Laura serves the wider church as a Bible teacher and preacher. She speaks at conferences, evangelistic events, local church theology initiatives, theological colleges and speaker training. Laura is passionate about communication that connects, engaging well with the Bible text, building community, and championing the people of God into Christlikeness. Some of her recent teaching and writing has focused on the hermeneutics of Old Testament law, asking questions about the vocation of the people of God and the work of Christ and the Spirit. Laura and her husband Owen lead St Thomas Church in Swansea, and they have three young children.

Sharon works at Langham Preaching on the Europe & Caribbean Team - training leaders and others to teach God’s word. Her work involves teaching at preaching seminars, leading small preaching groups, and chairing the Langham Preaching Women’s Advisory Group, which seeks to equip women to teach the Bible. Since 2020 Sharon has served in church-planting and local church revitalisation. Her recent study with Union School of Theology focused upon Lukan accounts of male-female partnership in speech ministry. Sharon, her husband Jez and their sons currently live in Northern Ireland.

Mark is Director of the Europe & Caribbean Team for Langham Preaching. He is also an ordained Anglican minister, who has served in various local churches and until recently he was Chaplain to the Whitehall offices, London. Mark has also taught in an Ugandan seminary. He has written several books, including A Wilderness of Mirrors (Zondervan, 2015) and When Darkness Seems My Closest Friend (IVP, 2018). Mark is passionately concerned to cross the bridge between the Bible’s world and the contemporary world in preaching. He is married to Rachel and they have two grownup children. He blogs at markmeynell.net.

Simon is Pastor of Theology at St Aldates church, teaching, writing and serving the wider church as conference speaker and Bible teacher. He was an associate Tutor at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford Evangelical Pastorate Chaplain working amongst undergraduates, and served his curacy in inner city Bradford. Simon has written a number of books on Doctrine, Pastoral Theology and Biblical Commentary; his favourite is his book celebrating Jesus. His main focus is to see God’s Church loving God’s word and filled with his Spirit. Simon is married to Tiffany, a school teacher, artist & mother of their two grown up sons Joel and Nathanael.

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Greg is ordained in the Church of England. He is currently ministering in St John the Baptist Church, Spalding. He is married to Sophie (also ordained) and they have two children. He continues to learn about patience and hope in the face of despair through his support of Everton FC.

Phil’s first 24 years were spent in Torquay. He has then lived in Bristol, Watford, Hong Kong, Birmingham and now Worcester. He worked as an insurance underwriter for 40 years, interspersed with two years studying theology and a year living alongside those recovering from drug addiction. Phil is now retired and volunteer in various capacities as a church warden. Phil is married with two adult daughters, two sons-in-law, and five grandchildren.

Born in Belfast, Sharon was raised, and still resides, in the seaside city of Bangor, NI. Sharon studied for a PhD in Christian Mentoring, and then taught theology at Belfast Bible College and guest lectured at other colleges for 15 years. Her studies have afforded her opportunities to speak at conferences, to act as an advisor to church and parachurch organisations locally and abroad, and to serve on a variety boards.  In 2016, she took a position as Church Administrator in her local Baptist church, where she serves as Deacon for Women.  Sharon enjoys writing, speaking, crafting, retreats and spending time with friends and family - in particular, her 2 grandsons.

Jitesh is Assistant Director & Lecturer in Theology at St Mellitus College East Midlands, and Associate Vicar at Holy Trinity Leicester. He is the convener of the New Wine Preaching Conferences that have seen hundreds of preachers across the nation inspired and equipped for the preaching ministry. As well as being a seasoned preacher he is passionate about seeing new preachers raised up, and most of his current church ministry is devoted to preaching and raising others to preach. His doctoral research explores the relationship between Postmodern epistemology and the Charismatic Movement. Jitesh and his wife, have recently had the joy of becoming parents to a baby daughter, Jemimah.

Sophie is ordained and serves in local parish ministry with her husband in an Anglican church in South Lincolnshire.

She also serves on The Junia Network committee (www.thejunianetwork.org.uk), which exists to support and advocate for ordained Anglican evangelical women. Sophie is interested in the difference charismatic theology makes in expository preaching.

Jonathan is the pastor of Cornerstone Church, Abergavenny, preaches at various conferences and is a regular contributor on BBC Radio Wales and Radio 4. Previously, Jonathan gained a Masters with a focus on preaching and has been a pastor in two churches in Wales . In his desire to learn how to preach more effectively, Jonathan has researched and taught in the area of the work of the Spirit in preaching, and the training methods of a Welshman in America called Gwyn Walters (Gordon-Conwell). Jonathan is married to Rebecca and is the father of 3 boys.

Clare is the founder of Get Real, a Christian apologetics organisation which addresses questions about Christianity, particularly from the black community. She has a degree in English Literature and Language from Oxford University, and she completed postgraduate training in theology at Wycliffe Hall. During her 10-year teaching career in South East London, Clare achieved an MA in Leadership, and she is now pursuing a second Masters in Culture, Diaspora and Ethnicity at Birkbeck, University of London. She enjoys engaging with questions of culture, truth, identity, and the gospel and using the Bible effectively in evangelistic preaching.