Our letter to the churches: listen to the cry of the poor!
There is a pressing need to bring the deepening crisis of poverty, afflicting many of our families and communities, to the centre of our life together as a nation.
Brexit debates and the recent General Election have revealed and exacerbated painful divisions in society. Far too many feel left behind, ignored and marginalised. As local churches, we bear witness to these realities in communities the length and breadth of the UK, and to the powerful currents that continue to sweep so many into debt and destitution.
The Church cannot remain silent for as long as this situation continues to exist. For us, this is a matter of faith: it is about responding to the gospel priority to put the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable first.
As churches, we must redouble our efforts not just to alleviate the symptoms of poverty, but to call out the root causes, systems and structures which ensnare so many in poverty today.
At local level, we commit to becoming genuinely part of a ‘church at the margins’ where those on the margins of society feel welcomed, where their God-given dignity is recognised, and where their talents, hopes and visions for the future are celebrated and affirmed.
At national level, we call on our church institutions to commit to the task of becoming a true church at the margins and to properly resource this, as a genuine expression of the gospel priority for the poorest and most vulnerable.
Above all, as Churches we are compelled to speak truth to power, with and alongside those whose voices are consistently ignored by those in power in corporate, media and public life. Poverty and gross inequality are not acts of God but structural defects that can be corrected. Speaking truth to power is a task for the whole Church, and one given greater urgency now, amid political debates that continue to expose the divisions within society.
As the Lord heard the cry of his people in exile in the Old Testament and intervened, let churches hear the cry of the poor in our neighbourhoods, and work with them to realise a vision of a society in which all can enjoy life in all its fullness.
Niall Cooper, Director, Church Action on Poverty
Rev Graham Adams, Worship leader, Theological educator, Heaton Moor United Church
Mrs Bernadette Askins, Chair of Churches Together South Tyneside, St Gregory’s South Shields
Rev Joseph Batt, Retired priest, St Peter’s Church, Shipley
Dr Elspeth Brighton, Senior circuit steward, Leigh & Hindley Methodist Circuit
Ms Patricia Bryden, ordinary member, Stockbridge Parish Church, Edinburgh
Revd Barbara Calvert, Minister, Northfield Methodist Church
Revd Graham Clarke, Minister, Marshalswick Baptist Free Church
Revd M Currie, Minister, St Columba’s Church of Scotland
Mr Andrew Dickie, Retired Reader with PTO, Spowston Parish
Ms Faith Kenrick, Reader, St Paul’s, Hala Square, Lancaster
Miss Heather Grinter, PCC member, Parish of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham
Mr Philip Hayllar, J & P Group member, Sacred Heart & St Peter the Apostle Waterlooville
Rev Jim Hollyman, Co-ordinator, Progressive Christianity Group, Bolton
Prof Michael Hornsby-Smith, Retired university lecturer, Guildford Catholic Parish
Rev Judith Jessop, Pioneer Minister, Methodist Church
Mrs Steve & Tanya Bownds, Church Leadership Team Leaders, Latymer Community Church
Mr Uell Kennedy, Associate Presbyter, Wetherby Methodist
Rev. Allan Loudon, Supernumerary minsiter, Strathclyde Methodist Circuit
Miss Ann Lyall, Deacon, Govan and Linthouse
Dr Anthony Mccaffry, Holy Name, Esher
Rev Ian Parker, Minister in Charge, Lamplugh Kirkland & Ennerdale LEP
Mr David Rhodes, Writer/Activist/Heretic, Unattached
Revd Jenny Spouge, minister, Methodist
Mr Bernard White, St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Wool, Dorset
Ms Jill Wilson, Anglican
Mr Anthony Woods, Secretary, CAPNE
Mr. John Baker, Member, Earl Shilton Methodist
Pastor David Howe, Pastor, Heanor Baptist Church
Dr John Appleby, PCC member, also on General Synod, St Mary’s Monkseaton
Mr Geoffrey Cleave, United Church Bradford-on-Avon
Ms Melanie Hall, Elder, Wilbraham St Ninian’s URC
Mrs Kate Grand, Deacon, Chorlton Central Church
Gillian Boot, trustee, Walsall Community Church
Mrs Elizabeth Lynn, Church steward and local preacher, Axminster Methodist Church
Helen Bellamy, Local Preacher, Barnsley North East
Mr. Terence Brown, St Mary’s
Revd Mike Peatman, Vicar, St Nicholas’ Church, Beverley
Ms Pat White, Youth Worker, Brixton Baptist Church
Mr Lyn Smalridge, Leadership Team, City of Edinburgh Methodist Church
Miss Coral Olson, Eucharistic Minister/ Core Council Member, St Mary Preston Park
Rev Norman Grant, Minister, Cairneyhill linked with Limekilns Parish Churches
