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Morey starts his descent.
Andrew Mann/Adventure Plus TO mark his last weekend as the vicar of St Leonard's Eynsham after over ten years, the Revd Morey Andrews jumped off the church tower on 10 September. Morey is moving to a newly created post as Deanery Strategic Mission Enabler for Sedgemoor Deanery in Bath and Wells Diocese.
He and young people from the church abseiled off the tower for Adventure Plus, with which the church has had a long association. Adventure Plus, founded to "encourage young people to embrace the adventure of faith", works with 7,000 children and youth each year.
Their programmes enable any young person, who might first have come to Adventure Plus through a school visit or social services, to keep in touch throughout their teens and into adulthood. Founder and director Jonathan Cox says: "As the Church struggles to engage 'hard to reach' young people, I do not know of a more effective, challenging and fun way to reach young people from right across the social spectrum, and then to keep in touch. "Adventure Plus is developing an AdventureBase which will enable them to reach twice as many young people each year. The deadline to secure the freehold of the site is this month.
The Diocese of Oxford has supported the project from the start, with money from the collection at the former Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Revd John Pritchard's official leaving-do, the Grand Day Out, being donated to the charity.