Leaders
We have a pastor and a team of deacons who are assisted by homegroup leaders. The pastor is appointed by the members and the deacons are elected by church members.
Decisions in a Baptist church are made ultimately by the church members as they meet together and ask for God's guidance.
Our leadership team is:
Robert Jones - Pastor
Robert trained from 1991-1994 at Spurgeons
College in London, and joined our team in 1998, after six years in
Headcorn, Kent. Before his call to Baptist ministry he was in large
animal veterinary practice in Salisbury, Wiltshire where he had worked
since 1976. He is married to Jill, who is a teacher, and has two
children, Stuart and Anwen. He enjoyed a sabbatical in the first three
months of 2002, including a 30 day silent retreat doing the Full
Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius. He is also interested in Mediation,
having done some courses with the London Mennonite Centre. He has just
stepped down after five years as Chairman of Churches Together in
Wimborne.
Tony Fairhead - Church secretary -
Tony works in Barclays Bank in Poole, and has been the church secretary since the spring of 2002. He is responsible for the oversight of church administration, and works closely with the pastor. He is married to Rachel, with four children, Sam, Nathan, Matthew and Grace.
Tony Hughes
- Tony Hughes
Another Tony - formerly an assistant manager in the hotel trade, who now works in finance with a local firm in Wimborne. Tony looks after our finances, planning the budget and overseeing our expenditure and giving. He is also our assistant secretary, a homegroup leader, and part of our worship team and writes songs too. He occasionally gets involved in putting on musicals! He is married to Dorothy and they lead one of our homegroups.
Anita Hicks -
- Anita joined our deacons in the spring of 2002. Having recently retired from teaching, Anita is extremely busy! She also leads our Girl's Brigade company and actually says she enjoys the annual camp.
Alan Warner - deacon and bulgaria rep - Alan joined the deacons in March 2004. He works for an electronics company and does a fair amount of travelling both in UK and Europe. He is also responsible for maintaining our Bulgaria twinning link. In his spare time he likes to be out in a fishing boat. He is married to Hazel, with grown up children.
Andrew Chadwick - Andrew joined the team in March 2007. He works in a local school laboratory, and is also an accredited local preacher. He is married to Debbie and they have two children.
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