methodist
To represent and breathe new life into our Covenant and relations with the Methodist Church.
My Christian faith was formed from a young age growing up in the Methodist church, who taught me to preach and to sing.
I grew up in my local middle-of-the-road Anglican church where I now serve most months, but my faith was nurtured through the Roman Catholic chaplaincy at university and later kindled at a charismatic evangelical Methodist church.
As I moved for study and work, I have spent rewarding time in churches of other denominations – Methodist, Baptist, independent evangelical – but found myself for the most time in the Church of England which, with all its strengths and weaknesses, I call my spiritual home.
Moravian Church Synod; Methodist Conference; and 21st
Anniversary Anglican-Methodist Covenant celebrations.
During my pilgrimages and travels, I have attended many different church services and I have recently also explored other traditions, including Baptist, Methodist and Orthodox.
As a member of the Methodist Anglican Panel for Unity in Mission for over 20 years I will be working for the mutual recognition of ministries between our churches, and the encouragement of more local mission partnerships.
My Christian family attended a small urban Methodist church, but I was baptised and confirmed in a large CofE church.
Partnership (C of E, Methodist, URC, Baptist) in Winchester Diocese.
I was ordained in 2020 and spent my earlier life working in media and communications, for among others the BBC, Greenbelt Festival, Thy Kingdom Come and The Methodist Church.
I was raised in the Methodist Church and became an accredited lay preacher in 1983, serving until 1995 and continuing to preach in village churches for many years.
I have been a Christian since I was very young and was a member of an independent church in the village I grew up in, having previously been christened in and first was part of a Methodist church.
Through my childhood and teenage years I worshipped ina small Church in Wales parish, a charismatic Baptist church, a middle-of-the-road Methodist church and all sorts of others.
My own Organ study began in a Methodist Church when I was fifteen and have some experience singing bass in Choral Societies (in Frodsham for example).
Our church in Hitchin (St Albans diocese) was an Anglican/Methodist LEP, and when we moved to York, we joined the local Methodist church on York North circuit, where I was accredited as a Local Preacher, preaching regularly at the 12 chapels on the circuit.
My experience of the church over the last 50 years includes preaching and leading services in many rural and suburban churches, both Anglican and Methodist, as well as many years of leading youth groups.
My theological training at Queen’s Birmingham brought me alongside people preparing for ministry in Black Pentecostal, Methodist and Church of England traditions, as well as independent students.
At university I explored my faith independently through Anglican, Methodist and evangelical communities, as well as the Navigators and university chaplaincy.
Part of a team with the Methodist Church.
I am also a member of the Churches Together in Kinver group which includes members of St Peters and the Methodist Church.
I also do Bible Studies with the Methodist Church when time allows.
My role involves teaching and pastoral care for Anglican and Methodist ministerial students, on both full- time (residential and contextual) and part-time pathways.
I am married to a Methodist presbyter (who I met at Queen’s!) who has pastoral responsibility for three churches in Buckinghamshire, where I live.
At Queen’s I trained alongside Methodist colleagues, and I am also part of the Life in Covenant group working on the Anglican-Methodist Covenant.
I also regularly take services in both Church of England and Methodist churches in my local area.
I now work part-time under the auspices of Thrive Worldwide (https://thrive-worldwide.org/) where I lead a team of 6 OH physicians providing a specialist service to Clergy and lay church leaders for many Anglican Dioceses as well as the Methodist and United Reformed Churches.
I was raised in Huddersfield as a Methodist, but came to the Church of England through worshipping for six years (including my gap year) at a charismatic evangelical church in Coventry.
My grandparents were staunch Methodists, and my grandfather was a Methodist lay preacher who worked the circuit in Suffolk.
I was christened in the Methodist church and grew up in a family who attended church on key dates
I had the privilege of representing the Church of England at the Methodist Conference (2024) and the Churches Together in England Residential Forum (2025); experiences that strengthened ecumenical relationships and informed my reporting to the Council for Christian Unity and General Synod.
I later participated in the 21st Anniversary of the Anglican–Methodist Covenant at Westminster Abbey and the Methodist Central Hall, continuing this collaborative work.
I work ecumenically with Methodist friends and our local Roman Catholic school, and supported the launch and continuing operation of our ‘Welcome Café’, now regularly welcoming 50-80 people each week in our small parish.
Methodist Authorised Presbyter
Alongside being an Anglican priest, I served concurrently as an Authorised Presbyter in the Methodist Church.
