Anna chaplains accompany older people in their spiritual journey and are appointed by local churches, serving in different contexts across the UK. Debbie will share the charity’s vision, hoping to inspire others to engage with this growing ministry.

Debbie Ducille

Debbie is church lead for the Bible Reading Fellowship’s national Anna Chaplaincy team, heading up strategic work with UK church denominations and enabling the rapidly expanding network.

Good leadership is crucial to the health of every local church. This session explores the functions and responsibilities of leadership within the life of local church.

Jamie Lavery

Jamie has been an Elim Minister for almost 13 years, 7 of which have been in his current role leading Elim Crawley. Jamie is married to Sophie, and they have two children.

Martin Gaunt

Martin is the manager of adult social care for Surry County Council, leading a large team of social workers. Within the local church, he has been an elder in Elim Crawley for 25 years.

Are we really meeting the needs of people in our communities? Do we truly make a difference in their lives? In this interactive workshop, we will help you move toward a purposeful approach to generating social impact.

Iona Ledwidge

Iona is one of the Executive Directors at Resurgo, a social impact organisation, overseeing the award-winning Spear Programme which coaches young people facing significant barriers to employment. Iona also engages leaders in business in how to adopt a coaching approach in their leadership style.

Megan Reilly

Megan is an International Coaching Federation accredited coach at PCC level and has worked for Resurgo, a social impact organisation, for seven years. After working on their Spear and Re-Work Programmes, she now oversees Resurgo’s church partnerships in the North of the UK. Megan is passionate about the church engaging in social transformation in their local contexts.

Stuart Blount

Stuart has been a minister in Elim for 35 years and a member of the National Leadership Team since 2006. He was appointed Director of Ministry in 2016.

Ishbel Straker

Ishbel is CEO and founder of I Straker Consultants and is recognised as an expert in the field of addiction and the treatment of co-existing mental health problems. She is an experienced expert witness, an Honorary Clinical Lecturer for Middlesex University, and Ambassador for the Department of Psychology for Edge Hill University.

What does it mean to be a “Looked After Child”? We will discuss potential impacts, things churches should be aware of, and how we can help share Christ’s love given the different experiences and challenges that looked after children face.

Louise Humber

Louise is a qualified social worker who has worked within a local authority Children’s Services department for 12 years. She has gained a variety of experience most latterly as a senior social worker supervising foster carers. Louise joined Elim’s safeguarding department in October 2022 as an Assistant National Safeguarding Coordinator.

Grace Saalmans

Grace is an Elim Assistant National Safeguarding Coordinator and is also Elim’s Early Years Operations Manager. She is a qualified teacher and has taught in early years settings. Prior to this, Grace worked as the Children’s, Youth and Families worker in her local Elim church.

How can we be distinct and hopeful amid so many obstacles in our cultural landscape?

Gavin Calver is the CEO of the Evangelical Alliance. He has a burning passion to see the church working together to share the Gospel throughout the UK. Formerly the leader of Youth for Christ and chair of Spring Harvest, he’s an ordained evangelist and regular public speaker, and has authored six books. Married to Anne, they have two children.

Olivia Amartey

Olivia is the Executive Director for Elim and also serves as the associate pastor of Crosspoint Church, Birmingham. Her career encompasses several senior management positions in a range of different organisations including the Probation Service, the Church of England and the NHS.

Osoba Otaigbe

Osoba is a Baptist Minister and works for the Bible Society and Gather Movement. He is the author of ‘Building cultural intelligence in church and ministry: 10 ways to assess and improve your cross- cultural competence in church, ministry and the workplace.’

Discover how the prophetic realm inspires effective prayer and how together they lead us to encounter God’s presence and power.

David and Greta Peters

David was an Elim Minister for many years in New Zealand. Currently he and Greta are on the leadership team of Church Unlimited, a large, multicultural church in Auckland and have extensive experience in prophetic/ teaching ministry.

What is theology and why do we need it? There are many ways to ‘do’ theology; we’ll think theologically about our culture.

Ollie Ward

Ollie works at Regents Theological College teaching youth ministry and has worked with youth groups across the UK. He leads Limitless Academy and a group of young people at his local church.

What is leadership? There are so many definitions out there. How do we raise up a generation of kingdom- minded leaders in today’s society?