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From September, there will be a new face in the churches of the Benefice of Helmdon, Syresham, Whitfield and Radstone. Dorothy Micklethwaite is to be ordained a Deacon on July 1st in the same service in Peterborough Cathedral when Will Adams is ordained priest. Dorothy lives in Brackley and is at present in training, and the Bishop felt that it would be good for her to have experience of another parish after she has been ordained. She will join us in the same capacity as Will and Eddie – as an NSM (Non-Stipendiary Minister). In other words she will be unpaid, but will give her time to the Benefice on Sundays, and the equivalent of two other days during the week. She was concerned that people should know that she is in no way a replacement for Eddie Palmer. For a start she is not a musician, but she does have skills and a care for the pastoral welfare of people in our parishes which will be of great value. Her training is complete by the end of July, she then hopes to have a holiday with her son who lives in the States, which is why officially she will not start with us until September. I look forward greatly to her work here.

John Roberts [phone number removed]

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