Locum Priests

Locum Priests Updated: 9th July 2025.
We are currently enjoying the benefit of Locum priests as we advertise for our permanent Chaplain.
We are very fortunate to have been blessed with many kind and supportive people over the past months and now look forward to welcoming Revd David Eastwood to our lovely island to lead us in worship.

I am David Eastwood, and I recently retired from parish ministry in the Church of England.
I live with my wife, Monica, in Sheffield which is where our two daughters and their husbands and our 3 grandchildren live.
I started my working life as a lawyer, working in one law firm for almost 30 years, and then in 2008 after training at Cambridge, I was ordained in the Church of England.
I served as a curate in Warrington and then as Team Rector at St Helens Parish Church, Merseyside, and then as an Interim Minister at St John’s Park Church in Sheffield until I retired from parish ministry in April last year.
I love to play golf (not very well) and if there are any golfers in Lanzarote, I’d be pleased to meet them!
I also enjoy travel and a friend and I are setting up a charity, Eremos Journeys, to take people on trips/pilgrimages to Turkey and Greece and to the Holy Land in the steps of St Paul, the early disciples and of course Jesus. We have already begun the trips to Turkey and Greece.
I very much look forward to being with you from 11 July and Monica will also be joining me, but she needs to be in Sheffield for ‘grandparent duties’ for some of the time.
My two daughters Beth and Kathryn are also joining me for a few days.