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Rev'd Peter Hall - Vicar
Rev'd Peter Hall has been vicar of St. John's since January 2001. He became a Christian whilst working in Health Service Management in Putney, South London and after a career in the NHS trained for Christian ministry at Oak Hill College, North London.
Peter was ordained in Hereford Cathedral in 1992 and served a curacy in Bromyard, Herefordshire. For five years prior to coming to St. John's he was Minister-in-Charge of St. James' Church, Bentley Heath in suburban Solihull.
Peter is married to Rosalynd and they have three children in higher education. Together the couple help lead St. John's CYFA group for 14 - 18 year-olds. Peter is not at all sporty (!) but enjoys reading, listening to music, going to the theatre and playing the piano, sometimes in the church's worship group.
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Rev’d Mike Terry
Mike is our ‘non-stipendiary’ (unpaid) curate, ministering for two days per week in the parish and two Sundays per month.
Mike spent his working career as an officer in the Royal Navy and has lived in Fareham for many years. He has studied theology at Ridley Hall, Cambridge and married to Nicky-Sue Leonard on 28th March 2009.
Nikky-Sue came to Portsmouth Diocese to undertake her curacy at Alverstoke. She and Mike were ordained by the Bishop of Portsmouth at a service in Portsmouth Cathedral on Saturday 4th July.
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Ian Cranstone - Reader
Ian was licensed in 1992 and has been a member of St Johns since the age of 18.
He is married with two children, completed a BA in Church and Community Studies in 2004 and is an ICT teacher in a local secondary school.
Ian's list of interest include watching DVD's, Eating out, Fixing Computers and playing computer games.
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Jeremy Hicks Reader
Jeremy has been a Reader since 1998, serving first in the parish of Holy Trinity with St Columba and moving to St John's at the end of 2004. He is a member of one of the church's house groups, is involved in campaigns to promote justice, peace and care for the environment, and is the secretary of Churches Together in Fareham.
He works for IBM as a software developer, programming mainly in Java and teaching an Advanced Java training course. He is married to Rachel, and they have a teenage son, Peter.Jeremy enjoys watching sport, especially cricket, football, ice hockey and Australian Rules football; more actively, he is a keen cyclist, and occasionally plays volleyball. He loves doing cryptic crosswords and quizzes, and is also interested in languages, having studied French, Danish, German, Russian and Latin while at school and university.
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Brian Powell - Reader
Brian likes to tell stories – the more quirky and wacky the better. However being a Reader, both now in the church and previously at university, does put a constraint on things and compels him to face up to certain realities. Like the joy experienced at the box office when getting concessions just because he’s is of a certain age. Then again there’s discovering that being a grandfather provides the perfect justification for going to pantomimes, theme parks and building sandcastles all over again.
Being retired he’s involved in: walk missions, school assemblies and the training of Readers. When all else fails he goes hill walking, in Shropshire, where the size of the hills ideally suit someone looking for concessions, or he toddles along to the Story Club. So watch out if he’s not told you about the hag in the crag with the steely-eyed grin”…
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Jeannette Poulter
Jeannette is from a Christian family, joined St. John's Church in 1998, and was licensed as a reader at a special service in Portsmouth Cathedral on 2nd September 2006. She belongs to a house group, and enjoys taking part in church social activities. She also helps run 'Shell Seekers', aqgroup of meetings for people on their own.
Jeannette came to live in Fareham in 1976, has 2 children and four grandchildren. She has now retired after working full time as a Support Worker in Fareham Police Station.
Jeannette interests are varied and include music and piano playing, tap dancing, geology - and amazingly - Star Trek!
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Chris Ahern - Reader
Chris has been a reader at St John's since 1999.
She is upper middle aged and has been married to Mike for thirty years. She was brought up in Gosport and emigrated to Fareham when Mike became a firefighter there. She trained to be a teacher and taught for twenty five years at the same junior school in Rowner, Gosport.
Now retired, she is able to maintain this interest in education by being a governor at Redlands Primary and Ranvilles Infant Schools and joining the children of local schools for assemblies and special services.
Chris' interest include reading, knitting, trying to master the computer and occasional sea fishing
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