Bear Grylls is a former SAS soldier, who went on to become one of the youngest ever climbers of Mt Everest, despite breaking his back.  He hosts extreme adventure TV shows including MAN Vs WILD and RUNNING WILD with Bear Grylls, where his guests have included Hollywood stars, President Obama and many others.  Bear is the first ever Chief Ambassador to 60 million young Scouts worldwide and is married to Shara with 3 sons. They live part of the year offgrid on a small remote Welsh island.

Bear will be joining us on Wednesday afternoon in Studio 36 in Minehead.

Alex leads the ongoing work and development of Faith in Later Life. She is passionate and experienced in inspiring and equipping people for the opportunities and challenges of later life, and in helping them know Jesus more deeply or for the first time. Alex has three grown up sons and lives in the West Country with her husband and their Border Terrier.

Richmond is the senior pastor of New Life Baptist Church in Kampala, Uganda and the founder and president of Pastors' Discipleship Network, which equips thousands of pastors across Africa. Rising from adversity in one of Uganda’s poorest communities, Richmond’s life was transformed through the international child development charity Compassion. He later earned a master’s degree in spiritual formation and a PhD in leadership. As a trustee for Compassion UK, Richmond champions social justice, inspiring churches worldwide to respond to God’s call to serve vulnerable communities.  

Jake Isaac is worship Leader and singer/songwriter from South London. Jake has written ‘Greater than it all’, ‘Love song For a city’ (with Martin Smith) ‘As in heaven’ (with Graham Kendrick) & Final Say (with Lou Fellingham). He has also previously worked with artists such as Gabrielle, India Arie, Cat Burns, Blue & Duffy. As a singer/songwriter Jake has supported/worked with Tori Kelly, Paloma Faith, Angus & Julia Stone and Elton John. Jake loves Jesus, cheesecake & family.

Jake will be co-leading worship with Elle Limebear each evening in the Gathering Celebration.

Dave Bell is husband to Sarah and dad to four miracle children. He is an international worship leader, speaker, songwriter and worship pastor at Alive Church, Lincoln. Dave has an incredible testimony of healing and is relentless in his pursuit of sharing the gospel in order to see breakthrough in peoples lives.

Dave will be leading worship in the Unplugged Celebration each evening.

Evie is a worship leader, songwriter and artist from Eastbourne. She has led worship as part of Bright City, the worship collective from St. Peter’s Brighton, and at her local church throughout her time at university in Cardiff. Having just graduated, she released her debut EP, Where to Next?, with critical acclaim from BBC Introducing and featured on the latest The Church Will Sing album in the USA.

Evie has been part of leading worship at Spring Harvest since 2022 and will be leading worship with her band in the Gathering celebration in Skegness and with a chilled-out, unplugged vibe in the Soul Space celebration in Minehead.

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.

Janet is our disability consultant in Skegness. She is Mission Programmes Manager for Through the Roof and has served Spring Harvest for many years.

If you would like to speak to her at any point during the event, please visit the Spring Harvest Stand in the Skyline and they'll put you in touch.

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.

With over 25 years’ experience in the Christian music industry working with well-known artists and songwriters, Jenny manages the UK office of CCLI, a global company whose headquarters is in the US.