John Perry is the UCCF Assistant Team Leader for Wales and the Staff Worker for North Wales. He was brought up as a missionary kid in Indonesia, Malaysia and India, so is not exactly a Welsh native! Rather than attempt to work out where his home is on this Earth, John prefers to rejoice in the fact that our true citizenship is heaven. This solves the problem of having split loyalties when the Six Nations rugby tournament comes round – he likes to see everyone win (apart from France).
Meirion Thomas has been the pastor at Malpas Road Evangelical Church, Newport for 21 years. Before that he was at Noddfa Evangelical Church, Pontarddulais for 12 years. He was a staff worker with UCCF in Wales from 1980 – 1984. He is married to Ceri and they have 3 married children and on the last count 9 grandchildren.
Since April 2018, Ian Parry has been the Pastor of Grangetown Baptist Church in Cardiff.
Ray Evans has been the pastor at Grace Community Church for the last 35 years, seeing the church grow significantly during that time. He has published a book on leadership – ‘Ready, Steady, Grow’, and, as a result, has received many requests to share his expertise. Ray works part-time as a Church Leadership Consultant for the FIEC.
Chris Street is a former global Vice President who worked in a number of countries including the UK, Canada and Belgium. Chris was called to serve the local church in his early 50s and is one of the elders in a large multi site church in Wales. He also works with and encourages other church leaders and mentors individuals in business and full time Christian work.
Jonathan Thomas is married with three children. He is a radio producer and broadcaster, author of Intentional Interruptions (Christian Focus) and presenter of Welsh Awakenings (Pugh Productions).
Elspeth Pitt grew up in West Wales and originally trained as a teacher, but has now been in church work for more than twenty years, working in a large city centre church in London and a medium sized suburban church in the Wirral. She loves to help women become more confident in handling the bible for themselves and growing in their personal walk with the Lord Jesus and has a heart for those on the edges of church life. After thirty years working in England, she is delighted to be back in Wales and working on the staff of Highfields Church in Cardiff.
Phil Swann began ministry in West Yorkshire in 1990 after leaving his career in Cardiff as a Physiotherapist. He is now the Pastor at Llanelli Free Evangelical Church in West Wales. He also teaches Pastoral Theology, for the Evangelical Movement of Wales, on their Theological Training Course.
Phil Hill is 67 years old, and a native of Bridgend. He studied ministry at Bristol Baptist College, theology at Bristol University and does doctoral research into the history of evangelicalism in Baptist life through Spurgeons College. He has done a great deal of work with students as well as holding pastorstesi in England, Wales and Israel and now serves as a pastor to pastors through union school of theology and the evangelical movement of Wales. Phil has been married to Angela since 1981 and they have four grown-up children.