Leaders

All members of leadership team with an email icon under their name can be emailed by using the format firstname.surname@bursledonparish.org, otherwise please contact the office.

Vicar: Peter Vargeson After 15 years in the insurance industry, Peter felt God’s call into full time ministry and after 2 years at Oxford was ordained in 1987. He has been Vicar of Bursledon since 1992, during which time he has seen the church grow and the new church of St Paul’s developed and completed. In ministry he enjoys seeing God use people in a variety of ways and the parish benefiting from the gifts, skills and service they offer as we seek to share the love of God in the community. When time allows he also enjoys sailing, walking the hills of Wales and playing the guitar. He is married to Sandy and they have three grown-up children.
Youth Minister: Tony Palmer
Children and Families’ Pastor: Belinda Lawrence
Reader: Peter White
Reader: Peter Taylor Peter is a retired industrial chemist, married to Bernadette and they have two grown-up children Sean and Nicola and three grandchildren Morgan, Chloe and Martha. Family activities are very important to Peter and Bernadette.Prior to moving into the area Peter lived and worked in Yorkshire where in 1992 he was licensed as a Lay Reader in the Church of England. Peter is a Governor at Bursledon Infant School, and amongst his other interests are walking and photography
Reader: David Sharps
Church Wardens: Tony Houston Steve Phillips
Administrator: Mike Watts Mike was born in Dorset in the mid 1950s and brought up in the Salvation Army. Having moved to Jersey a couple of years previously, he joined the Church of England in 1981. He moved back to the mainland in 1999 and married Lynne. He and Lynne now live in Hamble, near to Bursledon, and Mike has two grown-up step-children, Emma and Graeme. He has been the Parish Administrator at Bursledon since October 2000.Mike has far too many interests to list them all but bird-watching and supporting AFC Bournemouth rank highly among them.