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Kairos Network Church

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Contents04 Welcome to Kairos Network Church 06 Vision and values 08 Leadership 10 Gatherings and Worship 16 Children, Youth and Families 18 Kairos Network 20 Kairos Finances 22 Buildings 26 Living in Harrogate 28 Where next? Pioneering the next phase for Kairos Network Church

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Welcome to Kairos Network Church

Pioneering the next stage of our journey

The Kairos journey so far

‘The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!’ Mark 1:15

The parish of St Mary’s, Low Harrogate, with All Saints, Harlow Hill, closed the doors on two, grade II* listed, yet architecturally unsustainable, church buildings in 2007 and 2009 as the result of successive PCCs and clergy striving to be liberated from the crippling financial and practical limitations of bricks and mortar. Through the Rev Martin Soar building relationships with Harrogate Grammar School the St Mary’s congregation began its journey as a church without walls; this community has always sought effective discipleship and mission; for example, St Mary’s church was the first church in the area to offer the Alpha Course.

Following this season of displacement and a challenge to keep a tent mentality (as the Israelites), under Rev Mark Carey, St Mary’s took up its home in the Westcliffe Hall, opposite our former home and continued its transition from parish church to fresh expression of church. As St Mary’s reached a kairos moment in their life a vision for network, mission and discipleship was cast. The vision was one of simplicity, of invitation and challenge, common vision and synergy. Through a model of Mission Shaped Communities, the church set out to live out God’s challenge to us to reach people who wouldn’t have been attracted by the traditional model of church and to live in community with one another. The time had come and St Mary’s Church became Kairos Church, fully part of the Harrogate Deanery and historic Diocese of Ripon and Leeds.

Kairos Network Church does not build monuments or settle into traditions and attitudes but looks to be dynamic in its development and movement. Now in its second term operating under a Bishop’s Mission Order, Kairos Network Church has no parish boundaries but simply continues to live with a passion to be followers of Jesus who live out his mission. With the departure of our first Pioneer Minister we face a new kairos moment to develop the mission further, to share in the journey on which God is taking us and to join in with the work He is doing. We continue to answer the call to develop disciples who disciple others, sharing God’s word, living in relationship with Jesus and in confidence of God’s on-going involvement.

Thank you for showing an interest in the exciting opportunity to lead Kairos Network Church as we continue to journey in discipleship and mission.

Kairos Network Church is a family of believers sharing life and mission together. Our distinctive model of church is intended to complement local models of attractional church rather than competing with them. Kairos is a church that believes in making disciples who make disciples, who make disciples.

As Kairos continues to journey, there is a need for a pioneer minister who will lead the way into ‘new lands that the Lord is giving us’ (Joshua 1:11). We need a Pioneer Minister who seeks to share in what God is doing in Kairos, in Harrogate and beyond.

This brochure explains our history, who we are now and the vision and values that inform our life together. Our financial and building assets are described before we set out some questions we believe you will need to consider before deciding whether to apply for the role of our next Pioneer Minister.

It is our prayer that as you read this document and reflect on its content, you will sense God’s guiding hand for your future, and ours.

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Vision and values

Values

Our Vision: “To release communities of followers in the mission of Jesus.”

• Jesus is Lord! Recognising that Jesus is the reason and purpose for all we do, and striving to live like him in whatever situation we are in

• Mission: Seeing what God is already doing around us and joining in with that work. At all levels Kairos is challenged to answer ‘What is God saying and what are we/am I going to do about it?’

• Followers: Discipleship is at the heart of Kairos. As we seek to be more like Jesus and learn together how to be more like him and share His love.

• Community: Essential to the outworking of this vision is both gathered and scattered community. (See pages 10-13) We don’t do life on our own; instead we seek to be an extended family to one another. Community is both an inward and outward action as communities serve those within and act for those outside. Inspired by the Early Church model in the Book of Acts we believe this is a central function of the Church in the 21st century.

It is no longer sufficient to assume interest or attraction to the Church. It is in the intentional tension between these expressions that leads to opportunity and creativity

• Release: Freedom to participate in God’s work of discipleship and mission makes for an interesting journey, based in the real world and all the messiness that sometimes includes!

• Generosity: As a resourcing church Kairos seeks to give away what it has in terms of leadership, vision and mission. We share our journey and what we have learned and we strive to resource others who seek mission in their contexts.

