Gather Movement

Summit 2024

17-18 JUNE 2024
REACH, RIVERSIDE COURT PRIDE PARK
DERBY, DE24 8HY

Special Saver tickets are now available!
Group discounts available upon request

I see a new unified city

I see a new city where the church and all of society is united to see the city flourishing. A city where the church takes its place in civic society and works to bring about shalom.

I see a new city where we all make a difference

I see a new city where every person in their places of work and neighbourhood becomes a city changer.

I see a new city of social impact entrepreneurialism

I see a city full of creative entrepreneurs moving the dial on the stubborn social issues of today.

I see a new poverty-free city

I see a city where the evil of poverty and injustice is being eradicated.

I see a new city of flourishing women

I see a new city where women are safe honoured and released to disrupt the status quo of injustice.

I see a new city for our children and young people

I see a new city where our children and young people are safe, secure in families, and reaching their potential.

I see a city that knows its identity and potential

I see a city that knows its identity, its history, geography and place. A city that knows its assets, opportunities and challenges. A city that has a vision for the future and a plan to realise it.

I see a new intercultural city

I see a new city not divided by ethnicity, class, gender and income but celebrating diversity and unity.

I see a city where everyone knows the name of Jesus

This vision is about social, cultural and spiritual transformation. Ultimately it is about people’s lives being transformed from the inside. People who know forgiveness, healing and restoration begin themselves to transform others in the name of Christ.

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

Subject to change

Tracks
1. POVERTY

I see a new poverty-free city

2. FAMILY AND CHILDREN

I see a new city for our children and young people

3. SPHERES

I see a new city where we all make a difference

4. STARTING/GROWING A UNITY GROUP/LEADERSHIP

I see a new unified city

5. SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

I see a new city of social impact entrepreneurialism

Seminars
1. Hustings/Civic Engagement
2. Children and sport
3. Women
4. Evangelism
5. ICS (inc Night light CAFES)
6. Intercultural
7. Homelessness and Housing
8. Prayer
9. Mental Health
10. Theology of the City

CONTRIBUTORS

Letitia Shelton

Letitia Shelton

Letitia, from Toowoomba, Australia, is founder of City Women & City Free from Porn. She is author of Still Fighting for our Daughters and the Disruptive Women Series. She speaks internationally & nationally encouraging women to disrupt darkness with light & hope of Jesus. Letitia works to encourage women to not be silent when it comes to oppression & injustice.

Dr Sarah Williams

Dr Sarah Williams

Sarah Williams trained as an historian at the University of Oxford, where she subsequently taught British and European political and cultural history. After seventeen years at Oxford, in 2005 she moved with her family to Vancouver, Canada, where she taught history at Regent College. Today Williams lives with her husband Paul in the Cotswolds, close to the city of Oxford, where she continues her research, writing, and teaching.
Tani Omideyi

Tani Omideyi

Tani is Chair of The Board of Trustees and Senior Pastor at Love and Joy Ministries. He is Chair of Liverpool Lighthouse, and a board trustee of Together for Harvest, Liverpool. Tani was previously chair of Evangelical Alliance UK.
Andy Frost

Andy Frost

Andy is Joint CEO of Gather Movement and is also our regional connector for London. Andy is also Director of Share Jesus International and has been supporting city-wide missions and community festivals for the past 15 years.

Lord Michael Farmer

Lord Michael Farmer

Michael Farmer has highlighted the negative ramifications across society of family breakdown and promoted the need for better support for all families who need it and the strengths of the Family Hub model.
Prof Paul Williams

Prof Paul Williams

Paul Williams, CEO of Bible Society, worked for over a decade in business in London and then as an academic theologian in Canada. He is the visionary behind ReFrame, an innovative resource for whole-life discipleship, produced by Regent College, Vancouver, where he holds a Research Professorship of Marketplace Theology and Leadership.
Tania Bright

Tania Bright

Tania is CEO of Home for Good, a national leader with a FTSE100 background in Global Procurement and Contract Negotiation and church leadership. Tarn (as affectionately known) is focused on community renewal through relationships, reform and innovation, lending her professional acumen and 20 years ministerial experience to a variety of high impact organisations.
Simon Hawking

Simon Hawking

Simon is the Chief Executive for Acts Trust, a charity founded by Alive Church Lincoln with a mission to Empower People to End Poverty. Simon initially trained as a debt counsellor with Christians Against Poverty and has since helped his team to develop several projects including the Restore Programme, Lincoln Foodbank, Night Light Cafes and the Lincoln Community Grocery. He has developed social franchises of local services which are being replicated across the UK and overseas. In addition he is involved with Transform Lincoln, the Greater Lincolnshire Food Partnership and LocalMotion.

Osoba Otaigbe

Osoba Otaigbe

Osoba, is a Baptist Minister, working for the Bible Society as Church Engagement Manager, North of England and is on secondment one day a week with Gather Movement working on reimagining mission in the UK and Intercultural Church and City Transformation.
Dr Kim Tan

Dr Kim Tan

Kim is a successful biotech entrepreneur, global social impact pioneer, and an advocate of changing how Christian entrepreneurs can make a difference around the globe. He is the co-founder of Transformational Business Network (TBN), a network of over 2,000 businesspeople who bring about community transformation through sustainable business solutions to poverty.

Joe Lowther

Joe Lowther

Joe is CEO of Kick London, founded in 2003 with a mission to transform young people’s lives with God’s love through sport. Joe is the former Principal of School and Director of the Youth Service Department at City Gateway in Tower Hamlets.

Roger Sutton

Roger Sutton

Roger co-founded Gather Movement with his late wife, Lesley, and is joint CEO. He previously served the Borough of Trafford in Manchester as co-chair of the Trafford Local Strategic Partnership and chair of the Stronger Communities Board for Trafford Council in Manchester; he also led the Covid crisis response group across Trafford. Roger previously led Altrincham Baptist church in Manchester for 22 years.
Simon Barrington

Simon Barrington

Simon is passionate about mobilising the global Church to stand alongside those who are suffering and marginalised as they fulfil the Great Commission. Simon led Samaritan’s Purse UK as Chief Executive from September 2003 to May 2017 after a successful business career in the telecommunications industry, where he was a Senior Manager of British Telecommunication plc.

Marie McConville

Marie McConville

Marie is the Principal of Harmonize Academy in Liverpool, an Outstanding Alternative Provision Free School. “This school succeeds where no one else can” – Ofsted 2020

VENUE

Reach is a unique events space in Derby. The main hall has seating capacity for 750 people with state of the art AV and lighting, with additional breakout rooms and easy access by road or rail and ample parking nearby.
Venue website: reach-events.co.uk
Find us: reach-events.co.uk/where-to-find-us

 

Parking:

Onsite parking is limited and will be reserved for exhibitors. We recommend that all delegates park at the nearby Derby Arena Car park.

Price: £3 per car, for 1 day. You can pay by cash at the machines or by card through the MiPermit App or website (instructions of how to do this are on the parking machines).

Derby Arena, Royal Way, Derby, DE24 8JB

ACCOMODATION

There are many hotels in Derby to choose from, please feel free to do your own research; these are a few that we found within close proximity of the venue:
Holiday Inn Express Derby – Pride Park
Travelodge Derby – Pride Park
Pentahotel Derby – Locomotive Way / Pride Park

Dr Sarah Williams presented at our recent Theology Day, in Oxford, and gives us a great taster of what we will be exploring at the 2024 Summit. Some people have been so captivated by Sarah’s talk, that they have already watched it 4 times! We encourage you check it out, too.

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