Alan Hargrave
Alan Hargrave was born in 1950, in a terraced house in the middle of Leeds – an area now buried under university and inner-city motorway. He trained as a chemical engineer before working for ten years with the Anglican Church in South America – first on a development project with indigenous people in northern Argentina, then planting churches in Bolivia. He returned to the UK in 1987 to train for ordained ministry. In 1994 he became the first vicar of Holy Cross, a new parish on a UPA council estate on the edge of Cambridge. In 2004 he became ‘Canon Missioner’ of Ely Cathedral. In 2001 he published An Almighty Passion (SPCK), a book illustrating the great doctrines of God with stories from ordinary life. His current book, Living Well: Finding a rule of life to revitalize and sustain us will be published by SPCK in 2010.
He is married to Annie, a senior psychotherapist working in the international aid, development and mission sector. They both have strong links with Turvey Abbey, a Roman Catholic Benedictine community. Alan is passionate about mission, sacred space, Rule of Life, unity, community, serious discipleship, justice, cricket, golf, narrowboats, his four children, one of whom tragically died of cancer, his grandchildren, his wife Annie and, of course, the Almighty. Find out more at www.elycathedral.org/worship/spirituality.html