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Leadership Kairos runs as an organism not an organisation and thus our leadership structures are light and flexible in order to serve our vision, not dictate our direction. The networked nature of Kairos relies on lay-leadership and a body of principles and practices in order to provide the context for the leadership of discipleship and mission.

To this end Kairos uses a number of leadership tools to enact its vision and values:

Huddles are small discipleship groups that function as an

accountability tool as well as for training and support. They provide

leaders with an opportunity to invest in their own discipleship

and consider their leadership and personal journey of faith. Huddles

meet once a month and focus on discipleship values and tools

(such as Lifeshapes) and their application to our lives. They are

a chance to personally reflect on the role of discipleship and

mission in our own lives. Huddles also provide a contact point with other members of the network

with whom you may not be directly journeying; to maintain the variety

of community and relationship.

Communities of Practice are opportunities for MSC leaders to meet together for shared

reflection and development. They are short (Friday evening and

Saturday), biannual conferences whereby MSC leaders consider the group’s progress in mission

and discipleship, to scrutinise the vision of the group and where to go next in participating in God’s work. Communities of Practice

involve some teaching and worship, eating together, sharing fellowship and connecting with

the wider community of MSCs to celebrate and challenge.

Kairos sees its role as a resourcing church to be about the giving

away of learning and leadership. MSC leaders meet once a term for leaders’ training evenings

to give team members an opportunity to reflect back on the vision and mission of their group

and to maintain effectiveness. One to one coaching also

provides accountability and encouragement. Coaching follows

no set pattern but MSC leaders are encouraged to meet at least

once a term.

The leadership of Kairos Church takes the safeguarding of children, young people and the vulnerable seriously and takes all reasonable measures to protect individuals in our church community, and in particular to protect children and young people from physical, sexual and emotional abuse.

PIONEER MINISTER

HUDDLES COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

TRAINING AND COACHING

Diocese of Leeds: As a BMO and Fresh

Expression in the Church of England Kairos Church remains fully accountable

to the Bishop and the Church of England.

8 members of the church (+ Pioneer Minister) responsible for discerning ‘what God is

saying and what we are going to do about it’.

A group of 6 responsible for the assets and management

of the church including a representative of the diocesan

board of finance and the Pioneer Minister.

Sunday worship is supported by teams of worship leaders,

hospitality and welcome and service managers

who work on a practical level to organise the

gatherings.

MSC leaders, accountable to the

Pioneer Minister and supported by the

Network developer. MSC leaders function with a high degree of autonomy to facilitate

responsiveness to God’s work. Leaders meet in

huddles for refrreshment and to develop

discipleship.

The team includes an office manager/church administrator, a Reader, a family and children development leader and youth leader, network developer and

pastoral care co-ordinator. + 2 clergy with Permission

to Officiate.

VISION TEAM

TRUSTEES

RESOURCE BASE

Bishop’s Visitor:As a BMO Bishop Christopher

Edmondson supports the mission of Kairos and

exercises oversight on behalf of the Bishop of Leeds.

KAIROS CHURCH LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE

All adults working with children and young people are DBS checked. There is a Designated Safeguard Lead (DSL) and we maintain a Safeguarding Policy and record.

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Gatherings and worship

There are two main ways we meet together: Gathered and Scattered.

Gatherings for worship, prayer and learning take place regularly with an expectation of encounter with God. We currently meet in the following pattern:

Daily Prayers: 9am Monday to Thursday The Kairos Resource Base team meet daily as Kairos proceeds on its journey with God, discovering His will and learning the importance of reliance and submission. This time includes time to read the Bible and pray together.

GATHERED9am Communion: Weekly This is a weekly gathering for Communion, following Church of England Common Worship liturgy. The service has a reflective style incorporating prayer, worship and Bible teaching, based on the Lectionary. As our only weekly gathering, it can be seen as underpinning much of Kairos’ other activity.

10.30am Central Gathering: 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month This is an informal time of worship, teaching and responding; with an expectation of sharing and meeting with God. Communion is taken once a month, music is led by a team of worship leaders and children’s groups run during this time; there is an important time of fellowship with refreshments before the service. Good coffee and plentiful pastries are an important part of Kairos life!

7pm The UP: 4th Sunday of the month An extended time of worship and prayer, including teaching. These gatherings focus the worshippers on intimate times of responding to God and meeting with Him.

