Trustees
Meet the trustees of CMS. Find out why this diverse and experienced group are willing to offer their time and energy to the Society and a little bit about what makes them tick.
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Chair of Trustees
The Rt Rev Paul Butler
Paul has served as a trustee since 2001. He is passionate about local and global mission; his particular involvement has been with the mid-Africa region, but he also has links with the Lutherans in Russia, the church in the Middle East and South America. He was installed as Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham on 27 February 2010, having previously been Bishop of Southampton from 2004. Before that he was for 10 years Team Rector in Walthamstow, east London. He has a particular commitment to work with children and young people and has two books published on the subject.
The Rev Yemi Adedeji
Yemi was born in Nigeria, and is the son of a Nigerian Princess. After attaining success in the commercial world, Yemi found himself eager to apply his marketing talents to a mission context. So he left his high-power job and began helping CMS build new relationships with Christians across the UK and beyond.
From a Muslim background, Yemi has an amazing testimony to share. As a former press secretary to the Nigerian Education Minister and an ordained pastor, he enjoys speaking to audiences about the love and power of Jesus.
Dr Jonathan Brant (SAMS)
Jonathan is married to Tricia and has a son named Isaac. Over the past 15 years he has studied and practised mission in the UK and South America. He is currently the Oxford Pastorate Chaplain working with graduate students in the University of Oxford.
Mr Paul Brigham
Paul is UK Director of Tearfund. He is passionate about seeing church locally and globally understand and engage in holistic mission that sees whole life and community transformation – ‘being the visible presence of the invisible God’. Paul’s current Tearfund responsibilities include all marketing and fundraising, UK church and volunteer engagement, youth work, operational and creative delivery and public representation. His primary foci are around clear strategic leadership, delivering organisational change, performance management and team development.
“I also have the privilege of travelling extensively to see local church transforming lives and communities through radical holistic mission in some of the world’s poorest countries.”
Previous experience spans senior commercial leadership in manufacturing and retail contexts, as well as in local Christian community leadership and executive coaching. He began his working career in the Royal Navy. He is a lay minister in the Oxford Diocese and is committed to serving his local church with his wife Sue who is a primary school teacher in Buckinghamshire.
Ms Alexis Chapman
Alexis is a freelance consultant currently providing International Save the Children Alliance with business development consultancy services in its global fundraising project. She trained as a chartered accountant and worked for KPMG, including a major audit of the International Committee of the Red Cross. She then moved to Save the Children UK, where she was Director of Finance and Director of Marketing.
Mr Keith Chua
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The Rev Patrick Coghlan (SAMS)
Patrick and his wife Gill were SAMS missionaries with the Anglican Church in Brazil from 1979-92. They returned to work in the Diocese of Sheffield, moving to their current parish of Malin Bridge in 2006. Patrick is Chairman of the group which oversees the link between the dioceses of Sheffield and Argentina. He became Chairman of SAMS GB in 2004.
The Rev Canon Philip Groves
Philip is team vicar in Melton Mowbray and a former CMS mission partner in Tanzania, where he taught at a theological college. He helped develop a small loan programme there, which has been replicated world-wide. He was made a Canon by the Diocese of Mpwapwa in recognition of his service. He is doing academic research on international partnership.
"I attended my first CMS meeting as a teenager and was inspired to discover more of Christ through intercultural mission. As a curate I actively supported CMS in my diocese and went on to serve as a theological educator in Tanzania as a mission partner. The possibilities offered of local-global partnership in mission have energised my ministry in Tanzania and as a local pastor with responsibility for evangelism in a UK parish. These experiences and biblical reflection prompted me to write Global Partnerships for Local Mission (Grove 2006) and to take on my present role as Facilitator for the Listening Process in the Anglican Communion.
"I have a passion for evangelism and have brought a CMS-inspired mission perspective to the intercultural process of listening within the Anglican Communion. I worship in a CMS supporting church which is exploring its own mission communities as it seeks to serve and grow."
Mr Peter Hyatt (SAMS)
Peter became a Christian through his local church in the late 1970’s whilst working for a global accounting firm. In 1983 he joined the SAMS Finance Committee and General Council. Following leave of absence from the committee in the early 1990’s, he resumed his role and was invited by the then SAMS General Secretary David Evans to visit Chile in 1998. Seeing the inspiring work of the Anglican Church there led directly to his taking on the Honorary Treasurer’s role in 2000.
Peter retired from professional practice in early 2007 and hopes that this may give him more time to study some theology, enjoy his two granddaughters, visit South America again and to complete some long-distance cycling epics with his wife, Jenny.
Mr Mark Morgan
Mark, 44, is a Principal Management Consultant within Nexant Ltd, a specialist consultancy serving the oil, gas, power and chemicals industries.Mark has been a management consultant for around 13 years and prior to that he enjoyed a career with BP in new business and technology development. He undertakes commercial, financial and technical due diligence of businesses in the chemicals sector, either for new business start-ups, acting on behalf of lenders, or for mergers and acquisitions, acting on behalf of private equity. Mark’s typical client base covers the project finance arms of major lending banks, eg, RBS and HSBC and private equity funds including the Carlyle Group and KKR.
Mark also works with major chemicals producers in different regions ranging from the United States to the Far East and his role involves extensive international travel and dealings with different business cultures. Mark has a keen interest in bringing Christian values into the work place and developing business as mission. He is married to Carol, with three children and is also a director of a community interest company, the Just in the Park cafe, located in the Oakwood Centre, Woodley, Reading.
Mrs Shona Passfield
Shona is managing director of her own marketing company which provides high level strategic consultancy to a range of leading UK businesses. She has been able to apply her strategic planning skills to engage with the work of CMS in Business as Mission. Shona has been appointed to the Board of Magi Enterprises, CMS’s Business as Mission initiative in Asia. Shona also supports the work of CMS Africa with their Business as Mission strategy and in providing training in business planning skills. She regularly travels to both Asia and Africa in support of CMS’s work.Shona and her husband Andrew live in Sawbridgeworth, Herts. Shona is also chair of the mission giving committee at Great St Mary’s Church in Sawbridgeworth.
Mrs Katharine von Schubert
Katharine is a freelance writer and mum. She is a former CMS mission partner (she produced Arabic videos for the Middle East) and former staff member. She has spent six years living in the Middle East and has worked for major charities in advocacy and communication, including Oxfam, Christian Aid and Save the Children, and the Quakers as a volunteer international observer.
The Ven Martyn Snow
Martyn is Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotheram. He is a former CMS mission partner in Guinea, where he was a youth chaplain. Alongside ‘traditional’ church in his own multicultural community, he mentors three evangelists working on ‘fresh expressions’ of church.“Previously I have worked in management, with a focus on communications and I am passionate about seeing best practice applied to Christian organisations.”
“Previously I have worked in management, with a focus on communications and I am passionate about seeing best practice applied to Christian organisations.”
Mrs Ann Tyndall
Ann is a pharmacist who has been involved with CMS since 1984 and was previously a trustee from 1997 to 2004.“CMS has greatly impacted my life and Christian journey,” she says, and is regularly seen at the CMS marquee at Greenbelt.
“Locally, I co-ordinate our church’s Out-of-Parish mission involvement encouraging others to think wider, be aware environmentally and strive for justice especially through FairTrade. I am also involved in pioneering late night ecumenical outreach to pubbers and clubbers.“Globally, we host many visitors from our partner churches and in 2006 visited our link diocese – Mukono in Uganda – where I was involved in parish and health centre work.”
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