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our parish office on 01268 289771 or Richard Sanders on 01268 520688.

Our parish website can be found at www.standrewholycross.org

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Holy Cross ChurchHoly Cross ChurchHoly Cross ChurchHoly Cross Church Church Road, Basildon, Essex, SS14 2NB

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Who We Are Looking For .............................................................................................................................. 2

Who We Are ....................................................................................................................................................... 3

Opportunities for the Future .......................................................................................................................4

Our Church Life ................................................................................................................................................ 5

Our Church Buildings ..................................................................................................................................... 8

Bishop Stephen writes… ................................................................................................................................9

The Basildon Deanery .................................................................................................................................. 10

Our Town ........................................................................................................................................................... 11

Our Vicarage .................................................................................................................................................... 13

Our Finances ................................................................................................................................................... 13


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We are a lively and active parish in Basildon, Essex with a focus on serving the needs of our

community and growing in faith together. Based around three housing estates, our parish

faces many social issues, including child poverty and low education levels. We are trying to

tackle some of these problems through our children, youth and families work, Messy

Church, a CAP Debt Centre, our Community Lunches and a growing Food Bank ministry.

Our parish is a wonderful place to live and we, alongside our developing Mission and

Ministry Unit (MMU) with the parishes in neighbouring Vange and Pitsea, are determined to

reach the people of east Basildon with the love of Christ.

We rely on the God given gifts and resources of our congregation, as well as our two church

buildings, to meet the challenges we face and are looking for a Vicar who will continue to

equip and release the ministry of the church through prayer, word and sacrament as well as

resourcing the laity. They will need to be a strong, collaborative leader who can take on and

develop the mission of our church to those we are called to serve. Could this be you?Could this be you?Could this be you?Could this be you?

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We are a busy parish that recognise that we have many challenges ahead of us, some which

we have started to explore and many which we have not yet considered. We are looking for

a Priest who will work alongside us to help us achieve all that God is asking us to do.

Our congregation have given the following five key characteristics that we would like in our

next Vicar:

The worship in our parish reflects the older traditions of Holy Cross

and the modern development of St Andrew’s. All our worship is

underpinned by prayer, God’s Word and Holy Communion.

Good relationships exist throughout our parish and congregation.

We want our next Vicar to be able build on these, showing their care

for God’s people through what they say and what they do.

We have developed a wide range of activities for our children to help

them explore their faith and we hope our next Vicar will understand

the need to promote the growth of our young people.

Our congregation possesses a wide range of skills and we are active

in developing the work of our church. We would like our next Vicar to

use and develop our skills as they lead our ministry.

We support our community through a wide range of activities;

however, we want to develop and grow and our next Vicar needs to

take us forward with new and bold ideas.

We are a fully inclusive church and we welcome all applications for the position of Vicar at

St Andrew � Holy Cross. Our whole church is praying for all who are interested in joining our

parish and we hope that this profile describes our faith, our work and our mission.


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The parish community is underpinned by the people who make up our church family and

has been strengthened by the ministry of Margaret, our last Vicar. Our church has an

environment for growth that is based on love, worship, teaching and outreach.

Our whole church

family sets out to

be a loving and

inclusive church and we welcome

everyone to our activities, events and

services. The two Sunday morning

services encourage family attendance,

offering regular Sunday School and youth

involvement. Messy Church gives fringe

families a chance to grow in faith

together. The Occasional Offices help us

to share in life’s ups and downs with our

parishioners.

Our home groups offer the chance for

friendship, discipleship and support for all

and our monthly Prayer Breakfast,

midweek offices and Wednesday

Eucharist encourage us to love and bless

our community.

Having two

churches gives us

the opportunity for

breadth in our worship. The history and

peace of Holy Cross Church provides a

traditional but relaxed style of worship to

which the children in the congregation

bring an extra dose of enthusiasm.

At St Andrew’s, the more flexible

surroundings give the liturgy an informal

feel, providing opportunities for other

formats of worship such as a monthly

Breakfast Church service.

Messy Church (which meets once a

month in the community centre in the

middle of the parish) has been a great

success and has led to a number of

families growing together as a new

worshipping community.

The church

regularly runs

nurture courses

which are attended by congregation

members, friends and neighbours. We

also run Baptism and Confirmation

classes.

We currently have four home groups

meeting weekly for Bible study, fellowship

and prayer. We also host the Diocesan

Course in Christian Studies (CCS) at St

Andrew’s and a number of our

congregation have successfully

completed this Christian basics course.

