Director/Facilitator - Chris has spent over 20 years in pastoral ministry in the UK, latterly at Aylesbury Baptist Church where he took specific responsibility for mission and worship. He was one of the founders of RUN (Reaching the Unchurched Network) and served as Director until the end of 2009. He has been part of the leadership team of Eurochurch, a European-wide leadership network and is co-author of Church on the Edge. Chris is married to Liz; they have two daughters and live in Buckinghamshire.

Associate Director/Facilitator - Martin served as both associate vicar and rector  at St James Gerrards Cross over 17 years. He has extensive leadership experience in pastoral care, vocations, small group ministry and leading a larger church. His passion is to see the local church flourish and grow, especially to support and nurture leaders. Prior to ordination Martin was the Marketing Director for Gillette UK & Northern Europe. He is married to Sophie and they have three grown up daughters. He lives in South Bucks.

Director/Trustee - Nick is the founder leader of Riverside Church, Birmingham and a Lay Canon at Birmingham Cathedral. He is highly regarded as a creative communicator and teacher both nationally and internationally and is also the author of a number of books including ‘How to Survive as a Church Leader.’ Nick is a regular contributor to our Learning Communities. He is married to Lois and they live in Birmingham.

Facilitator - Martin leads our Learning Communities in Scotland. After an initial career in production management with Kangol Ltd, Martin served as a minister in churches in Cumbria and Aberdeen and latterly as senior minister at St Peter’s Baptist Church, Worcester. Through these years his aim has been to live out the vocation of a missionary disciple and equip others for this role through teaching, training, mentoring and apprenticeship. He has a strong commitment to world mission and has served as a president and trustee of BMS World Mission. Martin is married to Becky and they have three sons who, on the whole, share their dad’s enthusiasm for hill-walking, sailing and listening to good music. Martin has degrees in Theology from Oxford University.

Trustee/Facilitator - Chris is the Senior Minister Andover Baptist Church and before that was Senior Minister of Easthampstead Baptist where amongst many other things he led the ‘Cinema and Curry’ Cluster. Prior to training for the ministry, he travelled all over the world as a Management Consultant. He lives in Hampshire with his wife Ruth.

Trustee/Facilitator - Jim has worked in the healthcare industry in various roles across the world for over 16 years, most recently as European Managing Director for Johnson & Johnson Vision Care. He is one of the leaders of Finchampstead Baptist Church and is passionate about seeing the church make a difference in our society. He is married to Karen and lives in Finchampstead.