Interim Priest in Charge - Lowton and Golborne Team Ministry

Introduction

 The Lowton & Golborne Team is a team of three parishes between Warrington and Wigan and on the edge of the metropolitan borough of Wigan within Greater Manchester. The parishes are a mixture of urban and industrial settlement with a mining heritage and semi-rural settlement, within a deanery that is one of the more rural in the Diocese of Liverpool. The population of the parishes is growing.

The three churches are largely central in tradition, with a slightly more evangelical flavour at St Mary’s and a slightly more catholic flavour at St Thomas’. The churches are all well-embedded and used by their communities, but the church people of the team are used to collaborating with one another and would like to do more.

The ministry of the three parishes is busy, with a significant baptism ministry and other occasional offices, and extensive work in church and non-church schools as well as the activities of the different churches.

The Lowton & Golborne parishes are within the deanery of Winwick which is just beginning the diocesan Fit for Mission programme. This is an opt-in programme and currently St Mary’s and St Luke’s have indicated that they wish to take part in this programme, St Thomas’ have indicated they do not wish to take part in this programme.

Interview Date:   TBC

For more information please contact: Ven Simon Fisher Archdeacon of St Helens & Warrington 

Mob: 07525617067 or email: simon.fisher@liverpool.anglican.org

We are continuing our work to actively increase the diversity of those working in the diocese and in pursuit of that we are using anonymous shortlisting.