Jeremy Ive
Priest in charge

   Photo by Peter Tulloch ARPS DPAGB

Jeremy is married to Pamela; they have two sons.

He was born and brought up in South Africa, and came to England to do a PhD at Cambridge in 17th Century English History (post-Civil War period – Cromwell and all that!) at Cambridge University in 1981.

He then embarked on a peace-building project in South Africa from 1986 to 1989, helping to prepare the way for the end of Apartheid and the move towards fully democratic government.

Meanwhile he felt that God was calling him into church ministry and so, in 1989, went to Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, where he met Pamela. He and Pamela were married in 1991, after which Jeremy joined Pamela as curate in Ivybridge, Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor. During his time at Ivybridge, Jeremy did an MPhil thesis in Theology at King’s College, London. In 1995 they moved to Abbotskerswell, Devon, where he was Priest-in-Charge and Pamela, Parish Deacon. During this time, he was also Project Advisor on a peace-building programme on Rwanda after the genocide and ethnic conflict in that country.

In 1999, they came to Tudeley cum Capel with Five Oak Green, which Jeremy took on half-time together with his appointment as Lay Ministry Advisor for the Diocese of Rochester. At the same time, he began to direct yet another peace-building programme, this time in the Sudan, helping to prepare for the end of the civil war between the North and South of that country – a war which up to that point had cost two million lives. He has since stepped down from both these responsibilities, and since 2005 has been working on a thesis  on Christian Philosophy at King’s College, London.

Jeremy believes that Jesus is Lord over every area of life. This has motivated him in the very different things he has been involved with.

In the parish, he sees the work of spreading the good news of Jesus as the task of all Christians. He believes in lay ministry and teamwork, and in partnership between different denominations at a local level in a very practical way.

He enjoys listening to music (but he is not a performer!), and has tried his hand at watercolour painting (although that has taken a back seat since he began his present thesis work).