Words of Grace: Living Hope in the Diocese of Sheffield

142. Revd Kath Lonsborough - Assistant Curate at St Paul’s Wordsworth Avenue

Words of Grace: Living Hope in the Diocese of Sheffield

Show Notes

‘I just burst into tears – which is not like me at all – and said, “I’ve been running away from God for too long”. I started exploring ordination after that’.

Revd Kath Lonsborough, Assistant Curate at St Paul’s Wordsworth Avenue, joins Paul and Ben on the podcast.

Kath discusses:

✝️ How being confirmed at 11 helped shape her faith in adulthood ✝️ Her sense of social justice from a young age ✝️ Feeling called to serve at the Parsons Cross foodbank ✝️ Her first calling to ordination in 2007 and initially rejecting it ✝️ Getting her black belt in martial arts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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