The life of a charismatic cleric whose vocation changed communities in South Africa and Bishop’s Stortford will be celebrated on Friday, April 26. Reverend Clive Slaughter’s funeral service will take place from 11.30am at St Barnabas Centre – the medieval barn he helped convert into a place of worship for an expanding congregation at St James the Great, Thorley. The rector, who retired from the parish in 2001 before spending a further decade as a locum at St Andrew’s in Much Hadham, St Cecilia’s in Little Hadham, St Mary’s in Sawbridgeworth and Furneux Pelham, Braughing and Stocking Pelham, pa…
