Meet the Team

Stephen Cave is National Director for Evangelical Alliance in Northern Ireland.

He is married to Nicola and they have three children - Ben (b.1997), Maddi (b.2001) and Levi (b.2005). Prior to joining the team in January 2001, Stephen was pastor of Ballycrochan Baptist Church in Bangor.

Stephen's first job on leaving University was as a primary school teacher in Carrickfergus, a town to which they have returned as a family. The passion that drives him is working to see evangelicals in Northern Ireland discover the impact we might have on our society if we were serious about unity.

His responsibility is the oversight of the Alliance's work in NI, as well as serving on the UK leadership team. He spends much of his time working with member organizations - encouraging and promoting strategic partnerships that will better serve the church, representing the Alliance in wider networks, speaking in churches, either preaching or representing the work of the Alliance, lecturing regularly at Belfast Bible College evening classes and working on events that seek to resource church leaders better in the challenges of ministry.

And he loves it all - most of the time!

Lindsey Holley is the Public Policy Officer for Evangelical Alliance Northern Ireland.  As of June 2009 this a new role for her at the Alliance but she first joined the team 18 months earlier as a research assistant. 

Lindsey is married to Dawie and they have two wee boys - JJ (b. 2006) & Seb (b. 2008).  She moved over from England in 2005 after Dawie returned home to NI for work.

Prior to her move, she worked in London for the Churches Criminal Justice Forum as their Policy Officer and before that was an intern with a leading Christian development agency, Tearfund. Find out more by clicking here.

Laura Bush is not new at all to the Alliance, she started in September last year as a temporary Administrator for what we thought was only going to be for four weeks however she ended up being here until January! 

Now she is PA to the National Director full time and has been in the job since end of July.  She deals with all of the National Director's administration and oversees all of his diary! Such a hard job but she loves it!Prior to her becoming a PA to the National Director, after leaving upper sixth at Ashfield Girls' High School, Laura went on a gap year with Christians in Sport to Bicester North of Oxford . She spent six months in a church acting as a youth leader and also in a primary school were she taught PE lessons and taught the Christian Union every week.  She travelled around the UK teaching young people how to use sport as their mission field and showed them how they can represent Christ in the way they play their sport.

Andrew Bowers is also no stranger to the Alliance, Andrew volunteered with us leading up to and during Kingdom Come in 2006. He has been with the Alliance since mid-January 2007 & is the voice behind the phone in the EANI office. Andrew is part time with the Alliance as well as studying youth work and vehicle repair.

Prior to joining the Alliance Andrew studied car mechanics at Northern Regional College in 2005 and moved onto further study in 2006. Following this Andrew worked as part of a management team in retail.

Judith Hill joined the EA team in Belfast in November 2008 to develop a media hub in the city and is very excited about the role! Judith has always had a passion for communicating and studied English at Queens University, before completing a postgraduate in newspaper journalism with the University of Ulster.

She worked for a couple of years within the local radio scene in Northern Ireland and now works as a cross-platform journalist for UTV. Judith's role within the Alliance is to source good news stories happening in communities across the province and feed these into some of the mainstream media outlets.  Her vision is that hopeful voices would increasingly have an outlet within the public sphere, bringing colour, hope and Life to people in Northern Ireland.

Lindsay Davis has recently returned home from a years mission internship in Malawi. Since being back in the Emerald Isle she has landed in the job of MAP co-ordinator, working 3 days a week.  Linz loves the vision and diversity of MAP and feels very privileged to be part of a creative and dynamic EA team…Linz loves to travel, meeting new people, and to eat lots of freshly baked scones!!