Visiting Lecturers
Revd Dr Mark Stibbe
Mark was ordained in 1986, and was most recently the senior leader of St Andrew’s, Chorleywood for 12 years, until leaving to start The Father’s House Trust in 2008. Since setting up the Father’s House Trust, Mark has travelled all over the UK and throughout the world speaking about issues relating to the Father’s love for the fatherless. He is also a popular conference speaker and leadership consultant in the UK and overseas.
He is a prolific author having published over 30 books, on faith, film and the fatherhood of God. Much of Mark’s recent writing concentrates on fatherlessness, especially:
From Orphan to Heirs
The Father You’ve Been Waiting For
I Am Your Father: What Every Heart Needs to Know
Revd Greg Haslam
Greg studied Theology and History at Durham University. After teaching high school he trained for the ministry at the London Theological Seminary before moving to Winchester where he pastored for 21 years until his call to Westminster Chapel, London in March 2002. Greg has travelled widely as a preacher and conference speaker, both in UK and overseas. He passionately believes in the recovery of strong healthy churches, characterised by a vigorous Gospel-centred focus.
He is the author of many articles and books. The latest include:
The Man Who Man Wrestled With God
Should Christians Embrace Evolution? (Contributor)
Steve Cardell
Steve is the Chief Executive Officer of HCL AXON and a Corporate Vice President of HCL Technologies Ltd. HCL is a $6 billion, 72,000 strong global business transformation consultancy, operating in 30 countries. Steve is the Chair of Fathers House Trust, the Chair of the Presence Charitable Trust, and a Board Member at the London School of Theology. He has been published over 30 times including the 'Executive Briefing' series which is read by 10,000 Senior Executives, and 'Strategic Collaboration', published by Hodder and Stoughton. Steve lectures on leadership, the workplace and prophecy. He holds qualifications from Bath and London Business Schools.
Dr Martin Sanders
The Director and Founder of Global Leadership Inc, a non-profit organisation designed to develop the next generation of leaders internationally, Martin is currently the Director of Doctoral Programs at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, NY, as well as Professor of Pastoral Theology, teaching courses in homiletics, pastoral leadership, and spiritual formation.
Amongst his other achievements, Martin has written;
How to get the family you’ve always wanted (2004)
The power of mentoring (2004)
Dr Lance Wallnau
As a dynamic teacher Dr Lance Wallnau is the founder of the Lance Learning Group a place where he shares his lifetime research in the field of organisational and personal transformation, regularly consulting with leaders and ministry networks, as well as authoring and presenting at conferences internationally.
In 2008 Lance, launched the 7M University offering online training and personal development courses. This developing system of materials and full media presentation vehicle will impact the lives of hundreds of thousands worldwide.
Click here to see 5 minutes with Dr Lance Wallnau
Dr Krish Kandiah
Krish is Executive Director: Churches in Mission and England Director for the UK Evangelical Alliance. He is also part of the theme development group for Spring Harvest, an external examiner for Oak Hill College and Associate Research Fellow at London School of Theology. Prior to this Dr Kandiah was the Director of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and also Tutor in Mission and Evangelism at Wycliffe Hall. He was also a member of the Oxford University Theology faculty.
Krish has worked with students in the UK with Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship, and in Albania with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, before becoming pastor of a multi-cultural church in Harrow. He is still a regular speaker at university missions, and has wide experience in evangelism and cross-cultural mission. He is a regular speaker at Spring Harvest and is in demand around the world as a speaker and lecturer. Some of Krish’s publications include:
Dysciples: Why I fall asleep when I pray… (Authentic 2009)
Twenty Four: Integrating faith and real life (Authentic 2007)
Destiny: What is life all about? (Monarch 2007)
Life Swap: finding the life you always wanted (Monarch 2008)
How to Save a Life: becoming a Christian (Authentic 2009)
Just Politic (Authentic 2010)
Route66: a crash course in navigating life with the Bible (2011)
To take a look at Krish's blog, click here
Tony Anthony
Tony Anthony is an international evangelist and award-winning author. He is an internationally recognized speaker and passionate evangelist who continually seeks to communicate the Good News of the Gospel to a world in need. For 19 years he has travelled the world telling about the miraculous transformation that occurred in his life. He addresses hundreds of thousands of people every year, speaking in prisons, schools, universities, churches, concerts, and city wide events. Tony keeps audiences spellbound as he shares his testimony and communicates the Gospel in his own unique way.
