Parish Profile

St Peter & St. Paul, Great Bowden Part of Market Harborough Resourcing Church Team

Contents

About the Diocese 1 The Vision 2 About the Parish 3 About the Church 4 About the Team 6 About You 8 About the Buildings 11 A welcome to the Diocese

Thank you for your interest in this role. Please be assured that there are many people praying for this process of discernment, and we trust that you will know God’s guidance as you explore this role.

The Diocese of Leicester, like every diocese in the Church of England, is in transition. Our vision is the kingdom of God and we seek to enable growth in the depth of discipleship, growth in numbers of disciples, and growth in loving service of our communities. However, the way in which we do this work is rapidly changing as we prioritise:

• New communities (fresh expressions of church and church planting) • Intercultural communities (greater representation of BAME people) • Intergenerational communities (schools, churches and households) • Eco-communities (eco-diocese status and net zero emissions by 2030) • Reconciling communities (‘living well together’ in church and society across our many divides)

These changes require not only considerable flexibility and adaptability from clergy and lay ministers but also great resilience. This is why we also place a strong emphasis on wellbeing – seeing this as a partnership where you take responsibility for your own wellbeing, while knowing that there is always support available from bishops and diocesan staff. Additional support is also offered by our partner organisations such as Launde Abbey (retreat centre), St Philip’s (interfaith centre), Community of the Tree of Life (residential and dispersed community for young adults) and of course the Cathedral.

We believe that the city of Leicester and the county of Leicestershire are full of vibrant communities where the contribution of the church is widely valued. This is Bishop Martyn leads a service of baptism in Harborough a great place to live and work and worship. If you believe that God may be calling Anglican Team in January 2020 you to join us, we look forward to exploring this with you in conversation and prayer.

I hope that I may have the opportunity of meeting you in the near future, but the meantime be assured of my prayers.

Yours in Christ,

The Rt Revd Martyn Snow Bishop of Leicester

1 The Vision new congregations within existing parish churches to add diversity, but all are focused on those who were not previously part of a Christian The parish church of St worshipping community. Some are led by those already part of our Peter & St Paul is a churches, some also require a church planting curate to help. Across healthy, welcoming, the Team some new worshipping communities have already started, and growing church some discerned but not yet developed and some not yet discerned. family in the Some new worshipping communities, such as a plans for a youth Leicestershire village of focused worshipping community or church plant in significant area of Great Bowden on the new housing are being undertaken as a whole Team, others will relate edge of the market to specific parishes. town of Market Harborough. As Team Vicar you will be a key leader in this calling both across the Team and within Great St Peter & St Paul is Bowden, although the part of the five-church majority of your ministry will Harborough Anglican be the day to day leadership Team and this is an exciting time to be joining the Team. As a major of St Peter & St Paul. This is part of the diocesan strategy, Shaped by God, the Harborough a part-time role (4 days Anglican Team was designated in 2017 as one of six Resourcing equivalent per week). After a Church Teams in Leicester Diocese. This offers a wide range of period of prayerful additional support to help our existing worshipping communities reach discernment and exploration, out in new ways to our wider community, most especially through as a PCC we describe our seeking to plant and cultivate around six new worshipping church and needs thus: Café Church in Great Bowden communities. Locally we have expressed this calling, and how it relates to • St Peter & St Paul is warm existing and welcoming, worships in a diversity of worshipping styles appropriate for all ages, and feels like the best of extended communities, family; thus (left). • It is blessed with a significant number of capable and experienced disciples, who have a deep reliance on God and strong links with the Some of these local community, especially with the village school new • The church has seen significant numerical growth in recent years worshipping under very capable ordained leadership and has birthed three communities emerging potential fresh expressions of Church might look like • We seek a leader who will encourage us and help us to grow in faith fresh as a church family and to grow in confidence as individuals, as we expressions of seek to serve and witness in the wider and growing community in Church, some new ways. We hope God will call someone who can build on the more like strong foundations so that, recognising that God has blessed us with church plants much, we will be more effective so as to see, in God’s grace, a or significant growth in the depth of our discipleship, the number of new disciples and sharing of Jesus’ love with the wider community.

2 About the Parish

“ Great Bowden is a vibrant, friendly, pretty place full of history with lovely coffee shops, welcoming pubs and a lively church.”

will travel outside the village and in many cases commute substantial distances. Conversely, many children attending the school live outside the village boundary as do just over half the Church’s worshipping community.

