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The Rev Peter Carman died on November 1, 2022, aged 88.

Born Peter George Karman in Budapest on January 23, 1934, his Jewish family fled Hungary in 1939 after Hitler annexed Czechoslovakia, and then migrated to Australia.

Seeking to assimilate well into their new country, the family was baptised into the Anglican Church and, at the age of 10, Mr Carman became a boarder at Barker College. Chapel services and the words of the Anglican liturgy attracted him, but he did not give his life to Christ until some years later, while working in the family textile business.

It was expected that Mr Carman would follow his father into the trade but, as his faith deepened and he became more involved in church activities at St Swithun’s, Pymble, he chose ministry, and began studying at Moore College in 1957.

Following ordination in 1960, he became curate at Corrimal, where he met his wife Diana. They married in 1963, and the following year Mr Carman became curate-in-charge at Riverwood, followed six years later by McCallums Hill.

In 1974, Mr Carman joined the Department of Youth and Community Services as a chaplain to juvenile offenders, and 10 years later he became an Anglicare chaplain at St Vincent’s Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1996. Ministries after retirement included a part-time assistant minister role at Church Hill, locums around the Diocese and voluntary work.

Said his wife Diana: “Peter felt strongly that the Christian faith is much more than mere legal standing before God, but is relational. This indwelling connection with God sustained him throughout difficult times and fostered a spirit of thankfulness for the richness of God’s blessings”.

Author, editor and teacher Lesley Hicks died on December 7, 2022, aged 87.

Mrs Hicks was born Lesley Kay Hill on November 19, 1935 and grew up on Sydney’s North Shore. As a result of a drug used to relieve labour pain during her birth, she was born with damaged hearing –although this didn’t stop her from winning a scholarship to Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Pymble.

Young Lesley Hill used lip reading to compensate for her hearing loss but, in her words, grew up “frustrated and angry”. All this changed at 14 when her church, St Paul’s, Chatswood, ran a youth camp, at which she gave her life to Jesus. Her life and attitude were transformed.

After finishing school, she received a scholarship to study at the University of Sydney, then began working at the Commonwealth Office of Education, where she became