We offer two youth clubs each Monday

evening attracting around ten 11-14s and

up to ten 15-17s. Both these groups

contain a good mix of young people from

our weekly congregation and their friends.

The pastoral

group, set up

originally to

support our congregation with prayer, is

now responding to the needs of our

community.

Our service to the community is shown

through our extensive involvement in the

Basildon Christians Against Poverty (CAP)

Debt Centre. This established centre is in

high demand and our CAP Befrienders are

giving practical support to local families in

managing their finances.

We have recently expanded our Food

Bank to ensure food is available to those

who need it. Twice a month, we hold a

Community Lunch at St Andrew’s

attended by over 50 adults.


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Our parish vision is based on growth and we are keen to work with our new Vicar to develop

opportunities to further grow and unite the church family in order to develop the missional

work within our community.

To help us achieve this vision, the community identified two key areas that we feel should

shape our future priorities: “Discipleship & Worship” and “Community Outreach”.

We have seen a recent growth in our styles of worship – for example

Breakfast Church and Messy Church. We want to continue to grow

our church family sharing Jesus’ love to people in our community.

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• Enabling our congregation to grow in confidence in prayer.

• Offering further activities to teach people of all ages the Gospel

and of God’s love.

• Development of the involvement of teenagers within Sunday

services.

• Establish a youth worship band.

• Sharing worship with our local churches in the East Basildon

group.

Building on the successes of our CAP work and our Community

Lunch is important, but we also want to see development in other

areas. We want our practical actions to show Jesus’ love in action to

our neighbours.

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• Support for families who may struggle financially or emotionally –

for example, in the school holidays.

• Further development in the use of St Andrew’s, particularly

offering responses and events for those in need.

• Encouraging growth and resourcing of our children's and youth

ministry including secondary school work.

• Development of our youth work so that we reach more young

people in our locality.

• Furthering the East Basildon MMU, beyond the current pulpit

swaps and shared youth events, into a team which supports and

upholds each other through the sharing of resources, time and a

shared vision for our community.

We would like our whole church family to be committed to achieving these goals as we look

for further opportunities for our two congregations to work together as one church.


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Our parish has the enormous benefit of having two churches; St. Andrew’s, of typical “new

town” construction, balanced by Holy Cross, a 13th century medieval building that still

watches over the Fryerns Estate from its highest point.

This difference gives the church great versatility and opportunity to worship in different

patterns but is mutually complementary to each church’s unique presence.

The flexible nature

of St Andrew’s

building allows for

varied formats of worship within the

central tradition of the Church of

England.

Any service or celebration involving food

usually takes place here because of the

kitchen facilities and space.

This includes the monthly prayer

breakfasts, Breakfast Church and the

fortnightly Community Lunch.

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• Sunday service (Holy Communion) is

held at 9:30am (approx. 60 people)

• Morning prayer is held on Monday,

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.00.

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The space at Holy

Cross lends itself to

a more traditional

style of worship within the central

tradition of the Church of England.

Ministers robe for all services and there is

regular sung liturgy.

The church building of Holy Cross is used

for most of the parish weddings and

baptisms and the closed grave yard with

Garden of Remembrance allows us to

minister to the bereaved.

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• Sunday service (Holy Communion) is

held at 11:15am (approx. 30 people)

• A weekly Holy Communion (Order 2)

is held on Wednesday at 9:30

(approx. 10 people)

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We are called to be the Body of Christ here in our community. Our

congregation has many active and mission focused members who

look to bless those around them through their everyday living. For

example, we regularly visit residential homes and our local hospital. Currently, three

members of our congregation are serving as Street Pastors in the recently launched

Churches Together in Basildon project.

We also look for opportunities to develop our own faith. Over the last two years around

twenty people have been to Spring Harvest. Our Youth group recently attended a locally

run Christian festival; a first for our church.

Celebrating our Curate’s ordination as Priest, Summer 2015

Our church benefits by being part of the active Churches Together

in Basildon which hosts joint worship events throughout the year,

including a Walk of Witness on Good Friday and a Pentecost Praise

in the Park. We are also developing our Mission and Ministry Unit (MMU) with our

neighbouring Anglican parishes. This is part of Bishop Stephen’s vision for every Christian

and Church community to become a Transforming Presence. Our next Vicar will play a key

role in cementing the working practice and mission focus of the MMU.

