Lantern Church Bedworth
Bedworth, England, United Kingdom
Description of Job
Lantern Church was established in 2023 in Bedworth, Warwickshire, an old coal mining town. Lantern Church is a church plant that works within the boundaries of Bedworth Parish. Our mission is to introduce non-church families to the good news of Jesus Christ with the idea of creating new worshiping communities for the un-churched.
We currently run a successful Messy Church weekly at St Michael's Family Centre, run small group sessions with the primary school, take school assemblies, and run a community café for the marginalized in the community. We have various other exciting projects in the pipeline planning to start in the next few months.
Apprentices will be working with Lantern Church Bedworth, primarily with working-class un-churched people from all age ranges as we develop church for the un-churched and build on the success of projects we have already started. There will be the opportunity to bring your own interests and passions to create new projects to encourage un-churched people to find faith.
A lot of our work is around developing projects to bring faith to the marginalized in society.
One day a week will be spent at St Marks Academy in Coventry, an established leadership training program. Year 1 is a general leadership training scheme through which we seek to ensure that students grow in their faith, by receiving a good biblical and theological grounding, in their leadership, by developing skills for mission and ministry, and in their discipleship, by exploring resources to nurture their own character and spirituality. Year 1 students have a ministry placement, which will involve worship, children, youth, students, media and creative, operations, or church planting.
At the conclusion of the Year 1 program, candidates can apply to join the Year 2 program to further develop their leadership ability.
The Year 1 Academy role is one of learning, personal development, and empowerment, to enable the postholder to function as an assistant departmental leader in a specific ministry area. It consists of three main elements:
1. Teaching programme: Participation in the Year 1 teaching programme is an important component of the year. The programme consists of six modules which are categorized into three broad streams (faith, leadership, and discipleship).
2. Personal formation: Throughout the programme, Year 1 academy students meet regularly with a personal formation mentor, who will accompany, support, and challenge them. The aim is to help each student grow as a disciple of Christ, develop self-awareness, and deepen their spirituality. Students are expected to actively engage with this process.
3. Ministry placement: Year 1 academy students spend the majority of their week serving within their chosen ministry stream. Each student is assigned a ministry placement supervisor (usually the ministry head) who provides coaching, management, and feedback to help students develop strong ministry skills. The type of work students are involved in varies between departments, but they normally work with the ministry leader on the delivery of a plan for the area of ministry that may include:
* Planning and running sessions to a high standard
* Helping with administrative tasks required for the department to function
* Planning and running outreach activities to draw people to Jesus and his Church
* Communicating with team members and the wider church as required
* Recruiting and developing a team of volunteers
* Collaborating with other ministry areas to ensure alignment to the vision
* Ensuring that safeguarding is at the forefront of all activity
Other work associated with the church: Year 1 academy students are full members of the staff team and need to be flexible enough to be involved in other work as required across the church – in line with their skills, experience, and capacity.
The wider work in ministry means there is a genuine occupational requirement that the post-holder be a practising Christian. This role will require an enhanced DBS check.
The Culture
In addition to meeting the person specification, the successful candidate must be able to demonstrate that they subscribe to and aspire to the church and staff values, which shape our culture. The staff values are:
1. PURSUIT: We are led by God and pursue Him in all we do.
2. LEADERSHIP: We lead and inspire others as we serve the church together.
3. HUMILITY: We are teachable and flexible.
4. COURAGE: We are a faith-filled team and are brave enough to experiment beyond our comfort zones.
5. HONOUR: We communicate the value of others through mutual respect.
6. COMMUNITY: We share life’s ups and downs together.
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