I am a member at Leyland Methodist Church and have fulfilled a wide variety of roles within it : I am currently a Church Steward, Finance & Property secretary (including Gift Aid), and GDPR lead.
I never imagined that I would have the privilege of serving the wider church as a Circuit Steward once let alone twice! Now in a different Circuit, I was humbled to be asked to join the Circuit Leadership Team. I am also a representative to Synod – something that I have done wearing various hats continuously since 1994. Then I was a member due to my role as District Formal Education Secretary. A title more impressive than the role which basically comprised minuting one meeting per year and squeezing reports out of hard-pressed school chaplains.
Methodism runs through me like the lettering in a stick of rock, and since retiring in 2015 after thirty odd years in education the last 24 years as a headteacher I now have the time to live out my Christian calling by serving the church which has served me all my life.