Carrs Lane Lectures in Radical Christian Faith

Vacancy: Church Project Coordinator

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Part time post: 25 hours per week
(hybrid, including some evening and weekend working)

Salary: £35,725 (25 hours) based on full time equivalent of £50,000
Initial period of 2 years, with potential to extend for 2 further years

The Church at Carrs Lane seeks an experienced, dynamic Project Co-ordinator to represent the church in our city centre redevelopment opposite Moor Street station and near the new Curzon Street (HS2) station, managing the next steps towards establishing and running a new church building and community hub.

The building will be part of a large, mixed-use development in Birmingham City Centre. Working in partnership with Birmingham City Council, community groups and a development partner, our plan is to redevelop the existing church site to create a flexible, eco-friendly space which is the centre for the church and its partners.

You will be a confident and effective communicator, acting as ‘client representative’ on this major capital project. You will understand the congregation’s comments and concerns, helping to reach consensus, devise strategy and maintain direction on behalf of the church. You will represent the church to a variety of providers including the Building Development Project Manager and potential partners for the new church building.

Knowledge of the Methodist and/or United Reformed Churches, their structures and practices, and the charity sector, is desirable.

How to apply:

We do not accept CVs. We follow United Reformed & Methodist Churches’ Safer Recruitment policies and practice.

Please send your completed application form to: moderatorspa@urcwestmidlands.org.uk

  • Application deadline: 9am, Monday 11 August 2025
  • Shortlisting: Monday 18 August 2025
  • Interviews: Wednesday 27 August 2025

Bethlehem to Birmingham 2024

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Job vacancy: Lay Pastoral Worker 2025

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Are you warm, friendly and welcoming?

Have you good listening and communication skills?

Can you plan and organise?

Would you enjoy working within a local church to help grow its ministry and outreach?

The Church at Carrs Lane is a local ecumenical partnership between the United Reform Church and Methodist Churches in central Birmingham

We are looking for a

Lay Pastoral Worker

who can join worship with us each Sunday and work as part of a team with the ministers, elders and congregation to grow the ministry and outreach of the church and share its open, inclusive, justice seeking vision and develop the Church’s ministry of welcome and hospitality,

The Church at Carrs Lane is a city centre church.  There are new people in the congregation most weeks, young professionals new to the city, students, refugees, individuals with multiple needs, seekers of all ages looking for a new or more inclusive community

Candidates must be a member of the Christian Church and willing to work in accord with the vision and values of The Church at Carrs Lane

Salary £29,120 pa if the role is full time

Funding is available for 35 hours a week but a part-time role 16-20 hours a week is possible instead. If you are interested in the post and would prefer a part-time role please do still apply.

Please complete the application form below and send to clerk@carrslane.co.uk or if you need more information kindly send an email with the title: Lay Pastoral Worker.

Closing Date 10 February 2025 noon      Interviews 1 March 2025   

Application Pack

Job description Lay Pastoral Worker

Person Specification Lay Pastoral Worker

Application form Lay Pastoral Worker

 

Poster Walk of Witness 2024 - 29 March 2024 - Good Friday

Ecumenical Walk of Witness – Good Friday – 29 March 2024

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Poster Walk of Witness 2024 - 29 March 2024 - Good Friday

Welcome students

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Accessibility

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Access information for anyone planning a visit – information on, for example, slopes/steps, parking, lighting, sounds, children, neurodiversity, money, tattoos, communion, and more.

Please click on the link below to download:

Access Information. TCACL. March 2023

 

Job vacancy: Maintenance Officer/Caretaker

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Maintenance Officer/Caretaker
12 hours a week / £15 an hour
The Church at Carrs Lane in central Birmingham is an exciting, inclusive, thoughtful church, looking for a Maintenance Officer/Caretaker to keep our building clean, well-maintained and safe.
We need someone who is practical, conscientious and self-motivated
who is willing to undertake the general cleaning of the inside and outside of the church building
with experience of building maintenance and managing service contracts
and able use a computer for record keeping and email
Hours to be set by agreement but ideally to include Wednesday lunchtimes For further information and an application pack please email clerk@carrslane.org.uk
Closing Date: noon 23rd May 2023 Interviews: May 25th 2023
Maintenance Officer/Caretaker

Job description Maintenance Officer v2

person spec maintenance officer

Application form

Weekly News

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Write for Rights Campaign

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Amnesty International: Write for Rights Campaign

On Sunday 4 December 2022 during morning worship, the congregation at The Church at Carrs Lane wrote greetings cards to prisoners of conscience, families of those who had been persecuted, or groups who were being denied their human rights. This was all part of Amnesty International’s Write for Rights Campaign which takes place every year.

