St Mylor Church has announced that Reverend Amanda Evans has accepted the offer to be interim priest-in-charge for a period of three years.

Amanda will serve the parish jointly with St Gluvias.

Speaking after being made Priest in 2017, Amanda said: “I think I’ve had a sense of calling since I was about nine or ten but it was nothing I could put into words.

"It wasn’t even on my radar because when I was growing up women couldn’t be ordained.

"Going to my vicar and saying I wanted to be ordained was hard but he just said ‘About time! Go on then’.”

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Amanda was born and brought up in Bristol, leaving at 18 to study languages at Southampton University. After careers in import/export in France, London and Bristol, Amanda married John and moved to rural Norfolk where both her daughters were born and she retrained as a teacher.

The call to ordained ministry came over ten years ago when they moved as a young family to north Cornwall and, Amanda says, after a clear call from God to “step out of the boat” and follow him, the family moved to Oxford for Amanda to train full-time for ministry, before being invited back down to Falmouth to serve her curacy.

Amanda lives with her husband John, youngest daughter Emma (who is a student nurse) and Jack Russell Nuala and is delighted to be appointed to this new role, joining the parishes of St Gluvias and St Mylor at the start of this new exciting journey together.

Amanda and her family will continue to live in Falmouth, and the vicarage in Mylor will be occupied from late June by the new curate for the Falmouth parishes.

An online Licensing Service is being arranged for Tuesday, June 30, at 7pm.