‘I love the freedom given (in the central gatherings) to allow us to respond to the Holy Spirit and what He is doing. The meetings are informal, friendly and definitely family friendly’ - Darren

‘The 9am Gathering is an opportunity to meet with God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) and others in an informal

liturgical setting in order to discover what God is doing and join in. - David

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The MSCs are central to our discipleship and mission. All members of Kairos are encouraged to become a member of an MSC or start a new one. MSCs are dynamic, some last for a short time, others for longer, but all these expressions of church help us to learn something more about discipleship. We operate with low control and high accountability. Each MSC has a core leadership team who are members of a huddle which provides a key part of our accountability structure.

SCATTERED: Mission Shaped Communities (MSCs)

MSCs take the good news of Jesus into Harrogate and beyond. By exploring new and innovative ways of ‘doing church’ MSCs are flexible and dynamic, vision-led and reflect the individual mission of each group. Each group is unique in the focus or the demographic to whom they reach out but all MSCs aim to develop discipleship skills and participate in the work God is doing in the town. MSCs function on a 3-dimensional approach of Up-In-Out and so community gatherings include times of upward focused worship, learning and prayer; inward focused times together as ‘oikos’ (extended family), during which eating together plays an important role; finally, an outward activity focussing on those to whom the group are seeking to draw into relationship with God. MSCs meet at varying times and in all sorts of venues (including homes, community centres, cafes and pubs) throughout the month, according to their own pattern.

There are currently 8 active MSCs developing different ways of showing and sharing God’s love and work:

• Blaze is for 11-18s, reaching teenagers through social times and challenging young people to go deeper into relationships – with each other and God

• Eat, Pray, Love meet to exercise body, mind and spirit together

• Liberty looks to free those with hurts, habits and hang ups

• Links reaches out to those on the Fairfax estate, in east Harrogate with vision to serve and build relationships there

• Ohana reaches out to families of all shapes and sizes and explores the Story of God together

• Oldies are more mature people looking out for each other, particularly those living alone

• Resurrection Bikes repairs donated bikes selling them on to raise funds for charity

• Stuffers is a craft based group

Through regular Communities of Practice these groups review and plan. As a dynamic structure groups are changing and developing and new visions are emerging all the time.

Over the last year an MSC has organised an Alpha course with other members of Kairos and we have seen MSCs working together to deliver events.

Sharing of mission and discipleship stories is important to us. We encourage all the members of MSCs to share stories at our central gatherings and on social media.

‘Oldies meet once a month to eat and talk, and never run out of conversation! Living alone, it’s a treat to have company for a meal. We hope the people we invite to join us enjoy the lunches as much as we do.’ - Kathleen

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In addition to the regular liturgical calendar Kairos runs a number of regular events throughout the year:

Calendar of events throughout the year

September: Launch Week

Mission and Discipleship

training

MSC Learning Community

October: The Feast

(Kairos’ birthday) and AGM

Leaders Training

December: Simply Christmas and Christingle

February:Mission and Discipleship

training

Easter:Simply Easter

Learning Communities

Summer Term Launch Week

Summer holidays:

Streamlined gatherings and

a change of pace

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Children Youth and Families

Vision and Values

Scattered Network

Leadership

Gathered

Kairos Network Church believes that discipleship and mission are for people of all ages. We believe that children don’t get a smaller portion of God, just because they are smaller. Missional communities are places where all ages are able to share in the mission of God, and often the fearless nature of children has so much to teach our adults who so often over think.

Our children and youth ministries reflect the wider principle of Kairos Network Church of dynamic structures and flexible and responsive. Therefore ministries have taken different shapes and forms dependent on the seasons of the children and their leaders.

Kairos is committed to the discipleship of our youngest members and currently employs a family and children development leader who works from Kairos Resource Base for 18hrs a week.

We have been running KKTT (Kairos Kids Tuesday Tea), this is a primary school children’s aged afterschool club where we disciple children, and have seen our kids invite their friends from school and come to faith. We have a lot of fun, worship, learn about Jesus, respond and eat dinner together. This is currently on pause due to the movement of team, but is in progress of being relaunched and multiplied with communities.

Blaze is our youth MSC, who meet first, second and third Tuesdays of the month. 1st and 3rd is Puddings, at which we play games, have a laugh, explore faith, and eat pudding. The 2nd Tuesday is Crash, this is an evening of games; Xbox, Wii and board games. This relaxed environment is also a fruitful time for conversations and a sense of building community between these young people. Blaze is currently lead by two couples who feel the call to journey with these young adults as they travel with Jesus.

