“I must start by saying thank you to everyone who has made me so welcome in my first couple of months at the Priory.\u00a0 I already feel part of the Priory family.<\/p>\n
I am not sure how to introduce myself. But will have a go\u2026 Over the years, I have worked as an RE and History teacher, trained as a Reader and led various Sunday-morning children’s groups, youth clubs, parent-and-toddler groups, and Bible study-groups.\u00a0 Although not all at the same time!\u00a0 John has heroically led many of these groups with me, so I now help him with Saturday morning football at Dallas Road Boys and Girl Club.<\/p>\n
We moved to Lancaster six years ago when our twins finished their A\u2019 Levels and Rebecca was only seven.\u00a0 It is a long way from our families in the South but we do love the history and beauty of this area.\u00a0 Before coming to the Priory we really valued being part of St Thomas\u2019, where the wonderful children\u2019s workers Sarah and Emma taught me a great deal.\u00a0 The plan is that wherever possible we will work together and share resources.<\/p>\n
I am very much still finding my way and working out what my priorities should be, but part of role, and close to my heart, is working with the people living on the Marsh and the new Luneside Estates.\u00a0 With Sally Pidd from St Thomas\u2019s and with the help of Pam Robinson, I have been running the Coffee and Cake Club, a women\u2019s group that meets at the Marsh Community Centre on Friday afternoons.\u00a0 It is a small and wonderfully relaxed friendly group that laughs a lot, chats, drinks coffee and eats Sally\u2019s fantastic cakes.\u00a0 We are always ready to welcome new members, so if you know of anyone who lives in the Marsh area who might like to come please let me know.<\/p>\n
I have two long term dreams.\u00a0 The first is to work with other local churches to start a Parent and Toddler group in the Willow Lane part of town. The second is, well, an even bigger dream and, fortunately, not solely dependent on me \u2013 wouldn\u2019t it be great if every child who came to the Priory felt so welcomed and wanted that they became part of the Priory family and in doing so met with Jesus?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This September we were delighted to welcome Katie Schad who joins the Priory family as our ‘Young People and Families Worker’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}