Never mind hymn.. look at her! Church （テニスなどの）ダブルス congregation by 雇うing blonde 29-year-old vicar

By Paul Harris for the Daily Mail
Updated: 09:25 BST, 25 May 2011

Reverend Stephanie Nadarajah has swelled the congregation at St Mary the Virgin Church in Caterham, Surrey

And it （機の）カム to pass that the people did flock to the 地元の church in 広大な／多数の／重要な number.

And the number grew each week. And soon, it became a multitude.

And here they did sit in the 丸天井d Victorian majesty of St Mary The Virgin, in a leafy land known as Caterham, Surrey.

They had come to hear the Word of the Lord. And more 特に, it seems, to take a peek at the new curate as she spake the Word unto them.

For lo! The 最新の arrival at St Mary’s was a rather foxy young blonde with a comely smile and a degree in theology from Cambridge.

And whatever it was that Stephanie? ‘Steph’ Nadarajah brought to the 集まりs, the Word quickly spread.

In six months since taking up her new 省, the 29 year-old former NHS 経営者／支配人 has seen Sunday congregations 二塁打 in size from an 普通の／平均（する） 75 to a respectable 150 加える.

Not to について言及する seeing a few 長，率いるs turning as she travels the parish in her curate’s garb. ‘The first time I walked 負かす／撃墜する the street in Caterham in a dog collar I was so embarrassed,’ she 収容する／認めるs.

‘I thought if anyone spoke to me I would just 手渡す it over and say: “You’re 権利, I’m not who I （人命などを）奪う，主張する to be ? I 選ぶd it out of the wardrobe.” But if people look and say: “Goodness me, that’s not what I 推定する／予想するd,” and listen to what I say, then that’s 広大な／多数の／重要な.’

And her 衝撃 on the good folk of Caterham? ‘You’re always treading a 罰金 line between using the person that you are, and what God has given you to do good things in his 指名する ? and not to attract all the attention yourself and for it to become a sort of personality 教団.’

Steph, who is married to a 管理／経営 顧問 she has known since her schooldays, says she does get some ‘shocked looks’ when she tells 地元のs she is the new curate. But one 変える 賞賛するd her yesterday as 存在 ‘just what we need to blow out the cobwebs ? a bit of feminine vibrancy’.

The Rev Nadarajah, as she is 正式に known, took a ‘大規模な 減少（する）’ in salary when she chose the cloth over her high-飛行機で行くing 職業 （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限ing work for the health service ? but says she couldn’t be happier.

Heaven sent: Sunday service 出席 at St Mary the Virgin Church has 二塁打d from around 75 to 150

She held さまざまな 管理／経営 地位，任命するs in the NHS before working as a pastoral assistant in Putney, South-West London.

In ありふれた with many churches, St Mary’s was 耐えるing a 漸進的な 拒絶する／低下する in congregations. Then along （機の）カム Steph. It couldn’t やめる be classed as a 奇蹟, but the pews started to fill again. The Rev Nadarajah herself 述べるd it as ‘栄えるing’. Likewise, 出資／貢献s to a 基金 to raise £80,000 for a new church hall began to swell.

Caterham, whose alumni 含む presenter Angus Deayton,?誇るs an 協会 with model Katie Price, who has a home in a nearby village. St Mary’s was built in 1866 to 融通する a growing 全住民 attracted by the 拡大 of the 鉄道s.

Steph is a far more modern thinker ? she has a Facebook page, keeps fit by running, enjoys 罰金 ワイン and loves shopping. And yes, she is only too aware of what TV’s Vicar of Dibley had done for women in the church. ‘It’s について言及するd all the time,’ she said.

‘It did a lot for women’s 省 in making it 許容できる for women to be 任命するd. But let’s make it more ordinary.’

Parishioner Andrew Spencer, 52, welcomed her arrival: ‘It’s 広大な／多数の／重要な to see an attractive young lady at the church,’ he said. ‘She’s not just a pretty 直面する though ? she’s intelligent and a 広大な／多数の／重要な listener.’