Our Ministry Leaders
I am originally from Cape Town in South Africa, but moved with my family to Britain when I turned seventeen. I trained to become a teacher and spent five years in secondary comprehensives in Hampshire and Oxfordshire teaching Religious Education. I have always felt a call to work with youth, but it became more obvious that teaching was not the way forward for me, and I felt that I needed to work with youth out of a school context. That’s where Witham URC came in! My husband and I moved to Essex where we married and I took the youth pastor position being offered, I have now been here for several years. I love the challenges and the joys of the job and its always exciting to see what God has in store for us.
I was born in Kilmarnock, and married Audrey in 1970. We have three children who live in Switzerland, Belgium and Colchester. I worked as exploration and mining geologist on overseas projects for 25 years. I retrained as a Physics teacher and taught at St John Payne School until retirement in 2008. Interests include Scottish Country Dancing and touring in a motorhome.
I started life in London and moved to Kent at the age of seven. From this point, I attended a number of schools and colleges, all of which have closed and been replaced by housing. After university I joined Ford at Warley HQ, followed by Visteon. I’m now enjoying retirement which includes most of WURC IT, travels in our motorhome, and a plan to build a railway layout!
I became a Christian at the age of sixteen, which all started from going to church to see “The French Connection”!
