Contacts
| Telephone No | Email Address | ||
| Minister: | Rev Brian Jolly | 0161 980 1172 |  |
| Church Office: | Lynn Wilson | 0161 929 9747 |  |
| Church Secretary: | Angus Mincher | 0161 928 9506 |  |
| Church Treasurer: | Malcolm Gilks | ||
| Assistant
Secretary Woodlands Timperley: |
Enid Edwards | 0161 941 2416 | |
| Assistant
Treasurer Trinity Hale: |
Maureen Austin | ||
| Assistant
Treasurer Woodlands Timperley: |
Jennifer Maratos | ||
| Bookings
for Trinity Hale: |
Church
Office |
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| Bookings
Secretary Woodlands Timperley: |
Hazel
and Nigel Bunce |
0161 928 9738 |
INTRODUCING our MINISTER
Revd Brian Jolly
I
was born in north London in April 1956, and lived in Tottenham for 22 years
attending High Cross Congregational/United Reformed Church. I confirmed my
faith in 1972 as one of the first new members of the United Reformed Church.
Following A levels I worked as an executive officer in the Civil Service and
in 1978 began training for ministry at the Congregational College and the
University in Manchester. Denise and I were married in 1979.
Like David Westhead I was ordained in Mill Hill, Blackburn, and inducted into
a pastorate of 3 Churches (Mill Hill, Cherry Tree & Tockholes). We lived
in the manse previously occupied by David & Angela. Thankfully, by the
time we arrived, the church cricket team had ceased to function! Within 18
months Mill Hill and Cherry Tree were talking about consolidating their resources
in order to bring release from a mill-stone of a building and enhance the
mission potential of the Church. The union occurred in 1984 with the creation
of a new united Church named Woodlands, using the former Cherry Tree buildings.
In 1987 we moved to Bolton where I served the Bolton North Group of Churches
(11 United Reformed Churches including an infant united URC/Anglican Church).
Initially I worked with one non-stipendiary minister colleague, but after
3 years we had a team of 5 ministers. During this time a major refurbishment
of our church in Adlington was started and foundations laid for it to become
a united URC/Methodist Church.
In Blackburn I served as a chaplain at Blackburn Royal Infirmary, and in Bolton at Bolton Royal Infirmary and Bolton General Hospital.
We moved to Stockport at the beginning of 1991, along with Sam who was born in December 1987 and Peter in January 1990. Hannah arrived in June 1994. The Heatons United Reformed Church was a new fellowship created in 1990 by the union of 2 United Reformed Churches (one formerly Congregational, the other formerly Presbyterian), using the buildings originally erected in Heaton Moor as St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.
So you will not be surprised that I feel a sense of déjà vu as I begin a new ministry with you in Altrincham! I am looking forward to being with you, getting to know you, and exploring the kind of people and Church God is calling us to be in the coming years.
For the past 20 years my ministry has been enriched through regular visits to Palestine and Israel where I now have many friends and colleagues in the indigenous Palestinian Churches, especially in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
My retirement is scheduled for the end of April 2021!