The Patrons
Peter Davies
Peter Davies is married to Vanessa. They have two teenage sons,
Matthew and David.
They came to Bristol in 1992. Peter is the senior Pastor of
elim@bristol city church, a church that aims to be a light to the
city and a blessing to the nations. This multi ethnic church is located
in the centre of Bristol. The church has a regular attendance in excess
of 600 and continues to be one of the fastest growing churches in the
south west region.
e@b is involved in a number of partnerships within the city
centre aimed at coming alongside those caught in the valley of tears.
Peter has a long established history in pioneering community initiatives
that offer employment and also practical care to those in need. His
ability to think strategically has enabled him to take up roles in a
variety of denominational and interdenominational activities, he also
lectures on the subject of leadership in a variety of fields. Peter has
an MA in management.
Dave Day is the team
leader at Bristol Christian Fellowship and has worked
with many churches in the UK and overseas in an advisory capacity. Much
of
his time is spent developing projects in some developing countries, the
most
recent being a
children's village for Aids orphans in Zambia. He is married to Rhian
and
has 3 adult children and is a proud grandfather.
Mike Pears is currently
minister at Cairns Road Baptist church and has been living in Bristol
with his family since 2000. Mike's involvement and interest in inner
city social action started in Peckham where he worked for 14 years. Here
he was mainly involved in the areas of employment and education and
church based social and political action. Since being in Peckham Mike
has studied and worked in Vancouver for 3 years.
Rob Scott-Cook is
part of the leadership of Woodlands group of churches and the Bristol
region Celebration Churches Network. He is also a chaplain to the
University of Bristol and chairman of The George Müller Foundation. Rob
has a great heart for Bristol and especially for those that are
marginalised.
Anne White is a
councillor, and chairs the Environment, Transport and Leisure Scrutiny
Commission.
Roger is married to Angie and they have two young children. He is
part of the wider leadership team of Bristol Christian Fellowship and is
Adviser for New Churches with Christian Aid, working with evangelical,
Pentecostal and charismatic churches throughout UK and Ireland.
From 1992 to 1999, Roger and Angie taught at a Christian school in
Zambia, where Roger was Head of Humanitites and he was also very
involved with local churches and projects. As a result of their
experiences and friendships in Zambia they became much more aware of
global injustices, such as debt (the Jubilee 2000 campaign) , and the
need to consider fairtrade, the Trade Justice campaign and lifestyle
issues. Since 1999, they have been raising awareness of these issues and
encouraging action, for example through writing the popular "Act Justly"
booklet for small group Bible study (downloadable from www.surefish.co.uk/actjustly).
Roger co-founded BCAN's Global Issues Forum in 2003, with Janet Mills
(TEARfund and Woodlands).
Paul is married to Sue, and they have three boys - Alan (1987), Philip (1989) and
Ian (1992). You
can read more about Paul and Sue if you go to www.hazelden.org.uk.
Paul worships at Highgrove Church, and runs
Crisis Centre
Ministries, a local Christian charity helping homeless people.
Paul is also on the board of FareShare South West
and Voscur (the 'Council for Voluntary Services'
supporting all of Bristol's voluntary sector).
Julian Marsh is currently Chairman of the BCAN Steering Group. He is
married to Liz, and they have three grown-up children, two of whom are
married and all are committed Christians with roles and responsibilities
in their local church. They have two lovely young grandsons too!
For many years, Julian used to be the Chief Executive of the George Müller
Foundation in Bristol.
Julian is also a Core Leader (in Portishead where he lives) of
their local church which is now a large independent church which
meets in the local secondary school (of which he was Chair of
Governors for 7 years).
Julian with his wife were involved in planting a church from
scratch in the local community which now forms part of this church.
Julian has much contact with a number of churches in the Bristol
area providing advice and help to leaders and serving as a Trustee
of a number of them. He and Liz also have links with two churches
in southern Poland and provide regular input there.
Julian started his working life as a Further Education College
Lecturer and following that he had a career in local government
educational administration becoming a Senior Education Officer
before entering full-time Christian work as a Pastor.
Julian's mission is to see local church equipped, inspired and
resourced to reach out into their local community mainly in the
Bristol area, especially amongst the most needy.
Julian currently works with the national charity Care for the
Family as the project manager for "Bringing Home The Prodigals" -
one of the biggest projects that the charity has undertaken (see www.prodigals.org.uk for further details).
He is one of the Elders of Living Waters Church in Clevedon, where he
worked for 10 years. During that time he served as administrator and
music director. He was involved in setting up and developing: a
Counselling Centre; a Debt Advice Centre; a drop-in youth project; a
community alcohol and drug forum; a schools puppet theatre; and
small-business lunch club and seminar programme, amongst others (see web.living-waters.org.uk for further details).
He trained as an accountant and is the finance director for a handful
of companies and trustee for a number of trusts. He has worked as the
music director for Colin Urquhart, Don Double and Yinka Oyekan.
Julian, has been married to Lynda for 23 years and has two teenagers,
Suzi & Dave. He is the Treasurer for BCAN.
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BCAN (Bristol Christian
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