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Every seat was filled in The
Church of St Mary the Virgin on Saturday, 12 May 2022 to welcome
Heacham's new Vicar, The Reverend Steve Davies, who was collated and
inducted as the Vicar of Heacham. Steve has the good fortune to have
Heacham as his first parish as a Vicar and, as the Bishop of
Norwich said in his address to those present, it is a case of "buy
one get one free!" (Steve's wife, Alison, is also an ordained Minister.)
Supporters from the church
community pulled out the stops in laying on a real tea party in honour
of the occasion. Guests were plied with copious amounts of home
made cakes (very good too I might add) and tea and coffee following the
formal proceedings, which was attended by a delegation from Steve and
Alison's previous parish of Crawley, Littleton and Sparsholt (just
outside of Winchester) where he was curate for 4 years.
Steve was born into the
mining valleys of South Wales but spent his formative years in Africa
(his parents had a very exciting working life which involved successive
postings abroad). Steve and Alison have two independent grown up
children,
Siān (25) and Paul
(23) who plan to live and work in London.
Heacham-On-Line would like to
welcome Steve and Alison to Heacham and wish them many happy years in
their new ministry.
Unfortunately, I was
not permitted to photograph the formal proceedings and, owing to a
sleeping 4 year old on my lap, missed out on snapping the procession at
the end. However, you may like to see the few shots I did manage
to take.
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