As well as the church and adjacent Church Hall, the village has a recreation ground with a Community Pavilion, cricket club and tennis club, a café, a Post Office/shop, a Village Hall and two Public Houses The conservation village of Great Bowden lies midway between serving food. Many sporting, Leicester and Northampton just on the Leicestershire side of the educational, and leisure county boundary, on the edge of the Welland Valley and has a activities are supported by history dating back to Anglo Saxon times. Although it is situated the local community. The very close to Market Harborough (pop. 22,000 - 2011 census Grand Union canal forms figure), Great Bowden retains some individuality and village part of the western parish character. The two settlements were formally separated in 1995 boundary and in one when Great Bowden was granted parish status. The village http://www.greatbowden.leics.sch.uk/ direction leads to the Market and http://www.learn-at.org.uk/ comprises just under 700 houses and has a population of just over Harborough Canal Basin, 1,500 people, with approx. 125 new houses having been built and in the other to the well- within the last few years. known Foxton Locks.

The village has good accessibility due to the proximity of the A6 (1 A key part of the village is Great Bowden Church of England mile), A14 (4 miles) and mainline station to London (1 mile). A fast Academy (ages 4-11). A community with a strong Christian ethos, rail line to London has resulted in the area becoming a major of around a hundred and forty children and staff, the school has centre for those wishing to commute to the capital. Market three foundation Governors from Church including the incumbent, Harborough is within easy reach of Leicester, Coventry, ex officio. Birmingham, Nottingham and Peterborough. There is very little direct employment in Great Bowden and most residents who work 3 About the Church As detailed further in the Appendix, we have been engaged in The parish church of St Peter & St Paul is a healthy and growing substantial church building reordering work over the past decade. This church family: an able and spiritually mature worshipping community, has made the building more accessible, flexible, and environmentally which has a mix of long standing and newer members. friendly, and added improved facilities such as a prayer chapel, kitchen, toilets, and an audio-visual system. We have been developing Geographically and culturally at the heart of village life, the church is plans, supported by some generous legacies, to further increase often the focal point for community gathering. For example, in 2018 flexibility to make space for additional worshipping communities the church organised the community knitting of 10,000 poppies to mark through changes to seating and layout, but we are conscious these the centenary of the end of the WW1; these were cascaded down the changes need to be led church tower, linking with an exhibition and range of services and by the renewed vision events. for worship. By the time a new Team Vicar A church known for its arrives, we aim for all warm welcome, most the preparatory work to worshippers are part of the have been undertaken 10:30am Sunday but are hoping to delay congregation (there is decision-making so the normally one service on a new Vicar can help lead Sunday with an additional us through the various quieter, contemplative worship options evening service once a towards the one(s) to month). Prior to Covid, which God is calling us. this service was Alongside the Sunday Eucharistic three times a morning congregation, month, with a Cafe Church three emerging or potential fresh expressions of Church are in varying on the first Sunday of each stages of development and maturity. Some of these may provide the month. A music group, seedbed for future developments, for which we recognise the need for under the leadership of a part-time Director of Music, sing most weeks the new Team Vicar to lead us in discerning: and are accompanied by both musicians and an organist. As we emerge from lockdown, we will be working through a process as a • Café Church: this was new in 2019 and is an informal and Parish and in partnership with the wider Team to seek God’s guidance accessible monthly service with breakfast, with an average of 65 on what the right pattern of services is for the coming years (during adults and children attending lockdown there have been a wide range of digital services, community service, phone-round lists and the like). • Messy Church: this was new in 2016 and meets 4 times a year on a Saturday, with an average of 60 adults and children attending.

“We aim to be a caring church family, looking • Coffee Heaven: a free coffee morning every Wednesday, open to all outward to the community so that all whom and particularly connecting with older people and those who are on we meet may know the love of God by our their own, helping to offer them a sense of fellowship and combat actions and words.” loneliness. Roughly 40 people a week attend, and up to 90 come to the Christmas dinner. So we are ambassadors for Christ 4 2 Corinthians 5:20 In line with the wider vision and strategy of Leicester Diocese (a Among the diverse parts of church life are discerned calling to see as many maturing fresh expressions of Church also: by 2030 as parish churches, so around 320), these three groups are • Monday Break – Fellowship Group largely led by teams of lay volunteers, under the support, • Wednesday Morning Prayer • ‘Church in a Pub’, a fellowship group which meets once a month in the local public house • A weekly Bible study group that links into the full range of Connect Groups (small group discipleship which run across the Team as a whole) • Open the Book team at the school • Bell Ringers • Church prayer group • Music Group & Singers • The annual four-day summer Great Messy Church Bowden Music Fest