Mr Stuart Masters, Elder, Selly Oak Quaker Meeting
Mr Alan Murray, Circuit Treasurer, Methodist Church Central Halls Paisley
Mrs Mary McVay, Reader, C of E
Mrs Patricia Ambler, Retired Lay Reader/ communicant, Christ Church, Consett
Reverend Louise Dawson, Supernumerary Minister, Barnsley North West Methodist Church
Rev Chris Hughes, Head of the Hexham and Newcastle Justice and Peace Department, Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle
Mrs Christine Thompson, non serving elder, Kingston URC
RevdKate Gray MA, Minister, The Dandelion Community at St. Marks URC, Wythenshawe Manchester
Mr John Roussel, Retired, St Peters Oxford Rd
Dr Jim Merrilees, Elder, Kirk of St Nicholas Uniting, Aberdeen
Rev Tim F Baynes, Attender, Quaker
Mrs Creina Hearn, Our Lady of the Wayside
Revd Dr Al Barrett, Rector, Hodge Hill Church
Revd. Adrian Thomas, Baptist Minister/Industrial Chaplain retired, Rosebery Park Baptist Church Bournemouth
Mrs Ruth Young, Church of England
Reverend Dr John Peet, Permission to officiate, Methodist Church / Church of England
Mr John M Hoyle, Senior Circuit steward, Nene Valley Methodist Circuit
Mr Alan Stears, council member, Halifax Minster
MISS Lesley Smith, LLM, HOLY TRINITY MOSSLEY
Revd Rachel Bending, Superintendent Minister, Ealing Trinity Methodist Circuit
Revd Alison Geary, Supernumerary minister, Methodist
Rev Anthony Barnes, Supernumerary Minister, North Wiltshire Methodist Circuit
Ms Marilyn Shedden, Lay worship leader/school chaplain, Killean and Kilchenzie
Ms Biddy Crossfield, lay pastoral worker, Regent Meth
Mrs Beverley Ramsden, Minister, St John’s and St David’s Methodist Churches, Llandudno
Mandy Rhodes, Team Vicar, Christ Church, Lofthouse
Rev Tony Addy, Head of Education, interdiac Academy
Mr Clive Williams, PCC Member, St Mary’s, Redbourn, HERTS
Mrs CRISTINE FERGUSON, Retired, Stromness Church of Scotland
Rev Dr Norman Shanks, retired minister, Wellington Church, Glasgow
Mrs Hilary Russell, Member of the congregation, Liverpool Cathedral
Mr & Mrs Dereck Prentis, Justice & Peace Grouip member, St Marys of the Angels, Worthing
Mr. Martin Gem, Treasurer, Churches Together in Beddington and Wallington
Rev. Andrew MacKenzie, Supernumerary presbyter, Methodist
Kathie Gonzalez, President of St Vincent de Paul Society, St Thomas’ Sevenoaks
Mr Patrick Rooney, Faith and Justice group, St Wilfrids Preston
Mr Mike Bush, Member, Member
Sister Marie Tighe, Retired Nurse, Sisters of Notre Dame
Mrs Carol Wignell, Secretary/Reader, Renishaw
Terry Drummond, Assistant Curate, St. Philip’s, Norbury
MR Keith Poltock, Elder, Church Magazine Editor,, St Peter’s Jessopp Road Church, LEP, NR2 3QA.
Mrs Susan Bennet, Elder at Newcastle Local Meeting and on the Leadership Group of Tyne and Wear Citizens, Religious Society of Friends
Rev Susan Rowe, Minister, Methodist
Mrs Sue Oldham, Ministry leader, St Mary’s church
Father Andrew Moughtin-Mumby, Rector, St Peter’s, Walworth
Reverend Elizabeth Caswell, retired minister, URC
Mr Barry Bradshaw, Secretary, Red Lane United Reformed Church
Mr Richard Solly, Parishioner, St Thomas More RC church Manor House
Ms Mary Mason, Bursar, Daughters of Jesus CIO
Irene Hoar, session clerk, Carnoustie Church
Fr Andy Delmege, Executive Director, National Estate Churches Network
Mr Michael Brueck, Member, Providence URC
Mr Norman Lester, Delegate for Christians Against Poverty, Locking Castle
Canon Matthew Whitehead, Canon Emeritus of Lincoln, Church of England
Miss Alice Gem, Worship Leader, Bandon Hill Methodist Church
Rev Marc Prowe, Minister, Auchtertool Kirk l/w Kirkcaldy Linktown Church of Scotland
Mr Alan Perkins, Volunteer with the Homeless, Methodist/ Salvation Army
Annie Bishop, Trustee, Adapt NE
rev Duncan Wilson Duncan Wilson, Retired minister, URC
Laurie Blaney, Retired minister, StBarnabas, Mayland, Essex
Mrs Helen North, none, none
Barbara McIntivey, Retired Minister, Hounslow Methodist Church
Fiona MacMillan, Church of England
Rev Diane Smith Rev Diane Smith, Minister, Methodist
Mr Fraser Hunter, Chaplain, The Salvation Army
Jules Sterland, South Street Baptist Church Greenwich
Reverend Martyn Newman, Supernumerary minister, Liverpool Methodist City Centre Circuit
Mr Clive Hamilton, Curate, Team Assistant, Salford All Saints Team Ministry
Rev Elizabeth Nash, Minister, United Reformed Church
Rt Revd David Wilcox, retired bishop, St Mary’s Willingdon
Canon Margaret Guite, Team Rector, St Mary’s Church, Linton,Cambridge
Mrs Mary-Ann Cooper, Church representative, St.Mary’s Church Hayes Kent
Reverend Dafydd Andrew Jones, Former Moderator,, Presbytereian Church of Wales
Mr colin MacBean, Elder, St. Andrew’s URC, Reading
Mr John Roberts, Area Warden for Bro Dwynwen Ministerial Area, Bangor Diocese of the Church in Wales., St Mary’s Church, Llanfairpwll, Isle of Anglesey.
