Jane Butcher
Jane is part of BRF’s Barnabas children’s ministry team. Having originally trained as a teacher, she moved into church based ministry working for large churches in the UK and USA. Her current role also involves developing the Faith in the Home ministry within BRF.
Sponsored by Barnabas for Children www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk
Lorne Campbell
Since the 1990’s Lorne has written and developed several resources, watched hours of DVDs and eaten lots of pizza during his 22 years in youth and children’s work. He wants to help reduce the fear and increase the fun in working with children and young people.
Sponsored by Urban Saints www.urbansaints.org
Alan Charter
Alan is Associate Director at Scriture Union England and Wales and part-time Director of Children Matter! He is passionate about helping children to meet Jesus and getting others to do the same. He is partner in crime with Claire in parenting four endlessly energetic children.
Sponsored by Scripture Union www.scriptureunion.org.uk
Terry Clutterham
Terry is the Director of Ministry at Scripture Union England and Wales, covering schools, holidays, missions, training, church-based ministry and publishing. He is passionate about helping children explore the Bible and for strengthening disciple-making in churches. Terry is also on the executive group of Children Matter!
Sponsored by Scripture Union www.scriptureunion.org.uk
Frances Duffy
Frances has been Head, for over 18 yrs, of the Speech and Language Department at a Special School for pupils with learning and communication disorders. She has worked extensively with children and teenagers with a wide range of learning and behaviour difficulties. She is also a specialist in dyslexia and its associated difficulties and has personal knowledge of this as a mother of 4 dyslexic boys. She has led different Sunday School and youth groups at her own church over the years. Her expertise and interest in these various areas led her to co-found Mustard Seed Games which produce card games and resources on Bible themes that encourage interactive and fun ways to learn, that are not dependent on educational skills.
Sponsored by Mustard Seed Games
Dale & Jewell Erickson
Dale and Jewell have been career youth workers for over forty years. In 1995, they founded Growing Through, a church resource ministry that trains volunteers to lead peer support groups for adults, children and teens that are facing life’s enigmas. Together, they have written the peer support group curriculum, Pot of Gold for primary age children and Rays of Light for teens. Participating in the peer support group this curriculum covers helps young people stand strong in facing problems at home and at school.
Sponsored by Growing Through www.growingthrough.org
Paul Fenton
Paul is the Principal and CEO of Oasis College of Higher Education in London. Paul has been working with children, young people and families for twenty years as well as having four children of his own. Paul was a field worker for Scripture Union for 10 years before working as a Charity Director, Local Authority Training Manager and then University Lecturer in Children’s Services.
Sponsored by Oasis College www.oasiscollege.org
Dave Gidney
Dave is a father of three, and Grandad to three more. He job shares Children’s Minister of Knowle Parish Church with his wife, while he is also course director for Future Builders, an apprenticeship style degree programme in training children's workers. Further, he is author of Children in the Heart of God and The Santa Claus Principle. If that was not enough, he is also Old Testament lecturer at Springdale Bible College in Birmingham.
Sponsored by Future Builders (Children Worldwide) www.future-builders.co.uk
James Hamilton
As the director of Relive Resources, James tours the UK and abroad, working in schools, churches and at children’s ministry events and conferences. As a trained actor, James has been involved in kids’ ministry for the past 15 years and is the leader of ‘Freerunners’ – the 8-11’s programme at Spring Harvest.
Sponsored by Relive Resources www.reliveresources.co.uk
Bob Hartman
Bob has been a professional storyteller for over 20 years. He was a storyteller in residence for The Pittsburgh Children’s Museum and has also travelled widely, telling stories at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, The Somerset Festival (Australia), Expo 2005 (Japan), Spring Harvest and The Greenbelt Festival (England), Beyond Words (Jordan and Dubai), just to name a few. Bob is also the author of over fifty books for children, including the best-selling ‘Lion Storyteller Bible’. Some of his other titles include: The Easter Angels, Best Mates, The Wolf Who Cried Boy, Tapestry, Anyone Can Tell a Bible Story, and All-Age Worship, an all-singing, all-dancing, all-through-the-Bible, intergenerational collection of story-based worship services. His stories can also be found on ‘Bob Hartman’s Non Stop Story Shop’ at www.nonstopstoryshop.com. Bob is married to Sue, has two married children, Kari and Chris, and two grandchildren, Malachi and Leah.
