Current Vacancies
Compassion Coordinator
Posted: 27th April 2025
Role: Compassion Coordinator
Location: Redeemer Central, Belfast
Start date: Summer 2025
Contract: Permanent/Part-time
Hours: 21hrs/week (flexible with some evenings)
Salary: £15,600 (PA)
Report to: Daniel Saunders (Executive Pastor)
Closing Date for Application: Friday 9th May, 5pm
Completed Application Forms: Return by email to 'admin@redeemercentral.com'
ROLE SUMMARY
Redeemer Central is a church community in Belfast seeking to shape our lives around the way of Jesus as we love and serve our city. We gather together every Sunday at our venue in the heart of the city and scatter to smaller gatherings — Tables — in various locations across Belfast and the surrounding towns throughout the week. Redeemer Central is a community that confesses the tenets of the Christian faith expressed in the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed. We posture ourselves with a willingness to learn from both the wider culture and the many different streams within Christianity while considering — for the sake of seeing more of God’s Kingdom come in Belfast — what might the praxis of these values and beliefs look like in an ever increasingly post-Christian society. We are a welcoming church family committed to joining with God in seeing renewal and healing in the places we work and live. We are committed to becoming more like Jesus as we follow him and growing in spiritual and emotional health and maturity.
With that in mind we are seeking to employ an Compassion Coordinator, to serve alongside the Staff Team and Senior Leadership Team, who will be responsible for coordinating our compassion projects that serve the wider community in Belfast. These include The Long Table and Farmbox.
The Compassion Coordinator will serve on the Staff Team - managing, coordinating and developing our compassion projects - The Long Table & Farmbox - including overseeing volunteers. They will also serve a crucial role in developing these projects as well as identifying emerging needs and responding strategically.
What does compassion look like at Redeemer?
Redeemer is committed to living out the way of Jesus by showing compassion to those in need and working for justice in our community and the world. Through our Justice Fund 12.5% of all giving to Redeemer goes towards missional engagement & social justice — through both our own initiatives and other organisations doing good work in our city and beyond.
Tables & Gardens
IN COMMUNITY, ON MISSION
At Redeemer we see church life encapsulated in the imagery of Tables & Gardens. Tables represent the rhythm of gathering. Gardens represent the work of planting. Churches in their simplest form are people that are in community and on mission together. The image of the table illustrates the gathering place where community is found and formed. The image of the garden illustrates the missional place where seeds of life are planted and grown.
A garden is a place of life and peace but it doesn’t grow by itself, it takes time and intentionality to cultivate with the end result being a place that flourishes with beauty. We believe this is a beautiful metaphor for the mission of the church.
We believe the church’s mission is to tend to the place it finds itself, in love and intentionality so that over time that place might become a haven for all people, a place of life, safety, blessing and peace. This is what Jesus means when he talks about the Kingdom of God.
“Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce…seek the peace and prosperity of the city where I have sent you”
Below are a few initiatives that the Redeemer community help tend to and our prayer is they bless our city with the love and grace of Christ.
Farmbox
Farmbox is a community providing fresh food & support to those experiencing poverty.
Farmbox began in 2014 with the idea of providing long term support to individuals and families seeking asylum. As many of you will be aware, this process is often very stressful, but also long. We did not want to replicate some of the great services such as food banks.
Therefore, we set the aim to be able to provide regular support and with fresh produce for as long as it would be needed. As time has gone on we have recognised the importance of choice and dignity in this and so have also provided food vouchers so that families can purchase food when they want and to ensure the food would be as fresh as possible for them.
Farmbox is more than providing food. It's about community and support and being able to respond to needs as they arise.
The Long Table
The Long Table is a free community meal served every Friday (6-7pm). Its mission is to be a safe and welcoming place for all, regardless of social or financial background, and foster community over lovingly-prepared food.
In January 2023, in response to the cost-of-living crisis and the mental health impacts of Covid, we launched The Long Table. Every Friday evening, a team of volunteers from both the church community and beyond prepares a nutritious meal and shares it with those who come to enjoy the sense of community. Over the last 2 years a beautiful community has developed with 40-50 people each week enjoying food together.
Most of the food served is part of the Fareshare reduce waste campaign, and we also provide food for guests to take home.
Throughout the week, volunteers source food from local supermarkets, and on Friday evenings, the church is transformed into a warm and welcoming dining room. In addition to sharing meals, the team offers friendship, connection, and guidance to other services that may support our more vulnerable guests. Our volunteers range in age—from a ten-year-old girl who comes with her mother to more senior members. Most work full-time and generously give up their Friday nights to serve the marginalised and lonely.
With increasing food waste options available our heart is to expand the ministry and reach out further by hosting more meals each week, setting up a community fridge on site and, in time, opening a cafe that will offer pay-as-you-can-afford options and generate regular income that enables The Long Table to operate sustainably.
101 Community
Our vision for 101 Donegall St is as a place of welcome where people feel they matter and belong.
This building has had a presence on Donegall Street for nearly 220 years and our vision for its future is to see the doors opened to the community that live, work and study there... a diverse and vibrant harmony of different people and communities who can enjoy the space, find community and support one another.
Anaka Women’s Collective
For the past few years we have supported Anaka — An independent charity. They are a group of women who use their collective skills to educate, support, advocate and celebrate each other. Many are seeking asylum and are from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds.
