Minister - Pete Chilvers

Pete Chilvers became the Minister of Hockliffe Street Baptist Church on 4th September 2010. For the previous five years he'd been associate pastor at the Bethany City Church in Sunderland and had previously worked at Christ Church Peckham and with the Universities & Colleges Christian Fellowship as a staff worker. He traces his Christian roots to being brought up in a home was Christ was honoured and adored, and came to a personal saving faith in Jesus Christ at a summer Bible Club whilst aged 8.

In ministry he seeks to lead worship that is Christ centred, Spirit filled, saturated in God's word, and encouraging everyone to lift their hearts as well as their voices in adoration to the risen Christ. In teaching he seeks to honour God, and build up the church and its leaders in God honouring, Christ centred discipleship. In his personal life he acknowledges he is totally reliant upon God's grace and he seeks to live and serve God as a response to who He is, and what He has done in the Gospel.

Pete is married to Esther and they have a young son.

Assistant Minister - Mahmoud

Mahmoud joined our ministerial team as Assistant Minister in January 2012. He is married to Debbie.

Paul Daggett - Elder

Paul has been a Christian since 1994 during which time he was organ scholar at Liverpool Cathedral. He has been worshipping at Hockliffe Street for over 10 years and was baptised in 1999. Paul is a teacher in Milton Keynes. His hobbies are running, cycling, and performing music.
He is married to Lorna and has three children.

Alistair Egginton - Elder

Details to follow

Eric Bowman - Elder

Eric was appointed as an Elder in November 2011. More details to follow

John Shortt - Elder

John was born and brought up in a rural part of the Irish Republic. He came to a personal faith in Jesus Christ in his late teens while living in Dublin and working in the motor insurance industry.

Having served as a missionary in East Africa he returned to the UK and trained as a secondary school teacher, a post he held for 17 years. During this time he developed an interest in Christian perspectives in education, and subsequently moved to the Stapleford Centre to develop this further.

In 2000, he moved to become the Travelling Secretary for EurECA (the European Educators' Christian Association) and he has worked among teachers across Europe and beyond since then.

He is married to Val (whose practical and spiritual support he still values immensely!) and they have two sons, a daughter-in-law and two grandsons. His hobbies include family history research, birdwatching and cycling.

Colin Johnson - Outreach Community Worker

Colin is married to Linda and they have 3 children, 2 of them now grown up. He works part-time for Hockcliffe Street Baptist Church as a Community Worker, this involves running a market stall on the Leighton Buzzard Tuesday Market, running a monthly coffee morning for elderly and visiting homes in the area. He is also involved with several other churches locally and helps in their community work and with a Christian charity called Counties.

Colin says: "I was not brought up as a child to go to church but became a believer in Christ when I was in my mid 20s. I began to wonder if there was more to life than just material things and making money and was amazed when I realised who Jesus was and what he stood for; knowing Christ has revolutionised my life in so many ways. My hobbies include watching films, TV/cinema/DVD, reading fiction (Some recent authors I have enjoyed: Sam Bourne, Frank Peritti and Joe Abercrombie [The blade Itself]), visiting National Trust houses, listening to music (Duffey, Amy Winehouse, Chris Tomlin, Brian Houston, Osibisa, Sade, Stuart Townend are some of my favourites) and keeping fit (when I feel like it!)."

Please see Colin's web site at www.hopeonthestreet.com or visit them at Leighton Buzzard Market on most Tuesdays.
 

Lynn Edwards - Church Administrator

Lynn is the first point of contact for most people calling the church office, as she works there as the secretarial assistant. Whether a call is to seek pastoral help, arrange a meeting, make a room booking, or just to catch up on news, Lynn will always try and help - although in a busy church like ours, sometimes it isn't possible to get exactly what you'd like first time!

Contact Lynn: lynn@leightonbaptists.org.uk

Anne Hailes - Finance Assistant

Anne is the financial assistant, who keeps the bills paid and thus everybody happy. Anne also provides holiday and sickness cover when Lynn can't be in the office.

Contact Anne: anne@leightonbaptists.org.uk