Dave Smith

Senior Pastor - KingsGate Community Church

Dave Smith, along with his wife, Karen, started KingsGate with a small group of people in 1988. From the outset, the Lord called them to “Think Big” and to build a local church that would impact the city, the region, the nation and beyond. It is now a large, multi-cultural, inter-generational church with four campuses: Peterborough, Cambridge, Leicester and online. Having studied for a doctoral thesis on the 18th Century evangelist, George Whitefield, at Oxford University, Dave is passionate about seeing a 21st Century Revival and Awakening in the UK and Europe.

Geoff Surratt

CEO - Ministry Together

Geoff has served on the leadership teams at Seacoast Church, Saddleback Church and Exponential. He is the founder and CEO of Ministry Together and coaches churches and leaders in the US and the UK. He is the author of several books including the Multisite Church Revolution and he and his wife, Sherry, recently released ‘Together, a Guide for Couples in Ministry’.

Sally Duffy

Exec Pastor (Operations and Management Support) – KingsGate Community Church

Sally is one of the Executive Pastors at KingsGate Community Church, where she has served for 19 years. A qualified Management Accountant with a background in the pharmaceutical industry, Sally oversees the operational running of the church. She is passionate about providing support and structures to ensure the church is able to deliver its mission efficiently, and with excellence. Sally is married to Andy and has two grown-up children.

Todd Bolt

Todd Bolt is currently an Executive Pastor of TFAC (Trinity Fellowship Association of Churches) where he provides Strategic Planning facilitation, leadership development, executive coaching, and connection to all member churches and international partner ministries. Todd holds a Business Administration degree and a Master’s degree in Church Ministries. Todd served as the Executive Pastor in two mega-multisite churches. Over the past 30 years, Todd has served in the areas of senior and executive staff leadership, management and coaching, multisite campus development, strategic planning, and change management. He has obtained this experience from serving church ministries, 501[c]3 non-profits, small business startups, a Fortune 500 company, and in the pharmaceutical industry. Todd uses every day to advance his life mission: To help individuals, teams, and organisations climb their mountains. Todd has been married to his wife, Lisa, for 34 years, and they have two children, Tyler and Brittany, and a son-in-law, Connor, as well as a grandson, Lincoln.

Steve Cuss

Steve is the author of Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs and The Expectation Gap and is also a columnist and host of Christianity Today’s Being Human podcast. Steve founded Capable Life to help lower anxiety, break stuck patterns and increase wellbeing in the workplace, home, and in your faith. Steve was first exposed to Family Systems Theory when he was a chaplain, and he later studied it in graduate school. Steve holds 1600 hours of supervised ministry in Clinical Pastoral Education and is a Spiritual Care Professional in the ACPE. He holds a Master of Divinity from Emmanuel Christian Seminary with a thesis focusing on the dignity laws of Leviticus and Exodus and how a suburban church can move beyond charity to address systemic poverty.  Steve has served in a variety of pastoral roles for 26 years, the majority of those years as a lead pastor. He married Lisa and they have two sons and a daughter, in whom they take great delight. When Steve is not working, you can find him laughing with his family, knee-deep in a trout stream, or trying a guitar he cannot afford at a local music store.

Michael Murphy

Michael is the Founding Director of Leaderscape, a non-profit dedicated to supporting leaders of movements, companies and churches in both the developing and developed worlds, as well as working with ARC globally to champion the planting of churches. His local church experience & ministry includes 12 years as Brian Houston’s Senior Associate in the launch of Hillsong and 18 years as Senior Pastor of Shirelive, in Sydney, Australia. Michael’s global experience is extensive in missions and strategic advancement of organisations, and as such he is passionate about encouraging and building Christian leaders worldwide. Michael has been married to Valery for 41 years. Together they have three adult children – Ryan (married to Bindi), Leah (married to Andrew) and Elyse, as well as four grandchildren. Together they all work continually to stay close and connected as a family, raising the next generation of world-changers, and living lives dedicated to the service of Jesus.

Daniel Rolfe

Since the late 90s, Daniel and Laurie have served as Senior Leaders of Mountain Springs Church. Mountain Springs seeks to demonstrate the love of God through their weekend worship gatherings and their weekday restorative works. Their 23-acre campus in northeast Colorado Springs hosts a food pantry, counselling centre, woodshop, aquaponics greenhouse and soon, a family athletic centre. Originally from East Anglia in the UK, Daniel answered God’s call to move overseas after a life-changing faith encounter at Spring Harvest. Daniel and Laurie have been married for 30 years, have seven adult children and three grandchildren, and make their home in Black Forest, Colorado.

Sherry Surratt

Previously the CEO of Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) International, Sherry now serves as Vice President for North America for One Hope. Prior to this, Sherry facilitated Innovation Labs at Leadership Network, helping church leaders implement new initiatives and ideas in ministry. Sherry also served on staff at Seacoast Church for eight years as the Children’s Ministry Pastor and Central Support Pastor for multisite campuses. Sherry is a mum, wife, grandmother and an author of four books including Just Lead: a Leadership Guide for Women Leaders in the Church.

