Team parish news
Congratulations, best wishes and thanks go to Garth & Jenny, Richard and Sam, as they plan their move to Redditch, where Garth will take up his new post as Rector in the Ipsley Team Parish in the autumn. We have good cause to be grateful for the energy, dedication and hospitality which Garth and Jenny have brought not just to St. John’s but to all our church communities in the Team Parish. Garth has also guided the deanery through a great deal of change in recent times with good humour and a practical wisdom.
Thank you, Garth, our prayers go with you as you prepare to meet new challenges in a new ministry. Also our care and concern for the move itself, which will not be easy after eight years in Brockmoor. Before all that happens, Garth and Jenny will be taking some leave and Garth begins sabbatical and study leave during the summer.
We say goodbye to the Revd Pat Nimmo early next month. Pat has been a regular visitor and preacher at St. Michael’s as a special category minister of the United Reformed Church appointed to Churches Together in Brierley Hill. She has had an effective working relationship with all the church communities here, and we shall miss her very much. Her specialism has been regeneration, and she has worked to shape the Brierley Hill Project at South Street Baptist Church which is now making a tremendous contribution in several areas of social care. She has worked with, and chaired, the Community Forum: managed the Signpost project: organised conferences and events (like the Green Faith Day), and been a good friend to us all.Currently, she is guiding the feasibility study into the proposals to establish a Churches and Community Centre in the new town centre to be established in Brierley Hill. Our thanks and best wishes go to her for new challenges in the East Midlands. We say goodbye to Pat on Thursday 1st July at a party at Arley Arboretum between 5.00pm and 8.00pm. If you want to be there, please let BG or the wardens know.