Minister - Post Vacant
We are in a period without a Vicar and are in the process of prayerfully looking for who God is calling to lead us in the next season.
Curate - Holly
Holly is our curate. Holly and her husband Simon are originally from Peterborough, and spent the last three years living in Bristol where Holly studied theology. Before training for ordination, Holly worked for a church as a Community Children and Families worker on a local estate, providing support and building relationships with families facing any kind of need. Having never lived in village communities before, Holly is enjoying learning about village life!
Youth Worker - Sarah
Sarah is our youth worker who brings great skills and experience.
Church Warden - Julie
I moved to Wollaston about 20 years ago when my eldest was little. We started attending St Mary's after my second was born and my youngest when she was just 9 days old. We have all grown in lots of ways in the last 20ish years. I answered a calling to become church warden 6 years ago. There have been many challenges but it is a rewarding privilege to serve me church and church family.
Deputy Church Warden - Chris
Chris is a husband and father to 3 kids, when not in church he will be tinkering with DIY or some Tech
Safeguarding Officer - John
John is our Safeguarding officer who also is a keen bellringer
Retired Minister - Margaret
Margaret Johnson is a Retired Minister who helps support St Marys
Parish Administrator - Jean
Originally born and bred in North London, Jean has lived in Wollaston for fifty years.
A Chartered Librarian by trade, Jean has been the Church Administrator for St Mary’s Wollaston for
over fifteen years, as well as Benefice Administrator. Jean is also the Branch Leader of the Mothers’
Union and Tower Captain of the church bell ringers. Jean is married to David, who is the Church
Fabric Officer.
Our Beliefs and Values
The church community is a vibrant, growing faith community of all ages centred on Jesus Christ. We have people from a few months old to those in their 90’s!
Our current vision is…
To see God’s kingdom increasingly come amongst us…
As a church we believe that Jesus came to give us life, and life to the full. So we long to see Him bring joy, peace, hope, healing etc into both our personal lives and the situations we face.
We consider Sunday worship to be an important time for us to gather for worship, to get a sense of belonging and to equip the church community to see God’s kingdom come in their weekly context.
We meet at 11am and our time of worship is usually finished by 12.30pm.
Our style is informal and contemporary and so we have modern worship songs led by one of a number of worship leaders.
Apart from All-Age services, the children and youth stay for the opening time of worship and then leave for their own age related teaching/activities.
There is a pre-school room at the back of church that children with parents can use during the morning service.
We want to meet with the living God during our times together and so often we will invite people to the front for prayer; as a response to what is spoken, for healing or some other need, or to simply ask for an encounter with God.
After the service there are refreshments served and there is no charge for these.
No matter where you are on your faith journey, you will be made very welcome
Sunday Morning
Meet Our Team
Our leadership team at St Marys Church is dedicated to serving and guiding our congregation.