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The Grace Project enables churches to share a professional children’s worker at an affordable price. It can help churches in the Midlands which need someone to lead their children's work. Is your church in this situation? If so, why not engage a Grace Worker? Grace currently operates in churches within about an hours drive of East Midlands Airport. Churches further afield can apply to join, but may be charged the additional mileage costs.
A Grace Worker could come to work for your church for 8 hours a week. This could include one day per week visiting the local school and/or running midweek clubs on church premises. It could also include one Sunday per month in order to encourage midweek contacts to come and worship with your church congregation. Churches interested in having a Grace Worker receive a free visit. This is to discuss how the scheme works and to individualise the programme to meet the needs of the local area.
Every church needs someone with the skills to adapt the children's programme to meet the needs of existing members of the group as they grow older and to maintain an outreach programme so that new, young families will want to join the church.
Establishing - Sustaining - Growing
The Grace Worker scheme provides someone who can establish new initiatives and/or sustain projects started by leaders no longer able to continue their work. In the churches participating in the pilot scheme, many more children are being reached with the Gospel message and there are more families attending church services. Fruitful ministry is due to prayer and strategic, informed planning.
The fee for a Grace Worker is currently £7,500 for one academic year. There will be no increase in the second year and the annual fee will increase by no more than the rate of inflation in the third year. The fee paid by the churches covers salary etc, training, management and mentoring, 'allowable expenses' such as mileage, craft materials etc. There will be no opportunity to join the Grace Project in 2012. This is because we shall move from one year contracts to commitments lasting a minimum of two years. For churches wishing to take advantage of the opportunity to renew their contracts annually, 1st April 2011 is the last date on which they can apply under the current terms. From September 2013 there will be a two year package available.
For more information, please contact us or click on the link for a copy of the Grace Project Brochure.
Churches Participating in The Grace Project 2011 - 2012
- Whetstone URC, Leicester
- St Wifrid's Church (C of E), Egginton, Derbyshire
- Kegworth Baptist Church, Leicestershire
- Wollaton Rd Methodist Church
- Peterborough Methodist Circuit (full-time worker)
- Rugby and Daventry Methodist Circuit (full-time worker)
- Rugby Methodist Church Centre
- Hilmorton Paddox Methodist Church (Rugby/Daventry Circuit)
- Leicester North Methodist Circuit
- St Mary's,Queniborough, Leicester Diocese
- Ravenswood Road Methodist Church, Bulwell, Nottingham
- Brereton and Rugeley Churches, Lichfield Diocese (full-time worker)
- Aston and Nechells, Birmingham Diocese
- Long Clawson Metthodist Church, Leicestershire
Postcode Areas Served by Grace
- DE - whole of DE postcode area
- ST - whole of ST postcode area
- WS - whole of WS postcode area
- LE - whole of LE postcode area
- CV - whole ofCV postcode area
- NN - whole of NN postcode area
- B - whole of B postcode area
- NG - NG postcodes in Nottinghamshire only (not Lincolnshire)
- OX - areas OX15, OX16 and OX17 only
- S - areas S18, S20, S21, S25, S26, S40, S41, S42, S43, S44, S45, S66, S80, S81 only
- PE - area PE8 only
Churches wishing to appoint a full-time worker are welcome from anywhere in England and Wales.
Churches just outside our area wishing to appoint a 25% worker may join the Grace Project, but there may be an additional fee to cover the extra travel costs.
Please phone01332416152 for details.
