From Sunday 7th January the 11AM Morning Service is moving to 10:30AM

Meet the team

Staff

Matt Walmsley

Senior Minister

Matt is responsible for supporting people across the church as they journey in faith.

Phil Coram

Operations Director

Phil oversees strategy, processes, plans and legalities. Together with the Trustees, he ensures that Maybridge is stewarding its resources and running well.

Ruth Stanley

Children and Families Worker

Ruth and her teams provide clubs and teaching for kids on Sundays and in the week as well as working to support families in the area with parenting classes, groups and mentoring.

Andy Evans

Youth Worker

Andy is all about the Youth. He and his Elevate and Amplify teams mentor, teach and run activities for young people aged 11-19.

Piero Regnante

Discipleship Development Leader

Piero helps us build a culture that makes disciples – supporting people to grow in their faith journey. He oversees our Alpha Course and Partnership Groups.

Gay Jacklin

Church and Community Worker

Gay is responsible for our ‘on team’ initiative, working with our volunteers and teams. She also heads up Worthing 4 Refugees – an organisation that supports families devastated by the conflict in the Middle East.

Jo Walraven

Community Hub Team Leader

Jo is responsible for the planning, organization and implementation of a community hub. She will be working with church partners and other interested agencies so that together we can have an impact in helping those who live in the local area. She oversees our Bags of Hope Café, helping families who could use extra food and support over the school holidays.

Judy Keen

Finance and Buildings Administrator

Judy manages the financial administrative processes of the church, deal with routine building issues and provide administrative support.

Becca Schmeer

Communications and Worship Leader

Becca is developing our communications and sung worship to encourage our community and church family to grow as disciples of Jesus.

Elders

Alex Stout

Duncan Slaney

Antoinette Daniel

Ros Satchell

Trustees

The Role of the Elders

The Elders role at Maybridge Community Church is to act as guardians of the partnership, discerning and overseeing the spiritual direction of the whole church community.

1. Guardians of the church includes:

  • Setting an example
  • Providing pastoral care and support for partners
  • Teaching
  • Protecting the church from false teaching

2. Discerning includes:

  • Trying to understand what God is saying to us about the present and the future
  •  Being sensitive to the spiritual health and wellbeing of the church
  • Understanding the season & context we are in and helping us respond wisely
  • Teasing out the root issues we face

3. Overseeing includes

  • Helping the Senior Minister develop vision and direction
  • Providing support, challenge and a sounding board to the Senior Minister
  • Undertaking the performance management review of the Senior Minister
  • Evaluating whether we are aligned to our purpose, vision and values
  • Exercising church discipline when necessary

Trustees

The trustees ensure that this church is carrying out its purposes and to enable the church to reach its vision of building a vibrant church community that resolutely follows Jesus and extravagantly shares the goodness of God.

The trustees:

  • Ensure that the church does what it says it is going to do, according to the governing document
  • Plans what the church will do and what it wants it to achieve
  • Explain how all of the church’s activities are intended to further or support its purposes
  • Understand how the church benefits its partners, local community, and the wider world by carrying out its purposes

The trustees comply with the church’s governing document and the law.

The trustees:

  • Ensure that the church complies with its governing document
  • Comply with charity law requirements and other laws that apply to our church
  • Take reasonable steps to find out about legal requirements, e.g. reading relevant guidance or taking appropriate advice required

The trustees act in the church’s best interests

The trustees:

  • Decide what will best enable the church to carry out its purposes
  • Make balanced and adequately informed decisions, thinking about the long term as well as the short term
  • Avoid putting themselves in a position where their duty to the church conflicts with their personal interests or loyalty to any other person or body. Therefore, all trustees are partners of Maybridge Community Church.
  • Do not receive any financial benefit from the church.

The trustees manage the church’s resources responsibly

The trustees:

  • Act responsibly, reasonably and honestly. This is sometimes called the duty of prudence. Prudence is about exercising sound judgement.
  • Make sure the church’s assets are only used to support or carry out its purposes
  • Avoid exposing the church’s assets, ministers, staff, elders and partners to undue risk
  • Protect the reputation of the church, including ministers, staff, elders, and partners
  • Do not overcommit the church
  • Take special care when investing or borrowing
  • Comply with any restrictions on spending funds or selling land

The trustees act with reasonable care and skill

The trustees:

  • Use reasonable care and skill, making use of their skills and experience and take appropriate advice when necessary
  • Think, consider and pray before they contribute and make decisions at regular trustee meetings.

The trustees ensure that the church is accountable

The trustees:

  • Demonstrate that the church is complying with the law, is well run, and effective in its mission
  • Ensure appropriate accountability to partners
  • Ensure accountability within the church as it delegates responsibility for particular tasks or decisions to ministers, staff, elders, partners, volunteers, etc.