NICHOLA LOVETT

The daughter of a French mother and an English-Scottish father, Nichola grew up in England. She trained as a midwife and delivered African, Asian and Oriental babies in the bustling port of post-World War II Liverpool. She feels that this encouraged a spirit of adventure in her. In Alberta , Canada , she met the Sacree Indians and was touched by their innate dignity, their good manners and their gentle-sounding language.

Nichola was professed as a Medical Mission Sister at age 35 and was assigned to East Africa w here, for the next 33 years, she was part of multicultural MMS communities and worked with many different ethnic and tribal groups in Uganda and Kenya . The longer she lived in Uganda, the more she treasured the way the simplest person is steeped in belief in a Supreme Being who is in the very air we breathe and on whom our very life depends and where the first action each day was to thank God for the gift of life.

Now back in London, Nichola works as a part-time hospital chaplain, looks after the District Archives and is much involved in work for justice and peace as well as being a member of the Executive Committee for the District.