My father was a Methodist and my mother worshipped at St John’s where she served as PCC Secretary and Churchwarden.
I was also a member of Cambridge MethSoc, serving as President for a term, taking “Methodist Distinctives” as my theme including a session on the then recently published Anglican- Methodist Covenant.
Anglican-Methodist Relations
I’ve been a Christian since I was five, and have mostly worshipped in Church of England churches, with visits to my uncle’s Methodist church when visiting my cousins.
My faith journey has led me from the Methodist and Baptist churches of my childhood to the Church of England.
I think that comes partly from growing up in South Africa, in a Greek Orthodox and Methodist family, and from being involved in church committees and synods from a young age.
I was involved in Methodist committees and synods from the age of sixteen, including work with young people and ministry in communities divided by apartheid, when even meeting together for services or worship could be profoundly difficult.
My experience of different traditions — South African, Methodist, Greek Orthodox and Anglican — has left me with a deep respect for the breadth of the Christian tradition.
My parents were Methodist and Anglican but my relationship with Anglicanism was strengthened by worship at school and a growing appreciation of the liturgy and music.
My faith was initially shaped growing up in Baptist and Methodist churches before settling in the Church of England giving me lived experiences of of some of our many Christian traditions.
In Spennymoor I am actively involved in Spennymoor Churches Acting Together and seek ecumenical partnerships, for example our summer Holiday Club is a partnership with Trinity Methodist church and involves members of other churches.
I began my Christian journey in the Methodist Church, at Sunday school.
Anglican/ Methodist Church,
As a Methodist Anglican I joined the Church Council, become a Steward and so onto Circuit Meeting member then joined the Northampton District Synod and, finally the Methodist Conference.
However, as a child I was baptised by the Methodist minister on a RAAF base, attended Sunday School at the local Anglican Church and eventually found Jesus Christ, who had been there all along, at a Spring Harvest holiday.
When I was a member of the Methodist Conference, I was able to propose motions, debate with others and make changes that affected one sponsoring partner of my church, I now wish to affect the other sponsoring partner on the General Synod.
I married a Catholic in a Methodist church!
« Served as Trustee of LWPT (a Methodist charity supporting lay preachers, publisher of Preach Magazine), and an organiser of the Pastoral Refreshment Conference (an interdenominational retreat supporting those in pastoral ministry and their spouses).
My early Christian life was grounded in an ecumenical youth group, held in a Pentecostal church, attended by Christians from Baptist, CofE, and Methodist churches.
I grew up in a single parent family in London and as a child attended Wealdstone Methodist Church but stepped away at 12.
Along the way, my spiritual homes have ranged from Cathedral communities (Chelmsford and Coventry); urban and town areas (Walsall, West Midlands); Methodist and Local Ecumenical Partnerships (Wokingham, Berkshire) until relocating to rural Rutland.
Both in academia and in the church, I have worked with Christians from many different traditions, including those from Methodist, Baptist, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran churches.
ecumenical representative at the Methodist Conference in Telford in 2025 On LLF working group, Pastoral Guidance for the use of prayers, in its later stages, before the project was ended.
by the local Methodist church) Worked in the NHS as a nurse in Whitechapel, London and a midwife in Stoke-on-Trent,
Alongside my parish involvement, I have been privileged to serve professionally within the Methodist Connexion as a Regional Officer for Safeguarding.
I am serving as the Anglican ecumenical representative to the Methodist Conference until 2028.
My life as a Christian and my work as a theologian has been shaped and enriched by working with lay and ordained members of other Christian denominations, most importantly the Methodist Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
I worship at New Cross Community Church, a Church of England and Methodist local ecumenical partnership, where I have served on the ecumenical council for the past two years.
I come from a mixed Church of England and Methodist background and find it interesting how people approach different subjects in church.
I spent 14 months as a Community Chaplain then, feeling a call towards ministry with older people, in 2019 I moved jobs to become Chaplain to an MHA (Methodist Homes) care home, which provides nursing and specialist dementia care.
Although a lifelong Anglican, I have had the privilege of studying at a Roman Catholic sixth form college, working in two Ecumenical charities, leading the Northwest Christian Fellowship at Barnardo’s and working for Methodist Homes.
I am currently fulfilling this in part by serving as a Church of England representative on the Life in Covenant group (Anglican/Methodist Covenant).