Two new members join Alex on the Ignite Team

Meet Alexander Curley-Warren (pictured right)

I am from Our Lady and St. Charles Borromeo parish in Wisbech.  I had a secular upbringing but always felt like there was a greater presence. As I entered my teenage years this feeling grew more and more, I found myself beginning to ask questions about my faith and after a few years of seeking,  found my home in the Catholic Church after a visit to Walsingham where I feel I was personally called by Our Lady.

I first came across the Ignite team a few years ago when they did a talk in my parish.  It was after going on the World Youth Day pilgrimage in Lisbon, which is an international jamboree for young Catholics worldwide and walking the Camino pilgrimage the following year when I realised my day job, commercial landscaping on construction sites,  was not fulfilling my desire to serve the Lord and develop my faith. I began to get a very strong feeling that I was called to more and steadily started to think about ways I could be a good servant, and that’s when I had a revelation that the Ignite Team could be a great idea.

I feel a year out to serve the young people in the diocese whilst growing in my own relationship with the Lord and discerning my vocation is just what God wants me to do at this time. I pray that more young people may come to know the love God has for each one of them.

Meet Luc Wallace: (pictured left)

I’m from Bury St Edmunds, and I have been part of the St Edmund’s parish my whole life, including altar serving for eleven years and playing in the parish music group for the past year. I have also attended catholic schools.

As a young boy, I had faith and I enjoyed being involved in the mass through altar serving. However, following a series of injuries I lost a lot of faith and the Lord was not my foundation in those difficult times. Suddenly, halfway through sixth form, the prospect of going to world youth day arose, and alongside four of my friends from church, I attended the event which, with hindsight, has proved pivotal to me being part of the Ignite team today. In the daily masses at world youth day, Jesus reached out to me through the Eucharist. He wanted me to place him at the centre of my life, and I did so. Whilst my injuries are still unresolved, God is my foundation and I have found a joy and a truth in Jesus that I know many people in this world search for. It is for this reason that, whilst on the diocesan Camino pilgrimage, I decided to join the Ignite team. I desire that everyone will find this joy and happiness that is only found in the love of Jesus, and I ask for your prayers that this year, through the Ignite team, God will transform many lives. 

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