New Assistant Chaplain – Rev’d Heidintatha (Heidin) Kunoo
We have a new Assistant! The Archbishop of Melbourne, the Rt Rev’d Dr Philip Freier and the Vicar of St Pauls East Kew – also the Vice Chairman of the MtSV, the Rev’d Canon John Sanderson are pleased to announce the appointment of the Rev’d Heidintatha (Heidin) Kunoo as as an Assistant Priest at St Paul’s East Kew and as an Assistant Chaplain with the Mission to Seafarers – Victoria.
Heidin currently serves as the Assistant Priest (Curate) at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Bacchus Marsh and previously served as the Assistant Curate at Point Lonsdale and Queenscliffe Anglican Church, and as Chaplain to the Foundation Studies Program at Trinity College, University of Melbourne.
Heidin and her family are of Karen ethnicity from Burma. Heidin has two older sisters and states that she “was born into a strong Christian family and church is my second home.”
Because of the civil war Heidin and her family moved to Australia in 2005 and Heidin subsequently graduated with a BTheol from Trinity College Theological School in 2016 before ordination in the Diocese of Melbourne in 2017.
Heidin originally thought that she might like to become a missionary in developing countries, “but God is calling me to be ordained and serve in His church.”
Fr John says, “We are thrilled that Heidin has discerned a call to serve here at St Paul’s and with the Mission to the Seafarers in Docklands. A humble priest with a gentle presence who has exercised a ministry of presence and care in her curacies and amongst the broader community we are overjoyed that she has accepted the invitation to be part of the community not only here in East Kew, but also with St Georges in East Ivanhoe and the Mission in Docklands.”
Heidin will be welcomed and commissioned into this new role during public worship on Sunday 18 April, 2021 at 10am St Paul’s Anglican Church – East Kew.