There is an increased call for cross church youth ministry which is being explored in Kairos. As a network church, this clearly fits with our vision and ecumenism as well as opportunities for journeying together with other children and youth across the deanery.

Young people across the primary and secondary age ranges meet in ‘huddle’ once a month. This is a new initiative to encourage our young leaders; to disciple them in a similar model to adults’ huddles. This is in early stages; it is more about investment in them as leaders, than inviting friends as our other mid-week ministry is.

At Central Gatherings, we have Springs (preschool), Streams (KS1) and Rivers (KS2) as our children’s groups. In these groups the passages and topics are the same as for the main gathering, this is to encourage ongoing conversations at home, and help us to be the body of Christ. Our teenagers stay for the talk, unless they are serving on the kids’ team. Most of our young people serve, on teams such as worship, hospitality, kids, or technology.

‘I love working with Kairos kids because they throw themselves into everything. They’ve a real heart for worship and it’s a joy to engage with them and God in mad action songs as well as more prayerful melodies. There’s always news to share, questions to be asked and lots of fun to be had.’ - Liz

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Kairos Network

Network connectionsPart of our vision is to be a resourcing church, part of the way we work out this vision is through our network activity with other churches and Christian organisations. We have a team that plans our network programme. The team includes members from other churches. This is led by our MSC and Network developer. We have relationship with a number of churches across the north of England. Over the last five years we have established a pattern of events that enable others to share our journey of discipleship and mission. We host termly lunches for church leaders and twice-yearly discipleship and mission workshops. We also lead monthly huddles for a number of church leaders.

Ecumenism is important for Kairos since we function in network. We maintain good relationships with churches across the deanery and diocese, as well as wider church partnerships:

• Kairos is a fresh expression of church working under a Bishop’s Mission Order to work across the Harrogate Deanery, in the Diocese of Leeds.

• We are part of a network of churches across England called Kairos Connexion who have committed to travel together on a journey of mission and discipleship.

• We are connected to the New Wine network.

• Kairos is a founding member of the Step Up training partnership, working to train and release disciples in their local churches. It provides a structured, year-long, discipleship programme, delivered through participating church hubs.

• Kairos also has a long-standing relationship with RolltheRock, a charity focused on the flourishing of youth leaders and young people as disciples. They mentor, support, coach and help the discipleship of youth leaders and also facilitate relevant training and network opportunities for leaders across the region.

‘It is great being part of a Network of Churches as we have the opportunity to journey together as disciples, learning from each other, and discovering how we live out our calling to be missional disciples in different contexts.’ - Chris

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Finances ‘Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and

increase the harvest of your righteousness.’ 2 Corinthians 9:10

Kairos follows a threefold approach to giving by financially supporting organisations on a local, national and international level. Our giving stands at 10% of our income and for 2017 has been as follows:

There is an additional 1% (£901.20) ring fenced as seed money for new ministry or mission.

AWAY GIVING

RECIPIENT% OF AWAY GIVING

LOCAL RolltheRock 2%

NATIONAL Kairos Connection 5%

INTERNATIONAL Oikos, Peru 2%

Organisational structureMembers’ giving

Away givingAssets

Financial Structure

KAIROS CHURCH GIVING

Book-keeping and Management Accounts

Kairos Network Church is an exclusively charitable company and as such, its operation is overseen by a group of Trustees who have responsibility for managing Kairos’ finances and the employment contracts of its staff. They are accountable to the HMRC, the Charity Commission, Kairos’ leadership and its members. They meet at regular intervals and are required to assess the major risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure that systems are in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks. The Pioneer Minister is a trustee.

Westcliffe Hall is included in the accounts of the charity and the trustees are responsible for the costs of its upkeep and maintenance. The Trustees also have the powers to develop and enhance it without having to get permission from the diocese through faculties. The vicarage remains an asset of the Diocese.

The day-to-day operation of the finances of the church are manged by the Resource Base team. They manage all income, expenditure, hall bookings and physical banking of cash and payments to suppliers.

There are two significant projects which are operated within the Kairos financial setup and which need to be accounted for separately due the involvement of third parties: Step-Up and Resurrection Bikes, both of which are described elsewhere.

Kairos is supported financially through regular giving by those who participate. We are also supported by the Diocese of Ripon who currently pay for the stipend of the leader. Our aim is to become self-sustaining. Most regular income is received by standing order and is made up from church members’ regular giving supplemented by income from hire of the hall and one-off giving.

