Assistant Pastor

Job Description: Assistant Pastor

Farnham Vineyard, (Surrey, UK) is a growing church on a journey to become increasingly intercultural. We are looking to employ someone that loves Jesus and loves people. This is a full-time role created to help us embrace and continue to grow as a church, suitable for someone with a calling to leadership. The ideal candidate will have the skills to effectively lead both services and teams of volunteers, a passion and vision for youth discipleship, and an ability to communicate clearly both in person and via social media. You’ll also have the desire to learn and grow in wider leadership opportunities.

Job Purpose

Leadership: This new role has been created to help us embrace the recent church growth we have experienced and to help us continue to grow as a church. We are looking for someone to join our staff team who loves to worship Jesus, has experience in leading meetings in the power of the Holy Spirit, someone that has clear communication skills, both verbal and written.

Youth: We are looking for someone who can share our passion and vision for discipling young people, someone that has experience of working with youth (11-18yrs), someone that can sow life and inspiration into this generation. We require someone that can initiate cross-church connections and facilitate collaboration with secondary schools work in the area.

Ministry Development: Compassion ministry and serving those that don’t yet belong to the church is important to us, we really want to be a church that disrupts loneliness in Farnham. The successful candidate will be responsible for launching and overseeing a compassion ministry. Recruiting & organising a team of volunteers will be crucial to the success of this, as will the ability to minister to people with love and grace.

For a full job description and person specification, please email the below address.The application deadline is Monday 3rd June 2024.