Youth Pastor (Discipleship & Evangelism)

St Stephen's Redditch is a historic town centre church currently undergoing a season of renewal. In 2024 the church started a new chapter, 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 will be key in achieving the ambition of growing a church committed to courageous witness where Christian faith is nurtured and disciples mature. The role will play a particularly significant role in helping young people encounter the truth of the gospel and experience it for themselves through teaching, prayer, relationship building, and having fun. The person will be committed to loving and serving the community, scattering seeds of the gospel, forging new relationships, pioneering evangelistic opportunities, and working collaboratively with other local organisations, churches, schools, and colleges.

The person will also be responsible for building teams of leaders passionate about young people and for kindling the gift of evangelism in St Stephen's through teaching, training, and helping direct mission and evangelism alongside others in the church. At this stage, there are no fixed expectations about the role to allow the role to emerge organically as the St Stephen's renewal project continues to grow. The role description will be outlined and agreed collaboratively after 6 months of employment.

Tasks will likely involve planning and running youth programmes during weekly Sunday worship gatherings; midweek activities; evangelistic and discipleship activities; interactions with parents; organisation, leadership, and training of a team of volunteers; and formulating a vision and strategy for ministry and evangelism among young people. There is also a growing vibrancy within the Churches Together network and Redditch Mission Area meaning growing opportunities to participate in youth evangelism, outreach, and collaborative events across the town.

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 Sunday 25th May 2025. You must be available for interview on week commencing 2nd June. 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.

We are the church in the centre of Redditch and currently stepping into a season of renewal and praying for revival in our day. St Stephen's has been commissioned as a 'renewal church' within the Diocese of Worcester. We have received finances from the Church Commissioners of the Church of England to enable the vision to become a reality. We are about to undertake a significant building reordering project, employ a team of key ministry leaders, and a new pioneer minister started in role during the autumn of 2024.

Our vision: We seek to be a thriving community of missionary disciples, empowered by the Holy Spirit to worship God passionately, follow Jesus faithfully, love one another radically, and share hope courageously, in Redditch and to the ends of the earth.

Our values: We are ANGLICAN and we are committed to the historic, apostolic faith we have inherited as part of the Diocese of Worcester and the global Anglican communion. We are CHARISMATIC meaning we believe the work and gifts of the Holy Spirit are at the forefront of the church's life and mission in every season. We are EVANGELICAL meaning we place particular emphasis upon the authority of the bible, the saving work of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, personal conversion and life long sanctification, and the active momentum of the gospel beyond the church community.