I am married to Jane and we have four grown up children, three of whom are married and the youngest in his second year at university.

Coming to Burnage has been something of a 'home-coming' as we previously lived in the area for 20 years. Our children all attended local schools and we also worshipped at St Margaret's for a time before I started my ordination training.

As a church we have a mission statement which clearly sums up what we are about:

Together we aim to:

Worship God
Proclaim Jesus
Grow in the Spirit and
Serve the world

We believe that prayer is foundational to our church life. There are at least three corporate prayer times each week in our Parish Centre: Monday at 7pm, Thursday at 7am and Friday at 12 noon.

Ian Thompson, Rector.