Monday 16 December 2013

New Associate Priest announced

The following announcement was made by the Rector on Sunday 15th December:

The Rector and PCC with the permission of the Bishop of Reading are delighted to announce that The Reverend Anna Harwood has been appointed as the next full-time Associate Priest to the parish of All Saints Wokingham.

Anna is currently serving her first curacy in the benefice of Twyford and Ruscombe with Hurst; she will take up her role at All Saints in June 2014 on completion of her curacy. Anna will live with her husband in Bishops Drive Wokingham.

Anna trained for the ordained ministry at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford. She was ordained deacon in 2011 and priest in 2012. Previously Anna has worked for over ten years as a qualified youth and children's worker in church and local authority contexts. She serves currently as a school governor at St Nicholas C of E Primary School in Hurst and is one of the  Oxford diocesan vocations advisers covering Reading and Reading University.

She has an honours degree in Religious Studies from the University of Wales , a postgraduate certificate in youth and community work from Brunel University and a postgraduate diploma in Ministry from Oxfords Brookes University.



David Hodgson 15th December 2013


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