New Curate for St Mary’s
We have pleasure in welcoming our new curate, the Rev’d Helen Caine. Her first service will be the Family Service on the 26th of June, and we’ll be having a bring and share party immediately afterwards in the Community Centre at which we’ll all have a chance to start getting to know her.
Curates are essentially apprentice vicars. Having undertaken a formal course of learning, they then work in a particular parish, taking services, being trained in everything a vicar needs to know and do.
Getting to know your new Curate
(In Helen's own words):
I was born in Peterborough in 1971 and lived in Rutland for 4 years then moved first to Cirencester for a couple of years before moving to Siddington in 1977.
I joined the choir at St. Peter's Church Siddington when I was 9 years old, and was married to my husband Stuart there in 1993. Later our three boys Jacob (19) Sam (18) and Daniel (15) were baptised there. Sam and Daniel still live at home, while Jacob is at university in Lincoln.
I greatly enjoy needlework and knitting (although time to do it in is rapidly disappearing!) and reading, (mostly sci-fi and fantasy) my musical tastes are eclectic (honestly, Abba through to ZZ Top! the only thing I don’t enjoy is jazz!) I also have enjoyed making mosaics. I enjoy singing and am on an eternal quest to lose weight but love my food.
I went to school in Cirencester (Watermoor Primary and Deer Park Secondary schools) I choose to stay at home after that and did my degree through the Open University (in History and Literature).
I trained with the West of England Ministerial Training Course (WEMTC) from 2008-2010 and was licensed as a Reader in Gloucester Cathedral on September 25th 2010, I have enjoyed my lay ministry in the Churn Side benefice. But in answering my call to ordained ministry I returned to WEMTC for further training and am now due to be ordained deacon on the 19th June 2016.
I now live in the Stratton area of Cirencester and work part time at Cirencester Hospital in admin. I will be continuing to work part time after my ordination and am greatly looking forward to the opportunity to serve my curacy in Fairford.