St Peter & St Paul’s is also an active part of Coffee Heaven many Team-wide ministries and groups. These include an active Mother’s Union branch, a termly Alpha course, regular Taizé worship, an annual children’s holiday club (which runs in accountability, and development of the Team Vicar. Across existing and St Peter & St Paul’s church building and hall), weekly Pathfinders emerging parts of church life there is a hope to build on the excellent (10-13 year olds) and 10+ (14-18 year olds) groups, Connect Groups leadership of recent years going even further in discipleship, and much more. Great Bowden has very strong links to Leicester evangelism, and witness. Anglican Cursillo, which has enriched the faith and witness of many in the congregation.

Before lockdown, the total worshipping community at St Peter & St Paul was 152 children & adults, with around 80 people attending church services on a normal Sunday. A normal year sees between 4 and 10 baptisms, 4 and 8 weddings, and around 10 funerals in the church building (plus more at the crematorium, taken either by the stipendiary clergy or considerable number of retired clergy).

The Parish and Team also enjoy good relationships with neighbouring churches as part of Gartree Deanery (which also includes one other Resourcing Church).

For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Jeremiah 29:11 5 About the Team The Harborough Anglican Team has developed as a team ministry Transfiguration (made up of two churches, St Nicholas and St Hugh, around the town of Market Harborough, with its closely associated full-time) village communities, over several decades with the Parish of St Peter • Team Vicar with special responsibility for the Parish of St Dionysius & St Paul joining in 2007. (full-time) • Families Development Worker, who works across the Team The partnership of the five parish churches has been further developed supporting churches in work with children and young people with renewed vision since responding to an invitation to becoming a and being responsible for its strategic development (part-time) Resourcing Church Team in 2016. With the majority of the staff team • Apprentice Youthworker, who leads youthwork across the Team being new since 2016, following a number of relatively long vacancies, (part-time, line supervised by the Families Development Worker) we’ve worked hard together in recent years to rebuild what it means to • Associate Priest for Evangelism Development, who leads our termly be a Team of churches with shared vision and unique gifts for this Team-wide Alpha Course and supports evangelism development in exciting new season. Good progress has been on this, with shared the individual Parishes (part-time); leadership only growing through Covid and better understanding of • Team Administrator (part-time) who runs a shared Team Office; how parishes and Team relate, but we are conscious of the importance • Associate Priest with special responsibility for All Saints, Lubenham of reforming whenever a key new leader, such as this role, joins a (a ‘retirement’ ministry, licensed until November 2021) team. • Two Church Planting Curates (one full-time, one part-time as he trains) each with a focus of developing and leading two of the larger The vision of being a Team is far more than mere efficiency, with a plants. A third Church Planting Curate is due to start this Summer. focus on how working as both a staff team and a team of churches • During the Vacancy at Great Bowden, an experienced and able help us be more outward focused, more prayerfully supportive and ‘retired’ clergy person who worships at St Peter & St Paul has been encouraging of one another as we lead through times of change, and licensed to have special responsibility for the church during the helps us travel further and more effectively than any one church could vacancy (with some functions shared with the Team Rector). alone. The Team Vicars hold special responsibility for their parish(es), with a number of staff offering support or taking responsibility of In addition to the staff team, there are a number of Readers, Pioneers, specific shared ministry areas across the Team as a whole. Pastoral Assistants and active ‘retired’ clergy who serve in specific parishes across the Team (less so in Great Bowden, although a The Staff Team growing number of people have functioned in these roles without the The Team Vicar will join an encouraging and effective staff team, which formal licensing). meets fortnightly, comprising: • Team Rector who serves as team leader but does not lead any Each parish then makes its own arrangement for musical or choral specific parish (this role is half-time and he also leads on Resourcing leadership, cleaning and verging. At St Peter & St Paul this involves a Churches for the DIocese as part of the Bishops Leadership Team in part-time Musical Director, a volunteer Organist, and a team of the other half) volunteer cleaners and ‘vergers’. • Team Vicar with special responsibility for the Parish of the

