Speaker bios

Angela Kemm
Angela is originally from Cape Town where she helped pioneer multi cultural church during the time of Apartheid. She is passionate about the Church and the advance of the Kingdom wherever she goes and enjoys equipping others to do all God has prepared for them to do.

Chris Frost
Chris has been based at Gateway Church, Leeds for 20 years, which God is growing into a large, ‘all-sorts’ family, that impacts their community and the nations. Following work in television and marketing, Chris went full time for the church in 2008 and now leads the team. Chris serves other churches with teaching and training in a wider context as a part of the ChristCentral churches apostolic team and the Ekklesia conference team. Married to Jo with two kids, he has an MA in Mission and is currently undertaking an MSc at the University of Leeds in Senior Leadership.

Chris Page
Chris has been following Jesus for 30 years and God has given him a heart for helping the poor through business.  He is a start-up entrepreneur, has trained as a business coach and is passionate about helping believers start up their own businesses and discovering with them what business with God looks like. Chris met his wife Rosie during the covid pandemic and got married in June this year.  He loves walking his dog each day and playing underwater hockey. Chris is part of Relational Mission’s Business Link team.  

Jim Harper
Jim is an elder at Hope Church, Worcester, where he has planted 2 congregations in needy areas. Jim runs the Encounter camp, which is a 5 day camp set up to help see people with life controlling issues receive supernatural breakthroughs. He also helps to run a project called 'Good Soil', a project providing housing and a farm based, family environment where adults with homelessness, addiction & mental health problems can develop essential life skills and can be equipped and empowered to lead meaningful and independent lives. He is married to Josephine and we have two children.

Martin Charlesworth
Martin is married to Jane and has three adult daughters and a growing number of grandchildren. Martin led Barnabas Community Church in Shrewsbury for twenty years where he developed its focus on social action. He founded Jubilee+ in 2011 and led the team until 2021. He is co-author, with Natalie Williams, of ‘The Myth of the Undeserving Poor', ‘A Church for the Poor’ and ‘A Call to Act’. Martin is also involved in leadership training. His pastimes include travel, various sports and his wider family. He still actively supports the work of Jubilee+ as a board member.

Matt Wilson
Matt Wilson is on the leadership team at The Connection Church, Northwich, (a church that exists to honour God, love people and produce disciples that produce disciples). Matt is also part of the core team of Prayer Storm, a worship and intercession movement which equips the church in prayer and fasting, and gathers people together for a great awakening in the art of intercession. Matt previously worked at The Message Trust (an evangelistic youth movement led by OBE Andy Hawthorne based in Manchester) as a Graphic Designer and Illustrator, while also helping coordinate Prayer Meetings and strategy development.
Matt has been married for ten years to his wonderful wife Beth, and has two daughters, Isabella and Jola.

Michelle Safo
Michelle Safo is the founder of a business aimed at helping micro businesses, particularly young women, to scale up their business. Dedicated to raising the aspirations of young people, Michelle also leads a church youth project focused on transforming the lives of young people and is a Prince’s Trust mentor and part of Relational Mission's Business Link team.

Natalie Williams
Natalie grew up in relative poverty in the deprived seaside town of Hastings. She has been involved with Jubilee+ for over 10 years, and recently took over from founder Martin Charlesworth as chief executive. Natalie is co-author of the three Jubilee+ books about poverty in the UK, including A Call to Act (2020), and has a book on class issues in the church coming out next year. She is passionate about churches being places of overflowing mercy, especially for the most vulnerable

Paul Brown
Paul is married to Denise, they have five adult children and at the last count 14 grandchildren. He has served on the staff team of City Hope Church in Bermondsey, London for twenty-seven years having previously worked as a bricklayer. His claim to fame is playing a vicar in a movie starring Ray Winstone! He has a passion to connect with his community and make Jesus known to all, whatever their background. Paul has an interest in art; enjoys watching boxing and football and having a pint with his mates. 

Philip North
Philip North is Bishop of Burnley in the Diocese of Blackburn. He began ministry in the Diocese of Durham, serving outer estates Parishes in Sunderland and Hartlepool, and then spent six years ministering to pilgrims to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham as Priest Administrator. He returned to parochial ministry as Team Rector of the Parish of Old St Pancras, serving a large area of North-west London around Camden Town, and was consecrated Bishop and moved to Lancashire in February 2015. He has a strong interest in issues around poverty and social justice and in the vitality of the urban church and is Chair of the Church of England’s Renewal and Reform Estates Evangelism group. He is a member of the Company of Mission Priests, a dispersed community who live to a rule in order to focus their lives on the mission of the church, especially amongst the poor.

Raj Saha
Raj Saha was raised in a Hindu, immigrant family of Indian descent in one of the most deprived parts of the UK. In the midst of tragedy, depression, and bereavement Raj found a family again in the Church at Jubilee Church Teesside, which he now leads and describes as a ‘Multicoloured Church’. Raj is a local GP who has worked with deprived and hard to reach populations. He is married to Charlotte with 3 mixed-race beautiful kids. 
Over the years Jubilee Church Teesside has become multi-ethnic with 30-40% of its worshipers coming from other nations and languages. With diversity very much at its heart, the church aims to be a home from which its family members are sent out ‘Bringing the Joy and Good News of Jesus to Everyone Everywhere!’. It is also affiliated with large social engagement projects aiming to bring Kingdom transformation to communities of need as well as breaking down social, religious, economic and cultural barriers.

Rob Davey
Rob leads the team at Jubilee Church in Solihull and is passionate about pursuing the presence of God and helping others to do the same. Increasingly Rob is helping other churches to develop leaders and laying prophetic foundations. Rob is married to Alison and they have two adult children and love holidaying together in France and eating a good curry.

Rosie Hopley
Rosie Hopley is founder and former CEO of the charity Beloved, co founder of a social enterprise LoveWell, and co-founder of Bristol prayer gathering Vision for the Vulnerable. She is passionate about gospel transformation, development of people and seeing those overlooked in society take their place as loved, dignified and flourishing individuals. She loves writing, hosting and learning about God’s reconciling love. Prior to Beloved, she ran her own communications, PR and research business, mainly working with government bodies, NHS and private healthcare organisations, and universities.

Sam Ward
Sam Ward is the Director of Ministry at The Message Trust, overseeing creative mission and community transformation across the UK and beyond. He has been involved in the Eden Network for over 20 years, initially as a volunteer and subsequently leading the team and a local church plant in the deprived neighbourhood of Openshaw where he continues to live with his family.  He speaks at many national events about his passion for urban mission and the reality of living it out. 

Steve Whittington
Steve Whittington formally led Jubilee Church Hull but is on the move to Birmingham. An amazing but spiritually needy city, with less than 4% regularly attending any church, and less than 1.5% attending an Evangelical Bible teaching church. He has a vision to see many churches planted across the City, particularly in areas where there is little church presence and are in areas of deprivation. Steve and his wife Jo have previously helped plant three churches and have a passion to come alongside the most vulnerable.

Wendy Mann
Wendy is based in Bedford where she leads her own ministry called Wendy Mann Equip. She is passionate about churches being family and full of the presence of God. She also loves seeing believers equipped to extend God's Kingdom wherever they have influence. Wendy is part of the King's Arms church. She enjoys good coffee, walks with friends by the river and being an aunty and a godmum.