Year Team at Ebenezer Evangelical Church, Bristol, England.

What is the Church Year Team?
Who? - The Year Team is for anyone over the age of 18 who would like to give a year to work in a local church context.
What? - The Year Team gives people the opportunity to be trained in and to give service in various areas of church life.
When? - The Year Team is a ten month project that starts in September and runs until the following July.
Where? - The Year Team is run by Ebenezer Evangelical Church, in Bristol, where team members are based.
Aims? The aim of the Year Team is to provide a context for people to grow in:

How does it work?
Ebe’s Year Team focuses on three main areas - Church, Community and City. The vision is to give each year team member, an opportunity to experience working in many different areas of church, and then develop giftings and ministries, as God leads them.

Members of the Year Team have their time filled with a range of activities, such as student work, youth and children’s work, social action (eg. with homeless people, Noise teams, etc.), Alpha, schools work, senior citizen work, general church administration, work amongst the emerging generation (20’s), etc. You would probably not be involved in all of these but a combination of areas.

There will also be opportunity to be involved in projects with St. James Centre in Lockleaze and involved in linking with other Celebration Churches’ initiatives.

Team members can choose activities to fill some of their time and there are a number of things which everyone in the team will do, as a way of building team life and developing a servant attitude.

Training and Support
Once a week, the Year Team meet up with the Year Team Co-ordinator who is their line-manager and is responsible for their well-being.

During the year, there will be three development reviews to see how things are going.

Each member of the Year Team will also be encouraged to have a mentor with whom they meet with at least once a month, who is responsible for discipleship and pastoral issues.

Also, every Tuesday the team meets up with other year teams in the city, at the George Müller Foundation, for worship, teaching and support. They will receive teaching on subjects as diverse as Heaven, Third World Issues, Child Protection, Prophecy, as well as studying most of the books in the Bible in some depth.

Other Information
This year, we are looking for part-time year team who have time available during the daytime, during the week and a number of evening commitments.. We can discuss different options and see if it will work. We will also accept people on a fulltime basis, please have a chat with us.

For more information about joining the Year Team, contact Christine Waller directly or the Church office on 0117 9791399 or contact us from the website.

If you would like to apply to be on the Year Team, please ask Christine Waller for an application form, fill it in and then return to her. References will be taken up and an interview will be arranged.