Voices in Boxes

Loraine Miller,

Deputy Housing Manager

“The section is set up to ensure that people who have given their lives to ministry have a number of options in terms of their housing when they reitre,” says the Church of England Pension Board’s Deputy Housing Manager, Loraine Miller. “It’s a really varied and exciting place to work, certainly in the housing department,” she continues, “because we’re going through a period of change at the moment.”

David Shreeve,

Environmental Adviser

"I think my environmental tip would be for everyone to go out and buy some clothes pegs,” says Environmental Adviser David Shreeve, when pressed for some energy-saving advice, “because I think more and more we should use the benefits of the environment, and I do think tumble-dryers should be turned off and a lot more clothes put out in the sunshine to dry, and that would save an awful lot of energy."

 Hear the full People and Places – Voices of the CofE interview online at www.cofe.anglican.org/podcast

Wendy Dalrymple,

curate, Mirfield Team Ministry

“I think for me it was always going to happen. I was 14 when I thought hmmm I think I want to be ordained,” says motorcycling curate Wendy Dalrymple. “The biggest thing that’s at the heart of who I am is I care passionately about God, about the gospel, and I have a passion that it’s very relevant to the lives of people today.”

 Hear the full People and Places – Voices of the CofE interview online at www.cofe.anglican.org/podcast