We are a small church (10—24 worshippers) but we are strong in the things we think important.  People are committed to each other in the love and support they offer, not just in the spiritual things, but in many other ways.  Our people are at different stages in their faith journey and are always  willing to learn from each other.  When new people join us they are usually surprised at the warmth of our welcome and the quality of our worship and fellowship.  When we meet to discuss the life of our church we are open to try new ideas.  There is a strong desire to move forward in our walk with Jesus. We have completed two Alpha courses and are on the Alpha register.

We belong to the Kettering & Corby Methodist Circuit which is in the Northampton  District of the Methodist Church (No 23/19).

We support and work with the other denominations in the town and together arrange various ecumenical  events.    

 We get on well together and willingly recognise our duty as Christians to each other, our local community, and the wider world.   

 I loved that work, but had always felt a calling to the ordained ministry: when I nervously came out about it to an old friend he laughed and said they’d been calling me ‘reverend’ behind my back for ages.  For me the first message of the Gospel is that God loves us, the second that wherever we start from God is working alongside us for the good.  The ‘wherever’ has been lots of different places for me, some joyful and some very grim indeed.  

I came here from the US in 1993 for a one year teaching job, fell in love and married a British man.  After our marriage ended in 2001, I kept teaching in Leicester but began to change the focus of my professional life.  I’ve had the great privilege of beginning a connection with the residents of a leprosy colony and school in Uzuakoli Nigeria, where I lived for part of 2003: I continue to work for them and celebrate God’s presence among them.  I don’t have children, but many close friends in addition to my parents and one brother back in the States.  As they say in Nigeria, ‘Remain blessed,’ wherever this finds you in your journey!

I joined this circuit in my first appointment as a ‘probationer’ minister in September 2005; from the first I’ve felt very welcome at Burton  Latimer, and look forward to welcoming others into the fellowship! I came here from Birmingham and Leicester, where I’d been training for the ministry and before that teaching in the History department at Leicester