Two significant projects of the church are separately itemised within the accounts:

Step Up (a discipleship and training course) and the operational aspects of Resurrection Bikes. Collectively, these had a deficit in 2016 of £3,761.

Detailed management accounts are prepared by the treasurer for each month and are discussed in detail at every Trustees meeting. A budget is set in November/December for the forthcoming year (Jan-Dec) The management accounts contain both income and expenditure account balance sheet and reconcile fully to the bank statements every month.

KAIROS NETWORK CHURCHSUMMARY OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Note 2014 2015 2016 2017 (projection)

INCOMERegular Giving 50,867 49,938 65,231 Gift Aid 22,741 9,134 12,288 VAT RefundOther Giving 3,968 3,006 TOTAL INCOME 80,525 less: Away Giving (6,044)

NET INCOME 74,481 Number of regular givers 30

EXPENDITUREPioneer minister contribution 15,000 24,000 30,000 Other staff costs 17,769 Building repairs and maintenanceOther costs 21,335 TOTAL RESOURCE BASE 69,104 Income from Hall (12,366) NET RESOURCE BASE COSTS 56,738 Gatherings 5,227 MSC Expenses 890 Youth and Kids 11,153 Training and Events and Subs 7,451 Network 2,366 Network Income (797) NET MINISTRY COSTS 26,290

TOTAL COSTS 83,028

SURPLUS/DEFICIT (8,547)

INCOMEGrants 4,907 Participant Fees 3,300

NET INCOME 8,207

Salary 11,765 Other costs 2,705

TOTAL COSTS 14,470

SURPLUS/DEFICIT (6,263)

INCOMESale of bikes 21,917 Grants and other income 3,200

NET INCOME 25,117

Away Giving 20,600 Other costs 2,015

TOTAL COSTS 22,615

SURPLUS/DEFICIT 2,502

Expenditure

Kairos Network Church Summary of Financial Statements

Income

EXPENDITURE

EXPENDITURE

KAIROS STEP UP

Income

Expenditure

RESURRECTION BIKES

Income

Resource Base

Ministry

KAIROS GENERAL FUND

In summary, the church is aware of the financial challenges in the years ahead, we have developed a plan which is addressing this, whilst trusting that God will provide the necessary resources as required.

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Buildings After the closure of St Mary’s church and the subsequent redundancy of All Saints Church on Harlow Hill, the two congregations were challenged to develop a tent mentality and become a church without walls. With the development of MSCs, opportunities were taken to meet all over Harrogate and in different settings. This has freed up the buildings we have to be communal spaces and more available to the wider community.

Following the formation of the BMO, Kairos Network Church now own and meet in Westcliffe Hall. Refurbished in 2014 and divided into two spaces, the larger hall and smaller Kairos Room, the building has become a multi-use centre for both the community and the church.

A week in Westcliffe Hall will see it being used for Church gatherings and services, daily prayers, training events and our discipleship course Step Up. Teeming with toddlers on a Tuesday morning and bouncing with the youth group on an evening, there are regular exercise classes, and kids’ sports clubs. The ballroom dancing on a Wednesday evening has provided an interesting soundtrack to Kairos’ training evenings and moments of hilarity during half nights of prayer. The Kairos Room is used by Stuffers MSC on a Monday evening and Tea and Chat on a Thursday afternoon.

RESOURCE BASEWestcliffe Hall and Offices

Westcliffe HallThe hall is now seen as the Harrogate base for NCT classes and the American School of Dramatic Art (from Leeds). Used locally for hustings and elections, children’s parties, family events and charity fundraisers. It has been said that it is used from cradle to grave with politics and parties in between!

It is also used by another local church for their monthly prayer meetings and the Diocese for curate training and meetings. There are plans drawn up to further develop the unused end of the hall as an additional meeting room and separate facilities.

Kairos Room

Westcliffe Hall

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Housed in the former caretaker’s cottage attached to the hall is a suite of five offices including the Pioneer Minister’s office, rooms set up with multi-user desks and sofas for informal meetings or prayer times.

The offices are served by a basic kitchen and look out on the attractive hall garden.

Standing in a large well-kept garden on Harlow Oval, the vicarage is a well-proportioned detached house with five bedrooms. An ideal family home in a highly sought-after location, it is in the catchment areas for excellent schools, both primary and secondary, and well placed for local amenities.