It is hard to believe but The Church at Carrs Lane has been doing this in one form or another for 40 years on a Sunday around Human Rights day (10 December).

In 1977, church member Rev Frank Rock set up an Amnesty group based at Carrs Lane. It was called the Central Birmingham Amnesty Group. That group is still going today and meets regularly in the city centre. The way the group operates has changed over the years but it is still campaigning against Human Rights abuses of all kinds. Some time later it was suggested that the church took part in the Greetings Card campaign around Human Rights Day which was organised by Amnesty International. Members and friends of the church have written in the region of 100 cards each year so we must have sent about 4000 cards in that time. It has always been a team effort, with various people making the cards, particularly Margaret Cross. I am extremely grateful to Jan Searle who volunteered to make the cards this year.

We know from Amnesty International that these cards are much appreciated by the groups or individuals who receive them. As a result of the 2021 campaign, Imoleayo Adeyeun Michael of Nigeria wrote:

‘I sincerely appreciate all who have been supportive…and Amnesty Nigeria who stretched out arms of love towards me.’

On occasions people at Carrs Lane have received individual replies but many replies or messages of thanks are received by Amnesty International itself.

Each year Amnesty focuses on a particular group of people to send a card to. Last year it was to people and groups who were being persecuted because they had been using their right to protest.

For example:

  • Chow Hang-Tong from Hong Kong was jailed for remembering victims of Tiananmen Square.
  • Aleksandra Skochilenko in Russia was detained for protesting against the invasion of Ukraine
  • Vahid Afkari in Iran has been tortured and detained in solitary confinement for protesting peacefully.

These are only some of the people we campaigned for last year. We hope that we make a difference to their lives.

If anybody would like more information about the work of Amnesty International, please talk to Christine Rowntree at church, or visit https://www.amnesty.org.uk or twitter @amnestyUK or https://www.facebook.com/AmnestyUK/.com

Christine Rowntree

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Fairtrade Fortnight at Ethical Superstore

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Source: Ethical Superstore

Fairtrade Fortnight 2022 was another successful year getting people, businesses, schools and other organisations involved in Fairtrade. We now look forward to Fairtrade Fortnight 2023 which will take place from Monday 27th February to Sunday 12th March 2023.

For two weeks each year thousands of groups, companies and individuals get together to share the stories of the people wo grow our food and drinks, mine our gold and grow the cotton in our clothing, people who are very often underpaid and exploited. It’s easy to just pick something off the shelf without giving a thought to where it came from but it has certainly become more apparent in the last couple of years that we living in an interconnected world and we reply on each other.

For Fairtrade Fortnight 2022 the online Choose the World You Want festival returned from Monday 21st February to Sunday 6th March. The coronavirus pandemic taught us how interconnected we are globally which is at the heart of the Fairtrade message and is where our role begins. We are all part of the Fairtrade movement and we all have the power to drive long term change buy choosing Fairtrade when we shop, but also by supporting and spreading the message.

Last year we had the G7 and COP26 take place. COP26 came with much hope and many promises but also came with disappointment as the wealthiest nations failed to recognise the urgent need to invest in farmer expertise by delaying their promised $100bn annual funding to the most climate vulnerable countries until 2023, at a time when it is needed more than ever. Whilst COP26 was never going to result in climate justice, but have a cohesive global strategy to reverse climate change, it didn’t live up to the expectations it could have done. This makes Fairtrade Fortnight ever more important to highlight the problems people face around the world, the very same people who work to provide much of our food.