Who's who at St. Mary's
Meet the team at St Mary’s.
Rev Sue Hurley
Priest in Charge
After teaching for many years, Sue trained for ministry at St Mellitus College, South Kensington, completing a master’s degree in Christian Leadership. During that time she worked with 4 rural churches in Chelmsford diocese.
Sue was ordained in 2016 and began her curacy in what is now The Pilgrim Parishes. Sue was appointed as Priest in Charge in April 2021. Sue is married to Andy.
Rev Cilla Hawkes
Associate priest
Cilla has worshipped at Lindsell for 50 years, first as a layperson and licensed Reader from 1994 and after being ordained in 2002.
She became Area Dean for 10 years in 2010 and has served in all the benefice churches. During this time she has been a Spiritual Director as well as remaining a wife, mother and now grandmother.
Rev Helen Pelly
Occasional offices minister
Helen was ordained in 2011 and prior to this had been licensed as a Reader at Chelmsford Cathedral in 1994.
She was licensed as Area Dean for the Dunmow and Stansted Deanery in 2020.
Rev Jeff Hayward
Associate priest
Jeff is from Merseyside. After working in electrical contracting in Liverpool, Jeff trained for the ministry at Nottingham and was ordained in 1974.
He served curacies in a black country parish near Stourbridge and then in a stockbroker parish near Woking.
He was appointed vicar of a church in Chelmsford, serving there for 15 years. Many of those years were combined with prison ministry. Jeff later went into the Prison Service full-time and served in a number of roles, and at a number of establishments, within Prison Chaplaincy. He retired in 2012 and made a retirement move into North Essex with Celia his wife.
Rev Ian Elliott
Associate priest
Ian was ordained in 2016 having been trained at St Mellitus theological college.
Prior to retirement, Ian worked for nearly 40 years at Barclays Bank, based in the City of London and in Canary Wharf.
Catherine Elliott
Licensed Lay Minister (LLM)
Catherine has been a Licensed Lay Minister (formerly Licensed Lay Reader) since 2010, having previously worked as an administrator, mostly in the charity sector. She is also a Spiritual Director.
Anthea Gray
Licensed Lay Minister (LLM)
At the time of her licensing as a Reader in April 1997, Anthea worked full-time for Herts & Essex Farm Services Ltd. From 2003 she has worked part-time as a farm secretary.
Anthea served in the parishes of Blackmore and Stondon Massey from 1997 to 2020. She and her husband moved to Lindsell in 2017 and from 2020 she has been part of the Pilgrim Parishes ministry team.
Paul Green
Licensed Lay Minister (LLM)
Paul balances his activities as a Licensed Lay Minister with a role as director of an innovative technology business.
With degrees in Chemical Physics and Mathematics, he went on to study both Kingdom and Applied Theology. Paul became a Lay Minister in 2016 and leads Speakers of Life Essex that encourages people with their spiritual gifts. Interestingly, these strands became woven together in the God-inspired new technology of his third entrepreneurial start up. Paul is married to Kate and loves walking with their dog.
Kate Green
Licensed Lay Minister (LLM)
Kate spent most of her career in the wine trade, before training and practising as a relationship counsellor.
She became a Christian in 1995 in Australia, which gave her the sense of value and purpose that she had been searching for. She is married to Paul.
She was licensed in 2018 as LLM. Kate is passionate about seeing people discover their gifts and calling and fulfilling their God-given potential.
She loves sharing good food and wine and walking her gorgeous spaniel, Holly.
Emma Nicholls
Parish Administrator
Our new Pilgrim Parishes administrator Emma Nicholls, lives in Felsted with her family and previously held positions in the hotel sector as a Project Manager.
As well as being our new administrator, Emma also works as an exams invigilator at a local school.