Mr David Hetling, St James’s Church, Hampton Hill
Mr Harry Lowden, Retired, Peopleton Church St nicholas
Mrs Janet Day, Lay Pastor and Chaplain, Methodist
Mr Julian Hemmings, Organist, St Francis of Assisi, Rhayader
Mrs Evelyn Ho, stratford upon avon methodist
Mrs Patricia James, Housewife, St Andrews Thornton Heath
Miss Patience Kelly, No official position other than member, Church of England
Mrs Susan Ward, Churchwarden, Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral
Mr Vicky Peattie, Licensed Reader, St Marys Willingdon Eastbourne
Mrs Christina Crow, Treasurer, Radyr Methodist Church
Mr Robert Dennis, Deacon, Evangelical English Church Gran Canaria
Mr Peter Collins, church member, Middleton-in-Teesdale Methodist Church
Ms Rhiannon Rees, Unemployed, Non member
Andrew Yates, Social Responsibility Officer, Diocese of Truro
Revd. Melanie Smith, Minister, N&S Enfield URCs
Prof Geoff Moore, Reader, St Brandon’s, Brancepeth, Durham
Mrs Kathleen Houston, Parishioner, S Mary and S David Hawick
Reverend Caroline Wickens, Minister, Whalley Range Methodist Church
miss Catherine Parnell, Local preacher, St.Austell Methodist
Fiona Aitken, Elder, Saline Church of Scotland
Philip Sunmers, Minister, Dursley & Cam Methodist
The Rev Dr Adrian BURDON, Superintendent Minister, The Methodist Church
Revd James Turner, Associate Priest, Church of England
Mrs Alison Love, trustee, Lancaster Methodist
Mr Nick Waterfield, Pioneer Minister, PXI Projects / Share Ministries (Sheffield Methodist Circuit)
Mrs Lynn Emmott, Member of congregation., St Margaret of Antioch L8.
Canon Clare MacLaren, Canon for Music & Liturgy, Newcastle Cathedral
Jeff Slominski, unison
Rev David Austin, Vicar, Holy Trinity Church Coldhurst
Mary Kelly, church member, St Peter’s Earl Shilton
Mrs Sue Woodsford, Chair, Cambridge City Amnesty Group
Mrs Maria Malson, NJPN
The Revd Hilary Jowett, Incumbent, St Leonard Dinnington
Ms Ann Poulter, St Matthews Grandpont Oxford
Mr Nick Meredith, Proprietor, Larkfield driving school
Mx Llewelyn LaVista, N/A, N/A
Mr Eifion Williams, Atherton Food Bank/ Atherton Baptist Church
Mrs Denise Turner, Elder, West Bromwich Community Church
Mrs val Smith, Leeds Diocesan Synod Member, St Margaret’s Ilkley
Mrs Beryl Vickery, Hurchwarden, St. Albans, Hemel Hempstead
rev Simon Moore, Vicar, Simon Moore
Parch. John Owen, A retired Minister of the Gospel, Eglwys Bresbyteraidd y Tabernacl Rhuthun
Fiona Gordon, member, Cupar Old
Mr Trevor STOCKTON, parishioner CAFOD activist, St Anthony of Padua
Edward Leavy, Minister for outreach in Stockport, Stockport
Mrs Sue Liddell, Lay preacher/ Church secretary, Saxmundham URC
Mr Stephen Harrison, Flock, Highley
Revd Dr Madeleine Andrews, Minister (retired), Leeds South and West Methodist Circuit
Rosemary Cross, teacher, st Laurence Northfield
Rev Rowena Francis, Minister Wells United, Wells United Church
Mrs Kay Murphy, Member, Sittingbourne Quakers
Peter Bowes, Local Preacher’s Secretary, Methodist
Rev Graham Claydon-Knights, Minister, High Street Methodist Church Stevenage
Rev Rachael Hawkins, Methodist Minister, All Saints’ Church, Berkhamsted
Miss Jacqueline Robson, Member and Server, Sheffield Cathedral
