Team Rector
The post of Team Rector is currently vacant.
Lorraine Turner
Lorraine trained for ordination after 10 years as a science teacher in West London. Her curacy was served at St. Luke’s Birchwood and she joined the Louth Team 5 years ago as a part time team member. Within the team Lorraine mainly supports pastoral ministry including weddings, baptisms, funerals and midweek communion services. Her main role is as priest-in-charge of Legbourne Woldmarsh. Her deanery wide mission responsibility sees her employed as a part time hospital chaplain based at Louth County Hospital.
Director of Music
Lisa Taylor has been active in the musical life of St James's as one of the Choir Ladies and as an assistant organist for several years. She has also performed as accompanist and singer with other local choirs. At St James's and elsewhere in recent years, she has given organ recitals and is currently completing a part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Organ Studies at Birmingham Conservatoire. For several years she has played the organ for Sunday services, weddings and funerals in the Team Parish of Louth and, before coming to St James's, in the outlying villages, She is known to many in the town for her work.
Deanery Community Worker Peta Hill
Peta Hill is the Deanery Community Worker. She is a lay member of the staff team and works alongside, and with, the clergy helping to extend the mission and ministry of the Parish into the local community.
The role of the Deanery Community Worker has many facets,linking with voluntary and community groups, individuals, wider voluntary organisations and statutory agencies, both locally and regionally.
One aspect of her role is to offer support to any voluntary and community groups that need help - that might be filling in a grant form, or finding a venue, or writing a constitution or it may be directing them to another organisation that can help. Sometimes this is about helping people identify the need for a project and then helping them to fulfil their vision, in order for the community to become stronger. This work is not only with Church groups, but with any organisations or individuals in the wider communitywho feel they need support.
Working with the Clergy Team and officers of the Church, we also have identified some areas of work which extend the mission and ministry of the Parish, These include lunch clubs, the community larder and conversation classes.
Some of the work with the Local Statutory Partnership includes strengthening and developing the infrastructure of this community in East Lindsey. The strategic work is not always about a project or about 'doing something', but about bringing another dimension to the table - that of Kingdom values.
Much of the community work is based at Holy Trinity Church on Eastgate. For information on the work please go here.
Be A Friend!
Be A Friend If you are lonely or housebound and would like a visitor, then the Be A Friend project is for you. Our volunteers will visit you regularly, share a coffee and a chat, maybe play a game of cards, and generally be company for you. If you spend time on your own and would like a visitor, or know a neighbour or elderly relative who would, or you would like more information, then please get in touch, using the address or phone number below.
Peta Hill (Parish Community Worker)
01507 610752
To email Peta, click here
