Below you can find the profiles of all the staff and leaders here at St Margaret’s Church.
Nathan Ward
Born in 1980 in Chatham (Kent), Nathan was educated at Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Rochester, where he studied GCSE’s and A-Levels. From here he went to Durham University where he studied for his first degree in Community and Youth Work Studies. For 13 years he worked in custodial settings for a multi national security company, becoming head of an immigration removal centre. He focused mainly on working in settings where there were young people and in 2007 was given a National Youth…
Jonathan Jennings
Revd Jonathan Jennings is the assistant priest at St Margaret’s. Born in County Durham, he spent his childhood in the north of England before serving as curate in Peterlee and Darlington. Specialist media posts followed, first for the diocese of Manchester and then at Church House in London and finally at Lambeth Palace. From there he went to be priest in charge at St Augustine’s Gillingham before joining St Margaret’s in 2016.
Terry Whittaker
Terry was born in Forest Gate, London and is Married to Jo. They have three children and two greyhounds and have lived in Rainham for 23 years. He had a career in the Insurance industry in London for over 30 years finally heading up the European Operations outside of London for a global insurance company. He then took on the operational management of the Detling Summer Celebration, founded a Pioneer Ministry in Gillingham and was licensed as a Lay Worker…
Licensed Lay Minister
Ann Critchley
Licensed Lay Minister
Janet Garnons-Williams
Operations Manager
Jane Forsyth
Parish Administrator & Children’s Work Leader
Jo Whittaker
Church Warden
Davina O’Brien
Church Warden
Lorna Dyer
Deputy Church Warden
Linda Randall
Community Engagement