Revd Ian Evans, MSE, Christ Church
Fergus C McLachlan, Member, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow
Mr Daniel Grimes, Church Council Member, Denton Methodist Church
Mr Colin Brady, Social Justice Programme Manager, Diocese of Salisbury
Dr Colin Smith, Vineyard
Mr Mike Beazley, Administrator, Churches Together Around Ludlow
Rev’d Colin Oxenforth, retired, Christchurch, Waterloo
Rev Donald McCorkindale, Minister, Church of Scotland, Strontian, Ardgour and Morvern Parishes
Rev. Lesley Jones, Team Vicar, St. Michael’s Sittingbourne
Reverend Jenny Hills, Retired minister, Tommy’s, Lenton, Nottingham
Reverend Paul Cowan, Chaplain, Diocese of Oxford
Revd Dr Simon Topping, Methodist minister m, Stroud Methodist Church
Rev Dr John Emmett, Presbyter (retired), Bristol
Revd. Canon Marian Dowsett, Priest-in-Charge, St. Dyfrig’s, Llanrumney, Cardiff
KSAT Methodist Stephen Radford, Minister, Kirkby Stephen Methodist
Rev. Ian Rutherford, City Centre Minister, Methodist Central Hall, Manchester
Fr Fr Michael Puljic, Parish Priest, Sacred Heart, Hanley
Rev Sarah Moore, Assistant Clerk of the General Assembly, United Reformed Church
Mr Anthony Cousins, Church steward, Bilton Methodist
Miss Gillian Glenn, Church Steward, Bilton Methodist Church
Ms Patricia Balkwill, Parish Administrator, St Paul’s Harlow Town Centre with St Mary’s LIttle Parndon
Mrs Carolynne Pepper, Reader, St Aidan’s, Roundhay Road, Leeds
Mrs Ann-Charlotte Holman, DCC, St James (C of E) Fordhouses, Wolverhampton
Karen Kowlessar, Evangelist, Arun Church
Patricia Barker, retired, All Saints Cheltenham
David Dixon, Church Leadership Team & Treasurer, Selsey Methodist Church
Tony Phelan, Lay Chair of Cowley Deanery Synod, St Michael’s New Marston Oxford
Mr Nicholas Dewey, Church Warden, St Francis Church, Cowley, Oxford
Mr Roy Pope, Not Applicable
Rod Hill, Minister, Alderley Edge Methodist
Jane Thompson, Safeguarding coordinator, Lymm Methodist Church
Mrs Christine Stringer, Member, Assemblies of God
Brother Barnabas-Francis macPhail, Holy Trinity and St. Barnabas, Paisley – Scottish Episcopal Church
Mrs Carol Cahill, Attendee, St Marks
Reverend Ian Anderson, Supernumerary Minister, Methodist Church
John Robinshaw, Steward, Dearnley Methodist, Littleborough
Colin Smith, Methodist Minister, Tansley Methodist Church
Mr Nigel Bibbings, Minister, Eaton Bray Methodist Church
Rev John Nightingale, Permission to Officiate, Church of England
Michael Cronogue, Local Preacher in Training, St John’s Methodist, Bloxwich, Walsall
Mr David Passmore, Organist/Elder (non serving), Highworth URC
Christina McCabe, disciple, various
Mrs Mary Davidson, Church Elder, St Mark’s United Reformed Church
Mr Iain Luke, Elder, Cranstoun
Mrs Laurel Luscombe, Woodfalls methodist church
Ms Alison Webster, Deputy Director of Mission (Social Justice), Oxford Diocese
Mrs. Margaret Raw, Church goer, Chorlton Central
Mr James Henderson, Senior Development Worker, Transforming Communities Together
Terry Braithwaite, Lay Reader, St Alban’s, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton
Mr Joseph Forde, Congregant, St Mark’s, Broomhill, Sheffield.
