It is with pleasure that we can announce that last Friday the Revd Mark-Aaron Tisdale formally accepted the post of Associate Priest of Finchampstead and California. For the past year Mark-Aaron has been Chaplain of St Edmund’s School, Canterbury, and before that was Rector of Clifton and Southill in the St Alban’s Diocese. He is married to Cigil (pronounced ‘Chill’) and they have an eleven year old son Winston-James. Following the usual checks, we are hoping that the Tisdales will move into the Vicarage at California mid-Feb. and that Mark-Aaron will take up his post sometime in March. Needless to say, the Ministry Team are very much looking forward to his arrival!!
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Appointment of our Associate Priest
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Jan 222012
Could You Be Our New Associate Priest?
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Nov 182011
We seek an Associate Priest to join our ministry team serving the new parish of Finchampstead and California. The congregations in our two churches are diverse in worship, churchmanship and theology. We have experienced significant growth in recent years and there are exciting opportunities to contribute to the formation of the mission plan for the new parish.
The Associate Priest (male or female) will:
- be encouraged by the opportunities to work with families, the local community and other denominations
- have a passion to grow every aspect of church life
- be inspired by the scope for mission and outreach
- be stimulated by a variety of worship styles and churchmanship
- work collaboratively with other members of the team but will have responsibility for specific, negotiable areas of ministry.
Most of all, by joining a newly formed team the post can be adapted to reflect the Associate Priest’s strengths and aspirations.
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For further information contact:
The Archdeacon of Berkshire
Foxglove House
Love Lane
Donnington
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 2JG
Tel: 01635 552820 E-mail: archdber@oxford.anglican.org
Applications by: 1 December 2011
Interviews : 14 December 2011
30th Anniversary Patronal Festival
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Jul 302011
Join us as we continue St Mary’s and St John’s 30th anniversary celebrations at our Patronal Festival Service on Sunday 11th September, 2011.
Our services will be a Holy Communion at 9:45am, followed by an Alive@11 at 11am, both led by our new Rector Designate Rev’d Julie Ramsbottom.
The services will be followed by a Barbecue at 12pm on the school field, or if wet, in the school hall.
Family games and activities will begin at 11am, tickets Adults: £3.50, Children (under 17 years): £2
Please bring your own drinks and glasses.
Announcement of Our New Rector
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Mar 272011
The Churchwardens of St James’ Finchampstead and St Mary and St John’s California are delighted to announce the appointment of the Rev’d Julie Ramsbottom, currently Rector of West Woodhay with Enborne, Hamstead Marshall, Inkpen and Combe, and Priest-in-Charge of Kintbury with Avington, as Priest-in-Charge of our two parishes and Rector Designate of the United Parish of Finchampstead and California.
The Archdeacon has made the following statement regarding the appointment:
“The Revd Julie Ramsbottom has been quite exceptional in her leadership of a raft of small village parishes in West Berkshire. Formerly independent parishes are now working together cooperatively without losing their distinctiveness and Mrs Ramsbottom has become a much loved and well respected Rector across the communities she serves. She will bring a wealth of experience to her new role in Finchampstead and California.”
The Parish Representatives were impressed by Julie’s breadth of experience – her existing parishes include a similar cross-section of liturgical styles and traditions to those we have here. Whilst maintaining the liturgical traditions she has also introduced new services and Fresh Expressions to bring in new people. She also has extensive experience of school ministry and work with young families.
She currently leads a ministry team of seven, and is an experienced Training Incumbent currently training one Deacon and three Priests.
Julie is married, and has two daughters.
The actual timings of when Julie and her family will move to Finchampstead and take up the post will be announced in due course, in the meantime we would ask for your continued prayers for Julie and her family over the coming weeks.
We are also issuing the following press release to local news media.
A New Rector for Finchampstead and California
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