St John The Baptist Church Hammerwich
I was born in Shropshire but moved to the beautiful city of Oxford when I was only a few months old. At 18 I went to university in Leeds, and have loved Yorkshire ever since. I studied English, French, Russian and Philosophy but most of that is a distant memory! However, I did use the English and French as a secondary school teacher, in Yorkshire and then in Walsall and Staffordshire, finally retiring in 2007.
As a teenager, I had been challenged as to whether I really knew that God loved me, and after a lot of thinking about this, I came to a personal faith aged 16. Over the years I have been a member of several different kinds of church including HouseChurch, Strict Baptist, Independent Evangelical but for the last 25 years I have been back where I started, in the Church of England. In 2005 I became a Reader, but felt that God had even more for me to do, so I applied for ordination and began training in 2007 once I had left the teaching profession. I was ordained in June 2009, and after 3 and a half years at Chase Terrace I moved in February 2013 to become Associate Minister at Hammerwich. The people have made me very welcome, and I hope that together we will continue to minister in the local area, and see Gods kingdom extended and lives changed by knowing Gods love in our midst.
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