Ms Rita Ashworth, Administrator, 0
Rev. Dr. Raj Patta, Presbyter, Methodist
Mr Gordon Sharp, Locum Minister, Dundee West Church of Scotland
Miss Rosemary Currell, Churchwarden, St Thomas a Becket Church Great Whelnetham
Reverend (Revd) Chris Shelley, Member of Pastoral Team and Visiting Preacher., Standish Methodist Church, Wigan
Mrs Oriole Hall, Ass. Clerk, Inverness Quaker Meeting
mr chris nash, LOCAL PREACHER, Abbots Langley M ethodist and LP West hertsand borders circuitS
Roger Bristow, Vicar, Holy Trinity Church
Mrs Camille Fidgett, Parishioner, St Mary and St Joseph RC Church Hemel Hempstead
Chris Howson, Chaplain to the University of Sunderland, Sunderland Minster
Pete Sandford, Lay Reader, St Paul’s, Norton Lees, Sheffield
Michael Bowker, Resources Committee Chairman, Wesley Methodist Church High Wycombe
Mr Richard Eddleston, Member, Beeston Quakers
Ian Gardner, Minister, Brantham
Reverend Roger Stubbings, Supernumerary Methodist Minister, Chorley & Leyland Methodist Circuit
Mrs Kathleen Charter, Steward, Fylingthorpe Methodist
Rev Patrick Stonehewer, Minister, Bristol and South Gloucestershire Circuit of Methodist Church
Ian Williams, Leadership Team member, Guiseley Methodist Church
Mr Coliln Sleath, Senior Church Steweard, Shirehampton Methodist, Bristol
Dr Malcolm Haslett, Communion steward, Wesley Methodist Church, Cambridge
Mrs Beryl Chadwick, Church Council Secretary/Steward, Adel Methodist Church, Leeds LS16 7NX
Ms Angela Doyle, Church Council Secretary, Droylsden
Gina Hoff, Minister, Frimley Gree Methodist Church
Rev Brian Stocks, Retired minister, St. James
Eluned Williams, Retired, Methodist Church, Dolgellau
Christine Neal, Church Steward, Bishops Stortford Methodist Church
Mrs Val Rodgers, Property Steward, Bilton Area Methodist Church
Mrs Christine Whitworth, trustee, The King’s Way church.ossett
Geraldine Stamp, Local Preacher Circuit Steward, Tansley
Rene Chambers, Local preacher, Tavistock Methodist Church
Mrs Sally Cannon, Chapel Secretary (BUT PERSONAL SIGNATURE), Ravenstonedale Methodist
Philip Berry, Minister, Bramhall Methodist Church
Mr Andrew Rose, Local Preacher, The Avenue Methodist Newton Abbot
Prof Ian Leck, Local Preacher, Woodstock Methodist Circuit
Kathryn Taylor, Minioster, HAEBEA
Mrs Helen Dalzell, Steward, Keswick Methodist
Mrs. Jennifer Carpenter, Former Vice-President of the Methodist Conference, St.Andrew’s Psalter Lane
Mr Michael Pointon, Pastoral Visitor, Blythe Bridge Methodist Stoke on Trent
Mr Adrian Wait, Member of the Community, C.t.K
Gillian Belford, Supernumerary minister, Penrith Methodist
Dr Timothy Bartel, Member, St John Cowley, Oxford
Mrs Diane Le Fevre, Senior Church Steward, St John’s Methodist Church, Horwich, Lancashire
Ms Lorraine Booth, Local Preacher, North Yorkshire Coast Circuit, Methodist Church
Lesley Green, Worship Leader, Oadby Trinity Methodist Church
Mary Craner, Steward, Chapel en leFrith Methodist
Monica Render, Church Steward, Darley Dale Methodist Church
Mrs Joan Ryan, Church council member and Circuit Treasurer, Hyde & Denton Methodist Circtui
Mr Michael Farley, Dorchester Quaker Meeting (Society of Friends)
Lesley Brentley, Elder, Redland Park URC Bristol
Revd Peter Noble, Minister, Penrhys, Rhondda
Mr Andrew Douglas, Church of England
Lesley Husselbee, Church Secretary, Chorlton Central Church, Manchester
Mr Leighton Lewis, Retired., None.
