Meet the Team

Here you can meet some of the friendly faces you will find at St Luke’s.

Rev Noel Sharp

Minister

I am married to Elaine, whom you might know already as she is a member and worships at St Luke’s. We have three grown up children, and one grand-daughter, Evelyn. I am from Leicester and still support the football team through thick and (currently) thin. In former lives I have been a care assistant, a social worker, a polytechnic chaplain and regional coordinator for Christian Aid. As a minister I have served in Walsall, Redditch, Gloucester and Tetbury. In spare time I play a bit of tennis, tootle round on my electric bike and swim in the sea. Elaine and I are working our way through the walks in a book of “100 miles of the best walks in the WirraI.” We are really enjoying living in Hoylake. I am delighted to join the fellowship at St Luke’s, and look forward to becoming a part of the church family, getting to know you and serving Christ together.

Cate Warbrick

Church and Community Lay Development Worker

Cate joined St Luke’s in February 2018 after a long career in NHS management and leadership. Her role as our Lay Development Worker is to primarily identify areas within the both the church and the community that need support and to facilitate this by recognising people’s gifts and enabling them to use them. Cate is training to be a Worship Leader and her driving passion is supporting people, teams and organisations to grow to all they can be.

Noel Schorah

Treasurer / Vision & Strategy Team

In addition to being a member of our Vision & Strategy Team, Noel is church treasurer. He aims to keep the finances healthy, so that our church can continue to grow and sustain God’s mission in our community. When not involved in voluntary work, he enjoys outdoor activities including cycling & orienteering.

Catriona Schorah

Parents & Toddlers

A lifelong Methodist, Catriona is responsible for helping run the weekly Parents & Toddlers and also 1st Hoylake (St Luke’s) Guides. Married to Noel, and a proud grandma, Catriona works as a Teaching Assistant at the local primary school.

Kathy Fegan

Music Lead / Worship leader

Kathy has worshipped God in the Methodist tradition since childhood, mainly in central mission churches while growing up. She learned to play the piano as a girl, attaining her Grade 8 examination, and much later as an adult went on to learn viola and violin. In 2001, with a few friends she started the St Luke’s worship band to introduce modern songs into worship, and now coordinates a band of various instruments and singers of all ages to help lead weekly worship.

Anne-Marie Smith

Safeguarding Lead

Anne-Marie has been part of the church family at St. Luke’s since 2000 when she first attended with her (then) future husband Rich. Their two children Ceri and Liam attend the junior church ‘TransformUs’. Anne-Marie has worked within the Financial Services industry for 20 years. The last 12 years of these she has worked as an internal business auditor.a bla

Trish Davies

Life Events Coordinator

Trish is married to Mike, and they have two grown-up daughters, Rachael and Laura. Trish is a retired Religious Education teacher and has been a Worship Leader at St. Luke’s for several years.

Rachael Faith Louise Davies

Kids Klub Leader

St Luke’s really is my second family for I have been coming ever since I was born!! I grew up in Sunday School as a child and then led sessions for many years before helping in many aspects of St Luke’s family life. I am currently a Church Steward and my love of children’s work sees me co-ordinate the very popular and growing Kidz Klub at St Luke’s; a term-time weekly club for primary school-age children.

Sam Hepworth

Church Caretaker

Sam has worshipped at St Luke’s with her family since 2011, and joined the lay worker team as Caretaker in 2021, after a long career in teaching and school leadership. Her role is to oversee the maintenance and health and safety aspects of the church building fabric, and optimise the comfort and utility of the premises for the many current and future events internal and external groups lead to enhance our local community.

Craig Price

Worship Strategy Lead / Vision & Strategy Team

Craig chairs the Worship strategy team and regularly preaches at St Luke’s as well as elsewhere within the Wirral circuit and beyond. Outside of St Luke’s Craig is the Wirral Circuit Treasurer and currently serves on the Methodist Church’s Faith and Order Committee.

Clive & Chrissie McLaren

Food and Friends

Chrissie grew up in the Methodist church on the Wirral before moving away and getting married to Clive. She subsequently had five children that she home educated, and along with her family spent two years on mission in Tanzania, setting up and running a school for orphaned children.

Returning to the Wirral they settled at St. Luke’s in 2006 where Chrissie has been involved in various capacities. Clive is the co-facilitator for Food & Friends, our weekly Friday lunch club and ‘Drop In’.

Sandra Mealor

Saturday Club / Vision & Strategy Team

Having lived on Wirral all her life, Sandra moved to Hoylake in 1990. She transferred her church membership in 2003. Sandra is married to John and they have 3 adult boys who benefitted greatly from many organised activities in/around Hoylake when they were younger. Since her retirement from teaching, this has led to a desire for voluntary work, to pay back time given by others to her family. Sandra is now the leader of the Saturday Club, a club for disadvantaged adults which has been at St Luke’s for more than 50 years. Sandra joined several years ago as a helper and progressed to leader in 2012. She is also the main organiser of our Community Lunch project, which commenced in 2011 with the objective of offering a warm and friendly atmosphere for anyone from the local community to come and enjoy a freshly cooked meal and make new friends. Since then it has grown to a very successful monthly event for approximately 50 people, thanks to Sandra and a really good small team of helpers.

Dave Hepworth

Tech Team

Dave is originally from Yorkshire and has taught on the Wirral for over 20 years. He is married to Sam and father to William.

Andy Kemp

Church Council Secretary / FUSS

Andy is the part-time Co-ordinator of Wirral FUSS, a project supplying good quality School Uniform – FREE – to families on the Wirral. Uniform items are given regardless of family circumstances, as a sign of God’s grace, in the spirit and according to the values of God’s Kingdom. It also aims to care for God’s Creation by preventing large quantities of clothing from becoming landfill. Andy’s family has been a part of the church family at St Luke’s since 1988. During that time Andy has worked for the Methodist Church as a Lay Pastor and Church Community Worker in Liverpool, Warrington and Wirral. He is a Managing Trustee of both the Methodist Fund for Human Need and the Sea of Faith Network UK.