We are delighted that the Rev’d Alice Smith has been appointed as our Vicar. She was licenced by the Bishop of Chichesterat a service in Church on Monday 17 February 2025.Mthr Alice was born on the west coast of Scotland, and after an early childhood in various places, went to secondary school in mid Wales.After a degree in Physics and Astronomy at UCL (which she has largely now forgotten) she worked for two years at St Michael’s Camden Town in London, during which time she was selected for ordained ministry. She spent three years at St Stephen’s House in Oxford, doing, amongst other things, a BA in Theology.She was ordained deacon in Chichester Cathedral in 2014 to serve in the, as then, Moulsecoomb Team Ministry in Brighton. She finished her curacy at St Swithun, East Grinstead, before spending the last 6 1/2 years as Vicar of St John the Evangelist, Brownswood Park, London, adding on St Thomas Finsbury Park for latter 2 1/2 years.In her last parishes, she had a particular ministry to those suffering from food poverty, as well as focussing the parishes’ energies into growing its children’s and families ministry. At the Good Shepherd, she is particularly looking forward to working with local schools and groups of young people.Mthr Alice is married to Harry, who is a solicitor, and has two young daughters, Martha (3) and Anna (1). Her hobbies are slightly theoretical (what with the shepherding of two small ones), but they would be running, cycling, baking and knitting. Pictures are on Flickr here
