Janet Wootton
WOOTTON, Janet. b. Bedford, England, 10 August 1952. She was educated at Loughborough High School and Oxford University, with 1st Class Honours in Classics (1975) and Theology (1978), followed by a Certificate in Theology at Oxford and a PhD at King's College, London (1988). She was ordained into the ministry of the Congregational Federation in 1979, serving at Haverhill (Suffolk) and Steeple Bumpstead (Essex) from 1979 to 1986. In 1986 she became Minister of Union Chapel, Islington, London. At the beginning of 2004 she moved to be Director of Studies at the Congregational Federation in Nottingham.
The best known of her hymns are ‘At break of day three women came’* and ‘Welcome Sophia’*,...
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