Mrs Catriona Roussel, Retired, At Peters Oxford Rd
Janice Stables, Cingregation, St Mary the Virgin
Dr Roy Squires, Church Steward, Church Treasurer, Bible Study Leader and Local Preacher, New Life Church @ The Mission
MRS Emilia Simmons1, Justice and Peace Representative for the Immaculate Conception of OUR LADY, R.C Parish in Peacehaven, East Sussex to the Arundel and Brighton Diocese, Immaculate Conception Of Our Lady R.C. Parish Peacehaven
Anne Roussel, Bible Study Leader / Local Preacher, Methodist
Miss Aileen Ross, Church of Scotland
Mr Roy Edwards, None I’m 92yrs old and unable to be active, Swanage Methodist
Clare McBeath, Co-Principal, Northern Baptist College
Mrs Sharon Miles, Ordinary person, Concerned person, non church-goer
Very Rev John Conway, Provost, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh
Mrs Pat Mood, St James, Clayton
Ms Rona Orme, Licensed Lay Minister, St Aldhelm’s Church, Branksome
Rev Anderson Marsh, Minister, n/a
Revd Daleen Ten Cate, Minister, Revidge Fold URC
Mr Alan Jackson, Local Preacher, Wotton United Church
Rev Gill Hulme, Church Minister and Superintendent, Bishops Stortford Methodist Church
Anna Jarvis, Minister, Monton Unitarian Church
Reverend Martyn Jarrett, Retired bishop, Worksop Priory
Mr Michael Allen, Retired Priest, St. Mary’s, Arnold
Dr Richard Baker, Lay Pastor, Bramhall Methodist Church
Rev Ron Reid, Link Minister, Rock Chapel Farndon
Rachel Wood, Superintendent Minister, Walsall Methodist Circuit
Helen M Mee, Minister United Reformed Church, Morningside Unitef
Alan Hilliar, PCC, Church of the Ascension, Aldershot
Mrs. Margaret Greig, Convenor, Justice and Peace
Mr Neil Manthorpe, Local Preacher on Trial, Methodist Church
Revd Ruth Wilson, Minister of Word & Sacraments, Upton-by-Chester URC & Vicars Cross URC
Mr Phil Coysh, Elder, Stroud Christian Fellowship
Vivien Masters, Vicar, St James Breightmet Bolton
Mr Aaron Varney, Laity, St Michael’s yeovil
Mrs Veronica Craven_Romain, Worshipper & trustee, Few Life Church Banham
Mr nick eades, Food bank leader, East Plumstead Baptist Church
Rev Jez Hackett, Presbyter, Bury Methodist Circuit
Revd Pam Swift, Rector, St Margaret New Galloway
Revd. David Hardman, Superintendent Minister, The Methodist Church, Methodist Church
Mrs Marie Randall, PCC member, St Andrews
Dr Jenny Sills, Lay Reader, St John and St Peter Ladywood
Rev Steve Charman, Methodist Minister, Lancaster Methodist Church
Ruth Gouldbourne, Minister, Grove Lane Baptist Church Cheadle Hulme
Mrs Sheila Carty, Local Preacher, Kilburn Methodist
Fiona Smith, Minitser, Ness Bank Church of Scotland Inverness
Rev Adam Maynard, Vicar, St George’s Everton
Keith Aldred, Ghoir +, St Peter’s St Albans
Mrs. Jo Leatherland, Youth worker, St Mary’s church
Mrs Jane Graystone, Lay member, Longsight Church of Nazarene
Mrs Anne Fielding, Local preacher, Broken Cross Methodist
Mrs Millie Robinson, Steward and Worship Leader, West End Methodist Church. Hexham
Guy Jamieson, Vicar, ST Paul`s, C of E, Nelson
Reverend john dale, retired Minister, honiton
Margaret Clegg, Lay Reader, Derwent Ings Benefice
Julie Doddrell, Superintendent Minister, Boston Methodist Circuit
Revd Gayle Greenway, Curate, Lichfield Diocese
Kurt Stroebel, Authorised Preacher, St Peter and St Paul Hockley
Mr. Peter Phillips, Licensed Reader, Church of England – Lichfield Deanery – Staffordshire.
Mary Bradley, Coordinator, Falmouth Churches Together Justice and Peace Group
Ian Hu, Superintendent Minister, Liverpool North Central & Liverpool City Centre Circuits
Derek Fitchett, Churchwarden, All Saints, Trefonen
Lynda Passey, Warden, Polesworth Abbey (St Editha)
Revd. Malcolm Shapland, Minister emmeritus. Interim moderator., United Reformed Church
Mrs Rosemary Hopkins, The Spire Church, Farnham
Steve Summers, Community organiser, St Giles C of E, Northampton
Susan Jones, Providence Church
Ms Gloria Martin, Deputy Warden, St Clements, Chorlton
Sister Anne Miller, Franciscan Sister, Catholic
Mr Gareth Greenwood, Chair, Hope for Belpet
Pastor Chris Holmes, Lay Pastor, St. John’s Methodist Church, Horwich, Bolton
Mr David Jackson, Parish CAFOD Campaign Contact Person, RC Parish of St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Shipley
Rev Jeremy Garratt, Parish Priest, Sacred Heart and St Peter RC parish, Waterlooville
