REV. ANN KEMBER

Our Priest-in-Charge is Rev. Ann Kember.  Ann was born in Pinner, Middlesex, but grew up in Taunton, where her father worked as a marine cartographer and her mother was a teacher. She studied English at Leeds University and then worked for the BBC and as a music journalist on Sounds magazine. Ann then trained as a teacher and taught in primary and middle schools in Suffolk before working for ten years as a Schools' Advisor for Suffolk County Council.  During this time she also studied for a MEd degree at Sheffield University.  Ann started her theological training with the Eastern Region Ministery Course in Cambridge, and was supervised in her studies by the priest, poet and musician Malcolm Guite at the church of St. Edward King and Martyr. At the same time she was managing a Money Advice Centre in Cambridge.  Ann served her curacy at the benefice of St. George and Holy Trinity in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, and her first incumbancy as Rector of St. Mary's Chard and three smaller rural churches and also as Area Dean for South Somerset. Ann was appointed Priest-in-Charge for the Orebeck Benefice in July, 2023.