David Daynes
Church Warden
Janet Terry
Church Warden
Lisa Fifield
Operations Manager & Families Worker
Lisa has many hats on when she is at St Stephen’s but her main role is as the Operations Manager, looking after the day to day running of the church. She’s also responsible for the children and families work. Lisa and her husband Ian have been worshipping at St Stephen’s since 2017 and they knew immediately that this was where God wanted them to worship and serve. She loves that St Stephen’s is unique in that it brings together an amazing bunch of people, all different in their own ways but united by love for God. In a previous career, Lisa was a research scientist for British Sugar, developing new products, where she had a forklift and front-loading shovel driving licence and was in charge of 3 very large boilers!
Clare Melia
Community Worker
Clare has been part of St Stephen’s for ten years and has been our Community Worker for five years, working with anyone who needs our help. She enjoys being among people, learning together, drinking tea and eating cake! She loves the bustle and friendliness of St Stephen’s as well as the encouragement, team-work and commitment to journey alongside one another in life. Most of all she loves the tea that comes in tea pots and cute cups and saucers!! Clare loves the TV series Heartland, despite being slightly intimidated by horses and her favourite Bible verse is Psalm 27:4- “I’m asking God for one thing: To live with him in his house my whole life long. I’ll contemplate his beauty: I’ll study at his feet”.
Beckie Ward
Café Manager
Beckie has been the Café Manager at St Stephen’s for six years and she enjoys various aspects of this role- spending time with people and the very practical nature of serving in the Café. She loves the variety at St Stephen’s, in terms of ministries operating out of St Stephen’s as well as the volunteers and customers who all have such different life experiences. During her years at St Stephen’s, Beckie has been drawn back time and time again to the Bible verse Romans 12:1- ‘So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking around life- and place it before God as an offering.’ Fun fact about Beckie: she has recently released her nurturing side at home by propagating and raising hundreds (literally) of succulents!
Jo Lee English
Outreach Weekend Café Manager
jolee.english@ststephensnorwich.org
More info is coming soon!
Andy Rose
Book-Keeper
Andy is our bookkeeper, assisting Sue our Treasurer, and has been at St Stephen’s since September 2017. He has always enjoyed producing financial reports to help people determine the best way forward and he loves that his role doesn’t require him to sit in the office all day looking at a computer screen – Madeline has always encouraged him to get away from his desk and enjoy being with the people at St Stephen’s. In fact, it’s the people that he loves most about St Stephen’s; fellow members of staff, the congregation, volunteers and customers in the Café as well as the visitors who drop in.
A fun fact about Andy is that when he started secondary school, his mum said he needed to remember everything at school so he took this one step further and learnt the whole of his first year class register, he can still recite the 31 names!! A memorable Bible verse for him is Malachi 3:6 “For I the Lord do not change;….” which has been especially relevant in the past few months of change.
Sam Roberts
Assistant Children’s and Families Worker