As many of you will be aware, CNM and Christian Medical Fellowship have been working together to recruit and employ a full time student staff worker for Christian nursing students. Initially working in the southeast of England in and around London, this role will ultimately extend to a national ministry.
We are delighted to announce that Annie Leggett has been appointed to take up this post. Some of you will know Annie, who was UCCF’s Staff Worker for student nurses back in the nineties. She will be taking up her new role from October. We asked Annie to introduce herself:
CNM: Annie, can you tell us about your background professional background?
Annie Leggett: I trained as a nurse in the late 1970’s at the Middlesex Hospital London. I then worked in three London hospitals as a staff nurse before attending the Oncology Course at the Royal Marsden Hospital. I then staffed on a palliative care ward before moving to the Westminster Hospital where I pioneered a day chemotherapy unit as a nurse manager/sister before returning to the Royal Marsden to run their Intravenous Services as the clinical Nurse specialist/Senior Nurse.
CNM: Tell us a bit about what you have been doing for the last few years:
AL: For the last 10 years I have been working as the female Pastoral worker for City Evangelical Church in Birmingham. I joined the church after one year in its existence, and so again this has been a pioneering situation. My role has been to encourage and teach the women in the church, through bible studies, one2ones, and in larger groups, as well as heading up Christianity Explored and along the way offering lots of food! One of the biggest privileges has been to see the power of the gospel working in lives, as people are drawn into believing the gospel, or seeing others grow in their faith. It has also been a challenge but also a privilege to see how God has sustained and grown people through tough and sometimes ongoing situations.
CNM: Can you say a bit about what you will be doing with CMF?
AL: The main aim will be to seek to start a work amongst student nurses along the lines of the student work for medics. Initially, this will be making contact with student nurses and possibly other health care students, with the aim to teach the bible and encourage them to think through ethical issues, to help them be a light in their profession both individually and corporately and to be a friend. We hope to organise and run half and full day conference, and weekends. I am also very keen to establish good links with churches, UCCF and existing volunteers who have been supporting nurses during the last few years. We are all praying that God will provide others to help in the work and that from the student work a stronger vibrant work amongst qualified nurses might grow.
CNM: Annie, is there anything that we can pray about in connection with you taking up your new role?
AL: That I will increasingly know Jesus better and delight in him. That he will give CNM, CMF and myself His wisdom as we set out on this work, and that He will open doors. Please pray for nurses to be built up in Christ and for many others to hear the gospel. That I will quickly pick up the pressures that students are facing in the present day. For my departure from Birmingham and for settling back into London, and for wisdom to know which church I should join.
CNM: Thank you Annie, and we look forward to working with you over the coming years.
You will be able to contact Annie on students@cnm.org.uk and annie@cmf.org.uk from 4 October 2010.
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