Sarah Hewitt to become Community Missioner in Redditch

Sarah Jayne Hewitt has been appointed as the new Community Missioner at Christ Church Matchborough in the Benefice of Ipsley, Redditch.

This will be a one-year post to help resume the church’s community work, assess the changing needs of Matchborough and assist in defining the long term post of the Community Missioner. She will work alongside Ian Evans, who is a part-time self-supporting minister at the church as well as the lay team.

Sarah, who is currently the Evesham Deanery Missioner, will start her new role in April. 

Sarah said: “I have been greatly blessed by my seven and a half years in Evesham and I hope that some form of the mission created will long continue.  I am really grateful to the people I have worked with for willing to give new things a go and seeing what was possible.  Moving to Christ Church feels like a bit of a home-coming as my father was born in Redditch, being Head Choir Boy at St Stephens in the late 1930’s and my family bought a house in Matchborough in the early 1970’s.   I’m really excited about this new chapter of my ministry and very much looking forward to working with Ian and his team.”

Ian said: “We are delighted that Sarah has agreed to become our Community Missioner at this exciting time of remembering, recovering and possibilities. She brings a wealth of experience of pioneer and community ministry that will help us shape the way forward together.”

Please pray for the benefice and the deanery as they adjust to the changes that lie ahead and for Sarah as she prepares to leave, move and begin the next chapter of her journey.