We invite you to consider serving a curacy title post in Lancashire.
The Diocese of Blackburn is passionate about the renewal of Parish life. The Diocesan vision sets before the churches of Lancashire a profound belief in the power of the Gospel to transform lives and communities. It expresses a firm commitment to maintaining clergy numbers and investing in the mission of the local church. We are therefore seeking curates with a personal faith fiery enough to make new disciples for Christ, with a sincere commitment to the Parish as the heart of the church’s mission and with the resilience and courage to bring growth and renewal to local churches.
Lancashire is a wonderful place to minister, without doubt the most diverse and beautiful county in England. We can therefore offer an extraordinary range of contexts for ministry: from areas of great opulence to the most income deprived communities in the UK, from remote countryside to densely populated former industrial communities and from brightly lit coastal towns to elegant university cities.
We have the most wonderful and precious family of church schools (95% of our headteachers are practicing Christians) which offers both an evangelistic opportunity and the best possible start for clergy children.
People in Lancashire have high expectations of their priests who play a key role in the communities they serve. Ministry can therefore be hard work and so this is a Diocese which will offer all the support it can to its parish clergy. Bishops, Archdeacons and Area Deans do their best to know their clergy well, we offer supportive programmes such as our new five year Start of Ministry Course and the Parish Renewal Programme and there are close friendships and strong networks between clergy of all traditions.
The Diocese has taken the decision not to advertise specific curacy posts, instead welcoming applicants to the Diocese as a whole. We work with potential curates to find the best fit from a choice of 274 diverse churches across the region.
If you have been released from your own Diocese we would love to discern with you if God might be calling you to Lancashire. For an initial conversation please contact the Director of Ministry, Revd Canon Anne Beverley at [email protected].