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In the last two years we have seen a significant increase in young

families attending our Sunday services. Worship Zone for under 11s

regularly welcomes 10-20 children at St Andrew’s and up to 10 at

Holy Cross. The children are enthusiastic about their own times of learning and worship

during both Sunday services, returning to join the whole church family for Communion with

Children at Holy Cross forming an impromptu choir each

week during the Eucharistic Prayer. A nurture group for

11-14 year olds will launch in September 2016 during the

9:30am service. Youth work continues on Monday nights

at St Andrew’s, organised into two groups for age

appropriate activities to explore faith. The church

supports a CPAS Falcon Camp, by sending leaders and

sponsoring young people to attend. Those aged 14+ are

also supported through ReGen, a monthly life skills, faith

and discussion group.

Messy Church in full swing

Our children’s team oversee a range of events in both churches and other venues. We

launched a Messy Church two years ago to help bring more young families into the life of

the church. Meeting on one Saturday afternoon each month at our local community

centre, we have a vision to create an alternative way of engaging with church. We have a lot

of fun but are still working out how make this into a genuine expression of church for

everyone who attends (an average of 50 people each month).

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We have a strong pastoral team of nine members led by an

authorised Pastoral Assistant. Four members of the group will

undertake the Pastoral Care Foundation Course this year and all

have previously completed CCS training. Arrangements are in hand to license all pastoral

team members to take Communion to the sick and housebound.

The pastoral team has initiated an emergency food box scheme which is entirely

supported by the church family through donations. There are ambitious plans next year to

develop this valuable outreach initiative into a drop in centre that offers coffee, clothing

and light meals, particularly during school holidays.

We continue to look for further opportunities to make prayer central to all that we do.


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The church was built in 1955 as part of the first housing estate built

in the development of Basildon New Town. It was the first Anglican

church to be built in Basildon. It is a dual purpose building serving as

both a church and a community hall. It is used extensively during the week by local groups

and, twice a month, it is the venue for our community lunch which is prepared onsite in the

kitchen. The church has a room set aside for children’s activities on Sundays, a youth work

area and a separate prayer room. The church uses a sound and image projection system.

St Andrew’s from the roadside and at Breakfast Church

A Grade II* listed building, the oldest part of the current Holy Cross

Church dates back to the 13th century although records show that

there was a chapel in place 200 years previously. It is located in a

picturesque location, adjacent to open parkland. There is a large churchyard which is

closed to new burials and a Memorial Garden for cremated remains. The church has a

traditional organ and a sound system is installed.

Holy Cross from the graveyard and at the Christingle Service on Christmas Eve


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In the Chelmsford Diocese we believe that God is calling his church to be a

transforming presence. Our vision is that the church - that is the people of God here in

Essex and East London - should be a transforming presence in every one of our

parishes.

These are our priorities:

• To inhabit the world distinctively

• To evangelise effectively

• To hold ourselves accountable to one another and to God for the stewardship of the gospel

• To re imagine the way we minister so that each ordained minister and each individual Christian

discovers their part in God's ministry and so that each church flourishes.

To this end we are looking for priests who are excited by this vision of becoming a church which is

itself transformed, and which is becoming a more visible and effective presence in the huge

diversity of communities that make up this most exciting and energetic part of England. There are

many challenges ahead of us.

• We are a diocese generously subsidised by the national church. We need to become financially

self-sufficient.

• Leadership often seems distant. We are creating patterns of leadership that are closer to the

parishes. And we are looking to develop missionary leadership at all levels of church life. Nearly

half our clergy will retire in the next ten years. We need to find out how to minister with fewer

stipendiary clergy and with a re-imagining of how stipendiary ministry works. We need to re-

organise the way parishes relate to each other in what we are calling Mission and Ministry Units.

• Some of our congregations still think ministry is what Vicars do. We have a vision of ministry

where the whole people of God are involved in the whole of God's ministry. We are also

experimenting with new forms of authorised lay ministry.

• Church must be a safe place. All those in ministry will be expected to undergo training that will

equip them to respond well in situations associated with safeguarding.

• Levels of church going are below the national average. We need to get evangelism on to the

agenda and into the lifeblood of every church. We encourage and train churches to put on

weekends of mission and outreach. One of our aspirations is that every benefice should have a

trained lay evangelism enabler.

• We are developing missionary discipleship, so that every church in the diocese is a place where

Christians are formed in order to be sent out in witness and service.

Despite planning for a future with fewer stipendiary clergy, we remain as committed as ever to the

local church. And what is the local church, but that community of men and women gathered

around Christ, and living and sharing the gospel in the networks and neighbourhoods of their lives?