Sponsored by Lion Hudson www.lionhudson.com
Ruth Hassall
For the last seven years Ruth has worked for CPAS, training leaders of all ages in leadership development, as well as writing on various issues around working with children and young people. In October of this year she left CPAS to go back into parish ministry and is now part of the staff team at St John’s Harborne, where she is primarily responsible for encouraging and developing the discipleship of children, young people and adults.
Doug Horley
Doug, aka Duggie Dug Dug, has a national and international ministry working with children and families and is a writer and song writer. He travels extensively putting on family concerts, all age services and children's worker training. His songs, DVDs and books are used in churches around the planet! www.duggiedugdug.co.uk
Sponsored by Elevation Music www.elevationmusic.com
Ishmael
Ish has been involved in Christian music since 1970. He has written and recorded over 400 songs, released around 40 albums and written many books. As well as being the ‘Missioner Deacon’ at Chichester Cathedral he still enjoys travelling and leading praise parties, family services and training days in churches. In 2008 Ish was diagnosed with leukaemia and is now in remission.
Sponsored by Elevation Music www.elevationmusic.com
Nick Jackson
Nick is an experienced children’s worker who has been part of the Powerpack team for many years. Now working full time with Powerpack he loves to see children becoming Christians and going out to make a difference. He lives in Oxford, is married to Kath and has two young children.
Sponsored by Powerpack Ministries www.powerpackministries.co.uk
Ed Jones
Ed is the Executive Director of Arise Ministries, an Evangelistic Christian charity seeking to equip churches in their outreach amongst children, helping to pioneer new exciting opportunities. He is passionate about helping the church to see children become, be and make disciples of Jesus whilst children. He and Emma have two fantastic children and in any spare time he loves watching films, drinking good coffee and running marathons!
Sponsored by Arise Ministries www.ariseministries.org.uk
Ian Jones
Ian is Managing Director of One Way UK. He has a wealth of experience in children’s and youth work and has been the Director of his church puppet team for 13 years. Ian’s heart lies in using puppets and other creative ways to reach out to children/adults and equipping churches for evangelism.
Sponsored by One Way UK www.onewayuk.com
Catherine Kyte
Catherine has worked with children and families for many years both in church and wider settings. She is the author of various publications, including Children’s Ministry Guide to leading a Child to Christ. Catherine works for Mothers’ Union, where she is involved in initiatives for nurturing faith in the family.
Sponsored by The Mothers Union www.themothersunion.org
Piers Lane
Piers works at Cliff College where he oversees the outreach programme and lectures in evangelism and children’s work. He oversees the annual Festival which has a growing children’s programme. He’s always led youth groups, worked in primary schools, and loves storytelling. He writes for SU Word Live and Thoughts magazine. He rides a 1972 Vespa and listens to the music of Elbow and Melody Gardot. Married to Fran, he lives in Bakewell. He has a 23 year old daughter though you’d never think it to look at him. (Please note speakers write their own biographies!)
Sponsored by Cliff College www.cliffcollege.ac.uk
Jane Leadbetter
Jane is a member of the BRF Messy Church Team. She has worked as a primary school teacher and was Children’s Work Adviser in the Diocese of Liverpool for twelve years. She coordinates L19: Messy Church and runs a Beaver Scout Colony and St Mary’s Grassendale Tots Team. She is passionate about helping all ages worship together. She is married to Ian, has two children and two adopted Labrador dogs. www.messychurch.org.uk
Sponsored by Barnabas for Children www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk
Margaret Lilley
Margaret leads the Scripture Union South West Regional Team of staff and volunteers. She is very passionate to see children engaging with the Bible and producing material to help them. Margaret is married to Chris and they have 2 grown up children. She enjoys power-walking, eating good food with friends and getting lost in a good book although not all at once!
Sponsored by Scripture Union www.scriptureunion.org.uk
Mark Lloydbottom
Mark is the founder of Crown Financial Ministries in the UK and the author of twelve books on managing personal and business finances God’s way. He is also the author of a range of publications on the topic of managing an accountancy business. Mark has an engaging approach to teaching how to apply the biblical principles of finance and includes cinema-standard films as part of his workshops. His message is clear – God wants us to understand His ways and not be conformed to the ways of the world.
Sponsored by Crown Financial Ministries www.crownuk.org
Gill Marchant
Gill is Scripture Union’s Schools Consultant and regional team leader for the East. Gill has been working with Scripture Union for 14 years having previously been a primary school teacher and deputy head in North London. Gill now lives in Suffolk. She has co- written a number of top tips books for Scripture Union including developing partnership between church and school.
