Speakers

Jonathan Lamb

Jonathan Lamb Jonathan worked as a teacher before joining UCCF and then Belmont Chapel, Exeter. In 1989 he became the IFES Regional Secretary for Europe and the former Soviet Union, overseeing a team of staff working across 50 countries, and in 2000 was appointed as the IFES Associate General Secretary.

He presently serves as Director of Langham Preaching, a programme that seeks to provide practical support for a new generation of preachers and teachers around the world. He has also served as chairman of Word Alive and is now the chairman of the Keswick Convention.

He and his wife, Margaret, live in Oxford, and they have three daughters. He enjoys music of all kinds, photography, reading, travel, sailing, and Chinese food!

Paul David Tripp

Paul is the president of Paul Tripp Ministries, a nonprofit organization, whose mission statement is “Connecting the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.” This leads Paul to weekly speaking engagements around the world. In addition to this, Paul is Professor of Pastoral Life and Care at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, Texas; the Executive Director of the Center for Pastoral Life and Care in Fort Worth, Texas, and has taught at respected institutions worldwide. As an author, Paul has written eleven books on Christian living that are read and distributed internationally.

He has been married for many years to Luella and they have four grown up children.

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Rebecca Manley-Pippert

Rebecca Manley Pippert Rebecca Pippert is founder of Salt Shaker Ministries: a teaching/training ministry in evangelism. Having ministered extensively around the world, Becky has a global perspective on being a sensitive and effective witness for Christ. The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students recently named Becky their Senior Trainer in Evangelism and Seeker Studies for Europe.

Becky is the author of nine books that include the modern classic, Out of the Salt Shaker, which was named recently by Christianity Today as one of the books that has most influenced Christian thought in the past 50 years.

She is married with 4 young adult aged children and she and her husband live in Louisville, Kentucky.

See Rebecca interviewed at New Word Alive...

Richard Pratt

Richard Pratt Richard is the President of Third Millennium Ministries (www.thirdmill.org) which exists to provide “Biblical education, for the world, for free.” It particularly focuses on helping Christian leaders where the church is growing the fastest but where there is the least training available. Currently they provide a multimedia seminary curriculum in English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Russian and Spanish.

Richard chaired the Old Testament Department and taught at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson MS and Orlando FL for 21 years. He has traveled extensively throughout the world to evangelise and lecture, including Australia, China, Eastern Europe, Central America and Russia.

John Wyatt

John Wyatt John is Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics at University College London. He was engaged in clinical practice as a paediatrician and academic researcher into the prevention of brain injury in newborn babies for more than 25 years. He is now active in research and teaching on ethical and philosophical issues raised by advances in medical technology. He is chairman of the Christian Medical Fellowship Study Group and a Board Member of Biocentre and of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. He is a member of All Souls Church, London. His book, Matters of Life and Death, is published by InterVarsity Press.

William Taylor

William Taylor William grew up on a farm in Cornwall and served in the British Army as an officer in the Royal Green Jackets for five years before being ordained. In 1995 he joined St Helens Church, Bishopsgate, in the heart of the City of London, and became Rector in 1998. The ministry at St Helens has for many years had a focus on reaching the business community; there are also vibrant Sunday congregations reaching, amongst others, students, young workers, families and internationals. William is married to Janet and they have three teenage children - Emily, Digby and Archie.