Sheila has been a member at Trinity since moving to Leighton Buzzard in 2004. I am retired from a career in both teaching and inspecting and enjoy relaxing with both knitting and needlework. In addition, I am a Local Preacher, currently not on plan and a safeguarding trainer for the South Bedfordshire Circuit. I am on the organ and sound rotas, create the PowerPoint presentations for services and safeguarding officer for the Trinity church as well as being a steward and member of the Leadership team. I’ve been a member at Trinity since November 1980. As well as church my other loves are cooking, gardening and my family. I have held various roles at Trinity over the years including Catering Coordinator, Sunday School Superintendent and Letting Steward. I have been involved in Scouting for over forty years and a Street Pastor within the town. I am a Local Preacher within the South Beds Circuit. I am Catherine Roots and I have been a member at Trinity since 1978. A Nottinghamshire CCC fan since I can remember picking up a bat, geography and travel costs led me to join Middlesex as a member in 2017.Ĭatherine Roots - Steward & Leadership Team My hobbies include photography, quiz-setting, cats, cricket and Rugby Union. One of the Safeguarding Team, I was also part of the team organising the Drop-In for Homeless people in Leighton Buzzard. Now I am retired, I am greatly enjoying the time this gives me for activities on behalf of the Church. Since then I have been appointed as a Steward and a member of the Leadership Team. Her hobbies are singing and sewing.īorn and raised into a Methodist family, I was not actually entered into membership of the Church and confirmed until 2018. For a number of years she was Leader of the Scout Group based at Trinity but is currently a Steward. She has been attending Trinity since moving to Leighton Buzzard in 1991. And you can call me Seung-Wook and surname is Jung, not (Yung) as many people say.Īnne Gray - Senior Steward & Leadership TeamĪnne works for the NHS in commissioning support services. I came with my family: my wife Eunhee my two daughters: Solee, Soyun, and my son Yunsang. And now I am stationed in the South Bedfordshire circuit as my second appointment. I was accepted as an R&R Minister and was appointed to the North Norfolk circuit in Norfolk in 2011.ĭuring my time in the N.N circuit I was accepted as a minister of full connection in 2014 and worked in the same circuit for 3 more years. I finished the Faith and Worship London course and applied for R&R (recognized and regarded) Minister. I began to build up a Korean group in the Chessington Methodist church and it was the beginning of my ministry in the UK Methodist church. It took much more time than usual to be ordained after being accredited as an Assistant Pastor because I was in the UK. I was ordained in 2008 from the Evangelical Holiness Church in Korea, one of the Wesleyan churches in South Korea. I then came to the UK in 2000 and kept working in the same position in a few Korean churches. So we are not new to each other, for we are already made to be brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.Īlong with my gratefulness, I pray and hope that we continue to grow in the love and in the knowledge of God as the people of God, called United Methodists here in Lebanon, NH.I was accredited as an Assistant Pastor it was like a probationer in the Methodist church, after graduating in Theology of Seoul Theological University, South Korea in 1994. We are bound with one another by the love of God. However, we are in this journey of faith together. I am new to this area, to this church, and to the people. I was appointed to be the pastor of Lebanon UMC as of July 1st, 2020. We are meant to be also reflective of God’s love. The churches are meant to be reflective of God’s love. They had left in me wonderful memories as well as reminders of what it means to be the church and Christian believer. I enjoyed my time with them tremendously. They loved and cared for me in the love of God. The church I was called to serve was a small but very loving church. However, it turned out to be one of the best decisions I had made. It was not just about language but also about culture and people. I was so scared of taking the call to become a pastor of the church. I had never worshipped in the church where the primary language was English. I did not know what to do with that calling. While I was finishing up my master’s degree at Boston University, I was called to serve a local church as a student local pastor. However, God had a different plan for me. I intended to go back to Korea where both of my parents are still living. It was not my initial plan to stay here and to make it home. After graduation from college and mandatory military service, I decided to come to the United States for further study in theology.
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