{"id":5384,"date":"2026-03-06T15:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:28:02","slug":"parish-ministry-to-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=5384","title":{"rendered":"Parish Ministry to Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Change is in the air!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5181\" style=\"width: 1343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5181\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Dead-Sea.png\" alt=\"Dead Sea, Rev'd Sue Martin\" width=\"1333\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Dead-Sea.png 1333w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Dead-Sea-300x166.png 300w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Dead-Sea-1024x568.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Dead-Sea-768x426.png 768w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Dead-Sea-900x499.png 900w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Dead-Sea-1280x710.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Dead Sea&#8230; is it an angel or a cloud overhead? Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin 2020<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In January 2026, our ten parish benefice came out of interregnum and we are delighted to have a new incumbent, Reverend Joshua Whitnall, Rector of the Gayton, Grimston and Massingham Benefice in West Norfolk, Diocese of Norwich.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst covering this interregnum for two and half years I have been thinking about what my future. Life is very different for me since August 2023. Sadly, my wonderful husband Richard died unexpectedly.\u00a0 Since then I have been immersed in parish ministry with all its joys, quirks and complications.<\/p>\n<p>And so I journey ahead, in fact I have a lot of journeys ahead! Plans for online &#8216;Sofa Pilgrimages&#8217; to share with other and provide an insight into life in different places across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Plans also for myself to find time both at home and in journeys across our wonderful world.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space!<\/p>\n<p>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change is in the air! In January 2026, our ten parish benefice came out of interregnum and we are delighted to have a new incumbent, Reverend Joshua Whitnall, Rector of the Gayton, Grimston and Massingham Benefice in West Norfolk, Diocese of Norwich. Whilst covering this interregnum for two and half years I have been thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5387,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}