Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana

Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana (PhD) is the Intercultural Cataltyst for the One People Network of the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) and former Director of the 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 a co- editor of Polyphonic God: Exploring Intercultural Theology, Churches and Justice (2025), 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 of ICCT-WEAVE an intercultural initiative. 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 also an advisor to Intercultural Ministries Ireland. 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 Jones is the Family and Community Coordinator at Walsgrave Baptist Church and an Arts and Crafts Teacher working in partnership with Young Beacons in Coventry. Passionate about strengthening families and building connected communities, she develops programmes that bring people together through creativity, learning, and meaningful relationships.

As a wife and mother of two, Brenda brings warmth, authenticity, and practical experience to her work. Her unique blend of community leadership, creative education, and family-focused engagement enables her to create welcoming spaces where people of all ages can grow, connect, and thrive.

tayo Arikawe

Rev Dr 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 Continental coordinator for Movement for African National Initiatives (MANI) a role he assumed at the MANI 2026 Consultation in Abidjan, Cote D’ Ivoire.  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 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 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.