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The London Christian pastor who led the Scottish Christian Party’s political campaign to Scotland was buried today
Maxine Hargreaves -
Aged 50 years, she died in her London home on Thursday 10th February surrounded by family and friends.
In April 2007 Pastor Maxine was in charge of the Christian Party’s ‘Mission to Scotland’, which saw a number of Black Majority Church members combine ministry with political activism in the run up to the Scottish Parliamentary elections.
She herself led the mission to the Western Isles unnerving the dominant SNP and Labour contenders.
Her husband, Pentecostal minister, Rev George Hargreaves coins in a regular fortune of royalties from his former song writing career before he became a Christian.
He wrote and produced the Gay anthem single So Macho for Sinitta and claims he gave X Factor’s Simon Cowell his first pop idol.
The royalties were to bankroll his bid to become the Western Isles MP at last May’s General Election.
He pledged £30,000 -
Pastor Maxine came to England from Jamaica at the age of seven and lived with her family in Hackney, London.
She founded a church, the Hephzibah Christian Centre, which for the past 18 years
played a major role in Hackney’s community life sponsoring major events in the borough,
providing shelter and practical help for the homeless, establishing the borough’s
first Internet café in 1998, and helping hundred’s of residents back into employment
through the Hephzibah Intro-
Pastor Maxine Hargreaves, was also leader of Hackney’s church leaders fraternal, organising and sponsoring regular breakfast meetings for Hackney pastors of all denominations.
In 2003 Pastor Maxine and her husband, Revd George Hargreaves, launched the award winning independent Christian school, the East London Christian Choir School, which is currently negotiating with the Government to become a Free School in September 2012.
Pastor Maxine actively supported her husband’s political endeavours standing for election as a Christian Party candidate at borough Council, Greater London Assembly, Westminster and European Union Parliamentary levels.
In December 2007, she refused to pull out of the Springfield Ward Council elections in Hackney despite having undergone brain surgery to remove a malignant tumour and being diagnosed with a rare liver condition.
Unbeknown to the other candidates she was hospitalised throughout the entire campaign.
Again in May 2010 she stood in the General Election despite her chronic illness. Her nomination papers were submitted while she was in hospital and she spent the campaign convalescing. She believed that “she had to stand for Christ, no matter what.”
Pastor Maxine Hargreaves held a BSc degree in Psychology from Guildhall University, a Diploma in Theology from Overstone College and a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Theology from Oxford University. She was a noted Bible teacher and preacher.
Pastor Maxine Hargreaves is survived by her husband Revd George Hargreaves, and her sons Marlon and Nicky.
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