Team

Youth Worker

Hello! I guess I suppose the most interesting thing about me is that I am American and was born and raised in Pennsylvania. I moved here 8 year ago for love, married my beautiful wife Rachel. I have a son, Freddie who is 5 and a daughter, Verity, who is 2.  I support Liverpool Football Club.  I am really enjoying my time here is Coggeshall and I am looking forward to seeing CYP grow!

Chairman of the Management Committee

Hello everyone! My name is Rene Scherer. I was born in 1970 in Zurich, Switzerland but have lived in the UK for more then 20 years. I’m employed by Barclays as a software architect and work part of the week in Canary Wharf. Outside of my paid work, I enjoy worship at Christ Church, being an active cubs scout leader, anything technology related and spending time with my family. I’m married and have 2 children in the local primary school.

Secretary - Trustee and Management Committees

Lizzie has lived in Coggeshall since 2007 and has been involved in CYP since 2014, taking care of meeting minutes and the admin side of things. She worked as a PA in London for many years but now works part-time as a “Virtual Assistant” (freelance PA), based at home, which enables her to volunteer for various good causes in the local community, including CYP.

Trustee

James Bardrick was born in Ilford when it was still in Essex many years ago. He has lived in Coggeshall Hamlet since 2005 with wife Sophie and children Johnny, Elinor, Lucy and Annabel and his mother next door. He works in a bank in London but is always happier when in Essex racing his Tollesbury based oyster smack, playing tennis or cooking and being with family and friends at home in Coggeshall. James has been involved with Coggeshall Youth Project for over 10 years as a trustee and is passionate about supporting the young people in our wonderful local community.

Minister of Christ Church

Hello folks! John Prothero at your service, minister of Christ Church, Coggeshall, where I have been happily ensconced since September of last year and where, since our official move into the village, much by way of positive change has already taken place, not least of all the recent appointment of Brian Summers to the role of Youth Worker for Coggeshall Youth Project. A ministry to the young people of our community, committed to helping them see the relevance of church to their every day lives and the difference a real and living faith in Jesus can make to them, personally. Brian will need our full support as he embarks upon this important outreach opportunity. Let’s ensure that we give it to him, holding nothing back, not just for Brian’s sake but also, more significantly, for the sake of God’s eternal kingdom.

Parish Priest

Fr Gordon Read was born and brought up in Leigh-on-Sea.  Following university studies at Oxford he studied for the priesthood at St Edmund’s College, Ware and Heythrop College, London, and was ordained on 31^st July 1976.  He was sent to the Gregorian University in Rome for further studies and obtained a degree in Canon Law in 1979.  He served as curate in Wanstead and Barkingside, and parish priest at Ingatestone before his appointment in 2000 to Kelvedon with responsibility also for Coggeshall and Tiptree.  He has served as Diocesan Chancellor since 1983 and Judicial Vicar since 1985 and has been Rural Dean of Colchester since 2002.  He was appointed Honorary Chaplain to His Holiness by Pope John Paul II in 1998 with the style of Monsignor and raised to the rank of Prelate of Honour by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.

Vicar of St. Peter Ad Vincula

Bishop of Colchester

Roger Morris, (born 1968), studied at Imperial College, London, and then at Trinity College Cambridge. He trained for the ministry at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He served his first curacy at Northleach with Hampnett and Farmington; Cold Aston with Turkdean and Notgrove in the Diocese of Gloucester from 1993 to 1996. He was then Rector of Sevenhampton with Charlton Abbotts, Hawling and Whittington; Dowdeswell with Andoversford, The Shiptons, Salperton; and Withington. From 2003 to 2008 he was Diocesan Director of Parish Development and Evangelism in Coventry Diocese. From 2008 to 2014 he has was the Archdeacon of Worcester before his appointment as Area Bishop of Colchester in the Diocese of Chelmsford. Roger is married to Sally, a Headteacher in a Secondary School and a Minister in Secular Employment (MSE). They have two daughters. Roger stage-manages the Canopy Stage (previously ‘The Performance Café’) at the annual Greenbelt Christian Arts Festival. His interests include popular music, films, supporting Bristol Rovers and walking the dog.

Bishop Roger and the Diocese of Chelmsford are committed to ensuring that every young person has the opportunity to enjoy life in all its fullness.

Session Worker