Intercultural Church Conference 2022

Alongside his wife, Esther, Steve has been the senior leader of the multi-cultural and multi-campus All Nations Church since 2001. Steve is also recognised as the Apostolic leader of the growing All Nations Movement which gathers churches and leaders together with the vision of turning nations back to God through prayer, church planting, repurposing existing churches and equipping leaders.

Kate is the founding director of Next Leadership. She has 35 years of leadership experience in the church, charity, voluntary, and business sectors, and is a mentor and coach to leaders from diverse sectors, backgrounds, and communities.

Adam is the national director of Intercultural Churches UK (www.icuk.network). He lives in Derby where he planted an intercultural church and is now a senior leader with ‘Reach’; a diverse church working across the East Midlands. IC-UK is a resourcing network committed to seeing a new generation of churches emerge in the UK that fully reflects the diversity of our communities and God’s love for all nations.

Jessie is an Ethnomusicologist who has an interest in second-generation immigrants, intercultural worship and missions. She was born and brought up in the UK and loves to speak about how important diversity is in loving others and knowing God more. Jessie is part of Songs2Serve, a ministry equipping intercultural churches across Europe in creating new shared worship cultures which reflect the diversity of God’s people. She is enjoying planting a new intentionally intercultural church in Harrow, London, called Mosaic. Jessie hosts a podcast called ACross Culture - exploring culture, identity and the Christian faith - because culture really does inform everything in life, including our faith!

Alex Brito is a Brazilian who moved to plant Mosaic Multicultural Church in Elephant and Castle, London, with the support of Co-Mission Church Planting Network, The London Project and Intercultural Church Planting Network. Alex is also part of the steering group of the DNA (Diaspora Network Alliance) and a catalyst for the London Project, a City to City initiative.

Together with his wife, Louisa, Richard joined the staff team at All Nations Christian College in 2013. He is a member of their Senior Leadership Team and Programme Leader for the en route Programme of cross-cultural mission training courses. He and Louisa are currently involved in catalysing and supporting mission training courses in various nations around the world. They also have the privilege of speaking on mission at various churches and mission events.

Louisa is currently a lecturer at All Nations Christian College, teaching on the En Route, BA and MA programmes. Together with her husband, Richard, they have a passion for training Global South Christians to participate in God’s Mission.

Before joining the team in 2013, she was a College Students’ Pastor with Full Gospel Tabernacle, Malaysia for 8 years, working with International students from over 30 nationalities, pastored a church plant with internationals, and was involved in migrant workers ministry. Prior to that, Louisa worked for 7 years as the Elder/Administrator at City Temple International, a cross-cultural church in central London.

Rev Wien Fung is a husband and an adoptive parent. He is an adoption and mental health advocate especially for East and South East Asian communities. He is the co-founder of the British East and South East Asian Christian Collective, a grass-root platform that seeks to serve and represent East and South East Asian Christians and communities. He is a trustee of the Association of Christian Counsellors and he also serves as a Mission Mobilisation Manager at London City Mission providing strategic input and research on diaspora and youth mission to the least-reached. Prior to LCM, he was the English Pastor at the Chinese Church in London.