He is the founding Director of Avanti Ministries, which is a ministry of evangelism and discipleship training. Tony has a burning concern for the proclamation and spread of the Gospel around the globe coupled with a huge passion to equip others to do the same. Tony has written a number of books including:
Taming the Tiger
Passion
Cry of the Tiger
Julian Adams
Having grown up in Cape Town, Julian became an elder at The Bay Community Church at 23, After relocating to the UK in 2006, Julian is now based at The Kings Arms, Bedford , UK. Julian travels extensively both in the UK and internationally serving many churches, equipping the church in hearing God’s voice, receiving words of knowledge and healing the sick. He’s an experienced prophet, with a strong teaching gift and has a passion to see the whole church mobilised to bring the Kingdom of God onto the streets.
Julian established The Frequentsee Trust in April 2011 as a vehicle to help facilitate and raise up prophetic ministry in the church. The trust is increasingly in demand to help build a culture of the supernatural in local churches alongside biblical apostolic ministry. The trust is also involved in helping bring justice and mercy to various ministries across the nations.
Julian serves as part of the Newfrontiers family of churches. People have described his gift as extremely accurate and his insights into building the church as invaluable, here are some of his own words about his journey!
Stuart and Chloe Glassborow
Stuart & Chloe have an amazing passion to see the Father Heart of God impact the nations, and have a supernatural testimony of forgiveness and healing to match! They long to see the real, biblical and authentic heart of Father God revealed to his children, bringing freedom, healing and reconciliation to a hurting world.
They started Catch The Fire in 2003 when they experienced the Father’s love themselves. Having attended the Leaders School of Ministry in Toronto, they developed a passion to see the core values of Catch The Fire sweep across the UK and overflow into the nations.
Stuart and Chloe are also the founding directors of The Kenyan Children’s Project, a charity that reaches out to over 40,000 orphans and street children in western Kenya.
In 2009 Stuart & Chloe became the Senior Pastors of Catch The Fire UK's first church, Catch The Fire London, in Wembley.
Pete Wynter
Pete leads Onelife an organisation committed to raising up transformational leaders in the UK. He remains on staff at St Andrews, Chorleywood, where he served as the Youth Pastor for 5 years. Before working for the church Pete was a teacher and spent time as a chaplain in a young offenders Prison. Whilst developing Onelife he also regularly speaks at conferences in the UK and beyond and sits on Tearfunds Church and Supporters board.
Mark Greene
Mark is the executive director of the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity. Before working at LICC, he was vice-principal and lecturer in communications at the London School of Theology. He is a pioneer in workplace ministry having worked in advertising in London and New York. He has also served as the Chairman of Jews for Jesus (UK and Europe) and has been a consultant for The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Tearfund.
He has produced a number of resources:
Thank God it’s Monday
Christian Life and Work
The Best Idea in the World
Dr George Verwer
George is the founder of Operation Mobilisation, a Christian missions organization that aims to mobilize young people to live and share the Gospel of Jesus. George passionately believes the discipleship is the only legitimate option for people who believe in Jesus. Whilst he has handed over the main leadership of OM to Peter Maiden, George is still involved in Special Projects Ministries on a full time basis. George and his wife regularly travel and speak all over the world. He has written a variety of books including:
Out of the Comfort Zone
The Revolution of Love
Drops from a Leaking Tap
Click here to see 5 minutes with George Verwer
Right Revd David Pytches
David is a bishop of the Anglican Communion. Some of his former jobs have included Bishop of Chile, Bolivia and Peru, and vicar of St Andrews Chorleywood. He, along with his wife, founded the New Wine conferences, and supported the Soul Survivor movement. He continues to speak at conferences including New Wine and Soul Survivor.
