Sunday May 6th
Fifth Sunday of Easter
10:00 am Holy Communion
Jesus the true vine
Brian Bown/Clive Grinham
Sunday May 13th
Sixth Sunday of Easter
10:30 am United Benefice Service
South Pickenham
Stephen Thorp/Dee Loxley
Thursday May 17th
Ascension Day Service
7:00 pm Holy Communion
Stephen Thorp/Others
Sunday May 20th
Seventh Sunday of Easter
10:00 am Alive@10
Stephen Thorp/Others
Sunday May 27th
Pentecost
10:00 am Morning Worship
The Holy Spirit comes at Pentecost
Carole Hicks/Stephen Thorp
Stephen grew up in a Surrey village and worked in a bank for several years prior to ordination. He studied theology at London Bible College and Trinity College, Bristol before serving a curacy in Knutsford, Cheshire. Then he was a Team Vicar in rural Devon, with responsibility for 4 out of 11 parishes for 10 years, before moving here to Necton with his wife Ruth, and their three children, Samuel, Jonathan and Naomi at the end of August 2006. He was instituted and inducted as Rector of the Benefice on 26 September by the Bishop of Norwich.
PCC Members
Brian Loxley
PCC Member
Julie Keay
PCC Member
Mandy Bennett
PCC Secretary
As Rector Stephen is automatically on the PCC and is the Chair of All Saints Necton PCC. The other PCC members below are elected annually to the PCC.
Carole Hicks
PCC Member
Wyn England
PCC Member
Tim Shearcroft
Treasurer & PCC Member
Tom Gardener
PCC Member
Lay Readers
Carole Hicks
Carole trained as a nurse in Nottingham where she met and married Michael, a doctor. After they settled in Norfolk, Carole worked as a practice nurse for 16 years. She began her Reader training in 2003 and was licensed on 20th May 2006. Her ministry includes preaching and pastoral work, with a particular heart for prayer ministry.
Di Daniels
Church Warden
Di trained as a dental hygienist in the RAF in 1965 where she met her husband Danny. She moved to Necton in 1973 and has two children and five grandchildren, all living in Dereham. Her hobbies include golf and caravanning. Di has been involved with Girl Guides for over 30 years and has recently retired from the Guide Unit in Watton.
Ian Swadling
Church Warden
Jill Dobbs
Organist
Jill came to live in Necton in 1968. She had not previously played the organ, being a 'jazz pianist'; but in 1971 was asked to 'stand-in', in the absence of a previous organist, and has been playing regularly ever since. She has now moved to Swaffham but still remains as organist at All Saints.
John Martin
PCC Member