The Greens

Christmas greetings to regular readers of our website or those who just pop by once a year to catch up on all our news! Humble apologies for the fact that this newsletter is somewhat delayed. Usually we try to get it done in good time for Christmas but, for various reasons, that hasn’t happened. We hope we’ve caught you in time anyway with this newsletter and some photos.

2007 has seen the Green family growing and developing. Most notably with Bethya and Nathanael seemingly growing and changing by the day. Bethya will shortly celebrate her third birthday and is counting down the bedtimes as we write. While she still has her moments, the terrible two’s seem to have been corralled and she’s a happy, thriving and very funny little girl. (more…)

We are pleased to announce that it has now been confirmed that, following successful completion of his training in the summer of 2008, Dave will be the new curate at St. Philip and St. James’ church in Walderslade, Chatham.

We were offered the posting in the summer by our diocese and went down to look at the church and meet with the vicar there, Glyn Ackerley, a few times. Right from the get-go, it felt like the right place for us to be and we got on really well with Glyn and his family. It was a really easy decision for us and as soon as we knew that Glyn was keen for us to be there, it was a done deal! It’s been a little hush-hush since it was decided as it was important that the church family at ‘PipnJim’s (as it is known) were the first to hear the news.

We are looking forward to getting started and, in some ways, it’s hard to keep one’s mind on Cambridge when we now know where we will be. It also has the added bonus of being very close to Kerry’s family and only slightly further for Dave’s family so we’re looking forward to being that much closer to friends and family once again.

We will move some time in the summer of 2008 (dates yet to be confirmed) and Dave will be ordained in Rochester cathedral on 6 September 2008 at 3.00 p.m. Invites will, no doubt, be sent around in due course.

We are pleased to announce that Kerry is pregnant once again with our third child. So far everything is going well and both mum and baby seem to be doing well. The first scan was taken a week or so ago and we’re very pleased to publish this pic here on this site.

It’s obviously been difficult in the last few weeks, with Dave being sick (still) and unable to do as much as usual so Kerry’s been carrying a heavy load as she went through the first trimester whilst managing Bethya, Nathanael and Dave! Still, everyone is fine and doing well and we’re looking forward to the arrival of baby number three. Baby three is due towards the end of May.