Sheonagh Ormrod

Sheonagh Ormrod joined the Fresh Expressions team in May 2009 as Administrator, before taking on the post of Financial Administrator in 2011.

Sheonagh was delighted to be appointed as Administrator of Fresh Expressions and started work with us in May 2009. Prior to working for Fresh Expressions she worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, then as a Parish Secretary for her church followed by four years working for the library service.

Sheonagh is married and lives in Pontyclun, near Cardiff, with Jon, her husband and their two daughters and Golden Retriever. Formerly hailing from Stratford-upon-Avon, in her spare time she enjoys going to the theatre (perhaps not surprisingly Shakespeare being a favourite!), watching films and has a particular love of chocolate! With her husband, Sheonagh runs a Youth Theatre Group at their local church which she very much enjoys.

email sheonagh.ormrod@freshexpressions.org.uk.

Tim Lea

Tim Lea, one of our Associate Missioners, looks after our programme of vision days around the country.

Tim is also involved in doing consultancy for individuals and organisations in discipleship, mission and development. He has eleven years of experience leading a fresh expression of church in a Methodist setting (the Bridge) as well as having worked in Anglican and fresh church settings, including church planting. He is a Leicester Tigers fan, studying for an MA and loves to grow vegetables, from aubergine to zucchini.

email tim.lea@freshexpressions.org.uk.

Kath Atkins

Kath provides PA support to our Team Coordinator.

Pete and Kath have lived and worked in Lincolnshire since moving there in 1979. Pete was a GP in a rural practice near Lincoln for 25 years, retiring only recently to devote more time to enabling missional activity across Lincolnshire. They have five children, four of whom have married and left home.

Pete and Kath both have Anglican backgrounds and were involved in Anglican Churches until 1984. They then spent ten years in their local Methodist Church before, with others, planting and leading a Church called Threshold.

Threshold was born with a particular vision to see Church further established in the rural areas of Lincolnshire. It is part of a New Church network, Ground Level, which is led by Stuart Bell.

In 2001, as part of the ministry of Ground Level, and with help and advice from Bob and Mary Hopkins of ACPI and others, they developed a church planting strategy for their region. One strand of this was to begin a course to train people for pioneering missional work. The most recent form of this course 'Mission-shaped leadership' was run in Lincoln by Ground Level with full support from the Diocese of Lincoln and the Lincoln and Grimsby Methodist District before becoming the prototype for mission shaped ministry – the one-year course now being rolled out and offered nationally by Fresh Expressions.

Pete is one of the directors of Ground Level and is currently president of Churches Together in all Lincolnshire. Pete and Kath joined the Fresh Expressions team with the task of supporting the establishment and running of mission shaped ministry in different centres across the UK.

email kath.atkins@freshexpressions.org.uk.

Pete Atkins

Pete works with Fresh Expressions to coordinate the team's activities.

Pete and Kath Atkins have lived and worked in Lincolnshire since moving there in 1979. Pete was a GP in a rural practice near Lincoln for 25 years, retiring only recently to devote more time to enabling missional activity across Lincolnshire. They have five children, four of whom have married and left home.

Pete and Kath both have Anglican backgrounds and were involved in Anglican Churches until 1984. They then spent ten years in their local Methodist Church before, with others, planting and leading a Church called Threshold.

Threshold was born with a particular vision to see Church further established in the rural areas of Lincolnshire. It is part of a New Church network, Ground Level, which is led by Stuart Bell.

In 2001, as part of the ministry of Ground Level, and with help and advice from Bob and Mary Hopkins of ACPI and others, they developed a church planting strategy for their region. One strand of this was to begin a course to train people for pioneering missional work. The most recent form of this course 'Mission-shaped leadership' was run in Lincoln by Ground Level with full support from the Diocese of Lincoln and the Lincoln and Grimsby Methodist District before becoming the prototype for mission shaped ministry – the one-year course now being rolled out and offered nationally by Fresh Expressions.

Pete is one of the directors of Ground Level and is currently president of Churches Together in all Lincolnshire. Pete and Kath joined the Fresh Expressions team with the task of supporting the establishment and running of mission shaped ministry in different centres across the UK.

email pete.atkins@freshexpressions.org.uk.

Phil Potter

Phil Potter was appointed Archbishops' Missioner and Leader of the Fresh Expressions team from 1st May 2014. As well as leading the team and implementing the overall strategic aims, Phil will be involved in continuing to develop Church of England policy to allow fresh expressions of church to flourish.

Phil was vicar of St Mark's, Haydock, Merseyside, for 20 years, leading and pastoring the church through many transitions; later serving as Director of Pioneer Ministry in the Diocese of Liverpool.

Before ordination, Phil worked in retail management and vocational guidance before becoming a professional singer songwriter. He has contributed to national and international strategies for promoting new ways of doing church and is a popular consultant and speaker.

Email phil.potter@freshexpressions.org.uk.

Graham Horsley

Graham Horsley joined Fresh Expressions in September 2015 as Methodist Connexional Fresh Expressions Missioner.

Graham first got involved in church planting in the 1980s and coordinated church planting in the Methodist Church from 1994–2010. He is passionate about imagining church for people whose spiritual needs are not met by traditional church (however good it may be).

Prior to joining the team, Graham was working on alternative faith communities for the baby boomer generation as well as pastoring two traditional churches.

Graham's key task is the continuing development of policy and change to support fresh expressions across the Methodist Church.

email graham.horsley@freshexpressions.org.uk.