North
Lambeth Parish and St Anne & All Saints South Lambeth wish
to appoint
Director
of youth and children's ministry in a full or part time capacity
We
have a large group of church going young people.
We
want to develop a vibrant youth ministry that helps them...
grow
in discipleship and become active participants in our faith communities
If
you:
§
are a committed Christian
§
have a large heart for young people and children's ministry
§
are committed to equal opportunities
§
have the vision to develop the leadership skills of others
§
would enjoy working in a multicultural inner London area
We
can offer you a salary at JNC level 2 (£20,000), accommodation,
a good support and management structure.
For
further information and application form please contact -
Rev
Ailsa Newby 020 7735 3191- e-mail anewby@fish.co.uk
Rev
Angus Aagaard 02982837
North
Lambeth Parish office: e-mail
Closing
date for applications Friday 27th August 2004
HULL
YOUTH FOR CHRIST
Job
Title Youth & Community Worker
Location
Greatfield Estate, East Hull
Responsible
to HYFC Team Leader and to HYFC Executive Committee
General
purpose of post and team:
In
line with HYFC’s “Mission Statement”, to assist
the development of this community based project. Will live incarnationally,
presenting Christ through life, work and worship.
Principal
Responsibilities:
·
Develop lasting relationships with the young people of Greatfield
and also their families where appropriate.
·
Develop appropriate work with young people in schools, community
facilities, churches and on the streets that offer them opportunities
for physical, social, emotional and spiritual growth.
·
Working concertedly with a limited number of young people enabling
deeper relationships and thus contribute to their personal and spiritual
development.
Main
duties:
·
To support local schools through work in assemblies, lessons, etc.
·
To be involved in children’s and youth work locally where
this requires support
·
To be involved in the life of the local community including church.
·
To identify and subsequently support local volunteers
·
To liaise with other agencies working in the locality, maintaining
good relationships and engaging in joint-work as appropriate
·
To log, monitor and reflect on practice under the supervision of
the Hull YFC Team leader
·
To abide by HYFC’s Child Protection policy, Equal Opportunity
policy and Health and Safety policy at all times
·
To play a full role as a team member on Greatfield, giving and receiving
support, encouragement and challenge
·
To be an active member of the HYFC staff group, attending team meetings,
training and retreat days, preparing written reports, contributing
to newsletters and training events as appropriate.
BACKGROUND
PROFILES
Hull
and Youth for Christ
Hull
Youth for Christ is affiliated to British Youth for Christ which
is an international inter-denominational organisation. There are
about 50 local centres in Briton employing over 300 full time staff
and motivating thousands of volunteers. All of these, like us, are
independent charities. In our region the other YFC centres are Ripon,
Harrogate, Lincoln & Scunthorpe.
Hull
Youth for Christ was established in the late fifties when Billy
Graham one of the founders of Youth for Christ came to preach in
the city. The Hull centre had predominantly (until the early nineties)
worked city wide mainly on an events and training basis. As we moved
into the nineties we realised that this style of working although
valuable was not reaching the young people and their families who
were living on the margins of society. The realisation of the need
to re-engage with these communities in the more deprived areas of
Hull brought about a new ethos of living out the incarnation of
Jesus which meant living, working and worshipping in the local community.
We now work in two (and soon three) of the most deprived areas of
the city.
In
real terms this incarnational approach may mean not having a choice
of church. Some would say why should we when we are witnessing to
a community who probably do not have the luxury of owning a car
and so themselves are not afforded a choice. And lack of peers can
bring about a very real sense of loneliness and isolation, this
can be endemic to urban ministry which is why Hull YFC encourages
it’s workers to take regular retreat days as well as one extended
retreat a year.
Statistically
Hull is at the bottom of most league tables. It boasts the highest
teenage pregnancy rate outside London, the schools have been at
or around the bottom of the performance tables for a number of years,
percentage wise Hull claims to have the lowest church attendance
record across England and prostitution as well as drug and alcohol
abuse is at a high level. To top all that the city was recently
voted the “Crapest town in Briton” (by the way we don’t
believe that).
Here
at YFC we have found Hull to be rich in talent, honesty and friendliness
as well as being steeped in history, from Amy Johnson to Wilberforce
who brought about the abolition of slavery; from he Fine Young Cannibals
to the Beautiful South, from Philip Larkin to the Church Mission
Society founded here with 200 years of mission under it’s
belt.
That
said there is no getting away from the fact there has been a great
sense of loss with the collapse of the fishing industry and also
a real sense of loss of ‘community’ as many people were
decanted to new outer-estates (like Greatfield) from the 50’s
onwards. On the other hand there is latterly also a real sense of
hope with the building of the new KC Stadium which is home to both
Hull City Football Club (now in Division 2) and Hull FC Rugby League
and also the Deep, the worlds only submarium(!?) , and a new BBC
regional centre.
God
is already at work in the places where we have inserted ourselves.
