Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana
Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana (PhD) is the Director of One People Commission of the Evangelical Alliance. He is an ordained and accredited Baptist minister. He previously pastored Woolwich Central Baptist Church, a Black Majority multi-cultural multi-ethnic church in south east London (2014-February 2021), Crofton Park Baptist Church (2007-2011) and Catford Community Church (2011-2013). He is Nigerian coming from a Pentecostal background, and holds a BA (Hons) in Religious Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and an MTh from Carolina University of Theology.
Israel is the editor of World Christianity in Western Europe: Diasporic Identities, Narratives and Missiology (2020), African Voices: Towards African British Theologies (2017), Turning the Tables on Mission: Stories of Christians from the Global South in the UK (2013), and author of Reverse in Ministry and Missions: Africans in the Dark Continent of Europe (2010), 20 Pentecostal Pioneers in Nigeria (2011), Partnership in Mission: A Black Majority Church Perspective on Mission and Church Unity (2015) and Discipleship, Suffering and Racial Justice: Mission in a Pandemic World (2021).
Israel’s research thesis through his publications has been to develop African British Theology exploring African identity through Intercultural Missiology and Public Theology.
He is a Honorary Research Fellow at Queens Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. He is on the Christian Aid Steering Group of Black Majority Church leaders exploring concerns around Racial Justice and Climate Justice and on the Advisory Group on Race and Theology of Society for the Study of Theology (SST). Israel is a member of Tearfund’s Theology Committee and is also part of Mission Research Network an initiative of Churches Together in England (CTE) and British and Irish Association of Practical Theologians (BIAPT). He is a member of Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Commission for Mission. He is happily married to Lucy who works at London City Mission (LCM) as Evangelism Content Manager. They are blessed with children Iyanuoluwa (Miracle of God) and Iretoluwa (God’s Hope).
Oscar Siu
Oscar Siu is a pastor currently serving at the North Kent Methodist Circuit. He has dedicated his career to teaching in schools and seminaries, as well as serving in various local churches. He is passionate about supporting Chinese migrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom. Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English, Oscar is eager to connect with a diverse community and provides assistance to those in need.
His faith journey has taken him through mainland China, Hong Kong, the United States, Scotland, and ultimately England. These experiences have shaped the multifaceted nature of his academic and pastoral mission. He used to be a research associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, focusing on the theology of hospitality in relation to Hong Kong migrants in the UK. Additionally, he is an active member of the Mission Committee of the British Methodist Church, where he advocates for cross-cultural mission and ministry, fostering understanding and support within multicultural communities.
Brenda Amondi
Brenda Ouma is a Missionary and a church planter from Kenya. She currently serves in the capacity of a Community and Youth volunteer in Gloucester town, England. Her hope is to be part of a multicultural church plant in the Gloucestershire area.
Brenda has served as a missionary with Nairobi Chapel Church since 2014. The first two years she worked under the Youth Ministry as the Creative Service Co-ordinator while undergoing leadership training geared towards church planting and pastoral ministry. Prior to this, in 2011 she served in the Nairobi Youth Diocese, in the Anglican Church of Kenya. Her involvement was in missions to secondary and university students.
In 2016, Brenda, together with a team of 7 others, planted a church in the south of Nairobi- Nairobi Chapel South Church. She was tasked with starting a children’s ministry, which she did excellently, having raised and nurtured a team of leaders to continue the work. She came to the UK in September of 2016 and continued serving as a missionary at St. Luke’s Church Earls Court. In September 2017 she pioneered the Youth Ministry at St. Luke’s Church- Earls Court. In 2018 she took on more responsibilities and spearheaded the Women’s Ministry at St. Luke’s Church. She served in this position until August 2020, after which the mission field took her to Gloucester. Brenda also serves in the Lausanne Europe Process Team as the Prayer Coordinator.
Brenda holds a BA in Interior Design from the University of Nairobi and a Masters in Christian Leadership, with a focus on theology and Spirituality, from St. Mellitus College in London. She desires to be used by God to draw people across all cultures to Jesus, and share in the joy of salvation. Her passions revolve around people, leadership and the creative arts. When she is not with people, she enjoys hiking and having quiet walks in nature.
