Context & Vision

St Stephen’s Redditch is a historic town centre church currently undergoing a season of renewal. In 2024 the church will be injected with new vision, strategy, and resources so that it can proclaim the good news of Christ to Redditch with renewed vibrancy. St Stephen’s is a part of the New Wine network and stands firmly within the Charismatic evangelical tradition of the Church of England as part of the Diocese of Worcester.

St Stephen’s renewed vision is shaped by four key emphases: worship, faith, community, and witness, through which it is hoped that the whole church will be deeply nurtured in their Christian discipleship, equipped, and released to go and make disciples in their local contexts. Coinciding with this is funding from the Church Commissioners for building redevelopment works and salaried staff roles, which will serve the vision and seek to bring it to life. Alongside the clergy, church council, and wardens, the ministry leadership team will exist to serve the church, model faithful discipleship, cast vision, build teams, raise leaders, and equip the church through gifts of prophecy, evangelism, teaching, pastoral care, and apostolic witness. St Stephen’s has a wider remit of partnership and resourcing of the Redditch Mission Area and will seek out opportunities to work in gospel partnership with other local churches.

The Role

The role will be key in achieving the ambition of growing a church of passionate, creative, and faithful Christian worship. The role will take ownership of the church’s worship and prayer culture, helping foster a rhythm of prayer, devotion, intercession, praise, and prophecy. The Worship Director will build and invest in teams of worship leaders, musicians, creatives, technicians, intercessors and prophets who can encourage and provoke the church community to be all God desires it to be. Their ministry will be to continually remind the church of the transcendency and power of God which lie at the heart of all we seek to do. The person will be a part of a core ministry team made up of staff members and other key leaders.

At this stage, there are no fixed expectations about the role so that the role might emerge organically as the St Stephen’s renewal project begins. The role description will be outlined and agreed to collaboratively after 6 months of employment. Tasks will likely involve organising and leading sung worship for Sunday worship gatherings; building, nurturing, and overseeing a worship team, AV team and other volunteers; assisting with occasional offices; leading midweek prayer and worship gatherings; formulating a vision and strategy for worship, prayer, and prophecy for the whole church community; administration and rota planning; assisting with creative media and communications; and helping champion St Stephen’s role within the Redditch Mission Area. 

Application Information

If you are interested in applying for this role, please send your completed application form and a covering letter outlining your motivation for applying to Fraser Oates via fraser@ststephensredditch.com

If an informal discussion would be helpful prior to formal application, please contact Fraser Oates on the same email address as above.

The closing date for applications is Monday 10^th November 2024.

You must be available for interview on Monday 18^th November 2024. If this is an issue, please make this clear in your covering letter upon application.

Note - There is an occupational requirement under the Equality Act 2010 that the post holder be a practising Christian, lay or ordained, and an active communicant member in good standing within the Church of England or of a Church which is in communion with the Church of England, or a Church that is a member of the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, Churches Together in England or the Evangelical Alliance.