The Rev Liz Smith obituary

My mother, the Rev Liz Smith, who has died of cancer aged 62, was an ecumenist with experience of ministry in both the Methodist and Anglican churches. In 1996, her first appointment as a Methodist probationer minister was as the curate in a deprived Anglican parish in Grimsby. Later, as chair of the Leeds Methodist district, she developed community projects and lobbied government, particularly about conditions in immigration detention centres. Described as a woman of “warmth and wisdom, c