But we need priests to lead and to serve. We know we need to change. We can only be a

transforming presence when we have allowed God to transform us. Therefore, at the heart of all we

do is a longing for intimacy with God and a renewed life of prayer. First and foremost a priest is a

minister of the word and sacrament. All ministry flows from this. But a priest shares the ministry of

the bishop, therefore presbyteral ministry will increasingly be a ministry of oversight, guiding,

nurturing and directing the mission of God's church in the communities we serve.

It is an exciting time to be part of God's missionary movement for the world, and the Diocese of

Chelmsford is an exciting place to serve. We have a clear vision and we are looking to appoint clergy

who will share this with us. In every parish we long to see each person and each community grow in

faithfulness and ministry so that together we may serve in the world and Christ may be made

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The area of Basildon Deanery is similar to that of Basildon District Council, covering the towns of Basildon, Billericay and Wickford, with the addition of Runwell (in the Wickford and Runwell Team Ministry)

which is in Chelmsford South District Council. Most of the Deanery lies within the Thames Gateway South Essex region and there is significant regeneration either already underway or planned for the future. There are pockets of high levels of deprivation within Basildon in particular. The total population is approx.175,000 with more than half of the total population south of the A127, with approximately 43% in the north. The Deanery is cut in two by the A127 Southend to London arterial road with centres of population to the north being Billericay, including Great Burstead and Ramsden Crays, Wickford and Runwell and to the south, the parishes of Basildon from Langdon Hills in the west to Bowers Gifford w North Benfleet in the east. There are good ecumenical working relationships through Churches Together in Basildon in which St Andrew’s with Holy Cross plays it part; Churches Together in Billericay, and Churches in Wickford and Runwell. Despite the A127 boundary, there is a very strong collegiality within the Chapter and parishes are positively committed to supporting one another.

We celebrate the diversity that Basildon Deanery represents and together we aim to be at the heart of community life as a visible sign of the presence of the living God, proclaiming the Gospel and

reaching out to all people. Each parish is encouraged to focus upon how best to serve its own local community. In 2011 Basildon Deanery Synod endorsed our vision document which emphasises the following areas of particular need:

• a commitment to equipping and growing ordained and lay ministry

• a commitment to mission, especially among children and youth

• a commitment to working more closely together A review of the Vision Document is to be undertaken by the end of the year.

There has been positive engagement within the Deanery with ‘Transforming Presence’ and key to the process is for each parish to consider how and with whom they can work together in a ‘mission

and ministry unit’ to enable its ministry to flourish in the future. As the previous incumbent also served as Area Dean, St Andrew’s with Holy Cross has a good appreciation of what might be achieved through participating together, and has begun to forge a good working relationship with the other churches in the East of Basildon namely the parishes of Pitsea w Nevenden, plus Vange, and Bowers Gifford w North Benfleet. This is most noticeably demonstrated in joint ventures for children and young people – film nights, Messy Church, etc. We look forward to welcoming the new incumbent among us and working together for the furthering of God’s Kingdom.

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St Andrew’s and Holy Cross can both be found on the Fryerns

Estate, just under a mile apart from each other. The Vicarage (see

page 13), is located next door to St Andrew’s a convenient location

for accessing much of the parish and also the town centre and local supermarkets. There

is also a set of shops, a petrol station, the local library and the Community Centre (used for

Messy Church) all less than half a mile from the vicarage. Life in the parish is bustling and

lively. There is a good mix of ages living here (see statistics below), and people are generally

happy to share a smile and a “hello” with each other in the street.

The housing in Fryerns and Barstable is typical of property found across Basildon. Houses

are mainly two or three bedroom semi-detached or terraced properties, with small gardens

and insufficient parking space for modern families. Like a lot of the town, green spaces and

cul-de-sacs provide a break from the rows of brickwork and UPVC windows, and create the

feeling of space despite this being a densely populated area.

The Craylands estate has gone from being one of the poorest areas in the whole of the UK

to now enjoying the early stages of redevelopment and rebuilding. However, areas of the

original estate do still remain. There is now a large development of new-build houses and

flats (Beechwood Village) which has not just changed the look and feel of the area but also

the demographics. This is something our next Vicar will need to address as the church

finds a way to work with the new families and professionals moving into the parish.

