The Revd Jo Neary

Bio:

Tutor in Rural Ministry, team vicar and pioneer priest in the Beaminster Area Team.

The Tutor in Rural Ministry role (two days per week) is a secondment to the Sarum Centre for Formation in Ministry by the Diocese of Salisbury until early 2023 as part of its Rural Hope Project.

As part of the Beaminster team, Jo works with the church and community to explore a common way of life as a means of discipleship, to offer hospitality, and to speak about and address rural poverty.

Jo previously served as a self-supporting minister (SSM) for a couple of years in Charlton Down, a new build village without a church building, working with young families and establishing a Messy Church and pop-up community café. Her curacy was in London diocese, in outer estate ministry in Northolt in a parish of 19,000.