We are blessed to have three Authorised Local Preachers (ALPs):
Jane Harpur.
Chris Selden.
Geoff Windus.
See below for photos and profiles
Authorised Local Preachers
Jane Harpur
I was brought up in a Christian home and started going to Bible classes run by the Girl Crusaders Union when I was 4.I became a Christian at my first house party in Suffolk when I was 11 and was baptised by immersion when I was 13. At Crusaders each month from the age of about 12 we had a missionary Sunday and we always had a missionary day at Camp which I went to once or twice a year until I was 18.
I started medical
training at the Royal Free Hospital in London and was chairman of the Christian Union for one year and then Missionary secretary of LIFCU for one year where I met my husband Travers. We married and came to live in Chelmsford in 1970. I had always wanted to do General Practice and was so pleased when I was invited to be a trainee at Beauchamp House Christian practice. I was very ill with pre-eclampsia in 1978 and our first baby born at 27weeks pregnancy died after 2 days. Our son Matthew was born in 1979 after I spent 6 weeks in hospital on bed rest.
I worked a few sessions a week at Moulsham Lodge surgery from 1980 until 1990 when I became a partner. In the mean time I was involved in various ways at Family Hour at the Church school and did the 3 year Moore Course to gain the preliminary certificate of theology in 2001. I retired from medical practice in 2006 and worked as an honorary medical advisor for Medical missionary news who were sending out containers to mission Hospitals in Africa. I still head up the Missions team in our Church and so pleased we have this link with Poland, the Bible Society and International Mission to Jewish people amongst other organisations. I had done some occasional preaching over the years but was glad when I was invited to be an ALP in 2012.
contact details: - rotas@stmichaelsgalleywood.org.uk