Lay ministers set to serve
Forty-three new Lay Ministers from Anglican churches in the Diocese of Chichester were commissioned in Chichester Cathedral having completed their year-long skills-based training.
The Bishop of Lewes, Will Hazlewood, led a special service at Chichester Cathedral on Saturday, April 29, to commission the new Lay Ministers from churches across Sussex.
Those commissioned and the parish they currently serve in: Charles Jardine All Saints, Herstmonceux and St Mary Magdalene, Wartling; Gaynor Deal, Maria Brett St Augustine's Scaynes Hill; Patsy Bailey St Mary Newick; Sue Jenner St Ethelburga Church, St Leonards; Austen Hindman St Mark's Church, Holbrook; Matt Thorpe St Symphorian; Rachel Russell Christ Church Ore/St. Helen’s Ore Hastings; Helen Winning Holy Trinity Hurst Green; Iris Collins Ashington; Jill Kerney Sompting & South Lancing; Mary Thurston Mary’s and St Peters Hampden; Sally Scott Ralphs St John's, Meads; Sarah Binney, Sarah Collison, Dorrie Langler, Jo Willis, Rod Ewen Chanctonbury Church;
Trevor Amey St Mary the Virgin, Willingdon; Karen Park St Mark’s Holbrook; Beverley Boylan St John Tidebrook; Chris Tanner St Mary’s, Slindon (Slindon, Eartham & Madehurst); Claire Ralf St Peter & St Paul, West Wittering; Den Mackey St Michael and All Angels; Gladys Masvosva St Mary's Church, Kemp Town; Hannah Holloway St Mary Pulborogh; Holly Draper Chanctonbury Church; Ian Tout St Peter's Sompting; Jenn Marshall St Mary's Clymping; Joan Bull St Mary the Virgin, Felpham; Kim Carter St John's, Southbourne; Kit White St Michael's West Grinstead; Leonard Joseph Christ Church, Eastbourne; Linda Murphy St Peter Cowfold; Mark Ralf St Peter & St Paul, West Wittering; Martin Lindsay St Peter & St Paul, Wadhurst; Sebastian Pelissier St Nicholas, Worth; Simon Langton St Peter Cowfold; Stephen Stordy St John Tidebrook; Sue Graham Smith St James Birdham; Tim Jackson St Mary Hartfield; Tina Robertson St Julians Kingston Bucci Hove, and Ian Tout, St Peter's Sompting (Parish of South Lancing and Sompting).