Welcome from Holy Trinity Wardens

Brian Jelbert,

Holy Trinity (Churchwarden).

Brian has been a practising Christian all his life, baptised in Church of England, brought up in the Congregational church (now URC), been for some years an active elder in the URC in Derby, St.Neots and Knaresborough. More recently, he has been a regular worshipper at Holy Trinity in Knaresborough for the past 3 to 4 years. Having “been around a bit” and seen several styles of worship, Brian is fairly ecumenical in his outlook and has been a worshipper at several local churches. After all, we all worship the same God just in slightly different ways.

By background, Brian is a maths graduate from Manchester University, moving initially into IT. He then qualified in accountancy and has been a finance director for over 30 years in several different companies. With his career passing through food and drink, chocolate, beer, toys, greetings cards amongst other sectors, he believes it’s important to be able to “relate to the product” – hence the expanded waist line!

Brian and his wife for 40 years, Dot, settled in Scriven, Knaresborough in late 1991 and they have both been an active part of local activities since then. They have two grown up sons. Richard and his family (two grandsons aged 8 and 7) live locally in Knaresborough, whilst Mark stayed in Sheffield after graduating there. A move to Knaresborough followed a period of 7 family homes across England in 20 years so The Jelbert family seem now to have “got stuck” or finally settled on an area!

The connection with Holy Trinity was enhanced and cemented through Brian’s membership of Knaresborough Choral Society. Concerts (March and December each year) are held in the church which has excellent acoustics for orchestra and choir.

Brian says “Do please come and see us at Holy Trinity Church. The peace and tranquillity of our worship, coupled with a very warm welcome, will hopefully bring to you that extra dimension that you sometimes need and search hard for. We have something for all ages and circumstances.”