Jimmy Witcher

As the Senior Pastor of Trinity Fellowship, Jimmy is the Chairman of the Board of Elders, leads the Executive Leadership Team and Trinity Fellowship Association of Churches, and is a member of the Preaching Team. Kim is the Senior Executive Pastor of Trinity Fellowship and currently oversees all marketing and communications efforts. Jimmy and Kim became members of Trinity Fellowship in 1994 and have served in many different areas of ministry, including helping develop prophetic ministry training. Jimmy has also been an elder since 2001. Jimmy and Kim have been married for over 36 years and have three married children and 3 grandchildren with two more on the way. As a family, they love to travel and experience new cultures, but in God’s Presence is their favourite place to be.

Lance Witt

Lance is the founder of REPLENISH ministries (replenish.net). Replenish is dedicated to helping people live and lead from a healthy soul. Along with speaking and consulting, Lance provides individual life coaching and team development. Lance’s newest book is called Your ONE Life: Own it, Live it, Love it. He is also the author of Replenish and High Impact Teams. Lance served 20 years as a senior pastor before serving seven years as an Executive/Teaching Pastor at Saddleback Church in Southern California. He led Saddleback’s Spiritual Growth Campaigns, such as 40 Days of Purpose and 40 Days of Community. Lance has been married to his wife Connie for 46 years and they have two married children and four beautiful granddaughters. He loves flyfishing, cycling, reading, New Mexico style food, and hanging out with his granddaughters.

Chris Cartwright

Chris has spent over 25 years leading primarily in large city churches. At Kensington Temple, London, a church with over 100 nationalities, he served, in a season of rapid growth and church planting, as Worship Pastor, Associate Minister and Principal of its church based Bible Institute. Then as the Senior Minister at CityChurch, Cardiff, re-purposing a historic church for renewed mission. From 2010 to the present, Chris has served with Elim in organisational and movement leadership including, as Regional Leader for Wales and South West and, from 2016 to May 2024, as National Leader. Chris continues to work with Elim Global, a growing international network of movements and partners, as well as ministering across other streams in the UK and beyond. Chris has a passion for Revival and equipping and supporting leaders. Chris is married to Annie and based in Cardiff.

Greg Surratt

Greg is the founding pastor of Seacoast Church, one of the early adopters of the multi-site model. Located in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, Seacoast has been recognised by various media as an innovative and influential thought leader in future strategies for church growth and development. Greg is the founding board member of ARC, a church planting organisation that has planted over 1,100 churches. Greg also recently founded Pastors Collective, a non-profit addressing leader burnout through retreats, relationships and resources. Over the past three years, Pastors Collective has hosted over 2,000 leaders in retreats with a goal of helping pastors/leaders live well and finish strong. Greg has written three books, the latest being The Endurance Factor: How Ministry Leaders can Avoid Burnout, Live Well and Finish Well. Greg and his wife, Debbie, have four children and 14 grandchildren.

John & Debby Wright

John and Debby are the National Directors of Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland and Founding Pastors of Trent Vineyard, Nottingham, the church they planted in 1996 and led until 2023. They first connected with the Vineyard in 1982, and in 1987 spent 8 months as interns at Anaheim Vineyard in California, led at the time by John Wimber, the founder of the Vineyard Movement. They returned to England to help John and Eleanor Mumford plant the first UK Vineyard in London, before moving back to Nottingham to plant Trent Vineyard in 1996, which they led until 2023. John worked for a number of years as a jeweller before being called into pastoral ministry. Debby lived in Chile until she was 13, with earthquakes and military coups, and later trained as a dancer and artist. They have two sons, two daughters-in-law and three grandsons.

Rachel Gardner

Rachel has been working with young people, youth workers, church leaders and parents for more than two decades, and has authored several books, including The Girl De-Construction Project, Cherished, Rise, and The Dating Dilemma. Her latest book, The Sex Thing, re-imagines ways for the church to engage emerging generations with a biblical sexual ethic. She is the founder of the Romance Academy (featured in the BBC three-part documentary ‘No Sex Please, We’re Teenagers’) and she is an Ambassador for Home for Good. She is on team at Youthscape and co-leads a youth resourcing church in Blackburn, Lancashire, with her husband, Jason, and they have two children.

Craig Groeschel

Craig Groeschel is the founder and Senior Pastor of Life.Church, a multisite church with locations across the United States and globally at Life.Church Online. Craig and his wife, Amy, started Life.Church in a two-car garage in Edmond, Oklahoma, in January 1996. Today, the church is known for its innovative use of technology to spread the Gospel, launching the first fully digital church experience in 2006 and the most downloaded mobile Bible app in history, YouVersion, in 2008. Craig frequently speaks at leadership conferences worldwide, including events for the Global Leadership Network that reaches hundreds of thousands of leaders around the world annually. He is a New York Times bestselling author with books on dating and marriage, social media, purpose, leadership, and more. Through the top-ranking Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast, he prompts innovative thinking in leaders at every level within any organisation. Glassdoor has named him in the top 10 CEOs in the U.S. (small and midsize companies) and named Life.Church as the #1 Place to Work for two consecutive years under his leadership.

