Southwark Diocese appoints new Officer for Lay Mission and Ministry

1 Apr 2009

The Rt Rev. Dr Tom Butler, the Bishop of Southwark and the Rt Rev. Nick Baines, the Bishop of Croydon are pleased to announce that the Rev Lucille (Lu) Gale has been appointed to a newly created role within the Diocese of Southwark as the Officer for Lay Mission and Ministry.The post,which is based half time in the Croydon Episcopal Area Team and half time in the Ministry and Training Department at the Diocesan Office, has two principle areas of responsibility.These are to develop lay mission involvement in the parishes of the Croydon Episcopal Area and to develop particular aspects of licensed lay ministry training across the Diocese.  

The Rev. Lu Gale (41) trained for the ministry at Salisbury & Wells Theological College was ordained Deacon in 1994 and Priest in 1995.Her ordained ministry has all been in the Diocese of Southwark.She served her title at Welling, St Mary the Virgin (1994-1997) and was then Chaplain at the University of Greenwich (1997-2000) and then returned to Welling as Vicar in 2000.She will take up her new role in the summer.  

In commenting on the appointment Bishop Nick says, "I am very pleased with this appointment.Lu brings much experience of enabling lay ministry to this new role and I look forward very much to working with her".  

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