We Are Leaders
Charlie and Karen Keene
Charlie has been the Pastor of Emmanuel since 2002, having been ordained in 1996. Karen runs our Sunday School and leads the worship team. They both emanate from west London, Karen from Ealing, Charlie from Hanworth, and were married in 1989. They have 2 children aged 14 and 10.
Charlie is the son of an Eastleigh trained railwayman, from an Assemblies of God Pentecostal background and a qualified youth worker. He currently works as a local Funeral Director and is a Governor of Cherbourg Primary School.
Karen was raised in a Baptist family. She is a Learning Support Assistant in the Visual Impairment unit at a primary school in the Borough, serves on Cherbourg’s Little Stars Pre-School’s committee and is an assistant leader at 4th Eastleigh Cub pack.
Haulwen and Alan Broadhurst
Alan and Haulwen were married in 1967, have 2 married daughters and 4 grandchildren. Alan is our Elder while Haulwen has been our temporary Church Secretary - for the last 40 years! Both are Eastleigh Borough councillors. Alan is also a Parish and County councillor and chairs the Eastleigh Churches Rent Deposit Scheme. Haulwen is a member of the Fairtrade in Eastleigh Borough committee.
Haulwen was born in Mountain Ash, South Wales but was raised in Eastleigh, attending Barton Peveril Grammar School. Her grandmother and both parents took an active part in this church and she ran the young people’s work.
Alan was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, moving here in 1960 when his father (Rev. Fred Broadhurst) became minister at Emmanuel. A retired Electrical Design Engineer, he recently worked for a young people’s training charity. He likes playing Rock/Blues guitar and is one of the church’s musicians.
Reg Harding
Reg is a familiar and well known person around Eastleigh. He currently serves Emmanuel as leader of our Friendship Circle, but has been an Elder, Deacon, Treasurer and Sunday School teacher in the past. He is the church’s ‘Elder Statesman’, but more importantly he is a good friend to those who know him.
An Eastleigh man through and through, Reg was born and raised here, only leaving during National Service in the RAF. His father worked at the Loco Works, while he spent 45 years of his own working life at Pirelli’s. Emmanuel was his family church, and it was here that he was baptised, aged 17.