Biography
Nan Powell-Davies was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, within a year the family moved to Waunfawr Arfon. Nan came to faith at 14, and at the age of 16, as a member of a small Presbyterian congregation, she experienced a call to the ministry and began to preach in the Presbytery’s Churches.
Nan spent a year in the late 80s working in an orphanage in Masiti, Lesotho. She returned home in 1990 to work as a Youth Work Development Officer in North Wales as part of the Coleg y Bala team, for 6 years. During this time, she spent 4 months working with the KTP Youth Movement in Mizoram Synod, North East India in 1993. She returned there in 1994, 2003, 2010, 2020 and most recently in 2023.
Nan graduated in Theology at the United Theological College in Aberystwyth in 2000 and was ordained with her husband Huw at the Autumn Association in Abergele the same year. They were both called to jointly minister in the Mold area. She took up the post of Merseyside Welsh Chaplain in 2004. During this time, she was a Welsh Chaplain at Her Majesty’s Prison Altcourse for 8 years. She started an agency called BARA with an emphasis on pastoring the families of offenders, and re-establishing ex-offenders back into their communities in North Wales.
Nan was appointed Assistant Director of Ministries of The Presbyterian Church of Wales in 2012, and General Secretary in 2022. She served as the chair of Christian Aid in Wales, and a trustee of the organisation from 2019 to 2024. Nan is married to Huw, and they have three adult children, Robin, Miriam and Obed, and two granddaughters.