The Meon Bridge Benefice is delighted to announce two new appointments within our parishes covering the Meon Valley. Both will serve as Interim Associate Priests of Swanmore, the Meon Bridge Benefice and Soberton, Newtown and Hambledon, but each will have a “focal ministry”.

We welcome the Rev’d Jill Kingston, currently serving as curate in Leigh Park and Warren Park, to a focal ministry in the Meon Bridge Benefice

We also welcome the Rev’d Liz Quinn, currently curate in our own Meon Valley parishes, to a focal ministry in Soberton, Newtown and Hambledon.

Both will serve alongside Interim Priest-in-charge the Rev’d Andy Davies, who is based in Swanmore.

Among other things, both Jill and Liz will be involved with one of our diocese’s nine “Pilot Cairns” - the one that brings together clergy and lay leaders across the Meon Valley parishes to eat, pray and study together.

Jill had worked for 22 years with Hampshire Constabulary before sensing a call to ordination. She switched to a role as trainer for our diocese’s safeguarding team while doing theological training. Jill became a deacon in 2022 and was ordained priest in 2023.

She said: “I’m delighted to have been appointed to serve God and his people in the Meon Valley Parishes. I am very much looking forward to getting out and meeting everyone in this wonderful part of the Diocese.”

Jill and Liz will be licensed by Bishop Jonathan to their new roles at St Barnabas Church, Swanmore, on 16th June 2025.