PEOPLE: BIOGRAPHIES
Revd Ian Bentley - vicar
Ian arrived as Minister at Christ Church in October 2005, having previously
been Vicar of St Leonard's Eynsham and St Peter's Cassington. In his earlier
ministry he had been curate at Emmanuel Northwood and Director of Training
at All Soul's Langham Place. He is married to Ruth, a medical editor and
writer, and they have two children, Anna and Philip. Ian is a keen follower
of Kettering Town Football club, he regularly plays cricket and enjoys cycling.
Revd Margaret Locke-Wheaton - Methodist minister
Margaret moved here in August 2006, as the Superintendent minister of the Basingstoke Methodist Circuit.
She provides the Methodist input at Christ Church, and is also the minister at Trinity and St Andrews Methodist churches. Following a career in the computer industry, and a time as a
layworker in the Reading and Silchester Circuit, Margaret trained for the ministry at Westminster College, Oxford.
She then served in the Watford Circuit for 5 years. Margaret enjoys spending time with her family (she has a son
living in Reading and a married daughter living in Coventry), and solving logic puzzles (such as Sodoku).
Revd Mike Burrell - URC minister based at London
Street URC.