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Roy Lowes has been a United Reformed Church
Minister since 1978. Previously he was a Religious Education Teacher in
a Comprehensive School in his native North East of England. He was in
pastoral ministry from 1978 to 1996 in Knaresborough and Harrogate in
Yorkshire and then Kingston Upon Thames in London. From 1996 to
2001 he was Director of Training for the United Reformed Church’s
South Western Synod and since then has been in his current post as
Secretary for the Education and Learning (formerly Training)
Committee of the General Assembly of the URC.
In this position he is responsible for the
administration, co-ordination and development of training opportunities
throughout the United Reformed Church. His tenure has seen
the educational processes of the church through a significant
development of policy which seeks to get learning providers to
work in an integrated way for the education of the whole church and concentrates ordination
training through colleges now designated as resource centres who
are encouraged to increasingly engage in provision for
all.
He has worked closely with ecumenical partners and
their parallel policy developments - particularly the
Church of England and Methodist Church - and has been on the wider
governing body of the Queen's Foundation.
His theological interest is in the area of
overlap between salvation and anthropology and has some
interest if not great expertise, in the work of the Roman
Catholic theologians such as Dom Sebastian Moore and James Alison.
He is married to Avril and they have two adult daughters: Helen
married to Jon living in Swindon and Sarah living in Canning Town. They
also have a matching black dog and cat! He jogs a little to keep
fit, and likes hill walking. He enjoys cooking, the theatre and as much
reading as he can fit in, with particular interest in History, Theology,
Psychology and Spirituality as well as novels, catching up on classics
such as Dickens or 20th Century writers such as Le Carre or Peter
Ackroyd.
Roy looks forward with excitement and enthusiasm to
this new phase of his ministry in the West Midlands
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