If you’ve got this far, then the photograph hasn’t put you off!

I’ve been Secretary to the Readers’ Board and Executive Committee since January 2003.

Prior to this I was Acting Sub-warden for Havant Deanery covering for Geoff Wilson while was off on his travels to Malaysia and Far East for a short while. A role I thoroughly enjoyed, particularly ‘interviewing’ people who thought they had a vocation to Reader Ministry and it was, and still is, a thrill to see a new ‘batch’ of Readers licensed in the autumn each year.

I was Admitted and Licensed as Reader in October 2000 and worship at St Alban, West Leigh.

Contact Mary by email: mary.close(at)live.com