Speakers   Key speakers and participants involved include:

David Coffey, President of Baptist World Alliance David Coffey has been President of the Baptist World Alliance since 2005 and during this ministry has visited over 68 countries.  He is due to step down at the 2010 Baptist World Congress in Hawaii.  David is a former National Director of Evangelism, President and General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain.  He has also been the Free Churches Moderator in the UK and Vice-President and President of the European Baptist Federation.

Kwame Adzam Kwame is a Baptist minister and member of Trinity Baptist Church, West Norwood (where President of the BUGB, Kingsley Appiagyei, is Senior Pastor).  He is an evangelist, church planter, preacher, teacher and missions strategist. Kwame is also a director of the London Baptist Association, a former member of the Knights Hill Panel set up by the Metropolitan Police and served on the committee for developing young people and curbing crime among the youth in West Norwood set up by the Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP. He is married to Deedee.

Amy Orr-Ewing, Training Director, RZIM Zacharias Trust Amy Orr-Ewing is Training Director of the Zacharias Trust and Director of Programmes for the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. She gained a first class degree in Theology at Christ Church, Oxford University, before receiving a Masters degree in Theology at King’s College, London. Her book, Why Trust the Bible? was short-listed for the 2006 UK Christian Book Awards. Amy speaks and lectures on Christian apologetics at many different locations worldwide. She is married to Frog, who is a vicar in the Church of England, and they live in London with their three boys.

Karl Martin Karl is married to Niki and together they have four girls – who keep them humble, busy and broke.  His father, Baptist minister Roger Martin, was to have been President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain for 2010/11 before his untimely death in May 2009. Karl is Senior Pastor of Morningside Baptist Church in Edinburgh which has seen amazing growth over the past five years.  Karl loves sport of all kinds, 24, curry and Arsenal.  He has a passion to see the Church be the hands and feet of Jesus, lead culture and be the transformation that this world needs.'

Reuben Martin Reuben is a church planter for BMS World Mission and is the star of L’Eglise, a fly- on-the-wall documentary series produced by BMS about the inner city church plant he leads in Rouen, France.  Before moving to France in 2005, he established a church in Dubrovnik, Croatia.  He is married to Katie with three children and is the brother of fellow Assembly speaker Karl Martin.  Reuben is passionate about God, mission, family, Chelsea Football Club and playing golf!

Anne Wilkinson-Hayes Anne is currently having a year’s sabbatical from her role as a Regional Minister in Melbourne, Australia, where she has lived for nearly eight years. Previously Anne served as pastor in several UK churches and was the Social Action Adviser for BUGB for seven years. Anne has always had a strong interest in development, and has worked for  various aid charities. She chairs the Aid and Development Committee of the Baptist World Alliance. Anne is married to Mark who works for the Salvation Army’s social housing programme in Melbourne and they have one daughter. They are currently living in a caravan by the Thames and learning to live more simply and responsibly.

Jonathan Edwards, General Secretary, Baptist Union of Great Britain Jonathan has been General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain since 2006. Prior to that, he was General Superintendent and then Regional Team Leader for the South Western Baptist Association for nine years. He has had pastorates at Southgate Church and Orpington Baptist Church. Jonathan has also been a regular speaker at Spring Harvest for a number of years.  Jonathan is married to Sue and they have three children.

David Kerrigan, General Director, BMS World Mission David has been General Director of BMS World Mission since January 2009. Other roles he has held with BMS include being BMS Director for Mission, Regional Secretary for Asia and a BMS mission worker in Bangladesh where he was treasurer of a large general and leprosy hospital. In 1997 David visited Afghanistan for the first time, then still under Taliban rule, and negotiated the beginning of BMS work there. During this period he also served for four years as President of the United Mission to Nepal.