One of the distinctive features of Mill House is that it is run by an intentional community of people who live and work alongside local volunteers to offer a friendly welcome, home cooked food and a simple daily rhythm of prayer and reflection.
Mill House is extending their ministry of hospitality and heading to Malawi!! They have been so inspired by the work of Marys Meals that they are fundraising so that every child in the school they are supporting can eat each day and learn skills to help them face a brighter future.
jane taylor
Jane Taylor is the founder of Mill House Retreats. She came to Devon in 2004 with the aim of starting a small working community that would help with the running of a retreat. In some ways the vision grew out of keeping 'open house' in her family home which, coupled with a three month internship at Othona Community in Dorset, led to her purchasing Rocknell Manor Farm.
Jane has worked in human resources, been an independent trader and more recently a parish priest; she's keen to help groups and individuals explore an integrated life. Her love of architecture and design finds expression in the house and contemporary courtyard development. She has two grown up children and two grandchildren. As a graduate of Exeter University she has returned to one of her favourite parts of the country.
Lynne Chitty
Lynne joined the community in 2008. A Deacon at Gloucester Cathedral, she worked for some years as a legal drafter in the Land Registry. She has a strong interest in people and prayer, living a contemplative life with increasing amounts of solitude and silence. She has a gift for creative writing, incorporating a love of poetry and fiiction with her down to earth approach to spirituality. She writes regularly for Roots resources.
Lynne has one grown up cat, and a motley bunch of rescue chickens reflecting a life-long passion for animal welfare. She is also a committed Spurs fan !!
Lynne has published her first novel 'Out of the Mist', and more recently a coffee table book Legacy of Love which has raised over &40,000 for animal welfare charities around the world
www.legacyoflovebook.org
Mill House is also supported by a number of local, special people who HAVE offerED their time and talents.
Over the years this has seen us make considerable progress in every area of the work: from accounts and administration, land management and garden projects through to hospitality in its many aspects. Without this wider circle of volunteers and friends we would not be welcoming the many groups and individuals who have found their way to our doors.
For many years our prayer partners have met together at the retreat to provide encouragement to the core community as well as gaining a renewed sense of the vision behind the work of the house.
