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Conference 2024

15–17 January 2024 (Mon–Wed)
The Hayes Conference Centre

Lynn Green

Mike Royal

Joy Blundell

Cris Rogers

Adrian Semerene

Florrie and Josh Bishop/Hall

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BOOKINGS OPEN SEPTEMBER 4th!

Each January ministers, leaders, elders, deacons, worship leaders, youth leaders – whole church leadership teams – come to The Hayes and are inspired and invigorated.
You are invited to join them!

We are pleased to announce that our annual National Leadership Conference will take place in January 2024 from Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick.

The conference begins with registration on Monday 15 January at 2pm, first session 3.30pm, and ends with lunch on Wednesday 17 January.

We shall have BSL interpreters for the main sessions of our event and for some seminars.

We are delighted that this year’s conference is brought to you in partnership with BMS World Mission

Bookings are open from September with 350 places available.

Contributors

Lynn Green

Lynn Green is currently the General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, which is a movement of 2,000 churches. She is the first woman to serve in this role. She believes that Baptists have a significant contribution to make to the wider church and society and is passionate about inspiring others to have a deeper longing for God, a longing for mission and a longing for forging authentic relationships. Lynn trained for ministry at Regent’s Park College in Oxford. Her first pastorate was at Wokingham Baptist Church where she served as associate minister, then sole pastor and then 10 years as team leader. Following this she served as a regional minister with the Southern Counties Baptist Association before being appointed as the General Secretary of the Baptist Union in 2013. Lynn is also a member of the Executive of the Baptist World Alliance. Lynn has been married to Stuart for 37 years and they have four children aged from 14 to 26 years old, although their son and eldest daughter are both married now and have fledged the nest! Her leadership style has developed over the years to reflect the different callings that God has placed on her life. To relax, Lynn enjoys cooking, reading, sewing, walking and cycling, and is also learning Russian with Duolingo!

Mike Royal

Mike is General Secretary of Churches to in England which brings together 52 church streams to work together in unity. He is the former Co CEO of Cinnamon Network, a charity helping churches with their community development and former National Director of Transforming Lives for Good TLG, working with children and youth people a risk of exclusion from school. Mike has an academic background in urban planning and black theology. He also has over 14 years experience as a mental health chaplain with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust. Mike has been in ordained pastoral ministry since 1993 and was consecrated as a Pentecostal Bishop in 2016. Mike lives in Solihull near Birmingham and is happily married to Viviene"

Joy Blundell

Joy is a leader and a dreamer, a coach and a cheerleader; passionate about bringing kingdom change to society and mobilising the church to follow Jesus in co-creating a world where people can flourish. As one of the core leaders of Alive Church, Joy is a location pastor and leads the Lincoln North Location. Joy is also one of the leaders of Transform Lincoln (a unity movement of churches in Lincoln) and is part of the team that leads the Ground Level network of churches, a trustee of CAP UK and also runs a coaching practice. At home, she is married to Paul and mum to Fin & Poppy.

Cris Rogers

Cris is a Church of England minister, church planter, doctorate student, artist, maker and Star Wars fan. Cris and his wife Beki together lead All Hallows Bow, a highly missional church in East London. Cris has a deep passion for discipleship and apprenticeship in the way of Jesus. Cris also hosts a weekly Discipleship Podcast called “Making Disciples with Cris Rogers” and the Chair of Spring Harvest.

Adrian Semerene

Adrian is the Lead Pastor at Gamlingay Baptist Church (GBC), a growing rural church on the border of Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. Adrian is also a part of the Fresh Streams Leadership Team. Adrian is a 'fake American' with heart for unity among the church, while seeing those who don't yet know Jesus welcomed into the kingdom. Adrian is also a bit of a coffee snob, who loves chatting all things life and Jesus, while randomly bursting into beatboxing. He is happily married to Amanda, and has three AMAZING children.

Florrie and Josh Bishop/Hall

Florrie and Josh felt the Lord call them to step out of church roles at the end of 2020 to become “full time worshippers.” They believe this role resonates with that of the Levites in the Old Testament, primarily seeking the Lord and ministering to His heart, and often in so doing they are invited in to spaces to lead others in worship of Him too. They believe they have been called to use their home as a space of encounter, hosting the presence of God and inviting others in to meet with Him. They have been living by faith for two years now (it’s been a crazy journey!), are based in the North-West corner of London and are big foodies!

Venue: The Hayes Conference Centre

Hayes Lane, Swanwick, Alfreton DE55 1AU

The Hayes Conference Centre is set in the beautiful Derbyshire countryside with easy road and rail links

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