The Staff and wider Ministry Team meeting for Bible study 6

Good Friday Witness

Sisters and brothers in Christ

In addition to the strength of relationships across the Anglican churches of the area, there is also a strong and missional Churches Together in Harborough of which the Parish of St Peter & St Paul is a part. Church leaders meet for lunch, prayer, and mutual support monthly, with a forum of lay reps and leaders every two months. Shared areas of ministry include: The Harborough Christian Counselling Service (‘The Bower House’) The Cube (Churches Together Youth Centre with paid staff) The Jubilee Food Bank, serving Harborough and the surrounding villages Harborough Street Pastors Homelessness project Thy Kingdom Come - eleven days of prayer for evangelism The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity A Good Friday witness for the Town Ecumenical Lent groups are organised across the town every other year Harborough Acon for Jusce and Peace

The fields are ripe for harvesting John 4:35

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another John 13:34 7

About you: Role Description During the vacancy, time has been spent discerning what we feel we need as a Parish and Team from the Team Vicar. We’ve been encouraged at this progress, which includes setting up a new leadership team (comprising two new Churchwardens, AssistantThe Cube Wardens, Treasurer, PCC Secretary and Associate Priest) and establishing four new working groups to help develop and resource key areas of our shared life. We are praying for a Team Vicar who can help us build on this so we might journey further into our shared vision as part of a Resourcing Church Team and the specific outworkings of that in the Parish. We hope this leadership will be: 1. enabling in nature - helping develop leadership and further cultivate a culture where everyone, with their unique experiences and gifts, has a place; 2. strategic in practice - helping us see how the different church activities relate to one another and serve the wider vision; 3. joined up with what it means to be a Resourcing Church Team of churches - so that the ‘Resourcing Church’ element is central to vision and strategy. Team-wide Light Party In addition to the usual roles and responsibilities of leading a Parish and its worship, and being involved in the many areas of joint working as a Team (for example shared baptism or wedding preparation), there are four specific foci we have discerned as priorities:

Encouraging & Enabling Leaders We seek a Priest who, as the day-to-day leader of St Peter & St Paul, will encourage us as a church family and help us grow our faith both as individuals and as a family, seeking to serve our wider and growing community in new ways. This includes supporting and overseeing the existing leaders as well as helping identify, develop, and support new leaders. We are keen that the development of new leaders should not merely ‘keep the show on the road’ but grow capacity so as to be more outward-focused, as we look to develop new worshipping communities and church plants, and connect with the new housing in the village.

To support this, during the vacancy we have established a working group, chaired by a new Assistant Churchwarden, to support Faith Development of existing church members and encourage, through Alpha, those exploring faith. Shortly before Covid we agreed and started a network of Connect Groups across the Team to support discipleship, but after a good start it has been a little faltering in some parts during lockdown. The hope is further to renew this as we emerge from lockdown. Further develop links with the School, Children & Young People A key strategic priority for us is to develop further our ministry with children and young people. This may include starting some new things, but we recognise the need for greater connectivity and better strategic links among the many existing ministries both specific to the Parish (e.g. a weekly Open the Book team from the Parish visiting the Academy, a monthly whole school service in the church building, church services with the school to mark particular festivals, a quarterly MessyChurch and Across the Team we deliver Christmas cards monthly Café Church) and those that serve the Team as a whole (e.g. team wide youth groups and with a message and invite to each of the an annual Team Holiday Club hosted at St Peter & St Paul). This includes further developing the 12,000 houses in the area relationship with the Team-wide Families Development Worker and Apprentice Youthworker.

8 We seek a Priest who will help us further develop the existing strong links with the Great Bowden C of E Academy, support the teams of volunteers who engage with the Academy through a range of ministries, and help us develop connections between the Academy and the wide range of Parish and wider Team ministries with children and young people. This includes the new Team Vicar joining the two existing Foundation Governors on the governing body. The Great Bowden C of E Academy is part of Learn-AT, a flourishing Multi-Academy Trust comprising both church and community schools in South East Leicestershire, on which the Team Rector sits to represent the Team as a Trustee. To support this, during the vacancy we have established a working group, currently chaired by a new Churchwarden, to support and develop our ministry with children & young people.

