Lead for Renew (Church Planting and New Worshipping Communities Development)

Lead for Renew in Portsmouth | Church of England

Over the last few years, with much prayer, learning from experience, and working together to build relationships and trust, we have developed a Diocesan vision: “the Diocese of Portsmouth longs to be a rejuvenating community of Jesus-centred, Kingdom-seeking disciples”.

Our strategy to deliver the vision has Rejuvenation, children and young people, as the intentional focus of everything we do. Our primary strategy to have congregations full of children and young people is to have flourishing churches.

Our strategy themes are:

Revive: a call to deeper prayer for all our clergy and lay leadership to experience a continued personal refreshing of the wonder of God’s presence in our life.  Key to this is the establishment of small peer-to-peer “Benedictine style support networks” capable of developing realistic revitalisation plans.

Revitalise: grow our existing churches, connecting ministries together to form a pathway that reaches people who are unconnected with church and supports them as they journey to become committed disciples who own for themselves Jesus’ mission.

Renew: in communities where there is no effective church presence, we believe it is right to plant/transplant new congregations to focus on outreach and younger generations.

As our Lead for Renew you will enable church growth through church planting and the establishment of new worshipping communities.

Your key priorities will be: 

Embedding a strategic approach to planting
Support and mentoring for planting leaders
Development of planting opportunities
Growing capacity for planting