tayo Arikawe
Rev Tayo Arikawe is the Founding Director of London Bible Academy and also an itinerant trainer who likes to equip God’s people with God’s word for cross-cultural mission. He was the former International Director of Langham Partnership. He was also previously the Director of Ministries at London City Mission (LCM). He is an 
ordained minister, a missionary and Bible teacher. One of his interests is reverse/inverse mission, with a view to building multicultural churches that will reach out to the lost in the continent of Europe. He is the International Director of Grace Evangelistic Ministries Europe (GEM), a non-denominational Bible teaching missionary organisation whose first priority is to take the gospel of grace to a lost and dying world. The ministry operates in over sixty countries of the world. Tayo completed an MTh from the University of Chester via Wales Evangelical School of Theology. He also holds BSc in Geology and Mineral Science from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. On a good day, he is at the gym doing bodily exercise. He is married to Calista and they are blessed with one son Mekus. Tayo is currently working on a PhD in Biblical Studies at University of Gloucestershire
Peter Oyugi
Peter Oyugi leads the African conversation of Majority World Christian Leaders Conversation (MWCLC) and serves on the leadership of Majority World Christian Leaders Conversation (MWCLC). He is also the European coordinator for Movement of African National Initiatives (MANI). He is on the international board of Interserve International and he hails from Kenya serving previously African Inland Mission (AIM), UK in different mission capacity. He also served on the Lausanne Europe Executive Team advising in matters related to diaspora ministries. He previously served as the pastor of a church in London, and before that as a student worker among university and college students in both Kenya and the UK. After initially studying Electrical and Communications Engineering in Kenya, Peter later graduated with an MA in Missions from Redcliffe College (University of Gloucestershire) and an MBA (Leadership) from the University of Liverpool. He regularly teaches the Bible at IFES conferences in English-speaking Africa. He also served on the councils of Global Connections and vice chair of All Nations Christian College council. Peter has a passion for cross-cultural mission that has grown out of being exposed to different cultures from childhood. His father is Kenyan and mother Finnish. He is an avid sports lover and takes a keen interest in African politics. Peter is married to Cecilia and they have two daughters.
Usha Reifsnider
Dr Usha Reifsnider is a British Gujarati Christ follower. She has served in cross cultural mission since 1988 with a specific focus on migrant engagement. Usha holds an MA in Practical Theology. She completed her PhD thesis with a special focus on the intersection of Cultural Anthropology and Practical Theology.
Usha serves as one of the two Lausanne Europe Regional directors. She also serves on the board of European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) and travels extensively in Europe raising the profile of diaspora ministries . Usha is married to Dr Matthew Reifsnider and has two children and two adopted grandlads. She has previously worked with South Asian Forum (SAF) of the Evangelical Alliance and South Asian Concern (SAC). Usha is the editor of the book Unmuted: Speaking to be Heard (2025).
Dr Samuel Cueva
Dr Samuel Cueva (PhD), is a Peruvian missiologist, writer and mission consultant promoting two-way mission bridges to every continent for the fulfilment of God’s mission, and an expert on mission theology of reciprocal collaboration. He holds a BT in Theology from the Facultad de Teología – Barcelona (IBTE), Certificate in Religious Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London, MA from University of Birmingham (UK), and a PhD from Trinity Saint David, University of Wales (UK).
He is an ordained minister of the Iglesia Misionera Evangélica (IME), a mission consultant an expert in reciprocal collaboration mission theology, and founder and president of Mission for Third Millennium which organises conferences for Christian leadership on Global Mission. Samuel’s PhD explored reciprocal collaboration in mission between Western Churches and Latin American Churches, proposing a relational mission theology with a qualitative approach on reciprocal collaboration mission theology. He is also a composer on Canto Creativo – Creative Singing (YouTube), and produces ‘Pensamiento que Inspira’ (Thought that Inspires), a weekly Spanish theological reflection designed for WhatsApp.
Samuel is the editor of articles both in English and in Spanish, between them: ‘Indigenous Churches: Ethnic and Multicultural Churches’ (The Church in Mission 2016), ‘Partnership’ in Dictionary of Mission Theology (2007), Al Cumplimiento de la Missio Dei (2007), En las Manos del Alfarero (2021), and author of La Iglesia Local en Mision Transcultural (1992), Mission Partnership in Creative Tension (2015).
He is a member of the Latin American Theological Fraternity, and a council member of the Evangelical Alliance (UK); advisory member of One People Commission (Evangelical Alliance UK); board member of the steering committee of the Equip7: Learning Community (Asian initiative). He has been a Visiting Lecturer in Missiology at the University of Roehampton (UK), and speaks at various national and international conferences. He currently lives in London.
Trizenia September
Trizenia September is from East London, South Africa. An ordinary lady whose life has been impacted by encountering Jesus. For the past twenty years, she has served God’s mission worldwide. She joined Operation Mobilisation (OM), an international and interdenominational missions agency, in 2004. She served most of that time on OM Ships [Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific] and with OM South Africa, Missions Discipleship Training (MDT), as a leader where they prepared students for life-long missions. After 12 years of mission experience, she became an international student in England pursuing studies Biblical and Intercultural Studies. The studies created a platform to wrestle with questions about the African context, missional developments, and African participation in global missions. This became the focus of further studies back on the continent of Africa where she obtained a master’s in theology (Missiology). Since 2022, she was appointed as an Associate Area Leader for OM’s work in Africa where she oversee the mobilisation strategy in and from Africa. Apart from OM she also serves with Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World (CMMW) and is a member of Majority World Christian Leaders Conversations (MWCLC). Profoundly shaped by the communities in which she grew up, her ministry takes place both within the local church and global spaces. She is passionate about activating followers of Jesus to live God’s kingdom mandate in whatever spaces they occupy.
Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World 