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Sheila HolmesSheila was born in Manchester (UK) and trained as a teacher. It was while teaching in Louth (Lincolnshire) that she met her future husband, Charles. They were married in 1954 and had four children: Ruth, Christina, David and Peter and now have eight grandchildren, two of whom are married. The family came to Tasmania in 1970 to the parish of Claremont/Chigwell, then Lindisfarne, St. James' New Town and Longford. After retirement Sheila and Charles lived for three years in Cremorne before returning to Longford where Charles died in 1995. Sheila became a lay reader in 1996, this was an area in which she felt able to serve the Lord as Sheila says she possesses no secretarial/administrative skills or musical ability apart from a love of hymns. Sheila has been encouraged by a number of clergy including Bishop Owen Dowling, Canon Warwick Letchford, the Reverend Peter Johnson and Geoff Bransgrove but her greatest mentor and encourager was her husband Charles but since his death the Lord has been a very real presence drawing her on and prodding her when she didn't respond. Sheila wouldn't have considered herself worthy or suitable for ordination but when it was suggested to her by Geoff Bransgrove she felt that this is what God has been preparing her for. |
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Sheila HolmesDeacon in the Parishes of Longford/Perth and Evandale Chaplain to Mothers' Union in Tasmania 7 William Street phone home 03 6391 2615
Born: 27 November 1929 Ordained
Ministry career
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