Rev Pete Pillinger's son
Sep. 24th, 2010 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lavendersparkleI was pootling around the internet and I noticed something odd on Plymouth and Exeter Methodist District's website. Rev Pete Pillinger, the chairman of the district has a little biography on which he mentions his son and his daughter.
Pete was born in Sussex and raised in Kent. Following jobs in the pharmaceutical industry he trained at Cliff College and Queens College, Birmingham. He married Helen in 1980 and they moved to the Truro circuit where his eldest son was born. The family then moved to Sri Lanka where Pete was Superintendent minister of the Hatton circuit, a fast growing group of Methodist churches in the central mountains. Most of the circuit's members worked in the tea industry. In Sri Lanka Pete helped to develop a new order of evangelists for the Sri Lankan Methodist Church.
In 1990 the family, now including a daughter, returned to Britain. Pete was minister of Brixton Hill Methodist Church in south London. After four years there they moved to the Lincoln (north) circuit. In that circuit Pete helped a church to develop a structure of small groups.
In 2002 Pete became District Mission Enabler for the Lincoln & Grimsby District and was also a minister in the Lincoln (south) circuit. In 2005 Pete was appointed as the first Methodist 'Fresh Expressions Missioner' and became part of the new ecumenical 'Fresh Expressions' initiative.
And so back to the South West of England - in 2009 Pete became our Chair of District. "It's great to be back in the south-west" Pete says, " I feel very much at home in Exeter and am feeling really blessed to be living in such a wonderful area."
This is odd because Pete in fact has two sons, but only mentions the elder son in his bio. This is even more odd because his youngest son was born in 1990 and he mentions in 1990 moving back to Britain, now with a daughter, but doesn't mention the birth of his youngest child.
I wonder whether it has any connection to the fact that his youngest son didn't attend the trial of his eldest son. Peter Pillinger's eldest son, Tim Pillinger, was convicted of beating his wife this summer and Pete Pillinger, his wife and his daughter all attended the trial but his youngest son wasn't there.
Pete was born in Sussex and raised in Kent. Following jobs in the pharmaceutical industry he trained at Cliff College and Queens College, Birmingham. He married Helen in 1980 and they moved to the Truro circuit where his eldest son was born. The family then moved to Sri Lanka where Pete was Superintendent minister of the Hatton circuit, a fast growing group of Methodist churches in the central mountains. Most of the circuit's members worked in the tea industry. In Sri Lanka Pete helped to develop a new order of evangelists for the Sri Lankan Methodist Church.
In 1990 the family, now including a daughter, returned to Britain. Pete was minister of Brixton Hill Methodist Church in south London. After four years there they moved to the Lincoln (north) circuit. In that circuit Pete helped a church to develop a structure of small groups.
In 2002 Pete became District Mission Enabler for the Lincoln & Grimsby District and was also a minister in the Lincoln (south) circuit. In 2005 Pete was appointed as the first Methodist 'Fresh Expressions Missioner' and became part of the new ecumenical 'Fresh Expressions' initiative.
And so back to the South West of England - in 2009 Pete became our Chair of District. "It's great to be back in the south-west" Pete says, " I feel very much at home in Exeter and am feeling really blessed to be living in such a wonderful area."
This is odd because Pete in fact has two sons, but only mentions the elder son in his bio. This is even more odd because his youngest son was born in 1990 and he mentions in 1990 moving back to Britain, now with a daughter, but doesn't mention the birth of his youngest child.
I wonder whether it has any connection to the fact that his youngest son didn't attend the trial of his eldest son. Peter Pillinger's eldest son, Tim Pillinger, was convicted of beating his wife this summer and Pete Pillinger, his wife and his daughter all attended the trial but his youngest son wasn't there.