The Revd Pauline Main

Minister

The Revd. Pauline Main
Tel: 07931 305803 (mobile);
01865 513581 (manse)
e-mail: paulinemain@globalnet.co.uk

Pauline trained for ministry on the East Anglia Ministerial Training Course and at Westminster College, Cambridge. She was ordained at Summertown URC on 14th July 2007. From 1987 to 2005 she worked for two national ecumenical bodies, the Free Churches Council and Churches Together in England, principally on womens and social issues. Earlier, she was employed in Braille Production at the Royal National Institute for the Blind, where she gained a commitment to disability issues and an interest in computers. On Fridays, Pauline is a sessional chaplain at Holloway Prison, in London. In spare moments she enjoys watching sport, gardening and digital photography.

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Beryl Knotts

Church Secretary

Beryl Knotts
Tel: 01865 510055;
e-mail: berylknotts@googlemail.com

Beryl was brought up in a Congregational family and had early experience with the Surrey Congregational Youth Council. She trained and worked as a social worker in the UK and from 1966 to 1969 served as a UNA volunteer in Brazil. This led to 10 years international social work experience in Peru, Nigeria, South Sudan and Geneva, followed by 11 years with Oxfam, latterly in international human resources, until retirement in 1991. She is a URC Racial Justice Advocate, an avowed ecumenist and has been Church Secretary since 1997.

Church Treasurer

Richard Pooler
e-mail: poolers@hotmail.co.uk
Richard took over from Don Moss as our treasurer at the Annual Church Meeting in March 2009. His biography will follow.

Annie and Szofia

Children and Families Worker

Annie Barker
Tel: 01865 882867;
e-mail: barker.annie@yahoo.com

Annie Barker has been working as the part-time Children and Families Worker both for ourselves and for St Peters Wolvercote since May 2006.

Annie writes: “I was born in Suffolk but my family moved to Oxford when I was seven, and though Ive moved away for work and study, I now live here with my husband Zoli and daughter Szofia. I worked for several years as a learning support assistant for hearing impaired children before training to teach English as a foreign language. I combined part-time teaching with work at Esporta where I worked mainly on reception. The two jobs were vastly different but enabled me to develop a range of skills which I hope to put to good use in my work with children and families both at St Peters and the United Reformed Church in Summertown. It is exciting to be involved in developing the links between the two churches and also having a job based in the community in which I grew up.”

At Summertown Annie, along with Church Member Hannah Masterson, leads the Children and Young Peoples Group and has a major role in the planning of the all-age workshops held jointly with St Peters. Annie has been on maternity leave following the birth of a son, Tomi, at the beginning of July 2008, but has now returned and is running the Wednesday morning Toddler Group, Prams, Prayers and Play.