Cleveland Archdeaconry Training Adviser (with a focus on IME Phase 2) and Parish Priest for the Benefice of Ampleforth, Oswaldkirk, Gilling East and Stonegrave Profile November 2016 Welcome! On these pages you will find details of the combined appointment of a half-time parish priest for the Benefice of Ampleforth, Oswaldkirk, Gilling East and Stonegrave, and a half-time Training Adviser for the Archdeaconry of Cleveland (the northern part of the Diocese of York), with a focus on supporting clergy in their early years following ordination. This is a time of exciting change and development in the life of the Diocese, as we look to form our priorities and strategy for the coming years. We have set ourselves three goals: To reach the people we currently don’t To move to growth To establish sustainable finances … and this appointment is a very significant one in realising those goals in a very distinctive rural benefice, and in the personal development of newly-ordained clergy. I hope that you will find this Profile interesting and stimulating. At the end you will see details of how to contact my colleagues and me, if you would like to have a further discussion. We are holding the work of making an appointment in prayer. May God bless you as you discern his call for you. Contents Part 1: Appointment as Training Adviser Page 3 Part 2: Appointment as Parish Priest Page 7 Part 3: Terms of the appointment Page 16 2 Cleveland Archdeaconry Training Adviser with a focus on IME Phase 2 Diocesan Training Team and IME Phase 2 http://dioceseofyork.org.uk/supporting-people/training/ Role of the Diocesan Training Team (DTT) The diocese of York has been responding to its missionary challenge with a vision of ‘Generous Churches: Making and Nurturing Disciples’. The desire to be a growing church has been spelt out through identifying five aspects of growth, namely Christlikeness, Commitment, Partnership, Influence and Numbers. The DTT has focused its training work around these missional dimensions of growth and taken the lead in providing supporting material to parishes. The diocese is currently refining its strategy around three goals: To reach the people we currently don’t To move to growth To establish sustainable finances This provides the context for the next phase of our work as a Team. We work with both clergy and lay colleagues, supporting lay development and training, Reader initial training and continuing development, and all aspects of clergy development, including IME Phase 2. We are conscious of the missionary task shared by the whole Church and seek to encourage the formation of disciples and ministers alert to God’s mission and equipped to respond effectively. Our Team Values We share a commitment to: • Stimulate growth, as ‘Generous Churches – Making and Nurturing Disciples’ through Christlikeness, commitment, partnership, influence and numbers. • Discern God’s activity through prayer and reflection and encouraging missional ministry to build the church. • Enable and develop people to respond to God’s call and realise their gifts and potential to serve Him better. • Encourage ministry which is creative, life-giving, involves taking risks and breaks new ground. • Be a resource team that is forward-looking and offers training that is inclusive and accessible for all. • Celebrate good practice and promote joy and fulfilment in ministry. 3 Our Vision for IME Phase 2 http://dioceseofyork.org.uk/supporting-people/training/for-clergy/ime/ Our work in IME phase 2 is set within our wider vision to encourage and enhance mission and ministry across the diocese. We are conscious of the changing environment in church and society and so seek to work with curates in developing character, attitudes and skills which will equip them for a future significantly different from the past, and often not predictable. The ministry we seek to encourage is patterned on that of Jesus: outward looking, desiring the growth of the church in all dimensions, collaborative and (in the phrase of David Bosch) exercised in bold humility. A significant and welcome development in the diocese in recent years has been a growth in the number of people called as distinctive deacons and we are working with them to improve the formation and training offered in IME Phases 1 and 2. The section that follows is from the opening page (p.5) of our IME Phase 2 Handbook and is addressed to the curates. The full Handbook can be downloaded from the website using the above link. This post is part of your training. It continues the learning, the path of formation and the accumulation of experience, that you began many years ago, and which will be life-long. Your curacy should encourage you to develop as a reflective learner and practitioner, in other words reinforcing good habits of healthy self-awareness as a person, as a follower of Jesus Christ and a Christian minister – linking together everyday experience, theological principle, and your understanding of discipleship. It should give you skills and knowledge to carry out the work of ministry. All of this must be rooted in prayer and in a dynamic relationship with God. It is God’s gift that we are all different people, and the situations in which we minister are to some degree all different. As individuals we have different preferred ways of learning. It follows that no two experiences of being in a title post are identical. But it has been recognised by the national Church that, alongside this variety, there is wisdom in a structured approach to the learning and formative experience of being in a title post. This helps to ensure that there is greater consistency in the expectations that the Church and the public have of ministers in the first years after ordination and, more importantly, that ministers are supported effectively in order that their gifts as leaders in mission can grow. Our Aspirations for the Cleveland Archdeaconry Training Adviser (IME Phase 2) We wish to appoint a colleague who has good experience and knowledge of what it means to be a church in mission in this country and who is effective in sharing their experience and knowledge with others. This will be worked out in a number of ways: having the ability to reflect critically on their own experience of mission and ministry and thus able to encourage others to do the same. 4 being alert to the missionary calling of the church in England, aware of the variety of social contexts we have in the diocese of York and in the Archdeaconry of Cleveland. Our parishes range widely from urban to deeply rural, from new housing developments to long-established market towns, and from the most deprived parishes in the Church of England to some of the least deprived. It is crucial that our new colleague is able to relate to those called to serve across this variety while we recognise that no-one can be expected to have direct experience in all these settings. having a willingness to work sympathetically across the range of theological traditions in the Church of England able to work as part of a team, with other members of the Training Team and with the Bishop of Whitby and his colleagues, and also to work independently to agreed goals. having a heart for the people of the diocese of York and a passion to see the Gospel proclaimed to all. The focus on IME phase 2 in this post means we want someone able to relate to people in the early years of ordained ministry. We are therefore open to appointing someone taking up a first post of responsibility and offering appropriate support. Team Members The Diocesan Training Team is led by Revd Dr Gavin Wakefield (Director of Training for Missional Ministry). He has oversight of the Team and, as a member of Archbishop’s staff team, has the primary responsibility to ensure the Team is supporting the diocesan response to God’s mission. IME Phase 2 is led by the Revd Canon Elaine Bielby, with Revd Peter Watson in the York archdeaconry and this post holder in Cleveland. The full time Archdeaconry Training Adviser for Cleveland is the Revd Canon Angela Bailey, who is also the Diocesan Lay Development Adviser. Our Listening Co-ordinator, Mrs Ali Ward, is also based in the Cleveland archdeaconry. The other Team members are: Revd Canon Terry Joyce (Diocesan Clergy CMD and York Archdeaconry Adviser) Revd Richard Walker (East Riding Archdeaconry Training Adviser) Mrs Lynn Comer (Director of York School of Ministry and of Reader Training) Miss Cathy Lane (Team Administrator) 5 The Benefice of Ampleforth, Oswaldkirk, Gilling East and Stonegrave We pray for a Priest to lead us. If you think you may be that person, please read our Benefice profile below We are able to offer: A strong active Ministry team Prayerful support at the daily morning ‘Office’ A strong desire to minister within the community Four well maintained rural churches Good ecumenical relations with the local Roman Catholic Churches A period Vicarage refurbished with central heating and double glazing A small C of E school with a clear expression of Christian Values The Benefice comprises 4 rural churches situated within the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and sits at the South West foot of the North York Moors National Park. We are within the Deanery of Northern Ryedale, which is committed to “developing into a network of churches, inspiring, influencing and leading mission and ministry locally”. The Benefice acknowledges the diocesan vision, ‘Generous Churches, Making and Nurturing Disciples’, which encourages us to ensure that mission is increasingly shaping our shared life and structures.