Village welcomes new Vicar
The weather may have been wet and blustery, but a very warm welcome was waiting for Rev Linda Carter and her friends, as she was licensed by the Bishop of Ramsbury to her new ministry within the Marden Vale team, at Christchurch Derry Hill.
Linda’s Curacy was in Broadstone near Poole, where she was involved with many aspects of community life including raising awareness of dementia, a school governor, safeguarding but her heart is in rural ministry.
Rev Bob Kenway, Team Rector of the Calne Deanery said “I thank God that we have been able to find a new priest to join the Marden Vale team only six months after Ann Massey’s retirement at the end of June. I look forward to our working together within the benefice and creating opportunities for realising the great potential there is in our various congregations, for working as a team to support each other in reaching out to our different parish communities in the love of Christ.” Bob also said “For a recent Clergy conference, we were asked to bring a bottle of water from our parish. When we got there, we put all the bottles on a table. At the end of the day we grabbed a random bottle of water from about 250 – 300 to take home but it wasn’t until later that day that I read the label which said “water from the Broadstone Vicarage.” I got in contact with Linda to tell her that I’d picked up her bottle but imagine my surprise when she said that her bottle of water was from Calne! God’s work is certainly amazing.”
