Steering Team

The core committee of Southampton Christian Network is currently made up of 9 church leaders drawn from member churches. These are:

   
Simon Orton
Simon Orton
King's Church
Simon is the Senior leader of King’s Church. Simon’s passion is for the church to live passionately and prophetically the life of Jesus, making Him known throughout our city, the nation and the world.
 
Billy Kennedy
Billy Kennedy
Pioneer / New Community
Billy is the Senior Leader of New Community Church. Billy is also the national leader of the Pioneer network and currently serves as one of the Presidents of Churches Together in England. Billy has a passion to see the evangelisation of our nation and the Kingdom of God expressed in every sphere of society and culture.
 
John Risbridger
John Risbridger
Above Bar Church
John in the Team Leader of Above Bar Church. He is an author and Chair of Keswick Ministries. John exercises a strong gift in preaching and teaching and has a passion to see God’s Word known, understood and lived.
 


Chris Kilby

Chris Kilby
Life Church
Chris leads Life Church which began in 2007. Chris is an evangelist at heart and has a passion to draw people into the kingdom of God through building loving relationships and winning people to Jesus through our life and message.
 
   
John Paul Oddoye
Pastor John Paul Oddoye
Covenant Church
John Paul is the Senior Pastor of Covenant Church.  He has a background in Operational Research.  His passion is to see individuals become disciples of Christ through sound teaching of the Word of God, to see God's people fulfill their destiny, and he has the desire to see the gospel of Christ preached in every nation of the world.
 
Erica Roberts
Erica Roberts
Highfield Church
Erica is Southampton’s Chaplain for Older People. Formerly she was a Medical Doctor and is now part of the staff team of Highfield Church. Erica has a passion to see older people knowing God’s love and wholeness to the very end of their days.
 


Nicky Porter

Nicky Porter
City Life Church
Nicky is part of the Pastoral Team at City Life Church and leads Amber, a chaplaincy service which provides a listening ear, emotional support and prayer to women vulnerable to sexual exploitation in the city. She has a passion to see broken hearts healed and for people to find their place of belonging in God's family.
 


Theo

Theo Amer
New Community
Theo is the congregational leader of New Community Church, Southampton. 
 


Dan Clark

Dan Clark
St James by the Park
Dan is the Vicar of St James’ by the Park, Shirley. Dan has written a couple of books to introduce people to Jesus, and loves the challenge of re-imagining church to help us reach more people with the gospel of God.