Rev. Paul Cowan
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This is just a short piece by way of introduction. My name is Paul Cowan, and I was appointed Team Vicar of St George's, Wash Common in September 2006. I am married and we have two boys, both of whom are pupils at Falkland Primary School next door (but we still succeed in sometimes arriving late in the morning! :-).
I've been in one form of full-time Christian ministry or another since about 1990. Prior to St George's I did a one-year placement to Oxford Diocese's link diocese of Kimberley & Kuruman, South Africa. Before that I was the curate at All Saints', Wokingham, and before that trained for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon. And, in what now seem the distant past, my wife and I both worked in Tower Hamlets, East London, for an independent ecumenical Christian charity that provided an intensive residential alcohol and drug therapy program for homeless men (Charis). We are both qualified counsellors and spent nine years facilitating group therapy and one-to-one counselling. We met through work (I do enjoy telling people that we met when we were both in rehab!), and had been working in the same small office for three years before we started going out together...I was slow on the up-take! And further into the dim and distant past, I managed a halfway house in central London for young homeless people.
St George's is a great church with a lively, fun and committed Christian community made up of a breadth of ages, backgrounds and churchmanship; if you live in the area or are passing by, do visit us. I'm confident that you'd receive a warm welcome.
God bless,
Rev. Paul Cowan
