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NEWS
This page starts with the latest news and goes backwards in chronological order!
Heidi, having gained 3 A grades at A level is having a gap year. She was employed on a fixed 5 month contract as Co-ordinator for the Quaker Homeless Action provision for the Homeless over Christmas called 'Open Christmas'. She now wants to travel and do voluntary work before going to York to read Politics and English. Jamie is working with the Extreme Car Retailing Group, having won an apprenticeship with them out of 200 applicants.Nathan is at Nursery and Dominic at playgroup. Annette runs a Mother and Toddler group as well as continuing her work as a beautician and therapist. I have been appointed Cardinal Bishop of Greater London for the Open Episcopal Church, have joined the Order of On Call Clergy and been accepted as a Trauma 999 Emergency Services Specialist.
IN AUGUST HEIDI ACHIEVED 4 A GRADES AT AS LEVEL
IN JULY JONATHAN'S LITIGATION AGAINST
ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS LIMITED ( PUBLISHERS OF THE DAILY MAIL ) WAS BROUGHT TO A POSITIVE END. A FULL REPORT IS GIVEN ON THE WEB SITE--SEE THE HOME PAGE
IN APRIL 2003 I WAS ONE OF THREE
CONSECRATING BISHOPS CONSECRATING THE FIRST CATHOLIC WOMAN BISHOP IN THIS
COUNTRY. THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT,
HISTORICAL AND INSPIRING EVENT. THE
CONSECRATION TOOK PLACE IN THE CHAPEL OF ROYAL HOLLOWAY COLLEGE, EGHAM.
IN 2001 JONATHAN AND ANNETTE
WERE APPROVED AS FOSTER
CARERS.
WE MOVED HOUSE FROM
GILLINGHAM TO WELLING NEAR TO DANSON PARK
DOMINIC SEBASTIAN WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 12TH 2001
WEIGHING 8 LBS AND 11 OZS. HE IS BEAUTIFUL.
ON NOVEMBER 10TH 2001 BISHOP JONATHAN ALONG WITH TWO OTHER BISHOPS FOUNDED THE OPEN EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
JONATHAN CARRIED OUT HIS FIRST ORDINATIONS TO THE DIACONATE AND THE PRIESTHOOD.
JOY OF JOYS!!!!! WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE BIRTH OF OUR SECOND CHILD IN DECEMBER 2001!
THE THIRD BISHOP OF THE
PROVINCE WILL BE CONSECRATED IN NOVEMBER 2001. BY THEN THERE WILL BE AROUND 50 PRIESTS IN THE SOCIETY.
ON DECEMBER 10TH 2000
JONATHAN WAS CONSECRATED BISHOP BY THE RT REVD RICHARD ARTHUR PALMER AT WESTGATE ON SEA.
JONATHAN AND ANNETTE CELEBRATED THE BIRTH OF THEIR FIRST CHILD, NATHAN IMMANUEL ON OCTOBER 12TH 2000, AT MEDWAY MARITIME HOSPITAL, 8 LB AND 3 OZ.
JONATHAN READ THIS POEM TO ANNETTE AT HIS WEDDING.
YES YOURS, MY LOVE, IS THE RIGHT HUMAN FACE.
I, IN MY MIND HAD WAITED FOR THIS LONG, SEEING THE FALSE, AND SEARCHING FOR THE TRUE, THEN FOUND YOU.
AS A TRAVELLER FINDS A PLACE OF WELCOME, SUDDENLY, AMID THE WRONG VALLEYS AND ROCKS AND TWISTING ROADS.
BUT YOU, WHAT SHALL I CALL YOU?
A FOUNTAIN IN A WASTE.
A WELL OF WATER IN A COUNTRY DRY.
OR ANYTHING THAT`S HONEST AND GOOD.
AN EYE, THAT MAKES THE WORLD BRIGHT.
YOUR OPEN HEART, SIMPLE WITH GIVING, GIVE`S THE PRIMAL DEED, THE FIRST GOOD WORLD, THE BLOSSOM, THE BLOWING SEED, THE HEART, THE STEADFAST LAND, THE WANDERING SEA.
MOST BEAUTIFUL AND RARE IN EVERY PART, JUST LIKE YOURSELF AS THEY WERE MEANT TO BE.
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Jonathan and Annette went through the legal formalities for marriage at the Archbishop's palace in Maidstone on February 16th, 2000 No family and friends accompanied them and both were dressed informally. They had asked two strangers to act as their witnesses. They chose the simplest ceremony which lasted a few minutes.
For them their real wedding was celebrated on February 26th, when 125 family and friends gathered in a manor house in Sussex for their wedding ceremony. This will be their wedding anniversary.
The service lasted an hour and was taken by various members of the family with all the guests making the pronouncement of marriage. Annette and Jonathan walked together down a large open staircase with Annette dressed in a gold wedding dress entitled ` Millennium ` and Jonathan in an ivory frock coat suit.
When the rings were exchanged Jonathan surprised Annette by giving her an additional ring with three diamonds, symbolising the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; love's eternal trinity.
They live in Gillingham.
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