Agu Irukwu

Agu Irukwu is a law graduate of the University of Warwick.  A former investment banker and partner in a law firm, he is now the Senior Pastor of Jesus House For All Nations London. He is the founder of the Mandate Men’s Ministries, a ministry which seeks to empower, equip, encourage and raise Godly men. Agu is a key member of the One People Commission of the Evangelical Alliance which integrates ethnic minority churches more fully into the Evangelical Alliance. He was one of the Presidents of Churches Together in England representing the Pentecostal churches. He serves alongside Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby & Cardinal Nichols The Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Agu was voted Britain’s most inspirational black person in a poll conducted by the mayor of London’s office and the London Metro in 2012. Together with his wife, Sola, he co-founded Bright Futures for African Children, a children’s charity which seeks to break the cycle of poverty by providing educational facilities and resources to children in poverty-stricken communities in Africa. Pastors Agu and Sola have three children.

Jim Laffoon

Jim serves on the Leadership Team of Every Nation Churches and Ministries, a group of churches which has sites in over 80 nations worldwide. He has been preaching for more than 50 years and has served the Body of Christ as a senior pastor, missionary, and dean of students in a Bible college. Jim and his wife, Cathy, have been happily married for almost 45 years, and they live in Franklin, Tennessee. They have six children and nine grandchildren. They travel across the United States and around the world, pastoring leaders and ministering prophetically.

Eleanor Mumford

Eleanor Mumford, together with her husband, John, led Vineyard Churches in the UK and Ireland for over 20 years.  Having worked for nearly two years with John Wimber on the staff of the Anaheim Vineyard in California, in 1987 they started the first Vineyard small group in Europe which quickly morphed into the South West London Vineyard.  In 2008, they handed over the leadership of that church to concentrate more on the Vineyard movement, both nationally and internationally, before transitioning to the leadership of Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland in 2015. Together, they now coordinate the ministry of Vineyard Global, which helps facilitate the growth of the Vineyard movement across the world.  John and Eleanor have two very grown-up sons, and five delicious grandchildren!

Glenn Packiam

Glenn Packiam is the Lead Pastor of Rockharbor Church in Costa Mesa, California. He is the author of eight books, including the best-selling books The Resilient Pastor and The Intentional Year, which he co-authored with his wife, Holly. He earned a Doctorate in Theology and Ministry from Durham University, England, and is a Senior Fellow at Barna Group. Glenn was a worship leader on several Desperation Band and NewLifeWorship recordings, and released three solo projects with Integrity Music. He has written over 65 worship songs published with Integrity Music, including Your Name, co-written with Paul Baloche. Glenn and Holly have four children and live in Orange County, California. Learn more at glennpackiam.com.

Ness Wilson

Ness is the Team leader of Open Heaven Church in Loughborough which was planted with a bunch of friends in 1993 when they graduated from Uni together. Open Heaven is now one church with two expressions and has sent out a couple of church plants. Ness is the Pioneer UK Leader and a champion for women in leadership. She is married to Rich who leads Fusion, the national student movement.

Lance Witt

Lance is the founder of REPLENISH ministries (replenish.net). Replenish is dedicated to helping people live and lead from a healthy soul. Along with speaking and consulting, Lance provides individual life coaching and team development. Lance’s newest book is called Your ONE Life: Own it, Live it, Love it. He is also the author of Replenish and High Impact Teams. Lance served 20 years as a senior pastor before serving seven years as an Executive/Teaching Pastor at Saddleback Church in Southern California. He led Saddleback’s Spiritual Growth Campaigns, such as 40 Days of Purpose and 40 Days of Community. Lance has been married to his wife Connie for 46 years and they have two married children and four beautiful granddaughters. He loves flyfishing, cycling, reading, New Mexico style food, and hanging out with his granddaughters.

John Wright

John, with his wife, Debby, is the National Director of the Vineyard movement and has been serving in pastoral ministry since 1990. John initially trained and worked for a number of years as a jeweller before studying at London Bible College. John first got involved with the Vineyard movement in 1982 and in 1987 John and Debby spent 8 months as interns at Anaheim Vineyard (under John Wimber the leader of the Vineyard Movement in the USA). Following their time at Anaheim they returned to England to help John and Eleanor Mumford start the first UK Vineyard in London. They worked at South West London Vineyard for 9 years before moving back to Nottingham to set up Trent Vineyard. In January 2015 it was announced that they would take over as the National Directors of Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland from John & Eleanor Mumford, whilst continuing to lead Trent Vineyard. John has two sons, Zack and Jordan, two daughters in law, Lizzie and Sarah, and three grandchildren.