Our Team
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As well as running their own management teams, the directors of the Site Pastors, Central Ministries and Operations Teams come together with our Senior Pastor and Executive Pastor each week to keep us all aligned behind the Elders & Trustees priorities and ensure the organisational health of our whole Office Team. The Coordination Team, as they’re known, keep the teams moving by unblocking any coordinating decisions needed; keep us all headed in the same direction to meet our goals each year; and keep our Kerith culture at the heart of how we work (we call it a “Hungry, Humble and Healthy” working community).
The Central Ministries Team focus is less about being up front doing ministry and more about resourcing the teams on Kerith sites to do ministry. They are the experts in our ministry areas, which we group into Families, Experience, Engagement, Pastoral and Social Justice. Each ministry owns how Kerith helps people find their way back to God through their specific focus and how it is resourced to grow on each of our sites. They work together with one another and with site teams to deliver the processes we follow and the systems we use; they decide on the budgets we have and the calendar we’re working to; they train the teams, set up the structures and supply the tools that enable ministry everywhere.
The Operations team oversee Kerith's corporate functions providing support and resource to the Central and Sites ministries enabling the vision, mission and strategy set by the Elders, Trustees and the Coordination Team.
The Office Team is the wonderful mix full-timers and part-timers, paid or unpaid, that commit at least a day of their week in Kerith offices to support the ministries. It includes all staff members and a number of volunteers, too. There are three main sub-teams included: Site-based teams delivering locally at a single site; Central Ministry teams supporting all sites with particular ministry expertise; Operations teams like HR, Finance, Production and Site Services that everybody needs to do their job.
Whichever sub-team we’re part of we’re here: to empower the whole church to fulfil Kerith’s mission; to own the supporting systems & processes that enable us to work together; and to model our vision as a community growing in our love for God and our love for people.
The Eldership Team are ultimately responsible for everything that we do at Kerith Community Church, although we’re mainly volunteers without much involvement in the day-to-day running. Our contribution tends to be focussed on the bigger-picture decisions we need that release other teams to fulfil their roles. That could include our theology & doctrine (how we understand the Bible and apply it to real life); our Vision (what God is calling us to become and how we’re building towards that); and our Pastoral Care (how we are looking after our people). Our regular pattern is to meet monthly to eat together, pray and work through these things together.
The Senior Management Team (or ‘SMT’ for short) are employed by the church to lead the delivery of the eldership and trustee decisions. They are responsible for managing the teams that support the various ministries, sites and functions that make up the whole office team, empowering them to deliver aligned day-to-day running of church activities. As well as running their respective teams, the SMT meet together every week to keep us all on the same page and move our ministries and supporting functions forward together.
Our teams are assigned to individual Kerith sites. Under the direction of our Site Pastor; with support and expertise provided by our central Ministry Leads, we resource and empower our many wonderful volunteers. Ultimately, on each site we all work together to help our local people find their way back to God through communities growing in their love for God and love for people.
The Trustees Team support the Elders by taking the lead on the corporate side of Kerith’s supporting organisation. Kerith is both a company and a charity, so we hold the teams to account accordingly for matters relating to finances, safeguarding, employment, legal and property. Like the elders, we’re mainly volunteers, many of us with specialist expertise from the marketplace that we have the privilege of using to serve the church. Our regular pattern is to meet formally once a term and we also gather as and when needed for any faster decisions if they arise.