The parish is home to four primary schools; Fairhouse Primary, Greenstead Primary, The

Willows Primary and Whitmore Primary along with one secondary school, The Basildon

Lower Academy. We have regular contact with each of the primary schools involving clergy

taking assemblies and occasional lessons as well as hosting church visits and services

throughout the year. These relationships continue to need work and development due to

the sometimes turbulent nature of the schools, particularly in the areas of staff retention

and working with the needs of the community.

A number of residential care homes can be found in the parish. We have a weekly Holy

Communion service at Hanover Drive and regular coffee mornings for the residents, a

monthly worship at Mundy House Nursing Home as well as regular contact with Afflets

Court, which is close to Holy Cross. Our pastoral team take care of the majority of this

ministry with clergy assisting when needed.

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• 16,118 residents with 56% identifying as Christian (Church Urban Fund).

• Children aged 0-15 years make up 21% of the population, 16-64 years make up 61% and

the over 65’s make up 17%. (2011 Census)

• Most areas in the parish fall below national averages on indicators of deprivation.

• Major issues in the parish: child poverty affecting 1 in 3 childrenchild poverty affecting 1 in 3 childrenchild poverty affecting 1 in 3 childrenchild poverty affecting 1 in 3 children, 40% of the working 40% of the working 40% of the working 40% of the working

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Basildon lies 32 miles east of Central London, 11 miles south of the city of Chelmsford and

10 miles west of the popular holiday resort of Southend-on-Sea.

The town is surrounded by several

nature reserves and country parks.

Basildon train station is on the c2c line

and it takes 35 minutes to get to

central London and 25 minutes to

travel to Southend sea front. There is

good access to major roads via the A13

and the A127 with both connecting the

town to the M25.

Gloucester Park (on the western boundary of our parish) is the

largest park in the town, with an area covering around 250 acres.

The parish is also flanked by Northlands Park on the east side and

boasts our very own Holy Cross Park, which is used as the venue for the Rotary Firework

display.

Basildon has an abundance of places to eat and shop in both the town centre and an out of

town entertainment venue. Home to Basildon Sporting Village, training venue for Gold

medallist Max Whitlock, it is part of the 2012 Olympic legacy. There is also a large cinema, a

bowling alley and a huge indoor soft play centre. Basildon has a large University Hospital.

There is a regular bus service from the parish to the town centre and beyond, to places like

Chelmsford, Wickford and the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock. The parish is well

served by local shops, restaurants & takeaways, pubs, doctors surgeries, a dentist, a post

office and a library.

Autumn in Northlands Park

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• 2001 Census statistics for Fryerns www.basildon.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=2013&p=0

• Diocese information about our parish www.chelmsford.anglican.org/pdfs/10.02.pdf

• Church Urban Fund Statistics http://www2.cuf.org.uk/parish/580220


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Next to St Andrew’s is our vicarage built soon after St Andrew’s church. The vicarage is a

large four bedroom detached property with garage and a medium size garden. From the

entrance hall there is an office, which is separated from the main part of the house by a

door. The ground floor also has the lounge, kitchen (with large utility room), dining room,

and a cloakroom.

The first floor has the four bedrooms, a bathroom and a separate toilet.

The house has gas central heating and is double glazed throughout.

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The parish has shared accounts for general running expenses at both churches, with

specific funds set up as necessary for particular needs. At present there is a fund with

£14,000 set aside for planned refurbishment work at Holy Cross. The Basildon CAP debt

centre accounts are included within the PCC accounts as a distinct fund.

Regular giving through a free-will envelope scheme and standing orders is sufficient to

allow us to pay our Parish Share in full. Additional income is received as rent from other

community groups using St. Andrew’s and from wedding and funeral fees at Holy Cross.

The PCC has a target to set aside £3000 (about 10% of regular annual income) to reserve

funds split between developing ministry within the parish (some of this fund was used to

subsidise Messy Church) and longer-term maintenance of our buildings. To achieve this

target, the PCC has identified the need for a giving programme to be completed in 2017.

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Planned giving 29,160.89 Parish Share 26,707.92

GiftAid refund 5,923.07

Other Giving 4,487.06 Other Expenses 26,782.41

Other Income 15,923.40

TOTAL RECEIPTTOTAL RECEIPTTOTAL RECEIPTTOTAL RECEIPT 55,494.4255,494.4255,494.4255,494.42 TOTAL PAYMENTTOTAL PAYMENTTOTAL PAYMENTTOTAL PAYMENT 53,490.3353,490.3353,490.3353,490.33

Full 2015 accounts are available on the parish web-site within the 2015 annual report at http://standrewholycross.org/wordpress/about-us/annual-report-book-for-2015

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