Minister: Revd Sharon Gardner - Tel: 01344 774 967
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I'm thrilled that my first post as a Methodist Minister is with Bagshot, Crowthorne and Sandhurst & Yateley churches. Prior to coming to live in Crowthorne, Mike and I were in Fleet for 29 years. Our three children grew up there and have since started families of their own. As I write this we are the proud grandparents of two small grandchildren with two more expected before the month is up!
During those years I worked with junior school children as a Special Needs Assistant and then in both primary and secondary schools as a Christian Schools Worker (an outreach funded by Churches Together). Latterly I have worked for Hampshire Libraries, during which time I was finally able to respond to God's call to ordained ministry, training part-time at Queen's College in Birmingham.
Mike works as a Sales & Marketing Director for a UK packaging company based in Wrexham. He's an active football referee and also a Watford FC season ticketholder. As you can perhaps tell from that, he has a great sense of humour which comes to the fore when he devises and runs quizzes for local concerns and charities.
Having been a Methodist all my life, I have been very involved in the lay work of the Church and one of my joys is seeing how congregations share their gifts with one another and with the communities they serve. It is a wonderful witness to the Body of Christ in action. I'm looking forward to working with my three churches as we get to know and love one another, rejoicing in the gifts that God has given to each and together discovering God's plans for us.
