Our Minister -
Leonora is Dutch,growing up in Belgium and Holland. She studied Theology at the Universities of Oxford (gaining a BA in Theology), of Utrecht (MPhil Theology) at the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey/University of Geneva (Diploma Ecumenical Studies) and the university of Birmingham (Diploma Counselling Skills). She also spent a few months in Jamaica as a research student.
She has been responsible for youth ministry and Christian education, first in a local congregation of the Reformed Church in the Netherlands, then in the Presbyterian Church in Grenada. She was ordained in 1995 and became minister of the United Protestant Church in Curacao, with special responsibility for youth ministry and chaplaincy in the protestant schools. In 1999 she and her husband Michael became ministers in the URC and they moved with their two sons to Birmingham where Leonora was the Minister for two churches.
In 2010 Leonora accepted the call to be the Minister in the new pastorate of Bricket Wood, Harpenden and Trinity United Reformed Churches. She leads worship in each church in turn and shares her time between them as fairly as possible and as the need arises.
