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Rev Mark Thomas
Vicar (Senior Pastor) |
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Rachel Agnew
Apprentice |
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Mark and Kylie joined Christchurch back in 2023. They both love learning Welsh and walking the beautiful Gower. Kylie loves tennis, Great British Bake-off and works for the relief and development charity Tearfund. Mark was a physics teacher before becoming a vicar, and loves helping people explore science, faith and all the big questions of life. More recently, he has served on the leadership teams at St Mark's Battersea and HTB church. He is also the author of the Speak Hope Podcast and founder of Worshipping Nation Music who released their first album in 2024. |
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Rachel is a recent graduate in biochemistry from Swansea University. She loves dancing, experimental baking, and helps lead our prayer life, youth ministry and social media engagement. |
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Seth May
Apprentice |
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Angela Lloyd
Church Warden & Treasurer |
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Seth is a recent graduate in English literature from Swansea University. He loves writing poetry, is passionate about advocating for justice, and helps lead our children's ministry and City of Sanctuary partnership. |
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Angela is a retired headteacher, a governor at Christchurch school and an energetic member of our Sunday service team. She is married to Mark, and enjoys geocaching, crochet, baking and spending time with her grandsons Arlo and Renly. |
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Kathryn Price
Church Warden |
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Qiuzi Pan
Internationals Officer |
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Kathryn brings a lot of fun, colour and hard work to the Christchurch team. She has just completed her PhD in anthropology, and has travelled all over the world, so loves being part of our increasingly international church community. |
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Qiuzi and her family are an amazing blessing to our church. She helps lead our Sunday children's ministry and our international engagement team as we seek to welcome and bless people from all the different backgrounds in our wonderfully diverse city centre community. |
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Nang Maran
Assistant Treasurer |
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Wayne Jenkins
CEO of Swansea Veterans Hub |
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Nang and her family come from Burma and are a huge blessing to our church and community. She in finance and is passionate to help us discover what God can do with a faith-filled, generous church. |
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Wayne leads the award-winning Swansea Veterans Hub which is now based at Christchurch, and supports military veterans and families, but also serves the wider community in some beautiful and remarkable ways. It is our privilege to partner with them as the region's garrison church. |
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Wendy Davies
Community Cafe Leader |
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Carys Powe
Secretary to Council |
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Wendy is a Sandfields pioneer and in 2018 helped to launch our Thursday community cafe, which continues to thrive thanks to a dedicated volunteer team. |
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Carys is an occupational therapist and a brilliantly creative member of our Sunday Funday team. She is married to Ceri, and together with Oliver, Eleanor, Arlo and Renly bring joy, colour (and the occasional light-sabre) to our Sunday worship. |
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Pam James
Safeguarding Officer & Hall Manager |
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David Griffiths
Worshipping Nation Music - Producer |
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Pam works at Christchurch school and does a huge amount behind the scenes as well as helping to keep us growing as a safe church for all. She is very creative and has even published a children's book! |
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David helps us regularly with our Music-for-All programme and community recording projects, including two local school anthems. He is also the talented producer behind all the Worshipping Nation releases, which you can now find on all streaming platforms. |