David is an Assemblies of God Pastor and has served as a prison chaplain since April 2002. He leads a multi-faith chaplaincy team in a public sector prison. He is passionate about chaplaincy and keen to help others on their journey into chaplaincy.

He will be speaking in the 'How to Break into Prison' seminar on Tuesday afternoon.

Amy Summerfield is CEO of Kyria, a leadership network to champion, empower and release women and head of development at Skylark International. From 2015-2020 Amy was senior pastor of Connect Church, Paisley, Scotland. Recently married, Amy moved to live in Hitchin with her husband Matt who leads Zeo Church, for which Amy is on the leadership team. Amy is also the co-founder of Pulse Children’s and Youth Ministries. She is a regular conference speaker for women's and leadership conferences.

Amy and Matt will be leading the Church Leaders stream in Minehead.

Matt is senior leader of Zeo Church and founder of RebootYourLeadership.com, a training and retreat programme for Christian leaders in business, charity, and church. Matt brings nearly 40 years of leadership experience across commercial, charitable, and faith sectors. He began his career as an IT manager, then spent 18 years as chief executive of Urban Saints. For the past 12+ years he has led Zeo, recently championing a new vision to grow as a micro-church movement.

Matt and his wife Amy will be leading the Church Leaders stream in Minehead.

With over four decades of ministry experience, Rick is celebrated for his ground-breaking work as the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in California. With a weekly attendance of 30,000 people, it’s one of America's largest and most influential churches. He is also the author of several best-selling books including The Purpose Driven Life which has sold more than 50 million copies.

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Rosie has led the pastoral team at Spring Harvest for many years and now leads the prayer ministry teams in the celebrations. After retiring as a headteacher, Rosie developed safeguarding materials for the Church of Uganda and has been involved with training for children's clergy, leaders and teachers. She enjoys living in Devon and is very involved in her local Christian community.

Ruth is director of partnership delivery at Stewardship, where she works with churches and charities to increase generous giving to their missions. She has worked in the Christian charity sector for nearly 20 years and her roles have included head of fundraising for Home for Good and leading the UK fundraising teams for Tearfund.

Sola uses creative arts to help people engage in discussions about identity, race/racism and child criminal exploitation. He is also an actor, dancer and movement director and loves to expound the Bible and help people to grow in evangelism. Sola is married to Sophie and they have two children.

Kate started working with Care for the Family in 2012, originally as a volunteer running their parenting courses in her community, before joining their Community Engagement Team and representing the charity in London. She supports a variety of individuals and organisations working with families, including churches, schools, prisons and charities. Kate lives in London with her husband and they have two daughters. 

Pete Greig is the bewildered founder of 24-7 Prayer, a global movement of prayer, mission and justice in more than 100 nations. He is an award-winning author of ten books and a co-host of the much-loved daily devotional Lectio 365. He and his wife Sammy, a professional counsellor, are Founding Pastors of Emmaus Rd church, co-hosts of the Wildfires Festival and proud parents to two newly-married sons.

Pete will be speaking in the Pursuit Celebration in Minehead on Tuesday 30th March.

Vince & Clio lead River Church at Weycroft Hall near Axminster in Devon which is a new church plant in an ancient Lollard Hall. It is a place of spiritual, emotional & physical healing and a centre for revival.  They’d previously pastored inner city churches in London for over 20 years. Vince has a passion for clear thinking, radical theology and boats. Clio spare times as an Aqua Fit instructor and has a passion for the creative arts, dance and Anglo-Saxon history.