Bishop Ross Bay has announced that Archdeacon Jonathan Gale will step back from his role as Archdeacon at the end of January. 2025. He has been in this role since 2020, and saw the Deanery through Covid and other challenges. He will continue in a part-time role at St John’s Campbell’s Bay.
Bishop Ross believes that it is important for a person to be resident in the North in this next period to offer us good resourcing and support for ministry. He has therefore advised that he has appointed The Reverend Liz Martin to be the next Archdeacon for our region. Liz lives in Whangārei and is part of the LSM Enabler Team as well as Chaplain for Young Adults ministry in the North. Liz has also ministered in the Whangarei Mission District and the Parish of Dargaville. The role will continue to be half-time and
Liz will undertake other ministry alongside it. She will take up her duties on 1st February and Bishop Ross anticipates holding a service of commissioning in March.
We look forward to welcoming Liz in this role and offer our prayers for her as she prepares to take up this responsibility. Archdeacon Jonathan’s final visit to Bream Bay will be 1 December for the service at St. Paul’s.
We thank Archdeacon Jonathan Gale very much for his service. As is the custom, we look forward to a good old ‘morning tea send-off’.
Photo: Arch Deacon Jonathan Gale at St.Paul’s Church, Ruakākā in 2022.
