The Benefice comprises of the Parish of Hook (registered charity number 1183688) and the Parish of Heckfield with Mattingley & Rotherwick (registered charity number 1132735). Any personal visits will need to be booked with one of administrators, a member of the clergy or one of the lay ministers, both parishes have their own office and administrator.

| Parish of Hook | |
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| Contact us by telephone: |
Office: 01256 760169 |
| Contact us by post: | St John's Church London Road Hook, Hampshire RG27 9EG |
| Contact us by email: | office@whitewaterchurches.co.uk |
| Parish of Heckfield with Mattingley and Rotherwick (HMR) | |
| Contact us by telephone: |
Office: 07752 967947 |
| Contact us by email: | office@hmrchurches.co.uk |
Charitable Status
The PCC of Hook Parish is a registered charity number 1183688, The PCC of Heckfield with Mattingley and Rotherwick (HMR) is a registered charity number 1132735
Priest
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Canon Marion de Quidt has now retired. 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 Sam or Russell (see below for their details). |
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Associate Priest
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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. |
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email: vicar@hmrchurches.co.uk or phone her on 07513 818498
Licensed Lay Ministers (Readers)
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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. |
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email: jonathanbushman@whitewaterchurches.co.uk
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Timothy (Tim) Maynes has been a member of the St John's Hook congregation for almost 40 years, including being a Church Warden, and a 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. You may see Tim leading services in both parishes. He is married to Brigitte and has three children, and one grandchild. |
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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. |
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email: jennifer.martin17@btinternet.com
Office Staff
Hook Parish
Karen is the Administrator based at St John's, Hook and is in the office on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9-12. You can contact her via email or leave a message on the answerphone and we will come back to you when someone is available.
email: office@whitewaterchurches.co.uk or call her on 01256 760169
HMR Parish
Claire is the HMR Parish Administrator, she works weekday mornings, from 9-1, you can email her at office@hmrchurches.co.uk or call her on 07752 967947
Helen's PA
Nicky is Helen's PA and the HMR PCC Secretary, you can email her at PA@hmrchurches.co.uk
Website & technical support
If you want to contact us with respect to our website, or the systems we use across the benefice to communicate with you (including if you think you should be getting emails from us, but are not) please email our support team.
Churchwardens & PCC
We are extremely lucky to be supported by a team: including Churchwardens, two PCCs, four Deanery Synod representatives, and a team of Junior Church teachers, musicians, a music group and an active choir. We also have a team of people who work behind the scenes: those who look after our buildings & grounds, the flower arrangers, the IT & Office support. In addition we have the support of our congregations to run morning and evening prayer, Bible Study and fellowship groups, all age worship, "Open the Book" in Hook Infants and Whitewater School, "Messy Church" in Hook, "Bumps & Babes" pre-school play & friendship group, coffee shop and many other annual events.
Churchwardens Hook:
| Sam Frolich, Hook |
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| email Sam |
| Russell Phillips, Hook |
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| email Russell |
Churchwardens HMR:
| tba, Heckfield |
| Vacancy |
| Jason Drury, Rotherwick |
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| 07985 700055 |
| Ian Kenny, Rotherwick |
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| 07785 707114 |
| tba Mattingley |
| Vacancy |








