10th - 11th March 2027
St.Paul's Hammersmith, London
10th March: 2pm - 5:15pm (doors open at 1:15pm) and 7pm - 9pm
11th March: 9am - 5pm (doors open at 8:30am)
Ticket prices
Saver Pass | £90
Group Pass for 5 people | £375
Day Ticket | £60
The Ekklesia 2027 theme is "Fearlessly Faithful, Faithfully Fearless.
Fearlessly Faithful is a call to stand firm in God's Word, trusting Him wholeheartedly and remaining unwavering in our faith whatever the cost.
Faithfully Fearless is a call to engage the world with courage, grace and conviction, confidently sharing the hope of Christ wherever He calls us.
Ekklesia is an overnight conference for church leaders to explore together the raw and the real of church life. It’s a space to unpack some of the thinking and the practical ideas that help us effectively bring about Kingdom change.
Since we started in 2019, we’ve had vicars and pastors, deacons and elders, youth workers and community workers, lay preachers and mission enablers join us. Some leaders come alone and some come as a team from their local church. This is a great opportunity to learn together!
The whole conference is based around roundtables with an opportunity to discuss and contextualise what is shared from the front.
Contributors
David Couzens
Peacebuilding Thematic Lead Tearfund
David leads Tearfund's peacebuilding team, established in 2016 to address the impact of violent conflict on community development. Before joining Tearfund, he served 29 years in the British Army, including tours in Afghanistan and Libya, earning an OBE for his work. David has been a key advocate for collaboration between NGOs and the military and helped improve crisis response strategies. At Tearfund, he has supported disaster responses like the Nepal earthquake and Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines. Now, he focuses on peacebuilding worldwide, challenging views that perpetuate violence. He is married with three children and two grandchildren. He is also a keen open water swimmer having swum the length of England’s longest lake.
Becky Ingamells
Head of Church Partnerships Tearfund
Becky speaks at churches and conferences around the UK about how the global church is bringing justice and transforming lives. She travels internationally to understand the impact of churches upon their communities, and she has a Postgraduate Certificate in Kingdom Theology from Westminster Theological college.
Silas Balraj
CEO Tearfund
Silas brings a wealth of experience to Tearfund, having held a number of senior positions at the Christian charity Compassion International over the past two decades. Roles have included Country Director for India, Vice President for Asia and, most recently, Senior Principal in Compassion's global programme function, based in the US. In this role he oversaw a programme to bring together philanthropy, marketing and programme teams to work more effectively and achieve greater impact. Before joining Compassion International, Silas spent eight years in India's information technology sector, where he led organisations from startup to profitability while establishing HR and Operations functions. He is passionate about leveraging digitisation to enhance organisational effectiveness.
Silas holds a master's degree in social work and a bachelor’s degree in English literature, both from Madras Christian College, Chennai, India. He also has a diploma in human resources development from AIMA New Delhi, India. Silas is based in the UK with his wife Gracia, he has three adult daughters and two sons-in-law.
Dr Andrew Ollerton
Bible Society
Dr Andrew Ollerton is a theologian, pastor and popular communicator who makes complex ideas simple and relevant. He works with Bible Society and developed The Bible Course, an eight-session guide to the big story of the Bible for small groups. Andrew is married to Charlotte and they have three kids, two fish, a snake and a dog.
Graham Kendrick
For over fifty years, Graham Kendrick’s music has given voice to millions of worshippers
across denominations and generations around the world. He has published over 450
songs, including global classics such as ‘Shine Jesus Shine’, ‘The Servant King’ and ‘Knowing You (All I Once Held Dear)’.
He is based in the UK, regularly leads worship in his home church and travels widely, as a worship leader, speaker and performer. His autobiography Shine Jesus Shine, My Life in 40 Songs is published by Hodder & Stoughton.
Ekklesia 26 Highlights & Reflections
You can read our Ekklesia 26 Highlights and Reflections report below
‘Five Star Rating. This excellent church leaders conference was run with smooth efficiency. Speakers were passionate, well informed and left us aglow with renewal passion and vision and hunger to spread the Gospel.’
Dr Taiwo Okun
(Christ Nissi Family Resource Church)
‘Ekklesia has inspired and encouraged me in leadership. Learning from and sharing with other church leaders from many denominations has been so valuable. Listening to key-note speakers and then having the chance to together is a great balance. It has been thought provoking, refreshing and needed!”
Rev Sharon Lovelock (Methodist)
‘Ekklesia is a great chance to get away from the pressures of ministry for a time of practical tailored input and sharing and prayer ministry.’
Dave Simms (Congregational)
hosts
Andy Frost
Andy Frost has been the Director of Share Jesus International since 2008. He presently heads up the London Mission Collective; works with Care for the Family on the Kitchen Table Project and Gather on church unity and mission.
Nicole Lewis
Nicole works for Agape UK and serves as the UK Associate National Student Director. She is also the London City Coordinator for Agape UK.
Nicole is passionate about seeing people fall deeply in Love with Jesus and walk with Him for a lifetime. She currently lives in London, where she loves to go on long rambles or what she calls her #wanderwalks and describes herself as a beautifully black and wonderfully white woman.
Mark Waterfield
Mark leads Hope Church Newham a diverse and growing church in East London, where he is a gifted preacher. He heads up Stratford Church Leaders - a multi-denominational gathering focusing on transforming the community it serves.
Mark, along with Andy Frost, has pioneered Church leader round tables in London and the Ekklesia Conference
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