Jeremy Clark

Husband of Catherine and father of Ben (who passed away in April 2015), Simeon, Tom, Joshua and Lydia. An often failing, but ever grateful disciple of Jesus Christ. Kiwi - Christchurch born and bred, ordained in 1994 in the now earthquake-ruined Cathedral. British by naturalisation in 2011. Having served in two previous parishes (St Stephen's Shirley in Christchurch NZ and then St Mary's Upton, Wirral, in north-west England) we moved to the south-west of England to Ilfracombe in Devon (within the Exeter Diocese) in 2001. After a difficult failure in my ministry there, I resigned in 2008 and we moved to Exeter for a period of rebuilding, wonderfully helped along by the amazing folk at St Michael's Alphington, Ide, Shillingford and Grace Church, Exeter. It was a time of discovering something more of the width of God's grace, forgiveness and renewal - and to depths I'd not been before. I was appointed team vicar of the Clyst Mission Community, a group of parishes in the north-east of Exeter in 2012 then a rural dean within the diocese in early 2014. Since my advanced melanoma diagnosis in late 2014, I've retired from parish ministry and am now appreciating informal opportunities to encourage others in their walk with Christ. Gardener and old Citroen aficionado.