Kirk is from Newcastle Australia and has been in full time ministry since 1999. From 1999-2008 he served as Youth Pastor and Associate Pastor. His roles in this time included leading young generation groups: kids, youth and young adults. He also ran Youth Alive for the Newcastle region, working with over 30 churches and seeing events of thousands of young people attending and being saved. Kirk and Tracee with a team pioneered a new campus of the church and saw it grow and it is still going today. Kirk also served as Sports Chaplain to the Newcastle Knights Rugby League team.

In 2008 Kirk and Tracee felt God call them to the United Kingdom and Europe. Kirk’s father was born in Scotland, so it was like God was sending him back to the land of his fathers. Through a few God orchestrated contacts, Kirk was connected with Kings Christian Centre in Birmingham. In 2009 Kirk and Tracee and their two children Josiah and Ruby, sold everything they owned, said goodbye to their families to follow the call of God and become the new pastors of the church in Birmingham. Since arriving they have repurposed the church that was pioneered in 1940, rebranding to Connect Church and moving their services to St Andrews football stadium in 2014. Kirk became the club chaplain of Birmingham City football club in 2013. In 2017 the church started construction on a brand new 500 seat church building on a site right next door to the stadium. Kirk has always been a part of the Assemblies of God in Australia and then the UK and served four years as zone leader in the Central area. Kirk sees himself as a missionary to the United Kingdom and Europe and has ministered in twenty-one nations. His passion is to see every believer mobilised into mission.

Kirk loves living in England and especially sports. When Australia play England he always wins as he is a dual citizen. One of his favourite times of the week is when the music for Match of the Day starts playing on a Sunday night.

Tony has worked in full time Christian ministry for over 23  years now. This has included 3 years working for a mission agency, 6 years co-pastoring a church plant working particularly amongst marginalised and homeless people and then for the last 14 years has Pastored Tower Hamlets Community Church, a vibrant multi-cultural and multi-generational Church in London’s East End. He co founded and chaired for 8 years a Church night shelter project and is very involved in helping Evangelical  Churches work together in Tower Hamlets.

He is married to Anni ( who came to the UK as a missionary from Germany) and they have a heart to see least reached communities impacted by the Gospel. The work that they do as a church has a particular focus on reaching into Muslim communities both locally and overseas. Tony is passionate about helping to train churches to feel confident and equipped for reaching least reached people and communities. He has an MA from Chester University in Missional leadership with his particular focus being on how Churches engage in serving people through social programs that have a clear articulation of the Gospel embedded into them.

Hannah Prosser was born out on the mission field and has been passionate for the Kingdom ever since.  She spent 7 years in South Africa after getting married, working on a variety of community projects, prison work and as part of the teaching faculty in a Bible college.  She has been involved in every aspect of local church ministry over 25 years, from helping to plant churches to kids work and organising large mission conferences. Hannah currently works with churches, church planters and missionaries throughout Europe, equipping and mentoring people to build self-sustaining churches and ministries. She also works with the Next Level International network on church planting projects and training conferences in central Europe.  She loves to learn, having a Masters in Practical Theology, and loves to teach. 

Hannah serves on the mission team with responsibility for missionaries, having established and trained a member care team using her years of pastoral care experience.  She also has responsibility for other aspects of sending and training.

Hannah and Stephen have had prophecies promising an inheritance of the ‘nations’ and seek to live in that calling every day through a life of faith and connection.  They have two wonderful daughters, who have been involved in many aspects of missionary life

Stephen Prosser accepted Jesus at 18, and very quickly felt a call to ministry and mission.  As well as serving in the church and leading a local church plant, he spent 7 years as a missionary in South Africa. He headed up a number of training programmes at a Bible college, wrote degree courses for a South African university, engaged with local ministry and saw many miracles – from hospital wards emptied out to the transformation of prison communities. 

Stephen was challenged by the Lord to move from one of the more reached areas of Africa to work in one of the less reached areas of Europe and wrote a Masters dissertation on some of the unreached peoples of Russia.  He runs church planting projects with Next Level International and works with other churches and missionaries around Europe, providing mentoring and encouragement.  For the AoG mission team, he oversees this region of Europe, connecting with the missionaries and working with other national mission departments.

One of Stephen’s greatest passions is cultural anthropology and cross-cultural communication and its application to Biblical interpretation and cross cultural work.  In addition to his mission work, Stephen also works as a Pastor at Hope Church Rotherham, and has developed strong local community partnerships through various ministries in the church such as the foodbank.

Leigh is originally from Chesterfield and was part of the AoG church, now called Lifehouse. He trained at Mattersey Hall and following his graduation was involved in local church leadership in three AoG churches at Wrexham, Bolton and Werrington. In the early 1990’s God called Leigh, his wife Jacqui and their four children to uproot and live in South Africa for 6 years. They were accredited AoG missionaries based at the Africa School of Missions, where Leigh became the Dean of Students and led the campus church, Grace Fellowship.