Revd Martin King
Diocesan
Environment Officer, Diocese of
8
January 2008
The Diocese of St Albans has appointed Revd Martin King as its Diocesan Environment Officer.
Martin has been a non-stipendiary minister
at St Helen’s and St Peter’s in Wheathampstead since his ordination in
2005. Martin came to ordained ministry
after a career as a business professional with IBM, primarily working with
IBM’s customers and clients, often in a consultancy role. During his career he spent three years as an
instructor at IBM’s European Education Centre in
Martin has long had an active interest in environmental issues and his scientific background has helped him to assess the significance of many of the contributions to the lively environmental debate that is going on around us. Martin has taken a particular interest in the energy efficiency of the houses in which he has lived and the fuel efficiency of the cars he has owned. His household is also pro-active in recycling as much as possible.
As DEO, Martin is expecting to be able to
combine his scientific knowledge and his interest in practical environmental
issues with an understanding of the theology of caring for the world that God
has given us. He will be supporting
parishes and deaneries, which wish to strengthen their own environmental
understanding and practice. In this he
will work closely with the Diocese’s Environment Group, which brings together
professional expertise in a number of key areas, and is chaired by Dr Richard
Southern, Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the
Martin welcomes contact on environmental matters via email on martin.king@stalbans.anglican.org or by phone on 07963 196416.