The spacious ground floor has two reception rooms, a study, kitchen, utility room and downstairs toilet. The house is in good order, with neutral décor.

Harlow Oval is a five minute walk away from the Kairos Resource Base, a twenty minute walk from the centre of town and is also served by a regular bus service.

Kairos Offices

The Vicarage

TOWN CENTRE

KAIROS CHURCH

THE VICARAGE

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Harrogate Living in

Harrogate is a beautiful historic spa town, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. With its leafy parks and wide-open spaces Harrogate is a good balance of urban and rural lifestyles.

Harrogate is known as ‘the gateway to the Dales’ and was voted the happiest place to live three years in a row and has been in the top five ever since. In 2004 Harrogate was voted the third most romantic destination in the world however the practical Yorkshire locals find that hard to believe! It is also uniquely placed by being exactly in the middle of the county between the east and the west coasts.

What we do know is that Harrogate is a wonderful place for families with great primary and secondary schools, lots of kids’ clubs and sports facilities throughout the town. Harrogate is a busy fine place to live with exciting shops, wonderful coffee shops and renowned cafes such as Hoxton North, Bean & Bud, Starlings and of course Bettys. The Resource Base favourite is Tilly Peppers on Cold Bath Road. There are many great places to eat out from individual artisan eateries to chain owned such as Jamie’s, Gino’s or Wetherspoons. We are also well served by excellent bars and many real ale establishments.

Harrogate town centre is ringed by The Stray, 200 acres of grass which serves as common ground for the town, and provides an ideal venue for festivals, the Tour de Yorkshire, a bi-annual fair, weekly park run, and numerous exercise classes and football games. Slightly further out are the stunning Valley Gardens, with their spectacular flower displays, outdoor sports facilities and huge children’s play park leading to the Pinewoods at the edge of the town. They are also the staging place for the annual 1940’s day and Happygate. It is possible to walk from the centre of town through the Valley Gardens and Pinewoods to the RHS’s renowned Harlow Carr Gardens. Harrogate also has 2 cinemas, 2 theatres, a leisure centre, and the world famous Turkish Baths that have been frequented by Romanov Princesses, Queen Mary and Agatha Christie; they are an experience not to be missed.

Harrogate is also the home of The Great Yorkshire Showground venue for the largest county show in the country and two national flower shows in the spring and autumn of each year. In 2018 the Harrogate Convention Centre will host Spring Harvest, New Wine Women’s Day, New Wine National Leaders Conference and the European Leader’s Advance with Bill Johnson.

As you might expect, Harrogate is made up of an eclectic mix of people. It has a stable population of around 90,000, a low crime rate and is bucking the trend with at least 7 growing churches across the denominations. However, Harrogate is not without its needs and a discipleship life can be jeopardised by the individualistic, high expectations of highly educated over-achievers. Furthermore, Harrogate has its areas of deprivation and social challenge. With no parish boundaries, Kairos is well placed to meet all of these areas of mission.

‘The North Yorkshire town of Harrogate has been named the best place to live in the UK for a third year running.’

- The Independent, 2015

Harrogate Convention Centre

Royal Pump Museum

Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms

Harrogate Town Centre

The Harrogate Stray is 200 acres of open grassland and verges that wraps around the

main urban “old town” of Harrogate.

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Where next? Pioneering the next phase for Kairos Church

Kairos Network Church has vision for a Pioneer Minister who is a disciple who loves God, who worships Him above all, has a desire to see God’s Kingdom come in Harrogate and to see communities transformed through the power and love of God.

Kairos Church is trusting for a Pioneer Minister who recognises the call of Kairos, as expressed in the BMO and through this brochure, in their own ministry and is committed to following that challenge.

We are seeking a Pioneer Minister who will lead with wisdom, strength, courage and humility. A leader who listens and can communicate clearly their heart and mind in small and large gatherings and who can articulate vision and teaching.

We are confident that God knows who He wants to lead us in the next stage of our journey and we look forward to the appointment of our new Pioneer Minister.

• Are you a Spirit-filled worshipper of God?

• Do you have a proven track record in pioneering new ways of ‘being church’ within a Church of England setting?

• Do you pursue discipleship-focused practice?

• Are you a person of prayer?

• Do you have experience of mission-orientated groups?

• Are you supportive of the purpose and value of networking?

• Are you confident working in a culture of low control and high accountability?

Additionally,• Do you have experience of church expressed in

‘scattered’ locations, as well as centrally?

What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it?