Reverend Gerard Flynn, Parish Priest, St Michael & All Angels, Leigh Park
Ms Silvia Vousden, Live in carer, Church of England
Sila Colins-Walden, Artist, Quaker
Richard Gutteridge, Reader, Nottingham St Saviour
Hugh Mason, Churchwarden, St Simon Southsea
Helen Lloyd, Leadership Team, Daybrook Baptist
Phil Saltmarsh, Rector, All Saints Speke
Annie Trembling, Minister, Southdown Methodist Church
Chris Hodgkinson, Churches together Rep, St John’s Methodist cChurch, Horwich
Donna Hodgson, Church council secretary, Fernilee Methodist church
Carolyn Munro, Steward, Aigburth Methodist
Karen Macklin, Community and church Liaison officer, County Methodist Church
Elizabeth Parry, Worshipper, St Johns Knotty Ash
Flip den Uil, Deacon in Pastoral charge, Kensington Methodist Church
Amanda Sidwell, Worker & Warrior for GOD, Vine (New Frontiers), Maidstone also MADM✝️ Charity
Chris Gregory, Assistant Priest, St John’s church Crossens Southport
Verity Ferguson, Reader, St Sebastian, Great Gonerby
Laura Burton, Bread Making Facilitator, Somewhere Else Bread Church
Paul Meiklejohn, Senior Pastor, York Elim Church
Patricia Martin, Worshipper, Court hey
Martin Thompson, A L M, At Andrews Burton Pedwardine
Margaret Walsh, Parish Sister, St. Wilfrids RC
Steve Sheridan, Priest in Charge, St Thomas of Canterbury, Chester
Christine Cheetham, Project Manager of The Olive Branch, Stockport Baptist Church
Angela Maughan, Vicat, St Paul’s, Dudley and Church of the Good Shepherd, Burradon
Ken Livingstone, Associate Minister, Stockport Baptist Church
Stephen Hough, Minister, Stockport Baptist
Rik Mayes, Prriest, TalleyParish Church
Ank C Rigelsford, Assistant priest, St Giles’
Maureen Dew, Retired minister, Holy Trinity Lickey and St. Catherine’s Blackwell
Barry Naylor, Chaplain, Trinity Hospital
Richard Pidgley, Pastor, Millpool Hill Church
Mark Welch, Minister, Burton `Latimer Baptist Church
Michael Barratt, Licensed Lay Minister, All Saints Whiteparish
Michael Barratt, Licensed Lay Minister, Clarendon Team of Churches
Katie Gulliver, Junior church leader and designated person for safeguarding, Yalding Baptist Church
Pat Holmes, Retired clergy, St Philip & St James, Scholes
Dr Chris Allman, Member of congregation, St Mary’s Monmouth
Evelyn Munns, Church warden, St Albans
David Godfrey, Minister, Northallerton Methodist
Sally Barnes, Churchwarden, Golders Green Parish Church
Carl Edwards, Vicar, St Peter’s, Fairfield.
Ros Wakefield, Member/part-time organist, Wotton United Church
Jeannie Kressin, St Davids Church of Wales
Margaret Simpson, Praying believer, Not a member, can’t bear the attitudes of the clergy.
Andrew McLellan, Member, Dunfermline Abbey
John Robinson, District Treadurer, Yorkshire West Methodist District
Rev’d Peter Doodes, Assistant Priest, Herstmonceux and Wartling Churches
Susan McCoan, Minister, St Andrew’s Ealing and Wembley Park URC
Robert Foster, Superintendent Minister, Mid Derbyshire Methodist Circuit
Jonathan Herbert, Chaplain to Gypsies and Travellers Salisbury Diocese,Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, Hilfield Friary
Paul Thompson, Assoc. Priest & Diocesan Director of Vocations, St Mark, Newport
Allan Mac Eachen, Parishioner, Saint Patrick’s Coatbridge
Gill Burgess, Justice, Peace and Environment Group, Lancaster Methodist Church
Paul Maybury, Residential Canon, Bradford Cathedral
Diane Whittaker, Rector, South Cleley Benefice
Chris Wait, PCC, All Saints
Gareth Jones, Minister, St Andrew’s Psalter Lane & Highfield Trinity, Sheffield
Frank Wadl, Steward, Abbots Langley Methodist Church
Daniel Trott, Assistant Curate, St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood
TinaSt Nay, Lay member of synod in Chichester Diocese, St Mary’s church Willingdon
Biddy Crossfield, Steward and local preacher, Parkway Methodist, Bristol and South Gloucestershire Circuit
Joy Henry, Pastor, St Michaels Community Church
Andrew Lunn, Chair of District, Manchester & Stockport Methodist District
Natalie Hackett, Minister, Zion Methodist Church
Andrew Parker, Minister, Buxton Methodist
Kathleen Loughlin, NHS Chaplain, Wilmslow Methodist Church
Benjamin Fearn, Steward, Darley Dale Methodist
Karen James, Minister, Poole Bay Methodist Circuit
Ruth Burton, Church steward, Darley Dale Methodist
Ann Lett, Minister, Boston Methodist Circuit
Michelle Goddard, Deacon, Hyde & Denton Circuit
