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The Revd Ruth Adams was born and brought up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. After reading history in Durham she returned to Ireland and trained for the Ministry with the Church of Ireland in Dublin. She served as a Curate in Omagh and then worked as a chaplain in Trinity College, Cambridge. She is currently minister of Bar Hill Church - a Local Ecumenical Project - a partnership between the Church of England, the Methodist Church, the Baptist Union, the Society of Friends and the United Reform Church. |
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Kate Aylmer trained as Secondary schoolteacher, moving to Retail Management Training, before returning to Primary teaching and is now an Advisory Teacher for Cambridgeshire in (ICT) Information and Communication Technology. She is a Licensed Lay Minster (Reader), has a Certificate in Pastoral Counselling and is a Spiritual Director.
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The Revd Ally Barrett is Vicar of Buckden and Offord. She serves on the Diocesan Mission Advisory Group and is a tutor on the Licensed Lay Ministers' worship projects module. She is married and has two young children.
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The Revd Judi Clarke is Rector of St Andrew’s Great Staughton with St Nicolas Hail Weston with St Leonard’s Southhoe. She is also the officiating Chaplain to the Forces at Bassingbourn Barracks and a Spiritual Director.
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The Revd Dr Adam Dunning is Priest-in-charge of Holy Trinity, Orton Longueville. He read Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford and subsequently did a PhD in Medieval Mystical Theology. He spent several years lecturing and has worked as a fundraiser for a homeless charity. He trained at Westcott House, and has spent the nine eight years in ministry - in ruralWorcestershire, Birmingham and now in Peterborough. His current interest is the theology of C S Lewis. Adam is married and has one daughter. |
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Dr Bridget Nichols is Lay Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely and has been a member of the Vocations Advisory Group since its inception. She has a particular interest in liturgy.
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The Revd Steven Rothwell is married and has two young children. Having served his curacy in North Cambridge he is now a rector in the southwestern part of Ely Diocese, serving three separate villages. He says his move from city life to a more rural environment has been both unexpected and challenging. He is interested in how faith and belief are revealed at the cinema and in music. |
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James Broad worked as an insurance broker in London for several years. He and his wife then joined a missionary society whose aim was to make the Christian gospel relevant to university students. They spent time in Nottingham, Cambridge and London, and latterly James has been European administrator for the society. He is now retired and enjoying involvement in his local village church and local charities. |
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The Revd Dr Grant Bayliss was born in Birmingham and is married with two young daughters. He is currently Chaplain at St John's College, Cambridge and prior to that was an Assistant Curate in Cheltenham. He did his doctorate on the Theology of the Early Church and is passionate about communicating the truths of the Gospel in new forms, especially through creative liturgy. |
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Christina Deacon is Reader (Licensed Lay Minister) in the parish of St Andrew's, Girton; licensed to minister throughout the Diocese. For some years she served with the hospital chaplaincy team in Addenbrooke's. |
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Stephen Tomkins is a retired University lecturer and a Fellow of Homerton College, in Cambridge. He has enjoyed both being a biology secondary school teacher and a trainer of science teachers. He is an Anglican, with Quaker affinities. Stephen says that for him, faith is both about a continuing trust in the power of goodness and love and in a refusal to stop asking all those fundamental questions about our human journey. The 'trusting' and the 'asking' should compel us to action and to become more attentive to human need. |