Confident Evangelism and Witness We recognise the need to be more confident in our own witness and will look to the person appointed to help and encourage us to grow in faith both as individuals and as a church, as we seek to serve our community in new ways. Working with the leadership of the new Faith Development Group, and team-wide Associate Priest for Evangelism Development, they will lead and help others lead Christian basics courses (such as the termly Team Alpha courses) and encourage new opportunities to help develop a culture of sharing stories of people coming to and growing in faith, in a way that builds up the church across all the existing and any new congregations.

Pastoral Care The person appointed will encourage the development of the existing pastoral team who have taken on responsibility for pastoral care during the pandemic.

Currently the team of volunteers direct their focus to the church family and those on the Electoral Roll. However it is recognised that there are those in the wider parish whose needs require support. It is in this area that leadership and direction are sought in order to help those most in need.

The Team Vicar will lead most of the weddings and funeral services linked to Great Bowden, and work with colleagues across the Team to further develop weddings and funerals as opportunities for significant missional engagement.

Personal Development The ongoing development, growth, and flourishing of all members of the staff team is of central importance. We are keen to ensure sufficient space and practical support for personal development, rest ,and spiritual renewal. To support this, the Team has a generous expenses policy which includes support towards annual retreats, reading, hospitality, and the like. Being part of the diocesan Resourcing Church network also offers further support in the form of a Community of Practice, the option of coaching or mentoring, and much more beside.

Stipend, housing, pension, etc. This appointment is made jointly by the Bishop of Leicester and Team Rector after consultation with parish representatives. The candidate(s) will have the opportunity to meet with representative groups from St Peter & St Paul, Great Bowden and from the wider Harborough Anglican Team as part of the discernment process.

This is a Common Tenure, incumbent status post with a half stipend (currently £13,825), house, pension, council tax, and water rates provided in the usual way. Removal expenses are paid, as is a resettlement grant and, if a first incumbent status post, an additional grant of around £2,500. Expenses are paid in full as per the Team’s expense policy along with contributions towards hospitality, office costs, home computing, books, etc.The post involves a commitment of four days’ stipendiary ministry per week (including Sundays). Whether this involves four full days or more parts of days is not fixed and there is considerable space for flexibility (as agreed with the Team Rector and coordinated with the staff team). 9 About you: Person Specification Whilst Christian character, spiritual and personal maturity and deeply held faith are key to this role, we are realistic that we are not seeking the archangel Gabriel or Mary, the Mother of Jesus! Below is that to which we hope the Team Vicar would aspire, mindful that we are all journeying towards this and in need of God’s constant mercy and grace:

Discipleship

• a disciple whose life is rooted and centred in prayer, worship and the scriptures, aware of their deep need of the Holy Spirit; • a passionate witness to the risen Christ in word and deed, committed to seeing people of all ages find

faith and integrating them into the church family; • an encourager able to help Christians be more confident and effective in sharing their faith and serving those in need;

Leadership

• an energising leader who fashions their life and leadership in the way of Christ, serving others with care and love, yet also being dynamic about how and where change is needed; • a Priest who is enthusiastic about pastoral care, but not someone who feels they need to do it all, so much as, support, mentor and enthuse a team

that can; • a teacher, grounded in the Bible and able to teach from it with faith and passion, reflecting theologically in a range of styles and to all ages; • liturgically competent Minister, sensitive, and flexible, who can help draw out how God is at work across traditions, congregation sizes and styles and is open to the richness of different Christian traditions;

Character, experience and organisational

• a collaborative team player, a cohesive influence within teams, experienced in effective collegial working, and able to support and encourage colleagues; • resilient, dependable, and good humoured under pressure; • adaptable and flexible, focused and disciplined in their approach to work. Tenacious enough to get things done and work with competing priorities and demands; • an active listener and communicator; • emotionally intelligent and self-aware, with the ability to identify and assess their own and others’ emotions and needs (including for self-care, which we take very seriously); • computer literate. There is an Occupational Requirement that the person appointed be an ordained priest in the Church of England or Church in full Communion with it, designated at selection as Incumbent Status/Stipendiary, who has satisfactorily completed Initial Ministerial Education 1-7. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Clearance.

