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Vilna Gough-Jones

Vilna, a parishioner of 30 years with many family ties to St Christopher’s and has taken on numerous different roles within the church. Currently she is a Liturgical Assistant (lay service leader), prayer advocate, encourages community building events, Life Group Leader, been a member of vestry since 2016 and loves St Christopher’s as her spiritual home. She has three married children and five grandchildren.

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Vilna Gough-Jones
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Georgina Ennor

Georgina is our Bishop’s Warden, and longtime member of St Christopher’s, joining us in 2000. She completed 53 years as a registered nurse, and 24 as a midwife in the Christchurch Neo Natal Unit, and served on vestry for many years. She was Provincial Commissioner of Guides NZ East-West Canterbury, and received her licentiate in Theology with Honours in 2012. She is married to Laurence, a Presbyterian minister, and has 3 children and 11 grandchildren.

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Georgina Ennor
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Rev Dr John Fox (Priest in Charge)

John was raised in Westport, Christchurch and North Canterbury, and comes originally from a Pentecostal background. He has been an academic, worked in family and community restoration, public policy, and children’s and youth work, as well as stints in pastoral care for students and disabled people. He was ordained in 2018.  He is Priest in Charge at St Christopher’s, and Senior Ecumenical Chaplain at Canterbury University. He is married to Emma.

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Rev Dr John Fox (Priest in Charge)
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Laly Samuel

Laly, has been a member of St. Christopher’s since 2005. This is her third year on vestry and currently serving as one of the synod representatives as well. She has been involved with various ministries at St. Christopher’s:  managing the venue hires, helping for book sales, mainly music, hospitality, Sacristan and chalice, and on the food pantry team. Laly is married to Babu and they have two adult children. Both Laly and Babu are active on their Kerala Mar Thoma Church in Christchurch.

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Laly Samuel
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Keith Spragg

Keith brings to vestry experience in similar positions in other churches together with a long career in Christian School administration. Keith is married to Wendy with two adult children, and came to St Christopher’s three years ago. Keith also assists with data projection in services.

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Keith Spragg
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Sarah Stevens-Gieseg

Sarah was returned to vestry for a third term at our last AGM.  She is a Leader in our worship team, Church Fair Organiser and loves providing hospitality. She and Steven have two adult sons. As a Sonographer, Sarah meets people from all walks of life, and wants to see a place for all of them at church. Sarah loves to see people in healthy growing relationships with God, and each other at St Christopher’s.

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Sarah Stevens-Gieseg
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Mark Squire

Mark has been a part of our family for over thirty years.  In that time he’s been involved in youth leadership, music ministry and audio/visual technical support for well over twenty of those years.  Mark is one of the worship team and tech leaders and cares for all the audio-visual systems for our parish.  He is also a big part of enormous audio/visual systems for large Christian events such as the annual Easter Camp.

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Mark Squire
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Cathy Allison Maasch

Cathy has been part of St Christopher’s parish for over 20 years and has a long-time involvement in home group leadership and prayer ministry. Now semi-retired from a 30-year career in general practice, she is enjoying serving in other areas of the church life including the Mainly Music and ESOL ministry.

Cathy is married to John, and they have 4 adult children and 6 grandchildren. She is originally from South Africa and retains strong ties with her family in Cape Town.

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Cathy Allison Maasch
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Murray Irvine

Murray, was co-opted onto vestry for 2022.  a long time member of the parish, is a sort of not really retired real estate agent with most of his adult life invested in our community.  His help and development in helping in the smart physical and hospitality experience (He and Eileen owns a successful hospitality venue for many years), as well as building a smart business sense is indispensable.

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Murray Irvine
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Kirsty May

Kirsty had been one of our Synod’s Representatives, and part of vestry, since 2018. She has been a member of Standing Committee for the past five years, and has one more year left to serve.  Kirsty was baptised, and married, at St Christopher’s, and rejoined the parish in 2012.
Kirsty is married to Peter, and they have three adult children. She is a barrister practising in criminal and mental health law.

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Kirsty May