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By admin, September 1, 2010 10:58 pm

Rosalyn Murphy has been vicar of St Thomas, Blackpool since 2008.

What have been the highlights so far of your time as leader of St Thomas’s?

Without a doubt, it has been witnessing the transformative power of the Holy Spirit at work in the lives of those who are vulnerable, invisible, and ‘being at the margins.’   When I first arrived, two young women were unemployed and in the midst of losing their housing benefits.  I decided to take them under my wings and ‘love them to the Lord.’  I remember when initially they didn’t feel ‘holy enough’ to even enter the Vicarage.  Now, they ring the bell and come in for a chat or cup of tea whenever they’re nearby.

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By admin, January 9, 2010 1:05 am

Interview with Jemma Sander-Heys
(Ordinand at Mirfield College)

Jemma Sanders-Hey

First let me ask you to tell me a bit about yourself, what your background is and something of your current life situation, apart from being at College?

I’m thirty years old, I met my husband Joel whilst studying French & German at Exeter Uni, and moved to Poole on the South Coast as that was where his family were from. I began to explore my vocation in 2005, on the advice of a non-stipendiary priest at the church I attended and have led children’s and adult’s drama workshops and music groups on and off for several years. In January 2009 I had a baby girl.

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