Our new Minister, from September 2009, is Revd Martyn Neads. He is a URC Minister and will be minister to both Christ Church and to Woodley Airfield Church.
He was previously based in Plymouth and comes to us with his wife Danie.
We previously had a Methodist Minister who, like we are, was part of the Reading and Silchester Circuit (circuit number 26/13) of the Southampton Methodist District.
Our Interim Moderator until the new appointment has been Revd Gordon Connell, who is an unpaid URC Minister and works in the library at Reading University.
Helping out with the pastoral work has been Revd Valerie Fisher who is a recently retired Methodist Minister.
Former ministers, taken from both the URC and the Methodist church, have included hymn-writer Peter Jarvis, evangelist Bill Mason and several who have moved on to be circuit superintendants. Bernard Arnold was the Methodist minister at the time of formation of Christ Church in 1982. Our last minister was Revd Dr Mike Hill, who left in 2008 after seven years to take up an appointment in the High Wycombe Circuit.
Page last updated 6th August 2009.