Canon Marion de Quidt has now retired.  We had a lovely celebration to wish Simon & Marion a happy retirement, we have put some photos here.

We are now in vacancy and will be looking for a new parish priest in due course.

During the vacancy it is business as usual.  We are lucky to be supported by the licensed lay ministers from within the benefice, and a variety of clergy who are coming to lead services.

Any questions please contact either the Benefice Administrator, or one of the Churchwardens.

Helen Sherlock is our Associate Priest.  She works part time - working on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, and covers the HMR churches.

Helen grew up in Hartley Wintney and was formerly a secondary school PE teacher, before starting a family and moving to live in Uganda for 12-months. She later trained at St Mellitus theological college in London, and served as an ordinand at St John’s Hartley Wintney before moving to Exeter to complete her curacy in both rural churches and a city centre youth-focused church. 12-months into her curacy she took over leadership of the youth church and served there for a further 3-years. Helen is passionate about people meeting with Jesus, regardless of age and has a real desire to be part of the community in which she serves.

Helen is married to Duncan, and they have four grown up children and two dogs.

Jonathan Bushman has been a LLM at St. John's since 2008 having trained as a Local Preacher in the Methodist Church. Jonathan works in the Oil industry, is married to Caroline and is father to Lydia. Jonathan leads our Children's and Families team, and our All Age services in Hook.

Timothy (Tim) Maynes has been a member of the St John's Hook congregation for around 30 years, including being a Church Warden, and he is a dedicated member of our Choir. He began training as an LLM in 2018 and was licenced on 2nd November 2020, by Bishop David Williams of Basingstoke. He is married to Brigitte and is the father of Matthew, Thomas and Ruth.

Jennifer Martin has been with us since 2003.  She is a vistors chaplain at Winchester Cathedral and Honarary Chaplain to the RASC/RCT Association Aldershot Branch. She has been involved in Childcare, Health and Social Care, worked in Higher Education, and sees faith and work as an integral part of ministry. Jennie runs the ecumenical bible study, the Open the Book at Whitewater School and is on the HMR PCC.

There may be days when the office is being run from home, so please initially contact us via email or leave a message on the answerphone and we will come back to you when someone is available.

Office phone number with answerphone: 01256 760169