We said a big thank you and a fond farewell to our Curate Holly Newton on 27 July. We thanked her for all she has done and been among us over the last four years as our Team Curate. We have much appreciated all she’s done to extend our mission and ministry in our parishes, including the setting up and establishing of the Little Lights Toddler group, Tea, Cake & Company, our Family fun events as well as the formation of the disability and church inclusion group. Not only that, but also for her thoughtful sermons and her sensitive leading of worship of all kinds, as well as her presence at many of our different events. We have appreciated her kind and gentle nature, her witness and commitment to her faith and her vocation as a priest through a challenging time with her health condition. We have seen the presence of God strengthening her through her weakness and setting an example to all of us of her grace and dignity through times of challenge and difficulty. We are sorry to see her go, and want to wish her well in her new course of study in Theology and Disability from September. She goes with our love and prayers and blessing for the future.
We look forward to welcoming her back to preach at two of our services in September at All Saints and Holy Trinity (which were booked before the announcement of her departure). Holly and the family have already moved to Staverton, so she won’t have far to come.