All Saints' Church Marple, Stockport

Website? marpleparish.co.uk

Do you have a year to give to resource a local church and develop your own Christian leadership skills? Are you interested in what God has in store for your life? We would love to invest in you!

Mpower is an exciting opportunity for young people to spend a focussed year working with the staff team of a lively and growing church. The mix of service, personal development and training is designed to explore and develop the gifts and abilities of team members. A range of ministry opportunities is available including youth and children’s work, schools work, outreach, pastoral work and more.

We are looking for energy, enthusiasm and willingness to serve, learn and study along with Christian character and a strong faith.

All Saints is an active member of the New Wine network and church leaders Ian and Nadine Parkinson host the New Wine North and East Summer Conference.

Leadership Development

As a church All Saints is very keen to develop Christian leaders of the future and members of the Mpower team will take part in a leadership training programme. Mentoring will also be provided by members of the All Saints leadership team.

Who are we looking for?

People with a year to give

Energy and enthusiasm

A strong Christian faith

Christian character

Willingness to serve, learn and study

All Saints Church is a lively evangelical Anglican church with around 400 people involved in different aspects of ministry. Within the church there is an amazing Kids’ Church, lively work with young people and equally lively work with older people. We are a Cell church and members of the Mpower programme would be expected to join a Cell group. In the community we go into several local schools to do assemblies, after schools clubs and RE lessons; we are involved in the Christian Union and Chaplaincy at the local Sixth Form College; we run a range of courses about family life, money management, and leadership as well as the Alpha course. We work with Marple Business Forum on seasonal events.

What All Saints will offer you:

• Full board accommodation ideally with church families.

• Expenses £30 per week

• A mentor who will take a pastoral interest in you

• Training to include ministry, theology and personal/life skills. Some of this will be provided from standard New Wine training. We hope to share the training and development with other similar churches with similar schemes.

• Coaching support in moving on to the next stage of their lives after the end of the programme.

What previous team members have said:

….It was great to come on this journey with …there is a wealth of knowledge and

All Saints, staying with a great supportive experience at All Saints… you

family, working with Christian leaders who wouldn’t believe how much I learned.

were willing to share their wisdom and experience…

…gave me the time to explore my life and …good chance to develop my skills

direction in God see how Christian living in worship leading and learnt how to

really impacts my life… really get through to kids in schools...

Ready to Apply?

If you would like to apply for this amazing opportunity please send (or email):

• A copy of your cv

• A reference from your church

• An explanation about what you can offer and what you want to gain from Mpower.

to All Saints’ Parish Office, 155 Church Lane, Marple SK6 7LD

Want to find out more?

Please email the Parish Office at office@marpleparish.co.uk