Jubilee Leadership – Interviews
Interview with Steve Gaukroger
“If we don’t go to them with love they will come to us with guns.”
How do we lead in the local church in a time of global crisis?
In this wide ranging interview, I talk to my old boss and member of our council of reference, Steve Gaukroger, who works with leaders across the world.
Interview with Martin Williams
Going into church leadership is a bit like having a first child. However hard you try, nothing can actually prepare you for it. What I finally realised was that the main protagonist was not me but the Spirit of God. There are not many people who know more about church leaders in the UK than Martin. For 5 years he was the Director of Lead Academy which has worked with hundreds of churches and we are very privileged to have him on our council of reference.
Interview with Andy Flannagan
There is so much more to Westminster than the pantomime of Prime Ministers questions. Five days after the general election in the UK, Andy Flannagan, Director of Christians in politics, reflects on where we now find ourselves as a country and how Christians are discovering how to be salt and light in the political leadership of our nation.
"We are not on a godly mission if it tramples over people on the way."
Bekah Legg is CEO of Restored, a charity working with abused women. In this interview Bekah reminds us of how domestic abuse is an issue in all of our churches and how we might respond. She also shares a number of very helpful insights about the parallels between domestic abuse and the various types of ‘religious’ abuse which can occur in churches. I found it a fascinating and timely conversation with some helpful ways forward for our churches to be safer in the future.
Inspirational stories from the African church
In 2015 Colin, Pam and their 3 children left the UK to go to Africa to be involved in church planting to unreached people groups. Eight years into that adventure we talked to them about what they have learnt. The ‘stand outs’ for me were the inspirational stories from the African church, what they have learnt about how we find God on the fringes of ecclesiastical power and how it’s easy to think we are a multicultural church when in fact we are multi ethnic but mono cultural church. Definitely worth listening to the distilled wisdom of two wonderful people.
Anna talks about the difficult times in leadership
Anna is currently the Country Director for a relief and development agency working in Lebanon, leading at team of 120 staff. Anna has worked and led in some of the most challenging environments in the world including the DRC, South Sudan and Iraq. In this inspiring interview Anna talks candidly about the difficult times in leadership, the part that fear plays in her decision making and the difference between optimism and hope.