The Fire Lily: A life in leadership transformed

About Martin Thrower

Martin is an experienced leader with over twenty years'' working in the horticulture industry and twenty years as an ordained parish priest in the Anglican Church. He has held many senior roles in both areas and has sat on a wide range of groups and committees of governance. He describes himself as an agent for change relishing the opportunity for ''blue sky thinking'' with a passion to communicate the Christian faith in a new way particularly to those who have no faith or who want to explore faith. He has a continually developing Christian faith based for over fifty years in the institutional church and latterly exercising and exploring what faith means in the culture in which we now live detached from any institution. Unconditional love acceptance forgiveness and grace are essential to his belief and practice. Whilst in his last role as a church leader which included oversight of other parish priests and their churches he was diagnosed with a mental breakdown particularly because of burnout caused by excessive stress which resulted in disastrous consequences. Following four years of recovery and healing Martin has currently returned to ''his roots'' in horticulture.