Category Children and Youth Address Newport Parish Centre6 Town Lane,NewportPO30 1JU Phone 07741014541 Email abbie.lynch@cofeheartofwight.org Website http://newportminster.org Deadline 27 Aug 2025, noon Share
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The churches of St John’s Newport, St Mary’s Carisbrooke and Newport Minster share a vision to see renewal in Jesus’s name across the parish and the Isle of Wight. The Lord is calling us to go and reach new audiences with the good news of Jesus.
The Pastoral Assistant (Children) plays a strategic role in enabling the parish to reach new audiences with the good news of Jesus. We pray for more children to encounter the love of Jesus in our town. We can see that traditional forms of church (Sunday services) alone are not reaching children in our community. We are therefore reimagining our approach to ministry to children over the next year. We are willing to change and adapt to increase our kingdom impact in this generation.
Job Purpose
We are looking for a Pastoral Assistant who will bring leadership to two key initiatives over the next year and which are necessary to move our vision forwards:
* To establish a missional (distinctively Christian) after-school children’s club
* To be the project lead for our plan to deliver children’s holiday bible clubs (“HBC”) (this project is still to be named) through Summer 2026
It is a genuine occupational requirement for the post-holder to be a practicing Christian.
Terms
Time Commitment
* We anticipate that the broad split would be: 1 day per week for the after-school club
* 1 day per week for organising planning and preparing for the HBC
You would need to be free full time for three weeks in the summer.
Closing date and Interviews
* Closing date: 12pm, August 27th, 2025
* Interviews: week beginning August 25th, 2025
St Thomas' Square, High StreetNewport, PO30 1SG
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