My name is Rev Stephen
Skinner and I am living in Marlborough with my wife,
Jane, and younger daughter, Hannah. Jane and I have four
children and five grandchildren. Naomi and Joel family
are living in Bradfield, near Reading, with their
children, Louis and Francis, Estelle and Raphael; Thomas
and Lilly are in Torquay and have Renata who was born
last November; and Peter and Michelle are in Boston,
Massachusetts.
Before coming to Wiltshire,
we lived in Broadstairs, Kent on the Isle of Thanet. We
were there for thirteen years and I was superintendent
of the Thanet Circuit before it became part of the
Canterbury and East Kent Circuit. I began my ministry in
the Liskeard and Looe Circuit in Cornwall in 1990 after
training at Wesley College, Bristol. I have also served
in the Worthing, (Sussex); and Dover and Deal, (Kent),
Circuits. I grew up in rural Devon in a farming
community where life revolved round the seasons and the
chapel.
I am pleased to be here in
this part of the North Wiltshire Circuit and look
forward to getting to know people, worshipping, growing
in faith and working together in the village and area.