have to be held online. • or by post to Mrs Wendy Dunnington, Diocese of Leicester, St Martins House, Other Information Leicester LE1 5PZ Employment status For an informal conversation about the post This is a 3-year, fixed term, interim you can talk to Revd Wendy Dalrymple, Rector Associate level, stipended post within the of All Saints with Holy Trinity Loughborough Diocese of Leicester. A suitable property on [email protected] will be sought to accompany this post. At or 01509 268362; or Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy the moment the diocese is in the process (BAME Mission & Ministry Enabler) on of identifying an appropriate property, [email protected] or 07496 824393. however this has not been done at the time More information about the Diocese of of going to press. If you would like more Leicester is available on our website: details on this property please get in touch www.leicester.anglican.org using the details in this profile.