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Rev Mark Thomas
Vicar (Senior Pastor) |
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Seth May
Ministry Associate |
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Mark and Kylie joined Christchurch back in 2023. They both love learning Welsh and walking the beautiful Gower. Kylie loves tennis, Great British Bake-off and works for the relief and development charity Tearfund. Mark loves football, mountains and was a physics teacher before becoming a vicar. So he also loves helping people explore science, faith and all the big questions of life. More recently, he has served on the leadership teams at St Mark's Battersea and HTB church. He is also the author of the Speak Hope Podcast and founder of Worshipping Nation Music who released their first album in 2024. |
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Seth is a recent graduate in English literature from Swansea University. He loves writing poetry, is passionate about advocating for justice, and helps lead our children's ministry and City of Sanctuary partnership. |
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Angela Lloyd
Church Warden & Treasurer |
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Nang Maran
Assistant Treasurer |
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Angela is a retired headteacher, a governor at Christchurch school and an energetic member of our Sunday service team. She is married to Mark, and enjoys geocaching, crochet, baking and spending time with her grandsons Arlo and Renly. |
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Nang and her family come from Burma and are a huge blessing to our church and community. She studied accountancy and is passionate to help us discover what God can do with a faith-filled, generous church. |
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Pam James
Safeguarding Officer & Hall Manager |
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Qiuzi Pan
Internationals Officer |
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Pam works at Christchurch school and does a huge amount behind the scenes as well as helping to keep us growing as a safe church for all. She is very creative and has even published a children's book! |
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Qiuzi and her family are an amazing blessing to our church. She helps lead our Sunday children's ministry and our international engagement team as we seek to welcome and bless people from all the different backgrounds in our wonderfully diverse city centre community. |
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David Griffiths
Worshipping Nation Music - Producer |
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Wayne Jenkins
CEO of Swansea Veterans Hub |
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David helps us regularly with our Music-for-All programme and community recording projects, including two local school anthems. He is also the talented producer behind several Worshipping Nation releases, which you can now find on all streaming platforms. |
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Wayne leads the award-winning Swansea Veterans Hub which is now based at Christchurch, and supports military veterans and families, but also serves the wider community in some beautiful and remarkable ways. It is our privilege to partner with them as the region's garrison church. |
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Wendy Davies
Community Cafe Leader |
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Carys Powe
Secretary to Council |
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Wendy is a Sandfields pioneer and in 2018 helped to launch our Thursday community cafe, which continues to thrive thanks to a dedicated volunteer team. |
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Carys is an occupational therapist and a brilliantly creative member of our Sunday Funday team. She is married to Ceri, and together with Oliver, Eleanor, Arlo and Renly bring joy, colour (and the occasional light-sabre) to our Sunday worship. |