We are delighted to announce that the Reverend Claire Reynolds has been appointed Team Vicar in the Northmoor Team, with special responsibility for the parishes
of Okehampton, Inwardleigh and Belstone with Sticklepath. Claire is presently Assistant Curate in the parish of St Matthias, St Mark and Holy Trinity, Torquay and will be joining the Northmoor Team early in the New Year. We look forward to welcoming her here, at services in Belstone and in Sticklepath.
Claire’s academic qualifications are in theology and law. Prior to ordination she was a practising solicitor, specialising in family law, advocating particularly for the welfare of families with children. Having discerned a call to priesthood, Claire earned a further theological degree at St Mellitus College here in Devon and was
ordained in 2022. Alongside her curacy in Torquay, Claire serves on a voluntary basis as our diocesan adviser for people with disabilities and
additional needs.
Claire is married to Alastair, a mathematics teacher, with a daughter at university and a son in the sixth form. The family will move to Okehampton Rectory over
the Christmas school holidays and, subject to the completion of all legal formalities, she will be licensed as Team Vicar on Wednesday, January 7th at a service at All Saints’, Okehampton – at which all will be welcome.
Your prayers are asked for Claire, Al, and their family as they prepare to move to their new home in December, and for Claire as she prepares for a new stage in her life and work as a priest.
