Please hold in your prayers all those who are to be ordained deacon at Chester Cathedral on Sunday 04 July, as well as those who were ordained priest in June.
Ordination of Deacons
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The following people will be ordained deacon on Sunday 04 July 2021 at Chester Cathedral from 10am
Peter Bennett - Crewe, All Saints and St Paul with St Peter with St Andrew with St John the Baptist,
Jim Britcliffe - Alsager, St Mary Magdalene
Anna Cerval-Pena - Sutton, St James, Wincle, St Michael, Wildboarclough, St Saviour & Bosley, St Mary the Virgin
Jill Elston - Lymm, St Mary the Virgin
Jonny Frost - Hurdsfield, Holy Trinity
Dan Harris - Heswall, St Peter
Chris Jones - Plas Newton, St Michael
Ricky Montgomery - Great Sutton, St John the Evangelist
Jennie Prince - Wilmslow, St Bartholomew
Holly Torr - Oxton, St Saviour
Katie Wade - Gee Cross, Holy Trinity
Vocation stories
As we pray for our ordinands, we wanted to feature some of the people responding to God's calling.
Are you being called by God? Speak to your parish priest, or contact the Director of Vocations, Sarah Fenby, to arrange an informal conversation with a vocations adviser.
Revd Hana Helvadjian
Hana was ordained a priest in June. Hana had some very unhappy years as a teenager but she found her faith and later followed God's call and became a priest. Here's Hana's story.
Revd-to-be Jonny Frost
Jonny will be made a deacon on Sunday but it's the many years working in the motor trade and as a landscape gardener and youth worker that have shaped him into the person he is today, and why he believes God is now calling him into the priesthood.
Trainee ordinand Jo Rodman
What if you could combine ordained ministry with a love of ice cream? Well, for Jo Rodman that's exactly what she intends to do. She begins her ordination training in September and hopes to combine this with her ministry running a social enterprise ice cream business in Poynton.