Sponsored by Scripture Union www.scriptureunion.org.uk
Mark Melluish
Mark lives with his wife Lindsay and their five children in West London where they lead St Paul’s, Ealing, a church that has a significant ministry to young families. They are also on the national leadership team of New Wine. Together they have written and pioneered the Family Time Parenting Children Course.
Sponsored by Family Time www.family-time.co.uk
Lucy Moore
Lucy is Messy Church Team Leader and works for Bible Reading Fellowship. She spends her time happily travelling to far-flung places to help them start Messy Churches or encouraging the network through the ministry of her In and Outboxes. She firmly believes in holistic lifestyles and is permitting her Messiness to permeate her housework. She and her husband Paul have two teenage children and are engaged in a long-term strategy to lever them out of home in order to regain control of their bank balance. www.messychurch.org.uk
Sponsored by Barnabas for Children www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk
Phil Moore
Phil is the Training and Mentoring Manager for London City Mission and the founder and Director of Capital Kids. He supports Chelsea and is hoping to run the 2012 London Marathon. Phil has been married to Jo for 26 wonderful years and they have four children Tim, Ben, Alexandra and Eleanor. He also serves as a special needs assistant at his church.
Sponsored by London City Mission www.lcm.org.uk
Pete Oakley
Pete and Amy Walker are Pulse Children's and Youth Ministries, an interdenominational ministry that exists to “Enlarge and Equip God’s Kingdom”. Pete loves God and has devoted his life to communicating this love to children and young people in as many exciting and relevant ways as possible. He is also a leader with a call to equip God’s Kingdom through mission, teaching and training.
Sponsored by Pulse Children's and Youth Ministries www.pulseministries.org.uk
Alex Owen
Alex Owen joined the Oasis College staff in 2008. She enjoys teaching at Masters and Undergraduate level in youth, children’s and family support work; she has responsibility for leading the children’s and family support work subject area. Alex has worked with and ministered to children and young people for over 15 years, most recently as a church-based Minister, where she had primary responsibility for children and youth. She recently achieved her PhD, which focused on the impact of Church based groups upon young people’s identity formation and she is regularly involved in writing for various publications and speaks at a number of Christian conferences.
Sponsored by Oasis College www.oasiscollege.org
Martyn Payne
Martyn has been part of BRF’s Barnabas team since 2003. Previously Martyn taught in London for 18 years and then worked for 8 years with the Church Mission Society as its National Children’s Work Co-ordinator. He has written books for Barnabas and was also part of the writing team for More Core Skills for Children’s Work (2010). Sponsored by Barnabas for Children www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk
Sue Price
As Conference Director, Sue works closely with the many organisations that resoure and engage with aspects of children's and family ministries. She has been working with children of all ages in her church for 25 years, is the author of several books relating to children's ministry, is a member of the executive of Children Matter! and is connected to Ray of Hope, Amazon, helping to train people in Amazonian villages who want to work with children.
Dave Roberts
Dave helped pioneer the first Children's Ministry conferences in 1990, having previously been invloved in running other events and conferences. He also helped launch Youthwork magazine and is the author of several books including God's Plan for Children. Dave is also a member of the Children's Matter! executive. www.childrenmatter.ning.com
Mike Simmonds
Sponsored by GO Ministries www.transforminggoverning.org.uk
Irene Smale
Irene is Diocesan Children's Officer for Chichester Diocese. Married to Ishmael she has been involved in leading and training others in all aspects of children's and all age mininstry for many years.
sponsored by the Diocese of Chichester www.yesonthenet.org.uk
Sarah Smart
Sarah works for Scripture Union as part of the South East Regional team. She has a passion for children’s ministry and seeing God work in the lives of children no matter how old they are. Sarah is married to Russ and spends quite a bit of her time in Starbucks!
Sponsored by Scripture Union www.scriptureunion.org.uk
Lianne Smith
Lianne is a Scripture Union Development Worker, seeking opportunities to work alongside churches as they explore the many ways that they can make Jesus known in their community. She offers resources, training and opportunities to develop skills and equip churches to disciple and nurture children and young people enabling and empowering them to be lifelong followers of Jesus Christ. Lianne is married to Phil and they have two children.
