Lead for Revitalise
(Revitalisation of parish mission and discipleship)

Over the last few years with much prayer, learning from experience, and working together to build relationships and trust, we have developed a Diocesan vision: “the Diocese of Portsmouth longs to be a rejuvenating community of Jesus-centred, Kingdom-seeking disciples”.

Our rejuvenate strategy to deliver the vision has children, families and young people as the intentional focus of everything we do. Our primary strategy to have congregations full of children and young people is to have flourishing churches.

Our strategy themes are:

REVIVE: a call to deeper prayer for all our clergy and lay leadership to experience a continued personal refreshing of the wonder of God’s presence in our life. Key to this, is the establishment of small peer-to-peer “Benedictine style support networks” capable of developing realistic revitalisation plans. Details here.

REVITALISE: grow our existing churches, connecting ministries together to form a pathway that reaches people who are unconnected with church, and supports them as they journey to become committed disciples who own for themselves Jesus’ mission. Details here.

RENEW: in communities where there is no effective church presence, we believe it is right to plant/transplant new congregations to focus on outreach and younger generations. Details here.

As our Lead for Revitalise you will enable church growth through church revitalisation.

Your key priorities will be to:

• provide a method for each church leadership team and parish to assess their spiritual health & vitality for themselves;
• coordinate the Revitalise pathway of the diocesan strategy;
• build capacity for revitalisation measures and projects;
• identify and prepare for further revitalisation opportunities in 2026 and beyond.