{"id":280,"date":"2014-11-13T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T10:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winchesterroadchurch.org.uk\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2022-09-29T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:48:40","slug":"our-minister","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/winchesterroadchurch.org.uk\/?page_id=280","title":{"rendered":"Our Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minister: Rev Stephanie Njeru<\/strong><\/p>\n

Previous Minister Rev Hilary Cheng<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am Hilary Cheng and with my family moved to Chingford in September 2014 with pastoral charge of three churches in the Circuit.\u00a0 Accompanied by my family, we had spent the last eight years in the Cambridge Circuit, where the children completed their secondary education.\u00a0 My husband Leo, is an Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon at Barts and the Royal London Hospitals, where he has worked for almost twenty years.\u00a0 My move to London enables us to live under the same roof again, instead of living in two different locations.<\/p>\n

For many years now, Leo has given a fortnight\u2019s annual leave each year to work on the Africa Mercy, a hospital ship that has offered free surgery to many of the poorest people who live in West Africa.\u00a0 Other members of the family have also worked on the Ship, and in 2014, we had the unique opportunity to serve on the Ship together, all four of us, for the first time.\u00a0 It was a wonderful experience and we have been truly blessed by it. While Leo offers life-transforming surgery, I work as a Chaplain to the patients, talking with them, praying for them and being alongside them while they are hospitalised.<\/p>\n

\"Hilary<\/a><\/p>\n

My background lies in nursing and midwifery.\u00a0 I have been fortunate to work both in this country and in the Far East, in well equipped western hospitals and in a refugee camp where only the basic facilities were available.<\/p>\n

A recent course in Spiritual Direction broadened my understanding of spirituality and how this works both inside and outside the church. I enjoy music and reading, when time permits, and am out walking with the dog every day. \u00a0Gardening is very therapeutic, and I derive pleasure from Ikebana, the art of Japanese flower arranging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minister: Rev Stephanie Njeru Previous Minister Rev Hilary Cheng I am Hilary Cheng and with my family moved to Chingford in September 2014 with pastoral charge of three churches in the Circuit.\u00a0 Accompanied by my family, we had spent the last eight years in the Cambridge Circuit, where the children completed their secondary education.\u00a0 My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winchesterroadchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winchesterroadchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winchesterroadchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winchesterroadchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winchesterroadchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/winchesterroadchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/winchesterroadchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winchesterroadchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}