Sponsored by Scripture Union www.scriptureunion.org.uk
Jo Squires
Jo runs BIG Ministries – which is a whole lot of fun – as they do their best to resource churches in useful and relevant ways in their ministry with children and all-age congregations. She also spends a lot of time with husband Steve and their two little ones, having a nice time socializing in Birmingham! www.bigministries.co.uk
Sponsored by Elevation Music www.elevationmusic.com
Amy Stock
Amy is director of schoolswork.co.uk, a project that resources, inspires and trains Christian visitors to schools. Passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and young people through work in schools, when she’s not writing resources or updating the website, she can be found taking assemblies or drinking coffee in staffrooms in Luton.
Sponsored by Schoolswork.co.uk www.schoolswork.co.uk
Alexa Tewkesbury
An author, storyteller and actor, Alexa has written many books for children, including CWR’s Topz Secret Diaries and the new Pens daily devotionals. She also wrote It’s A Boy! (UK Christian Book Award winner 2006), together with the screenplay for the animated version, and features on the soundtrack.
Sponsored by CWR www.cwr.org.uk
Heather Thompson
Heather is the director of Powerpack Ministries. Her heart is to see children on fire for God, full of the Holy Spirit and being used powerfully by Him. She works both in the UK and overseas, as a children’s ministry consultant, training and inspiring leaders and churches as well as writing resources.
Sponsored by Powerpack Ministries www.powerpackministries.co.uk
Ray Tibbs
Ray has been Editorial Director of GO TEACH for 8 years, after being in the pastoral ministry for 23 years. He is an elder of one of the Baptist churches in Chester and is involved in producing Bible Reading Notes for adults as well as assisting in a program which helps to train pastors overseas.
Sponsored by Go Teach www.goteach.org.uk
Rachel Turner
Rachel has been a full-time children’s minister and served as the National Kids Work Co-ordinator for New Wine. She continues to consult for churches, speak at and run training days for parents, children and youth workers. She is the author of Parenting Children for a Life of Faith.
Sponsored by Barnabas for Children www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk
Judith Twani
Judith is a qualified teacher who now works part time as a Local Authority Early Years Consultant. She has had a rich and varied career in both the UK and South Africa. Since going part time she has been contracted to work with Christian Initiatives in Early Years Education (Ci2eye), supports Orison prayer spaces and also is invited to deliver training for people working with under 5s. She has recently written an article about the urgency of faith development in young children and led workshops on spirituality. She combines theory with practical hands on activities and has been described as inspiring and challenging (as well as slightly crazy!)
Sponsored by Orison Schools www.orisonschools.org.uk
Barbara Van Valkenburg
Barbara has been involved in children’s ministry for more than 30 years. Alongside her role as a UK training co-ordinator for BCM (Bible Centred Minstries) International UK, training church children’s ministry volunteers around the UK, she also runs Bible Clubs and leads collective worship in primary schools, and is involved in children’s ministry in her local church.
Sponsored by BCM International UK www.bcm.org.uk
Amy Walker
Amy and Pete Oakley are Pulse Children's and Youth Ministries, an interdenominational ministry that exists to “Enlarge and Equip God’s Kingdom”. She is an evangelist with a heart to see children and young people respond to and come into relationship with God and she is also a trainer who has her finger on the pulse of the new generation of Church. Her preaching is down to earth and accessible, while at the same time carrying the excitement of the future in it.
Sponsored by Pulse Children's and Youth Ministries www.pulseministries.org.uk
Jenny Warbrick
Jenny is an experienced secondary teacher who now works as a freelance trainer and writer. She set up and ran a Sunday school for 10 years and trained several parents as teachers. Jenny has written for ROOTS and is currently writing her grandfather’s biography. She is married with two teenage children.
Sponsored by Roots www.rootsontheweb.com
Rachel Warwick
Rachel is an escaped primary school teacher who now runs Orison prayer spaces in schools. She’s passionate about helping children and young people engage with God in creative ways within the context of their schools.
Sponsored by Orison Schools www.orisonschools.org.uk
Alan Whetherley
Alan is hugely committed to ensuring that young disabled people are fully included in church and community life. Alan is visually impaired, has a passion for sport, and has formerly represented Great Britain at the Paralympics. He joined Christian disability ministry, Through the Roof, in March 2011 to develop the Integr8 youth programme.
Sponsored by Through the Roof www.throughtheroof.org
Angeline White
Angeline is a UK training co-ordinator for BCM (Bible Centred Ministries) International UK, training church children’s ministry volunteers around the UK. She also runs Bible clubs in primary schools in Somerset, is Camp Director for BCM England’s Junior Camp and helps to lead the children’s and family ministries in her local church.
Sponsored by BCM International UK www.bcm.org.uk
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