Christine Crabtree, Minister, Bradford North Methodist Circuit
Noel Irwin, Methodist Minister and Tutor in Public Theology at Northern College, Sale Moor Methodist Church
Glen Marshall, Co-Principal, Northern Baptist College, Chorlton Central, Manchester
Stewart Gillan, Parish Minister, St John’s-Renfield Church of Scotland
Shirley Maxwell, Depute Session Clerk, St John’s-Renfield
Clare Stainsby, Superintendent, Salford Methodist Circuit
Edward Moore, Session Clerk, St John’s-Renfield
Rosalind Selby, Principal, Northern College (United Reformed and Congregational), Didsbury United Reformed Church
Adam Scott, Tutor, Luther King House
Susan Colclough, Steward, church Secretary, joint Treasurer, Codnor Derbyshire
Paul Beard, Minister, Belper Central Methodist Church
Sharon Read, Minister, Manchester Methodist Circuit
Revd Dr Val Ogden, Minister, Centenary, Boston
Kate Le Sueur, Presbyter, Marple Methodist Church
Lesley Charlton, minister, Kingston
Christine Piper, Senior Steward and Trustee, Matlock Moor Methodist Church
Nicki Pennington, Priest in Chrage, Crosslacon
Remco van den Heuvel, Minister, Wendover Free Church
Maud Robinson, minister, Stannington and Fulwood Unitarian Chapels, Sheffield
Laura Dobson, Lay Person in Charge, Chorlton Unitarian Church
Francois VanDenBroeder, retired minister, Monton Church (Unitarian)
Jokey Poyntz, Team Vicar, St Mary’s Little Parndon
Pamela McCarthy, Lay Leader, Padiham Unitarian Chapel
Marta Pacini, Development Officer, Rawtenstall Unitarian Church
Maureen Foxall, LOCAL PREACHER/HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN, SELLY OAK METHODIST CHURCH/QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL BIRMINGHAM
Andrew Lovelady, Circuit Steward and Treasurer, Liverpool City Centre Methodist
Joy Elder, Pastoral worker, St Joseph’s colwyn Bay
Nicola Hamilton, Secretary, Union Chapel Fallowfield (Baptist)
Janet Gray, Member & Elder, Rivertown
Josie Smith, Deacon, Chorlton Central Church
Clive Millman, Treasurer, Heart Christian Fellowship
Penne Hutton, Parish Pastoral Council, St Aidan’s Roman Catholic Church, Coulsdon
Marion West, Local Preacher, Hurst Greeen Methodist church
David Gray, Minister, Logie & St. John’s (Cross) Church, Dundee
Deb Rooney, None, St David’s
Alistair Stewart, Minister, Sandbach Baptist Church
Fay Lamont, Rector, St. Ninian’s Dundee
Gail Morgan, Minister, Trinity Methodist Church
Jeremy Auld, Rector, St Mary Magdalene, Woodstock with St Martin, Bladon
Nick Baker, Superintendent Minister, Dundee
Alison Taylor, Minister, Potter Street Baptist Church Harlow
Patricia Lloyd, Member/Volunteer, Kings Church Kendal Cumbria
Annette Gordon, Minister, Carnoustie Panbride
D.Haydn Thomas, Ex Minister/ Senior Elder, Salem, Canton, Cardiff
Ann Kosla, Vicar, Church Langley Church
Fr Graham Ricketts, Parish Priest, Our Lady Queen of Peace Adur Valley
Jean Porter, Deacon, St. Mark’s Parish Church, Stirling
Wendy Edwards, Member of congregation, University Church, Oxford
Nick Walsh, Team Vicar, St Luke’s and St Mark’s Downham
Glyn Jones, Retired Minster, Y Crwys, Cardiff
Nicola Sullivan, Dean of Southwell, Southwell Minster
Wendy Cooper, Church Secretary, Leaside LEP, Ware
Graham Else, Member, All Saints
Rod Clark, Rector, St Chad’s , Lichfield
Alan Munday, Archbishop, –
Steve Matthews, Mission Centre Manager, Hebden Royd
Sarah Fletcher, Rector, St. Thomas with St. Mark
Monty lynds, Lay Minister (Reader), saint Nicholas Potterspury
Ron Kingsmill, Pastor, Freshwaters Christian Fellowship
Edward Roy Doran, Retired minister with PTO, St. John Birkdale
peter Towlson, Local Preacher, St Andrews, Langley Mill
Peter Mansfield, Parish Priest, St Aidan’s Coulsdon
Carolyn Frayne, Leadership team member, Frodsham
Sharon Heginbotham, Administrator, Heaton Moor United Church
Peter Spence, Minister, Warley Baptist
Stephanie Heney, congregation, St Mary’s church
David Westgate, Elder, Stocksfield Quaker Meeting
John Carter, Minister, Lincoln & Hull Unitarian chapels
David Herbert, Moderator of the Northern Synod of the United Reformed Church, The Northern Synod of the United Reformed Church
Sarah Farrimond, Rector, All Saints Clayton West
David Howard, Retired, None
Susan Pugh, Church member, New day
Arun Chinnadurai, IT consultant, Holy Trinity Platt
Mike Dodd, Retired SSM, St Cuthbert’s Huddersfiled
