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 8am)
Ticket prices
Early Bird Pass | £80
Early Bird Group Pass for 5 people | £275
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
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.
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‘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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