Ann Symes
Ann on leadership staff, part time, in which most of her time is taken up in Hope Counselling Service. She is also responsible for the oversight of the pastoral care within CCE. She writes:
I am married to Colin and have three precious grown up children Ben, Becky and Abby and a delightful daughter-in-law, Jules. I value being a wife, a mother, a mother-in-law and a soon to be grandma J , and I value friendship.
I love transformation, be it houses, gardens or people and I particularly love being with people who are struggling or hurting and finding together the transformation and healing that God wants to release to them. This is probably why I am a counsellor, and practice manager of Hope Counselling Service. More recently God has also been releasing a passion in me to teach and train others too.
I originate from Sussex, and although I left there for Edinburgh as a young child I love to go back to the wide open skies of the south coast and walk the South Downs, the Seven Sisters, around the pretty Sussex villages and along the sea front, collecting a few more pebbles as I go.