Female church leader reflects

Major Marion Drew was a senior church leader for eight years

Major Marion Drew is to leave her position as Divisional Leader of the Salvation Army.

Her new job will see her based in London as Secretary for Communications at the Salvation Army's national headquarters.

She was the only woman in senior church leadership in Merseyside and Cheshire.

Major Drew spoke to BBC Radio Merseyside Daybreak presenter Wayne Clarke about the the highs and lows of the last eight years.

She says she was particularly pleased to see a new building in Prescot open before she left, "It's on the same site as the old one in Warrington Road and in a prime spot," Marion Drew explains.

"The site is good so that was one thing and there was another a few weeks back with a partnership in Wirral in Moreton."

The Salvation Army is a Christian church and a registered charity and was founded in 1865.