Introducing our new Memory Lane Leader

We are delighted to have Frances join the staff team (from the 5 March) to head up our Memory Lane ministry. Memory Lane is our friendly group based here at Immanuel Church for those with memory loss, all types of Dementia and their carers. We meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 2pm.

Frances has had a variety of careers, including teaching in a primary school and sick children at Great Ormond Street Hospital, as a violin tutor in Kampala Music School and offering music therapy to people of all ages with learning disabilities and autism. Her most recent work was running music sessions for people with dementia and their family carers. She then studied for a Masters in Applied Theology at Moorlands College. She wrote her dissertation about how churches could do more to support families living with dementia. She is currently training to be an Anna Chaplain which is a specific ministry to older people.

She and her husband lived and worked in Uganda for five years, running a Christian retreat centre in partnership with two ordained Ugandans. They now have an informal partnership with a rural diocese in the South West of the country, which they try to visit once a year. They have an informally adopted Ugandan daughter and a Kenyan son.

Memory Lane will restart on the Tuesday 12 March, but will not be able to take any newcomers until the current numbers have been assessed (after Easter).