ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, HEADINGTON
Who's who
Fr Luke has been curate at St Andrew's since 2021. He trained at St Stephen's House and Ripon College, Cuddesdon and before that served in the police for 19 years, in Nottinghamshire and Oxford. Fr Luke lives in Northway with his family and their gorgeous black German Shepherd, Nox.
Fr Luke Norman
Mthr Jenn is Associate Priest at St Andrew's, although she works full-time for the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor in New Testament Studies. Mthr Jenn’s connection to St Andrews dates back to 2009 when she was Chaplain at Keble College, St Andrews’ patron. She’s a Foundation Governor at the church school. Mthr Jenn is originally from Texas and before coming to St Andrews served at Keble and before that in two parishes in Connecticut and Virginia, USA. Mthr Jenn was ordained priest in 2004 after training at Yale Divinity School in the USA. She lives in Northway with her family and a very elderly labrador, Marley.
Mthr Jenn Strawbridge
Mthr Ginny was ordained as a Deacon in St.Paul’s Cathedral London by the Bishop of London in July 2000. She had obtained a Masters in Divinity (MDiv) at Yale in the USA, and then trained additionally at the North Thames Ministerial Training Course in London. She was ordained priest by the Bishop of Kensington at St Mary Abbotts in 2001. Ginny served as Honorary Curate of St Luke’s and Christchurch in Chelsea until 2004, when she moved to St Mary The Boltons in West London becoming Vicar in 2005.On retirement in 2014 she was appointed as Vicar for the Tew Benefice in Oxfordshire, serving three churches, St. Michael’s Great Tew, St John The Evangelist, Little Tew, and St.Nicholas Heythrop, where she served until 2020.
Ginny has assisted at St Andrew’s since she and her husband, Patrick, moved to Headington.
Mthr Virginia (Ginny) Thomas
Fr Gordon Jeanes
Fr Gordon assists at St Andrew's after recently retiring as vicar of St Anne and St Faith, Wandsworth.
Jane was elected churchwarden in 2020. She was born and educated in Headington. Her family have been worshiping at St Andrew's for over 70 years and all family rites of passage were celebrated in the church including her own baptism. So although she mainly lived in London, she has always felt St Andrew's to be her church family.
After school, Jane achieved her long held dream of studying Medicine. She qualified as a doctor from The University of London (King's College) and then trained as an Anaesthetist and enjoyed a busy career in front line medicine.
Her Headington roots remained deep and she finally returned to the family home in 2010, so her 2 children could complete their schooling in Oxford and so she give extra support to her widowed mother. She continued to work full time in London but was able to gradually become involved in the local community. Jane retired in 2019 and now has time to enjoy new friends and new activities.
Her interests are varied, enjoying cooking, the creative arts including sewing and gardening. She passionately believes in the importance of caring for the environment, supporting the community and looking after our physical and mental wellbeing.
Jane feels hugely privileged to serve as churchwarden, and is looking forward to becoming more involved and getting to know everyone better.
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Malcolm has lived in Headington since 1962 and has had a long family and personal association with St Andrew’s Church, on an intermittent and sometimes extended basis from that time until today. As a churchwarden he aims to serve the church, clergy, colleagues, parish and congregation. His interests are in the history of art, architecture, civil engineering, science and technology, photography, aviation, reading and gardens.
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Richard is the Director of Music at St Andrew's. Richard trained as a schoolmaster, began his working life as a teacher of chemistry, and has been a successful businessman, including running a group of children’s day nurseries. He served for many years as Ward Councillor and as Leader of the Majority Group on a local council in Surrey. Richard was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, began studying the organ in 1968, served for many years as a church choir director, and has worked at St Andrew’s since 2012. In that time he has formed and developed our wonderful choir. He is always looking for more people to join, so do speak to him if you are interested! Richard is married to Alison and they have two adult sons.