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I come from Northwood (NW London) and began working life as a shipbroker in the City of London, at the bottom as office boy and then moved into the chartering department, being responsible for negotiating with ship owners on behalf of overseas clients.
In my late 20s, I felt God calling me to the ordained ministry, and after 2 years of saying no to God (how foolish is that?), I finally agreed. I trained at Trinity College, Bristol, and served my curacy at St. Mary's, Luton. I've been Vicar of Christ Church since July, 2000, Assistant Rural Dean of Bedford since 2005, Rural Dean since 2010. I served on General Synod for 10 years till 2015, when I stepped down to concentrate on the parish and deanery.
I'm married to Sarah and we have one lovely daughter, Emily, and a great cat, called Julian.
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Originally from Durham, I moved south for university where I studied Aerospace Engineering before spending 20 years in engineering in Hampshire (briefly) then Hertfordshire, where I spent 18 years with the same company.
I felt God calling me to ministry a long time before I actually got to a place where I could do something about it but God was patient and he got me eventually. I began exploring a call to ordained ministry in 2013, and started training through the Eastern Region Ministry Course in 2016, while continuing to work full time. In 2019, I was ordained, and began my curacy here at Christ Church.
I am married to Rebecca and we have two wonderful children, Sophie and Daniel.
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I grew up in Leicester, but I was born on the island of Montserrat which is in the Caribbean. I have also lived in a few different places like North Finchley, Clapham, Feltham and Sunbury-on-Thames. I have been involved in Church Ministry for many years and have served in different capacities in that time. My most recent position being the Assistant Youth Pastor at an AOG church in Leicester.
I have been blessed to go on two mission trips - one to Romania and the other Nairobi Kenya - where I got to see God do some amazing things in the lives of local people. I look forward to going on more mission trips in the future.
I am really look forward to seeing how God uses me here at Christ Church.
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Born in Henley on Thames, educated in Guildford, Surrey and Aberystwyth, I came to Bedford for work over twenty years ago. I taught History and other humanities subjects at Harlington Upper School from 1989 to 2011, when I decided to leave to do other things and to escape the increasingly frequent changes in education.
I joined the staff team as part-time office manager in spring 2013 and have come to understand what the job entails. As far as I can gather I am expected to know everything and everyone at Christ Church, but people are very understanding when I don’t know the answer or can’t give them what they want, immediately.
I am married to Vandon, who is often to be found up a ladder at church and the newest resident of our household is Harpurr (born June 2013) the one real feline in our cat and book filled home.
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