About

I grew up in the High Anglican tradition, then went through the youth ministry of a Church of England village church, then spent my twenties in the Vineyard network, and now I am a pastor of a charismatic church in London UK. So I’ve seen the church and the kingdom in a few different forms. In all its forms I have found the person and presence of God. I’ve also found that every church regardless of denomination or background needs the Saviour Jesus, needs the Holy Spirit and needs Father God. I’ve also found that no church can survive without healthy community, the hunger for that is in my DNA.

I taught in schools as Primary School Teacher for 10 years both in central London and out in the rural countryside. Teaching children and shepherding them over the years was a God-given education for me in pastoring. I have been in Christian ministry in voluntary, part time and full time roles for the past 20 years. I wrote my first book in 2021, ‘The Road to the Father’s House’.

I’ve spent time on the mission field, learning and teaching in schools of ministry, doing worship and travelling. My friends would probably say I spend most of my time listening to podcasts, going for walks or watching movies. They are probably right.

Abbi and I have two beautiful boys (as of Sept 2022), Alexander and Aiden, and so most of our time is currently spent playing with them, feeding them, cleaning up after them and dreaming of one day going to sleep at a reasonable hour and sleeping straight through until morning.

Our family recently moved to sunny North Dakota, USA, where we lead Encounter Church, a small but wonderfully real family of people hungering for the presence of God.

My heart for all is firstly to know we can hear can hear the Father’s voice, and that ultimately all of life’s questions, problems and trials find their answers, solutions and resolutions in Jesus. He is the source of all life, which is but the blink of an eye, whereas the life to come will be eternal (2 Corinthians 4:16-18).  My burden is for people (including me!) to truly understand this - that ‘reality’ is a shadow of what is to come (Colossians 2:17) and eternity is real, for when we do, we will step out in greater acts of boldness and faith.

Combing the above burdens, my hope is to encourage people to the following actions: 

1. Spending regular time in the ‘secret place’

2. Engaging with Government - Especially to advocate for the unborn and vulnerable in our society

Regarding the ability to hear God’s voice and spending time in the Secret place, I personally began this journey as a child as I was raised in a Christian home. However, I received my greatest revelations about hearing God’s voice when I was in my early twenties attending a little suburban church called New Life. The Pastors, Peg and Jay Snyder, led me on a journey of going deep in God. It was there I learned how to hear God’s voice (based largely on the teaching from Mark and Patti Virkler, “The 4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice”). It was there I learned about and received my first inner healing, first spoke in tongues, was activated in the prophetic and began believing for and seeing ‘in the moment’ healings (praying for someone to be healed, and then seeing an immediate healing/ improvement).

In sum, my three focuses for seeing the above achieved are:

• Prayer (the secret place)

• Awareness

• Action
  

In 2015 Alistair went to Ireland to help a school of ministry run for a week. While there he met a couple of pastors (Jay and Peg Snyder) from Minnesota and the three of them struck up a friendship. About a year or so later Jay and Peg invited Alistair to come on a mission trip to Nicaragua with them, which Alistair enthusiastically said yes to. Alistair flew out to the States, spent a night with Jay and Peg and the young adults from their church (including a pretty girl called Abigail) and then the next day made his way with the other missionaries to the airport to fly out for to Nicaragua. 

Once at the airport Alistair was told he had less than 6 months to run on his passport and the Nicaraguan authorities wouldn’t let him into the country. To cut a long story short, Alistair ended up staying in Minnesota for the whole two weeks he was meant to be on the trip.

God was all over it though, as Alistair and Abbi got to know each other during this unexpected time and realised there was something there.

3 years later they were married. By Jay. 

And the why for this website…

Abbi is a prayer warrior, advocate for life (from conception to natural death) and mother.

Alistair is a pastor, teacher, pioneer and father.

These two sets of traits don’t necessarily bleed together... but somehow in it all the Lord had a plan and made it work. 

So this website, all that we write and produce and all the content is to help equip and inspire you for the following:

• Your heart journey with God

• Your understanding of who God created you to be

• Strategic guidance for your calling

• Seeing your personal place in God’s global story

• Seeing your personal and corporate role in what God is doing in the earth right now

Summed up...

• Authenticity
  

• Strategy
  

• Character
  

• Stewardship