The Team normally has two full time ordained ministers, the Team Rector - prinicpally looking afer St. Martin's, St. Anne's Ings, and St. Cuthbert's, Kentmere; and the Team Vicar - Olivia Haines (picture right), principally looking after St. James' Staveley, St. Mary's Windermere, and Jesus Church Troutbeck. Our previous Team Rector moved away to Durham after Easter where his wife had been appointed to a role at the cathedral. We are in the process of preparing to find a successor. In the interim, the Revd Ashley Henderson, based in Kendal, has been drafted in to support Olivia in ministry in the team.
We also have the support of reired ministers, The Revd Canon Clarence Hendrickse, The Revd Dr. Chris Taylor, and the Revd Dr. David Whitehead.
Other lay leaders at St. Martin's are our churchwarden, Mike Fletcher, our treasurers, Mike Baldwin and Ted Cook, our lay worship leaders and our Homegroup leaders.
The church is led by the Church Council (PCC) made up of members elected by the congregation, together with the Rector and the Churchwardens , but the ministry (=work of the church) is shared by all of us together.