He is the author of many publications, including:
Come Holy Spirit
Prophecy in the Local Church
Can anyone be a leader?
Living at the Edge
Mary Pytches
Mary is married to David Pytches, former vicar of St Andrew’s Chorleywood. She co-founded the New Wine movement with her husband and regularly speaks at the summer conferences. She has a teaching and counseling ministry and speaks on personal development and discipleship.
Some of her books include:
The Road to Maturity
Dying to change
Who am I?
Rising above the storms of life
Revd Tim Roberts
Tim is the senior pastor of Watford Community Church. He trained at the London School of Theology (formerly London Bible College), and with his wife Helen has been leading Watford Community Church since 1998. As well as his involvement with WCC, Tim is also the moderator of Christians Across Watford and is active in town-wide initiatives.
Revd William Challis
William is the Director of Ordinands for the Diocese of Guildford. William is the former vice-principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He was also a Tutor at Oak Hill Theological College. He has also worked as a vicar in Bristol & Southampton. He has one wife, three children and one son-in-law.
His books include:
The Word of Life: Using the Bible in Pastoral Care
Don Egan
Don is the founder and Director of RSVP and currently lives in Suffolk with his wife Hazel. Don is a Christian speaker, writer and missionary, and has been in full time ministry in the Anglican church for over 23 years. He was commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1987 and is recognized as a member of the Archbishop’s college of evangelists. His main passion is speaking on breakthrough, especially physical healing. He has witnessed many healings during his time of ministry.
Charles Foster
Charles is a writer, barrister and traveller. Charles read veterinary medicine and law at Cambridge, and since then has held many research positions both in the UK and in Israel. As a barrister, he practices mainly in medical law and is a member of Outer Temple Chambers, London and sits part time in the Crown Court and the County Court. He is research associate at the Ethox Centre and the HeLEX Centre at the University of Oxford. He is a fellow of Green Templeton College and spends much of his life on expeditions, particularly desert expeditions.
Books he has authored include:
The Jesus Inquest
The Selfless Gene
Wired for God?
Revd Mark Greenwood
Mark is a full time evangelist from the North of England. After beginning his career as a butcher, he moved to Bristol to train with the evangelical organization OAC and then joined the team as a Staff Evangelist. He is now Director of the forty:three trust, a charity that is committed to presenting the gospel in a way that connects to culture. He travels extensively in the UK delivering training courses and speaking in all kinds of venues. He is an associate evangelist of the Philo Trust and a member of the Archbishop’s college of evangelists. He is also an ECI evangelist with the Elim Pentecostal church and is on the national speakers list of Christian Vision for Men.
Simon Guillebaud
Simon was working in marketing when he felt the call of God to go to Burundi. He founded GLO- Great Lakes Outreach, a large mission and development NGO in the war-torn region while he was working for Scripture Union. His publications include “Dangerously Alive” and “For what it’s worth” and he speaks regularly at conferences such as New Wine and Newday. He is a passionate evangelist and preaches, networks and fundraises internationally.
Jim Thwaites
Jim is the former pastor of the Manly Village Church, Australia, and is now a founding elder of the church. He assists in establishing emerging church networks in Great Britain and other parts of Europe. His passion is to restore a ‘Hebrew Worldview’ to the church so that in all areas of life, people are set free to express their relationship with God. His published works include:
Renegotiating the Church Contract
The Church beyond the Congregation
Jamie Treadwell
Jamie is an artist and missionary. A native of the USA, he now lives in London as a member of the Christian community called the Sword of the Spirit and its missionary brotherhood The Servants of the Word. He has worked as the Regional Youth Programme Director for the European and Middle East region of the Sword and the Spirit. He is a coach at Kairos, has founded Jamie Treadwell coaching and is an artist at Jamie Treadwell art.
