Trinity Church - Growing and Going
Chapter 1 - Ministers
| 1934 | Rev. George Parsons | |||
| 1934-1936 | Rev. George D. Moralee | |||
| 1936-1937 | Rev. Owen R. Johnson | |||
| 1937-1938 | Rev. Fred Jones | |||
| 1938 | Rev. A. Gorton Edge | |||
| 1938-1945 | Rev. Willie H. Carter | |||
| 1945-1948 | Rev. Dr. Bernard E. Jones | |||
| 1948-1953 | Rev. Norman A. Baker | |||
| 1953-1959 | Rev. Sidney Tong | |||
| 1959-1962 |  | Rev. Eric Powell | ||
| 1962-1967 |  |
Rev. Norman Robertshaw | ||
| 1967-1972 |  | Rev. Alf Shannahan, pictured with wife Joy and children Christopher and Justin | ||
| 1972-1978 | Rev. Kenneth Anderson | |||
| 1978-1986 | Rev. Malcolm Carter | |||
| 1986-1994 |  |
Rev. Malcolm Creamer, pictured with wife Barbara | ||
| 1991- | Rev. Geoff Pearson (of St. Bartholomews) | |||
| 1992-1994 |  |
Capt. Roger Murphy C.A., pictured with wife Gill | ||
| 1994-1997 | Capt. Kelvin Bolton C.A. | |||
| 1994- | Rev. David Nellist (of Court Hey Methodist Church) | |||
| 1997- |  |
Capt. Philip Clark C.A. |
Prayer for Tomorrows Church
by Leslie Earnshaw
Jesus our Lord, the same yesterday, today and always, we who are set in a world of deep and rapid change hardly know what to think about tomorrow. We want to be inwardly sure that nothing can change You, so that whatever alters You are still the Lord of all.
Your Church, Jesus, is inevitably caught up in this sweep of change. Some of us are exhilerated by this and long to see the Church re-shaped and renewed for contemporary mission. We welcome new methods of communication, new ways of worship, new language of Christian expression. Others are persuaded that the old ways, used and honoured by You through long years are the best ways; and we find it difficult to accept changes in the Church, and to adjust ourselves to them.
Be patient with us Jesus, in our tensions and differences, and teach us patience with each other, honouring the sincerity of those whose ideas clash with our own, and recognising them as fellow disciples and co-workers.
Our one pressing prayer is that the Church shall be the Church, Your family on earth, a lively, loving, priesthood of the committed, eager to bring You to the people, and the people to You. Enable us to change those things which need to change, so that our world may see the relevance of Your truth, and to stand fast by the facts which are unalterable because they belong to Your eternity. So may the Church of tomorrow be the vehicle of Your Gospel, and the instrument of Your grace.
Amen
No less than fourteen ministers served the Church at Liverpool Road in its fifty-year history. After only five years the people welcomed their sixth minister!
This was poor planning by the Methodist Church to treat any new cause in this way. It was neither fair to the minister and his family in terms of continuity and putting down roots and ideas into operation, nor to the people themselves, who no sooner became accustomed to one man's ways than they were confronted by his replacement. Nevertheless, the work grew in spite of this strategy.
George Moralee can still visualise "small groups of devoted men and women meeting in houses to pray and talk about the work of God or trying to run a huge Sunday School in well nigh impossible conditions".
Rev. Willie Carter was able to exert a long ministry during the war years and establish a pattern for others to build on.