Rachel has been working with young people for more than two decades and has authored several books. She is the founder of the Romance Academy, an Ambassador for Home For Good, on team at Youthscape and is the Youth Innovation Lead at St Luke’s, a youth resourcing church in Blackburn in the UK led by her husband Jason. Her latest book The Sex Thing re-imagines ways for the church to engage emerging generations with a biblical sexual ethic.

John is professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care, and chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He’s also a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. For more than a decade he worked as a nurse with people with mental health challenges and learning disabilities; also as a hospital and community mental health Chaplain.

Sam is the director of ministry at The Message Trust, overseeing creative mission and community transformation.  He has been involved in the Eden Network for over 20 years, and a local church plant in the deprived neighbourhood of Openshaw where he continues to live with his family.

Malcolm leads Dundonald Church in Northern Ireland, chairs Elims’ Ethics and Public Theology Talk Force and is theologian in residence for Spring Harvest.