The Revd Joseph Ayok-Loewenberg is to become the next Vicar in the St. George's Team Ministry. He will have responsibility for St Chad's and St Cecilia's, and will have a role to play in the new linking with Chaddesley Corbett and Stone.

Joseph was last an honorary assistant priest in Barnes in London where he has been based while working as Director of Religious Affairs in the South of his home country of Sudan. He has worked in a team ministry in Dorset and has extensive experience in mission and evangelism.  He will be licensed in September.

Joseph, who is 49 years old, grew up in the Sudan and was an Olympic athlete prior to ordination.  He is married to Karin, who is a nurse, and has two young daughters.

Joseph has founded a charity in Sudan, which is actively providing education for those who have had no education because of the war in Sudan; you can read more about it at;  www.under-tree-schools.org

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