Staff St Lawrence Church, Lechlade

St Lawrence Church, Lechlade

Church Leadership

St Lawrence is a growing Church which is supported and led by a mixed team of staff members and lay participants. Though all members of St Lawrence have a role to play key members of the team are described below:

Vicar

Rev'd. Christopher Bryan was brought up in High Wycombe. He went to Oxford University where he obtained a degree in Biology. Before training for the ministry he had a placement as a Careforce worker at Sale in Cheshire. Christopher trained for ordination in Durham and has served in St. Mary's, Old Swinford. He is married to Chantal who had been working with a mission organisation in India and is now a social worker, with son Jonathan.

Curate

Jean Brown was ordained in 2008 after three years training at WEMTC in Cheltenham. She is Curate at St Lawrence Lechlade and also works as a bookkeeper for small businesses. She is married to her very supportive ‘house-husband’, Dick, and they have one daughter who works and lives in Cheltenham.

Readers

Readers assist in the leading of services and preaching. They are John Cooper, Susan Holmes, Gordon Land and Maureen Partington. Bishop Peter Vaughan, Rev. Andrew Kirk and Rev. David Bainbridge all retired ministers, also regularly assist with services. Together with Christopher, they form a 'Ministry Team'.

Church Wardens

Church Wardens, Paul Cobb and Christine Vagnolini, provide an important leadership role within the Church as well as taking responsibility for the smooth operation and maintenance of the facilities and buildings.

PCC

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is the constitutional governing body of the church. All on the Electoral Roll may vote to appoint representatives to the PCC. Elections are held at the Annual Church Meeting with PCC Members appointed for a 3 year term.

“Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men” (Ephesians 6:7)

Email: info@stlawrencelechlade.org.uk Last Modified: 20 July 2008