Beth Keith
Beth works at The Sheffield Centre, Church Army's research unit and is a member of the Fresh Expressions team helping to support networks and enable people to share their experiences as they develop new forms of church and mission. She's been part of developing missional communities within St Thomas' Church, Sheffield and before that founded a number of youth churches here in the UK and in Zambia. She lives in Sheffield with her husband Laul and their son Josh, where they are now members of St Aidans, Manor.
Jonny Baker
Jonny Baker works for the Church Mission Society developing and supporting mission and new ways of being church in the emerging culture in the UK, catalysing, connecting, networking and training mission and pioneer leaders. He lectures in mission and culture for the Centre for Youth Ministry. He is a member of 'Grace', an alternative worship community in London. He has authored the book 'Alternative Worship' which is a collection of liturgical resources for the church year, and contributed to the books Mass Culture and The Rite Stuff. He is involved in various creative projects, the most successful of which has been the Labyrinth which he helped design, first installed in St Pauls Cathedral. He runs proost, a creative company that produces inspiring resources that fuel faith. He is a London Independent Photographer and he blogs at jonnybaker.blogs.com
Andrew Roberts
Andrew works for Fresh Expressions as Director of Training and has responsibility for the mission shaped ministry and Mission shaped intro courses as well as contributing to other training opportunities including ReSource. Andrew worked for Ford Motor Company as a financial analyst before entering training for the Methodist ministry in 1988. He served in the Doncaster and Stourbridge and Brierley Hill Circuits before working as a Director of the Saltmine Trust. In his Circuit ministry Andrew developed two fresh expressions: A Church plant in a community centre in Doncaster and the Funky Fish Club for children in Stourbridge. More recently he helped to establish and manage Wolverhampton Pioneer Ministries and he chaired the charity ad33 which was set up to manage the alive and kicking youth church in Kinver, Staffordshire. His fifteen minutes of fame came when he was the lead model in Clergy on the Catwalk and he also appeared on the BBC's Get Your Own Back programme.Andrew is married to Shona and they have one son, Matthew, a huge Liverpool fan. Andrew loves most sports, particularly football (he is an Aston Villa fan) and motorsport. As Director of Training he is committed to seeing as many Christians as possible explore the vision and values of fresh expressions and receive the best quality training and support when they seek to develop new forms of church.
Mary Hopkins
Bob and Mary lead Anglican Church Planting Initiatives (ACPI). For 14 years they were on the church leadership team in an urban priority area in Merseyside and then for eight years to 2004 they were on the leadership team of St Thomas', Sheffield. From 2004 they have been part-time on the national Fresh Expressions team. They have a wide ministry of consultation and training in the areas of church planting, cell, cluster and other fresh expressions. They are also currently partnering with CMS for a mission movement. They are members of The Order of Mission (TOM). Bob and Mary have no children of their own, which has enabled them to work together and travel extensively. They love gardening and walking and so appreciate living on the side of Sheffield five minutes away from the Peaks.
Bob Hopkins
Bob and Mary lead Anglican Church Planting Initiatives (ACPI). For 14 years they were on the church leadership team in an urban priority area in Merseyside and then for eight years to 2004 they were on the leadership team of St Thomas', Sheffield. From 2004 they have been part-time on the national Fresh Expressions team. They have a wide ministry of consultation and training in the areas of church planting, cell, cluster and other fresh expressions. They are also currently partnering with CMS for a mission movement. They are members of The Order of Mission (TOM). Bob and Mary have no children of their own, which has enabled them to work together and travel extensively. They love gardening and walking and so appreciate living on the side of Sheffield five minutes away from the Peaks.