Click here for our safeguarding policy. I grew up on the Wirral and began working life as a primary school teacher. After teaching in Birkenhead, I spent 2 years in Ghana, and then trained for ministry in the Church. I am married to Ray, who is a Reader Emeritus.
He was Head of English and Languages and taught French for many years before ordination. He has published six volumes of poetry and for a year he was the Church in Wales poet, reading at both the Diocesan Synod and twice at the Welsh Governing Body. On retirement, Peter and his wife Susie moved to Crosby to be near to their daughter, son-in-law and grandson. He continues to support Wolves! Mary's all my life, having been baptised here as a baby.
I joined the choir at age seven which sparked my lifelong love of singing. Outside church, I am an accounts manager in our family accountancy practice. My main hobby is singing and I am a member of two local choirs which have allowed me to sing some of the most beautiful choral music in some of the most beautiful places around the world.
While in Kirkdale Ray trained as a Reader and was licensed in Ray is a Chartered Accountant. Having started in a Liverpool firm, he has worked for himself for the last 15 years. This has led to being involved with a number of churches, appointment as a school governor, and being a trustee of a couple of charities. One of these is the Community of Aidan and Hilda which requires trips to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne every three months.
Mr Howard Pate Churchwarden Howard is a retired librarian, and has been married to Elsie for nearly twenty years. He particularly enjoys walking and reading, and visiting antique shops and fairs identifying artefacts which are usually beyond his price range! Mrs Elsie Pate Churchwarden As well as being a Churchwarden, Elsie runs our Tuesday Club which meets alternate Tuesdays and provides entertainment, speakers and activities for many of our local residents.
