We're delighted to have the following speakers joining us for the conference:
Simon Ponsonby
A 4th generation preacher, Simon came to a personal faith in his late teens. He became an evangelist, street preacher and church planter in his early 20s, before preparing for Anglican ordination at Trinity College Bristol.
In 2005 he became Pastor of Theology at St Aldates church, which involved teaching theology, writing and entering a wider itinerant teaching ministry. In all his ministry, he is passionate about combining Word with Spirit. Simon is married to Tiffany, a school teacher, artist and wonderful mother of their two sons Joel and Nathanael. He enjoys hot curry, photography, military history and is obsessed about collecting vintage fountain pens.
John & Eleanor Mumford
John and Eleanor Mumford are the National Leaders of the Vineyard movement in the United Kingdom & Ireland. Having studied theology at St Andrews and at Cambridge, John married Eleanor in 1978 and they have two sons, James and Marcus.
They worked for nearly two years with John Wimber on the staff of the Anaheim Vineyard in California before planting the SW London Vineyard in 1987. They handed over the leadership of that church in 2008 in order to concentrate more upon the oversight and development of the movement both nationally and internationally.
Mary Pytches
Mary is married to Bishop David Pytches. Together with their four girls they spent seventeen years in South America as missionaries. When they returned to England they led the church of St Andrew’s, Chorleywood also pioneering the New Wine and Soul Survivor conferences.
Mary’s major interest has been to develop a pastoral prayer ministry in the local church, whilst also writing almost as many books as she has grandchildren, on subjects relating to personal growth. In their retirement Mary and David are kept busy with their growing family, while making time for writing and speaking around the world.
David Stroud
David is the founding pastor of ChristChurch London and leads the Newfrontiers UK team. Previously he started churches in Bedford and Birmingham and has trained church planters in the UK and internationally. He is passionate about building churches that engage effectively with the surrounding culture, both in terms of winning the lost, and shaping communities.
David recently launched The Everything Conference, an event aimed at equipping people to be salt and light in whatever area of society God has placed them. He is married to Philippa and they have three teenage children.
Rick Williams
Rick, together with Lulu, planted and lead Riverside Vineyard Church on the west side of London. He read theology at Cambridge University and has a Doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary. They have two children called Chloe and Michael.
Juliet Barber
Juliet and her husband Steve lead Leicester City Vineyard, together they coordinate the Vineyard Church Planting Team and Juliet heads up Vineyard Bible Training. She became a Christian 18 years ago in the church Steve planted in Southend and they moved to plant again 4 years ago.
Juliet has two great children Emma and Joel who like to keep her busy.