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to help people develop their Christian faith, life and service
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Looking Forward to September
I was born in South Yorkshire and grew up on the edge of Doncaster, with a view from my bedroom of the fields leading down to the River Don.
My childhood was happy with plenty of freedom to play in the fields and take long walks by the river. I attended the local Anglican Church and Sunday School and was confirmed when I was 11 years old. However by the time I was 16 I had stopped going to church on a regular basis.
After my teenage years at a grammar school I went to Durham University to study physics. I soon realised my maths wasn't quite up to the job – I failed my first year exam with a grand total of 13%! - so I changed to Psychology in my second year.
I thoroughly enjoyed the social life and joined several drama groups. During one of the university vacations I met my husband-to-be Peter. Our first home was in London on the Holloway Road. I started working as a computer programmer for British Gas and discovered that I loved my new job. I stayed with British Gas for 19 years working in a variety of roles in IT and Customer Services.
During that time Peter and I married, had two children and moved house twice. My step daughter from my husband's first marriage, was also an important part of our lives, and spent regular weekends with us.
I left British Gas in 1999 and joined Enfield Council in the IT department, where I was responsible for ensuring as many services were accessible via the Internet. It was around this time that I came back to the church, this time attending the local Methodist Church. In late 2002 I felt a strong call to ministry.
I have had a great, if exhausting, time over the last three years studying with the Eastern Region Ministry Course – an ecumenical course based in Cambridge and St Albans – and Wesley House in Cambridge, while doing a degree in Christian Theology.
I am now looking forward to being minister of the churches at Southdown and Batford.
Revd Jade Bath
Welcome
Revd Jade Bath's first Service at Southdown Methodist Church is at 10.30am Sunday 7 September
Then there is a Methodist Circuit Tea at 4.30pm, at High Street Methodist Church followed at 6.30pm by a welcoming service for Rev Jade Bath and Revd Jenny Dyer(the new minister for High Street) led by the Chair of the Beds Herts and Essex District, Revd Anne Brown.