The incarnational approach of Hull YFC means that we are aware of
this in a way that we weren’t when we parachuted into places
from the outside. Our workers, alongside the (relatively few) local
Christians now give much need extra flesh and bones to that presence;
we are providing fresh hands and feet to the body of Christ.
Greatfield
Estate
Greatfield
is an outer housing estate on the eastern edge of Hull, with other
housing estates to the north and west, fields to the east and industrial
developments linking it to Marfleet village to the south. The estate
was built by the council in the 1950’s to re-house families
from overcrowded, run down and bombed out areas nearer the city
centre. The housing ranges from one bed roomed flats (though most
of these are being demolished) to four bed roomed houses, some of
the houses are now privately owned.
There
are two primary schools, a secondary school, a few shops, two churches
(Catholic and Anglican), a community centre, an NHS clinic, wardened
flats for the elderly, a young people’s residential home,
three pubs and two parks on the estate. Just outside there is another
secondary school, an adult education centre, a library, a Social
Services Family Resource centre, a Doctor’s surgery, Craven
Park stadium (home to Hull Kingston Rovers Rugby League Team &
Hull Vikings Speedway), Sure Start Marfleet, another community centre
and a Kwik Save supermarket.
Many
of the families on the estate have been there since being moved
from the Hessle Road area in the 19502 and 1960s, in some instances
3 or 4 generations of the same family live in neighbouring or nearby
houses. The population of the estate is almost entirely white British
with only a handful of exceptions.
Whilst
many people on the estate are hard working, there are also a large
number of families living on benefits with little or no motivation
towards changing that. Alcohol and drug misuse are higher than average,
as are verbal and sometimes violent disputes in the street. The
estate has gone through periods of heightened tensions, at some
stages bus drivers have refused to drive in certain parts of the
estate.
Hull
Youth for Christ have had a youth worker – Phil Doragh, on
the estate since October 2001. Our work on Greatfield has been very
much in partnership with St Hilda’s Anglican Church and St
Stephen’s Catholic church.
Despite
low attendance for worship on Sundays, between 12 and 20 people,
in the week St Hilda’s has a parent and toddler group, a keep
fit class, Brownies, Cubs and Scouts. The building is also used
by other groups. Phil regularly helps at cubs and scouts as well
as working with the few young people that are connected with the
church. Rev Sue, the vicar is well known, liked and respected on
the estate. St. Hilda’s is part of the Marfleet parish team
ministry with 3 other churches. There are regular joint services,
shared meals, team weekends away and an annual holiday club that
HYFC helps to run. At the moment there are no youth or children’s
activities on Sundays.
St
Stephen’s church has divided the space in their building into
a worship area and a Neighbourhood Centre. Sr Josie and Sr. Anna
run the church and oversee the Neighbourhood Centre which has it’s
own separate charitable status and employs a Development worker
and Administrative assistant. Hull YFC used to help Sr. Josie run
activities for children which the development worker has taken over.
We are currently discussing how to develop some specifically spiritual
after school activities to run in the centre, probably Godly Play.
Hull
YFC are also working in Stockwell Primary school with assemblies
and classroom support work, helping Probe run an after school homework
club at the community centre and doing lots of one to one and family
work with those living on the estate. Previously a small group of
young people met weekly for “God stuff” however since
Phil and his wife Sonya have become foster carers Sonya can no longer
be the second adult, so fellowship for the young people is through
joint events with groups from elsewhere in hull or at city wide
events.
if
you would like more information and an application form please contact
Ian Dyson (Administrator, Hull Youth for Christ)
Tel: 01482 221059w / 07973 736185m
E-mail: admin@hyfc.karoo.co.uk
Connect
Spiritual Development Project
Short
Term Consultancy Specification
Description
– Establish a Youth Council to prepare a series of resources
to be used by youth workers with other young people.
Time
Available – up to 20 days
Payment
- £100 per day (inclusive of expenses)
Timescale
– work to commence after 15 September 2004 and be completed
by 15 February 2005
Accountable
to – Connect Spiritual Development Project Officer, Nigel
Pimlott
Brief
1) To establish a Youth Council of between 8 and 20 young people
in the 11-19 age range who might be considered socially excluded
or at risk of being so (in accordance with the guidelines set out
in the Project Booklet, ‘Youth Councils’)
2)
To meet with the Youth Council at least 4 times to prepare a series
of resources (at least 15) for use with other young people on the
subject of ‘Self Harm’.
3)
To develop the resources to in the general style of existing Project
resources (further guidance will be given in this respect)
4)
To present the resources in A4 format in Microsoft Word by 15 January
2005
5)
To amend the resources as considered appropriate upon review
6)
To monitor, evaluate and report on the success of the Youth Council
(in association with the young people) by the 15 February 2005
Expressions
of interest in writing via e-mail to be sent by 15 August 2004 to:
Dave
Wiles - Frontier
Youth Trust - wiles119@aol.com and
Please COPY to Nigel Pimlott - nigel.pimlott@ntlworld.com