Rachel Hickson
Rachel, together with her husband Gordon Hickson, founded Heartcry Ministries whilst pastoring a group of churches in Hertfordshire in the early 1990s. Heartcry Ministries trains and equips people to be released into effective prayer and intercession for their communities, cities and nations. Rachel travels internationally and speaks at events with a variety of denominational backgrounds. She also co-ordinates londonprayer.net. She has written 4 books:
Supernatural Communication
Supernatural Breakthrough
Stepping Stones to Freedom
Pathway of Peace
Dr Milfred Minitrea
Milfred is the founding director of the Missional Church Centre based in Texas. He coaches churches and individuals in their quest to live God’s mission and leads seminars that explore missional culture and spiritual formation for authentic discipleship. He previously served in Executive Staff positions with the Baptist General Convention of Texas and Dallas Baptist Association. He is the author of “Shaped by God’s Heart: the Passion of Practices of Missional Churches” and is a contributing author and editor of “Hands on Ministry”, a publication that equips laypeople in pastoral care skills for ministry.
Barry Woodward
Barry is an evangelist whose life was dramatically changed after being immersed in the drugs scene in Manchester. Since his conversion, he has worked at a number of Christian organizations. He studied full time at Cliff Bible College and has a diploma in Biblical Studies and Evangelistic Ministry. Barry is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God denomination in the UK. He is also an associate evangelist of the Philo Trust. He is the author of “Once an addict”. Barry is the Director and Founder of the Proclaim Trust, a charity that mentors evangelists and assists the church in missional endeavors.
Revd Dr Viv Thomas
The director and founder of formation; a charitable organisation that develops people in the way they think, feel and respond to society that they will be better able to grow in the image of God through living ‘ a spectacular ordinary life’. Viv was also the Coordinator of Leadership Development for Operation Mobilization and continues to travel the world to see leaders grow. Viv has a Ph.D. from King’s College, London where his research focussed on Christian Leadership in relation to the trinity; and is also an ordained Anglican Minister.
He has written:
Future Leader
Second Choice
Paper Boys
The Spectacular Ordinary Life
Cannon J.John
J.John is a creative Christian speaker with an appeal that transcends gender, age, race, culture and occupation. His much-loved art of storytelling helps people to discover spiritual meaning in a way that makes sense of everyday life. To date, he has completed thousands of speaking engagements at conferences, towns, cities and universities in 69 countries on 6 continents. J.John has authored over 50 titles, and there are over a million copies of his books in print in thirteen languages. J.John has also set up the ministry Philo Trust
Revd Tim Saiet
Tim Saiet is a creative communicator who manages to connect the powerful messages of Jesus through illustrative illusions and exciting visual effects. He is married to Charlotte and lives in Harrow. Tim is a former Royal Marine Commando and has spent time coaching all types of skiing and outdoor winter pursuits. He has worked in the Arctic Circle and has taught in many ski schools around the world. He has also worked as a life coach and has equipped and trained many different people in the Church, and in the corporate market, in how to apply the truths and message of the Christian faith into their lives. Tim works alongside Cannon J.John at Philo Trust
Rev Cannon Dr Michael Green
Michael Green is a Lecturer at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. For some years he was a Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, where he taught Evangelism, Apologetics and some New Testament Studies and latterly worked with Professor Alister McGrath in setting up and teaching the Certificate in Christian Apologetics. Subsequently he has been helping to grow a start-up Anglican Church in Raleigh, North Carolina,and is now back at Oxford. Michael Green’s previous experiences include being Principal of St John's College, Nottingham; Principal of London College of Divinity; Rector of St Aldate's Church, Oxford; Professor of Evangelism at Regent College, Vancouver, and Advisor to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York on Evangelism. His recently published works include
The Books the Church Suppressed
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