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Mission & Ministry Team

The Mission & Ministry Team includes the Lifelong Learning Team, York School of Ministry, the Diocesan Vocations Network and the Multiply and Mustard Seed Programmes.

The Revd Canon Dr Ian McIntosh

The Revd Canon Dr Ian McIntosh

Director of Mission and Ministry

ian.mcintosh@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
01904 699500

Ian leads the Mission & Ministry Team that embraces the work of York School of Ministry, the Diocesan Vocations Network and the Training Team with that of the Multiply and Mustard Seed programmes. He has responsibility for shaping and directing support for mission and ministry across the whole diocese.

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Sammi Tooze

Sammi Tooze

Discipleship Adviser and Strategy Enabler

sammi.tooze@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
07930424280

Sammi works with both individuals and churches to deepen our discipleship – a key element in helping us become more Christlike. She is champion for discipleship across the Diocese, developing and curating resources which embed faith in everyday life as well as those which help us to pray. She is also involved in enabling the Mission and Ministry Team to support the delivery of “Re-imagining Mission and Ministry”.

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Multiply Team (see multiplyreach.org)

The Revd John Lee

The Revd John Lee

Team Leader, Multiply

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John is responsible for day-to-day oversight of the work of building New Worshipping Communities focused on 20s-40s, and leads a team of 14 full-time 20s – 40s Ministers, placed strategically across the Diocese of York. He was Rector of St Paul's, Holgate Rd, York from 2002 to the end of 2018 (with additional oversight of St Barnabas in his final year), and became Area Dean of York - in effect the convenor of all the Church of England clergy in the City of York.

Jennifer Fletcher

Jennifer Fletcher

Associate Team Leader, Multiply

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Jennifer works with Multiply Team Leader the Revd John Lee to oversee the ‘Growth Fund’ making grants possible across the Diocese to enable lay people to lead the creation of New Worshipping Communities focused on those in their 20s-40s. Jennifer has wide experience of launching and supporting new missional initiatives. She was leader of Youth with a Mission in York for several years before moving to Sheffield, where she planted a church with her husband.

Alice Lambert-Ellis

Alice Lambert-Ellis

Programme Administrator, Multiply and Mustard Seed

alice.lambert-ellis@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
01904 699500

Alice provides programme support and administration across both Mustard Seed and Multiply. Her previous experience has been in university administration, working in student admissions and student recruitment with the universities of Leeds and York.

Alice usually works full-time from Monday to Wednesday, and on Thursday mornings.

Mustard Seed Team (see mseed.org)

Liz Holdsworth

Liz Holdsworth

Mustard Seed Associate Programme Leader

liz.holdsworth@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
07521 173918

Liz is one of the people leading Stepping Up, the first step for a parish to be involved with the Mustard Seed Programme. Liz is working in Scarborough and Hull, developing Stepping Up programmes, which will begin in 2021. Local people from several parishes coming together once a week to grow as disciples of Jesus. They will be exploring what mission looks like in their parish and supporting each other to Step Up into what God is calling them to do in local mission.

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Paul O'Neill

Paul O'Neill

Associate Programme Leader for Mustard Seed

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Paul works in Middlesbrough and Guisborough Deaneries to develop Stepping Up, where people from local parishes come together once a week to grow as disciples of Jesus. He previously worked at Holywood Parish as the youth worker and for the Message Trust’s Redcar Community Grocery as manager. Paul comes from Belfast and lives in Redcar with his wife, Sarah, and their young daughter.

Alice Lambert-Ellis

Alice Lambert-Ellis

Programme Administrator, Multiply and Mustard Seed

alice.lambert-ellis@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
01904 699500

Alice provides programme support and administration across both Mustard Seed and Multiply. Her previous experience has been in university administration, working in student admissions and student recruitment with the universities of Leeds and York.

Alice usually works full-time from Monday to Wednesday, and on Thursday mornings.

Vocations Team (see dioceseofyork.org.uk/vocations)

The Revd Anna Burr

The Revd Anna Burr

Co-ordinator of the Vocations Adviser Network

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Anna co-ordinates the diocesan team of Vocations Advisors who support people wishing to explore God’s call on their life. This could be to a wide range of ministry, both lay and ordained. Our advisors are a mix of women and men, lay and ordained and those who are living out their vocation in the religious life.

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Lifelong Learning Team (see dioceseofyork.org.uk/lifelong-learning)

Lynn Comer

Lynn Comer

Warden of Lay Ministry and Director of Lifelong Learning

lynn.comer@yorkdiocese.org Send Email
01904 699525

Lynn has worked in theological education for many years, including as Principal of York School of Ministry and York Diocesan Director of Reader Training, both of which remain within her wider role as Diocesan Director of Lifelong Learning. She has served as a Reader herself at St Luke's Church in York since the 1990s.

Julia Robertson

Julia Robertson

Start of Lay Ministries Adviser

julia.robertson@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
01904 699500

Julia encourages both new and existing lay ministries, discovering and revealing the gifts of the whole people of God so that we as a church can engage in God’s mission to the whole of life. She is responsible for formation for ministry for Authorised Lay Ministers and Licensed Lay Ministers as well as informal Lay Ministry resourcing.

The Revd Mandy Coutts

The Revd Mandy Coutts

Start of Ordained Ministries Adviser

mandy.coutts@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
01904 699500

Mandy oversees the formation of those starting ordained ministry from the beginning through to the early stages of a post of responsibility. She brings with her skills and experience as a teacher and adult educator, rich ministerial and pastoral expertise along with a commitment to the wellbeing of those in ministry.

Jo Slack

Jo Slack

Academic Tutor - YSOM York Hub

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01904 699500

Jo is Academic Tutor at the York Hub of the York School of Ministry, carrying responsibility for the admission, teaching, learning and assessment of students studying on the Foundation Degree in Theology and Ministry programme. Please contact Jo if you have questions about the nature of programme, its relationship with vocational discernment and ministry development in the diocese and the entry requirements.

The Revd Pete Watson

The Revd Pete Watson

IME Phase 2 Adviser for the York Archdeaconry

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01757 704707

Pete Watson is part-time (one day a week) IME Phase 2 Adviser for the York Archdeaconry and Rector of Brayton. He did his theological and ministerial training at Cranmer Hall, has been ordained 9 years, is an ex-German teacher, graduate in Arabic and Social Anthropology from St Andrews University, and PGCE at Westminster College, Oxford. Born in India, Pete spent formative years in Bangladesh and India, and is proud to be a Glaswegian!

Revd Derek Simpson

Revd Derek Simpson

IME Phase 2 Training Adviser

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01845 574742

Derek is part-time (one day a week) IME (Phase 2) Training Adviser for curates in the Cleveland Archdeaconry, and works closely with Mike and Pete. He holds this responsibility alongside being the Rector of Thirsk, having previously held posts in London for 28 years.