The post is open to anyone who meets the requirements of the role but applications from female or BAME candidates will be received favourably as these are historically under-represented within our Team and Diocese. 10

Appendix 1: Buildings by local groups. In recent years, the building has been rewired, re- and Vicarage roofed and had new kitchen and toilet facilities. The main hall and smaller meeting room together with the external playground space Church Building make it ideal for the daily Pre-School in term time. A steady source of The parish church building, income from lettings means the hall is largely self-funding. Currently parts of which date back to the we maintain a reserve fund of £7,500 for repair and maintenance. 1300s, is central to the village of Great Bowden and serves Accommodation as a focal point at the heart of the village. The grade 1* listed building has recently undergone extensive work to make the building The Vicarage (17 Dingley Road) is a detached four-bedroom property accessible, flexible, warm, and welcoming, by installing new lighting, erected in 1983 in the grounds of the former parsonage house. It is heating, toilets, a fully fitted kitchen, a new prayer chapel, and levelling situated approximately 400 metres from the parish church of St Peter & the floor. The PCC is now St Paul. exploring ways of making the seating more flexible L shaped accommodation comprises: entrance porch, hallway, study, to accommodate all the WC, kitchen, utility, dining room, and lounge. To the first floor are four different services and bedrooms, bathroom, and WC. There is an attached single garage events. and a tarmacadam driveway for several vehicles. A generous rear garden is mainly laid to lawn and enclosed by brick and close-boarded The church has benefitted fencing. as a named beneficiary of the Market Harborough The property has been improved over the years, including replacement and the Bowdens’ Charity double glazed uPVC windows. A gas-fired boiler heats radiators to all for many years. Although principal rooms and is supplemented by an immersion heater for there are strict limits to domestic hot water. the use of funds, the Parish has the ability to draw on Quinquennial works were carried out in 2017. The full address is: The substantial funds for the upkeep of the fabric; as a consequence, the Vicarage, Dingley Road, Great Bowden, LE16 7ET. fabric is in very good repair and there hasn’t been the need to run fundraising events for the maintenance of the building.

Church Hall Originally constructed as the Village School, the Church Hall is adjacent to the church. Maintained by the church, it is used primarily

11 Appendix 2: Governance - Parish and Team St Peter & St Paul has its own Parochial Church Council (chaired by the person appointed) and has primary legal responsibility for day-to-day governance. A Team Council draws staff team and Churchwardens together three times a year to support strategy, vision, and communication.

The Team operates on a collegial and collaborative model of ministry and decision-making, sharing various responsibilities, although clergy and some lay staff team members also have specific areas of local pastoral oversight as is the case here. The staff team meets fortnightly for a morning, shares a termly social for staff team and their households, a termly pub lunch and goes away for an annual residential together. There is a pattern of shared daily prayer around the Team and high levels of support and partnership whilst honouring the freedom of Parish leadership.

Although the person appointed will be a full and key member of the staff team, the part-time nature of this role will be reflected in the amount/regularity of wider Team commitments expected to be taken.

Appendix 3: Finances The Diocese of Leicester operates a Parish Gift, rather than Parish Share, scheme. This is supported by a Canon Peter MacKenzie, Generous Giving Team to help churches embody Jesus’ call to generosity and Kingdom-focused mutuality. Associate Priest in the parish, with In 2020, Great Bowden gave a parish gift of £48,928. There are currently 66 households giving the Archdeacon of Leicester Ven. (representing around 95 people), mostly by Bank Order and with the benefit of Gift Aid which has proved Richard Worsfold extremely beneficial whilst the church community have been in lockdown.

The accounts for 2020 will show a small deficit, excluding legacies, due to a reduction in fees, cash collections and income from the church hall but we have received 100% of our planned giving. In recent years we have also benefited from 3 substantial legacies which have given us confidence to explore the final phase of reordering to include new seating with a view to increasing flexibility. The Church Council normally gives 5% of its income each year to a range of mainly Christian mission charities in addition to any funds raised through specific appeals.

Applications, discernment and interview

The deadline for applications is midday on Wednesday 28th April and an interview and discernment day for shortlisted candidates takes place on Friday 4th June.

For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Team Rector, Barry Hill on [email protected] or 01858 468461.

Due to homeworking during the pandemic, completed application forms should be emailed to [email protected] as well as by post to: Mrs Wendy Dunnington, Archdeacon’s Office, St Martins House, 7 Peacock Lane, Leicester, LE1 5PZ. Wendy can also be contacted by phone on 07398 618824

Be assured of the prayers of all involved as you discern if God is calling you.

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