This coming weekend, we will celebrate and pray as 19 people are being ordained as deacons and priests in special services at Salisbury Cathedral. We thank God for their dedication as they go out to serve across the diocese.
Deacons usually serve for a year before being ordained as priests, though some may feel called to remain as a deacon. New priests continue to serve out their curacy in the parish or team in which they were first ordained deacon.
You can watch the services livestreamed from the Cathedral here.
Deacons:
(From top left-right, bottom, left-right)
Sophie Ferguson, to serve in Harnham St George & All Saints, and Salisbury Cathedral
Shelma Vaughan, to serve in Wareham
Ashley Liddington, to serve in Wyke Regis All Saints with St Edmund
Judy Wright, to serve in Broughton Gifford, Great Chalfield and Holt St Katherine
Chris Adams, to serve in Trowbridge St James as Keevil
Brenda Woodrow, to serve in Savernake
Jan-Rebecca Brown, to serve in Knowlton Circle
Carly Taylor, to serve in Marden Vale
Priests:
(From top left-right, bottom left-right)
David Reed [Corfe Mullen]
Ruth Peers [Hamworthy]
David Sinclair [Iwerne Valley]
Craig Bain [Warminster Christ Church]
Natalie Davies [Swanage and Studland]
Gary Waldron [Broadstone]
Marianne Mangham [Wimborne Minster and Wimborne Villages]
Matthew Haynes [Vale of Pewsey]
Lydia Reese [West Purbeck]
Katherine Edwards [Branksome Park All Saints]
William Mason [Guernsey St Stephen]