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 The
Reverend Jeffrey Lane Gould has been
joint Minister of Bury Unitarian Church and Ainsworth Unitarian Chapel
since March 1st 2007.
Reverend Gould is a native of
Massachusetts in the United States of America. After training for a
career in the performing arts, he answered a vocation to professional
ministry. His preparation and training for ministry led him to study
at Brown University, King’s College, London, and Oxford. He holds a
degree in Religious Studies and a degree in Theology, and a
certificate of Ministerial Training.
Reverend
Gould’s interest in ecumenical development inspired him to serve as a
staff member of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (an Anglican
theological college) in Berkeley, California, at which time he also
participated in chaplaincies in both the San Francisco County Jail and
the San Francisco General Hospital. He took part in student pastorates
in the Domestic Mission of Bethnal Green, London, three congregations
of the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland, and the
Unitarian chapel in Taunton, Somerset. His ministry at Ullet Road
Church, Liverpool lasted from 1989 to 1999. Since 1999, he has served
the congregations of Hale Chapel, Hale Barnes, Norcliffe Chapel, Styal
and Dean Row Chapel.
The
Minister is a keen fitness enthusiast and enjoys many indoor and
outdoor activities. He is fond of the German language, literature and
cuisine, and enjoyed a sabbatical at the Goethe Institut in Berlin in
1997. As a native New Englander, he finds himself very much at home in
the northwest of England, with its many parallels with his place of
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