CHRIST Church, Pennington, has a treble celebration this month.

The church is welcoming a new curate and toasting the ordination of a priest and a deacon.

Curate Evan Cockshaw joins the parish from St John's College, Nottingham.

He was ordained in the Lincoln diocese and was licensed by the Bishop of Bolton, the Rt Rev David Gillett, at Pennington.

On Saturday, June 29, the congregation is invited to Bolton Parish Church to see assistant curate, the Rev Eric White, ordained priest. He was ordained a deacon last year. The next day parishioner Jan Harney will be ordained deacon in Manchester Cathedral.

Both will celebrate their ordinations after Sunday's 6.30pm service at Christ Church.