Revd Anna Norman-Walker has been appointed Diocesan Missioner for Exeter Diocese.
Anna, vicar of St Mary's Church, Willand, has served in city centre youth ministry, ordained ministry in a country town and most recently as the leader of the Culm Valley Mission Community comprising four rural parishes in Devon. She has experience of church planting and fresh expressions of church.
The Diocesan Missioner role will see Anna:
- stimulating, encouraging and heartening deaneries, parishes and mission communities in the Diocese in the task of mission and evangelism;
- advising, assisting, resourcing and enabling them in making mission part of the life-blood of their work, taking account of different contexts, traditions and churchmanship;
- promoting fresh expressions of church and seeking to build them into the full sacramental life of the Church.
Anna says,
The brief for my new role - which I'll be starting in November - is broad and wide but that is part of the attraction; there is lots of room to engage in creative mission wherever it might be bubbling up across the Diocese. There is a real commitment here to put Mission at the heart of our Diocese and it is an enormous privilege to be part of this.
The Diocese has set a target of 100 fresh expressions of church to be planted and mentored across Devon in the next five years, so there will be plenty to keep me occupied helping this process along!
Anna, who will also serve as a part-time Residentiary Canon at Exeter Cathedral, is married to Arthur and they have three teenage children. She adds,
We hope to make our spiritual home at Nightchurch at Exeter Cathedral and we are looking forward to being part of the Cathedral's wider family.
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