Staff Elder

Town Church Bicester

Town Church Bicester is a growing, gospel-centred church situated in one of the fastest growing towns in England. We recently celebrated our 8th birthday and are currently made up of 52 members (who have 45 children between them) with around 120 attending regularly on a Sunday afternoon. This includes around 50 under 11s attending our creche and Junior Church each week.
As a church we want to be: a people who have been and are being transformed by the good news of Jesus, who seek to live for Jesus and make Jesus known to others in and around Bicester. We also hold to four key values from which all our worship and activity flows.
We have four elders who operate as a plurality of pastors with one set aside and paid for 20 hours a week as a staff elder. We also employ a Children & Families Worker and Operations Manager (18 hours), and Church Administrator (8 hours).
Currently meeting in a local primary school, we are actively considering how we approach growth and so, alongside thinking through premises we are committed to increasing our pastoral capacity. We are thus seeking to appoint another paid elder to serve alongside the existing team, ideally starting from Autumn-Winter 2026-7, although we are open to conversations around timing.

Required Skills

Essential

• Meets the elder requirements found in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1
  Experience of leadership responsibility in a church
  Desire to work in a plural eldership team and work collaboratively with others across the church
  Gifted in expository preaching
  A desire to train others in gospel-centred teaching
  A heart to seek the lost and do evangelism

Desirable

• Over 5 years of pastoral/ministry experience
  Experience of church growth
  Member of the FIEC Pastor's Network
  Some formal theological education
  Able to plan and deliver strategic projects (desirable)

If you're interested in finding out more and would like to request a job pack, email Simon Poole on simon@townchurchbicester.org.uk for an initial conversation.

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If you're interested in this job please:

Email Simon Poole at:
simon@townchurchbicester.org.uk

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