Experienced pastor looking for job in southampton
Trained and experienced pastor, Phil Harding, is looking for pastoral work in Southampton. Having worked as a pastor for 18 years his current key skills include: working with people, teaching, training, counselling, and working with children and young people.
To see Phil Harding's CV and pstoral profile contact noa@southamptonchristiannetwork.org.uk
Current employment Pastor of Cradley Baptist Church, Halesowen
1. Describe briefly when and how you were converted to Christ.
I was brought up by Christian parents. My first remembrance of professing faith was at age 11, in 1969, at a Dick Saunders rally in Bedford. I was baptised at that time but there followed a long period of backsliding during my mid teens to early twenties. I was drawn back to Christ in the early 1980’s by the influence of evangelist David Fortune, the consistent holy life of my brother David Harding and the powerful preaching of Stanley Jebb. By 1983 God had brought me to full assurance of faith and to a fullness of peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
2. How do you seek to foster your relationship with God?
There are no shortcuts to a relationship with God (or anyone else for that matter). His means of grace for growing in relationship with him are simple: Private devotional times in the Word and in prayer and praise, Public devotional times (family worship and church worship) in the Word and in prayer and praise, A daily dependence on the Holy Spirit to live out a life of worship in all that I do.
3. What Christian service have you been involved in?
Preaching and Teaching
Fifteen years of twice weekly sermons – concentrating on consecutive expository ministry
Writing and leading midweek Bible Studies
Training leaders (I’ve used the FIEC’s Learn2lead)
Prayer
Regular weekly prayer meetings (morning, midday, evening)
Pre-service prayer times
Annual week of prayer and fasting
Encouragement in prayer partners
Pastoral care
Visitation: concentrating on the sick, the lonely, the weak, the elderly,
those coming to faith and those young in the faith
Leadership
Meeting weekly with my fellow elder
Meeting regularly with finance deacons
Meeting adhoc with leaders of other church ministries
Members meetings quarterly
Music and Worship ministries
Song writing, mainly Scripture in song and children’s songs
Leading worship and praise times in church and small groups
Acoustic guitar playing for use in worship, schools, youth, outreach
Youth
Toddlers - weekly support with guitar and social interaction with carers
Primary age –
support weekly club at church
weekly after school Christian club at one school, twice a term at another school
involvement in annual summer Bible week held at church
Secondary age -
20 years planning and leading weekly youth programme
Planning and leading annual summer Bible week held at church
Evangelism
Door-to-door: weekly using home produced literature
Outreach meals: simple format, dinner - speaker
Special events: church fellowship nights/days, church family weekend
Schools: assemblies, afterschool clubs, teaching opportunities
Community
Monthly worship times at three local nursing homes
Weekly support of two local primary schools as reading buddy
Adhoc support of three local schools – help on school visits, classroom support
Attendance occasionally at Cradley Forum – discussion of local area issues
Attendance occasionally at Cradley Youth Forum – discussion of local area youth issues
Mission
Involvement with Birmingham City Mission
Involvement with OM Lifehope training centre
partnership training small groups
visiting OM work in India
teaching sketchboard preaching
Prayer support and visits of several individuals involved in mission
Several times a year visits from variety of mission organisations to keep church informed
Adhoc support from mission fund of variety of missions
IT
Software and Hardware installation and maintenance
Local Network administration
Web design and maintenance
Graphic Design: Weekly newsletter, evangelistic literature, posters, notice boards
Interchurch
West Midlands FIEC fellowship
FIEC rep for West Midlands for last couple of years
FIEC annual conference weeks
Local Fraternal fellowships
Seven Cradley churches - Christmas and Easter invitations together
FUSION – a network of five local evangelical churches working together esp. with youth
Leadership Conferences – especially Life in the Spirit Conference | 