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Are you willing to take a risk for Christ by joining a recently planted evangelical church in Rochdale? Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester with over 110,000 people of which over 35% identify as Muslim.

The town includes some of the most deprived areas in Greater Manchester with the challenges associated with deprivation such as low income, unemployment, poor health and high levels of crime.

Rochdale Evangelical Church was planted in 2021 as an FIEC affiliated church plant supported by Oldham Bethel Church. We are conservative evangelical and dual-practice with respect to baptism.

Despite an encouraging start, the church is small in number and looking to add a full time gospel worker to help us grow. The church meets between a predominantly white area and a predominantly South Asian area.

Evangelistic opportunities are enormous. If this sounds like something that Christ may be calling you to then please read further and prayerfully consider
applying.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Actively sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ locally.
• Establishing new contacts in the community and maintaining existing ones.
• Developing new means of outreach appropriate to the local communities.
• Discipling new believers and supporting existing discipleship relationships.
• Pastoral care and support in the church.
• Assisting in developing partners for financial and prayer support.

PERSON PROFILE
Required

• Self-starter able to self-direct work.
• Resilience.
• Ability to disciple people from unchurched backgrounds.
• Desire to work with marginalised people and to work cross culturally.
• Ability to express convictions clearly and directly and hear those of others with respect.

Desirable but not essential

• Prior experience in a ministry role.
• Experience of working with Muslims.
• Experience of working in deprived areas with people from complex backgrounds.

There is a Genuine Occupational Requirement for the successful applicant to be a committed Christian, wholeheartedly supporting the basis of faith, doctrinal distinctives and ethical statements of Rochdale EvangelicalChurch

(https://www.rochdaleevangelicalchurch.com/beliefs/).

Our process will follow our Safer Recruiting policy including an enhanced DBS Check for the successful applicant :

(https://www.rochdaleevangelicalchurch.com/safeguarding-at-rochdale-evangelical-church/).

Appropriate safeguarding training will be mandatory.

We would consider full or part-time working and salary upon discussion.

CONTACT
For further details on the role or to discuss matters further please email: contact@rochdaleevangelicalchurch.com