St Margaret's Church Frizinghall, Shipley Fields Rd, Shipley
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St Margaret’s Church Frizinghall, Shipley Fields Rd, Shipley, Bradford BD18 2DH www.smcf-church.org.uk St Margaret’s Church We are St Margaret’s Church, Frizinghall — About us MISSION-MINDED PASSIONATE PRAYERFUL We are looking for a mission- minded, passionate and prayerful Based just outside Bradford city leader to support and guide us centre, our church situated in a over the next few years, in building majority Muslim and mixed socio- economic community. We are a church that is equipped for very active in the community, future growth and ministry, and running a homework club, over can be transitioned to a sustainable 50s cafe, youth group, parent and long term, lay leadership model. toddler group and other initiatives, expanding the church beyond just Sunday worship. We welcome GREAT COMMUNICATOR people into church life through relationship building and support groups, continually thinking of RELATIONSHIP BUILDER creative ways to engage with those around us and share the gospel with them. We are committed EXPERIENCED LEADING to bible-based teaching and enjoy worshipping together in a combination of informal and This person would ideally be a more traditional styles, meeting the needs of the mixed church great communicator, a relationship community. builder and have experience of building effective teams of volunteers. They would have a pastoral and servant heart, share our church’s values and be excited to bring God’s love to our communities. The position is a 0.5 LOVING GOD interim post and we would be LOVING EACH OTHER delighted to hear from you! LOVING OUR COMMUNITIES. 2 3 Who we are Who We Are — A bit more about us We are a mixed bunch united in faith with approximately 60 adults and 37 children aged 0-87 We have been a volunteer-led church since November 2017, due to unforseen circumstances, at which point the PCC appointed a Leadership Team (currently 7 people from across the church demographics) to oversee the everyday running of the church. Together they act as our collective church leader, meeting regularly to plan ongoing activities, support the PCC and manage the pastoral care of the church. We have also been supported by local clergy offering communion and teaching alongside our own teaching: this has been much appreciated. During this time we have been accountable to the area dean and archdeacon. Volunteer-led leadership has had an effect on how the church has grown and developed, but also highlighted our limitations and has proved stretching for those volunteer leaders. This raises a challenge for the post: how can we build on this experience to establish a model of vibrant and dynamic lay church leadership that is well integrated into a larger supportive structure and therefore sustainable into the long- term? Over the last few years we’ve spent time investing in establishing a clear vision for the church that helps us communicate who we are, what we are passionate about and what we strive to be. We are a community of people who ‘Love God, Love each other and Love our communities’. Our desire is to grow in each of these areas. 4 5 Our Vision Our Vision: 3 Elements — Love God + Love God Love Each Other + — Love our Communities + We love God in our everyday lives as well as our Sunday services, which are our chance to all get together to worship together. During the COVID “St Margaret’s is a deeply caring church family that pandemic, we have moved to an online YouTube loves Jesus Christ and wants to continue reaching out, further, deeper, wider into their community Service, meeting together for a Zoom chat with His life-saving, life-transforming loving good afterwards. We have a great team of people that news. This is an exciting opportunity to serve with make Sundays work, both online and for a short an active, caring and committed church family at in-person service (when permitted). Our teaching St Margaret’s who want to grow in their love for team lead the majority of services which are pre- Christ and serve on his mission sharing his love in planned around a teaching series and we have Frizinghall, Shipley, Bradford and beyond!” regular external speakers and members of the Rev Pete Horlock —visiting course leader, Minister to church supporting the team with prayers, leading the business community (Manchester) the service and doing all the behind the scenes work to make it happen. Worship music is varied between modern songs and traditional which “Primarily this is exciting for the parish of usually would be led by a band of up to 7 musicians Frizinghall. The congregation is committed to living or from the organ. out the Gospel and serving the local community in word and deed. The appointed interim Our children and young people are a core part of minister would find a supportive and inspiring lay the church and we invest in them through Kingdom leadership team that wants to be interim minister Kids on a Sunday and a weekly Youth Group as well inspired, not interim minister dependant, so also a as encouraging them to engage in the wider church really exciting opportunity for an interim minister. worship and online services. St Margaret’s has not had a vicar for three years, but the leadership team have organised Bible Our vision is to be a community where we spur one based and accessible worship, both live and online, another on to love God above all else, and become and have discerned and released spiritual gifts more like Jesus. amongst adults and children.” Bishop Tony Porter — visiting speaker 6 7 Our Vision Love Each Other Love Our Communities — — We believe that relationship is fundamental to the “In spite of being quite a small Our church and local community activities have also foundations of a healthy church. We have had to put congregation, St. Margaret’s has an been mostly put on hold this last year, but usually we many of our usual activities on hold over the last year enthusiastic core of volunteers, who are facilitate the following regular community activities: looking for the church to make a real such as Grace Nights (part of our women’s ministry) and - PATCH (parent/carer and toddler group) our home groups, but have instead got into a rhythm impact in the multi-ethnic community of the parish. The congregation welcomes - Homework club - supporting primary school children of online fellowship. We have coffee and a chat on clear Bible teaching, and many gifts for and their families zoom after church, run short courses open to the whole mission and ministry have been released church and others including “Faith Matters” and “Easter - Over 50’s cafe - hot meal and social time “I’ve been coming to patch on and off for during the lockdown.” 10 years. It’s been a lifeline to me as I suffer Matters” and put in place a Telephone Tree to ensure - Community meal at Christmas with anxiety issues and it’s been a place I’ve everyone has someone keeping in touch with them. Bishop GrahamDow — Regular visiting speaker - Prayer walks felt safe. My children and I loved coming to We look forward to being able to restart our in-person the church before lockdown and are looking During the COVID pandemic we have run events in activities when we’re able to. forward to being able to come again.” “St Margaret’s is a family that cares addition to our online courses including bulb planting Our vision is to be continually welcoming new people for all it’s parts. As a church family we day around the church, an online interactive Christingle Nasreen — Local Mum into the church family and caring deeply for one reach out to our local community and Service and prayer walking through the community. another’s needs. provide a welcoming space for all.” Our vision is to be a body that equips every member to live out and give out the good news of Jesus to the James — Dad of two people we spend time with during the week, as well as the people we meet at outreach activities. 8 9 About the Parish About the Parish — Frizinghall, Bradford St Margarent’s lies within the parish of Frizinghall within the inner deanery of Bradford. It is well connected to Bradford and West Yorkshire with good rail links and has a local primary school and street of shops. The church itself is on a central road through Frizinghall within a residential area. The population of the parish is approximately 68% minority ethnic background and the majority of residents are Muslim. There are four mosques in the area and we are the only church. Due to community involvement, the church as a whole is respected by the Muslim community and we have good relationships. Frizinghall is a relatively deprived area, both socially and economically. There are a number of council flats and privately owned flats of which the majority of residents The Vicarage — for the Vicar of St Margaret’s Church, Frizinghall 2 large Victorian terraced estates and 1930s semis. The vicarage is a modern detached house situated close to Heaton Woods on the edge of the parish boundary. 10 11 .