Deacons
Our Leadership Team
SECRETARY
Glynda Bassford was a school teacher, born in Shepshed and brought along to Sunday School from an early age. She grew up surrounded by a Christian family who were all active in various roles at Charnwood Road. Glynda was baptised in November 1964 and became a Church member. During her teenage years Glynda taught in the Sunday School, but moved away from Shepshed after her marriage. She helped run youth groups, trained choirs and taught in Sunday Schools in various churches around the country until she returned to Shepshed in 1984 with her family and again worshipped at Charnwood Road. Glynda was elected to the Diaconate in March 2007 and is currently teaching in Sunday Club
TREASURER
Barry Hillier has lived all his life in Shepshed. He was first brought to the Sunday School by his parents and has been in regular attendance ever since. He was baptised in July 1951 and has been a Deacon at the church for 27 years and has been the Treasurer for 22 years.
Joyce Roberts was born in Bedale, North Yorkshire and moved to Shepshed, when she was 2-3 years old, when her father worked in the pit at Coalville, after leaving the army. Joyce first went to the Sunday School at the Primitive Methodist Church and began to attend Charnwood Road when she was a teenager. She was baptised in 1969 and was a Sunday School teacher for 30 years until she retired recently. Joyce has been a Deacon since 1995 and is in charge of the flower rota and also involved with the cleaning at the church.
Cynthia Bowley moved to Shepshed in 1963 when she married. She has been attending church since 1943 as her mother and sister took her along. In the early 1970's Cynthia started to attend Charnwood Road and was baptised in July 1986. She has been involved in various capacities since. Formerly she was a Sunday School teacher and Youth Club helper. Having been a Deacon for 22 years, since 1988, Cynthia is presently a helper at Girls' Brigade. She is on the cleaning rota at church and visits the sick and elderly in the fellowship.
Maureen Walbey started going to church when she was 9 years old and joined the Brownie Group there. She was baptised in 1988 at the St Ives Christian Fellowship in Cambridgeshire. She came to Shepshed in 1989 when her husband Brian moved here with his job and soon after became a member of Charnwood Road. Maureen has been a Deacon since March 2004. She is involved with the distribution of flowers to the members of the fellowship, giving lifts to church for the elderly, and also with the cleaning of the church.
Bob Ellett was born in Middlesex and for family reasons moved to Shepshed in 2006 when he and wife Ruth started to attend Charnwood Road. Bob started attending a church in 1970 out of curiosity and was baptised in 1970. He was elected to the Diaconate at our Annual Church Members Meeting in March 2008, but he has been a Deacon in a previous church. Bob and Ruth, his wife, have been involved in mission work for many years and in 2007 spent 5 months in Nagaland where Bob helped install the electrics in a hospital being built in Dimapur.
Kenny Henry was born in Glasgow in 1966 and lived there until 1989 when, having been made redundant, he came to study at Loughborough University. He graduated in 1993 and joined the police. At around that time he met his wife, Annette, and attended his friends Alastair and Karen's wedding at the Baptist church in Renfrew where he had grown up. In 1995, having been married themselves, Annette and Kenny moved to Shepshed and he started attending Charnwood Road BC. He has been attending ever since and on 3 December 2006 he and Annette were both baptised by our present Pastor, Howard. They came into membership shortly after that and in March 2010 joined the Daiconate. In addition to his role as Deacon, he is Assistant Scout Leader with Belton and Hathern Scouts who meet at CRBC on a Wednesday evening, and he cooks breakfast for the men of the church on selected Saturday mornings. He is also a member of Shepshed Lions Club.
David Spendlove joined the Diaconate in March 2011
Wednesday 11 January 2012