Dr Kyama Mugambi

Kyama Mugambi's teaching and research interests center on African dimensions of church history, Pentecostalism, and the role of faith in public life. His book A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya (2020, Baylor University Press) was included in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research's list of "Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies, Intercultural Theology, and World Christianity for 2020." He conducts research and regularly teaches in Africa where he has built extensive networks in over a dozen countries.

Dr Ruth Valerio

Dr Ruth Valerio is Global Advocacy and Influencing Director at Tearfund. An environmentalist, theologian and social activist. Ruth holds a doctorate from King’s College London, and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Winchester and Chichester. She is Canon Theologian at Rochester Cathedral and her home church is part of the 24/7 Prayer Network. She enjoys living sustainably - practising what she preaches and inspiring others as she does so - in the South of England with her family. She is the author of L is for Lifestyle:Christian Living that doesn’t cost the earth, Just Living:Faith and Community in an age of Consumerism, and the children's book Planet Protectors: 52 ways to look after God's world. She also wrote the Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2020 Lent book, entitled Saying Yes to Life. Ruth is a regular contributor on Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.

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Dr Naomi Lawson Jacobs

Dr Naomi Lawson Jacobs (they/them) is a social researcher, writer and Disability Equality Trainer. Naomi is disabled and neurodivergent, and has been a disability activist for several decades. Naomi’s book ‘At the Gates: Disability, Justice and the Churches,’ co-written by Emily Richardson, is out in June 2022. Based on Naomi’s PhD research, the book shares disabled Christians’ stories of marginalisation in churches, their cries for justice from the edge, and their transformative theologies for the whole church. Naomi is part of a growing disabled and neurodivergent Christian movement, where a new thing is taking root on the edge of the church. They can be found at home in North London with their spouse and cats, and sometimes in church, at St Luke’s West Holloway.Twitter: naomi_jacobsFacebook: naomilawsonjacobsWebsite: naomilawsonjacobs.com

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Revd Canon Tim Goode

Tim is the Rector of St Margaret’s Lee and was the Disability Advisor to the Southwark Diocese from 2013-21. Tim is a member of the National Disability Task Group, which advises the Archbishops on disability issues, a member of the General Synod since 2015 and since 2020 a member of Archbishops’ Council.  Since 2020 Tim had been a member of Churches Conservation Trust's Board of Trustees, by appointment of Her Majesty the Queen,  He was made an Honorary Canon of Southwark Cathedral in September 2020.  

Tim studied Music at Huddersfield Polytechnic and trained as a secondary School teacher at the Roehampton Institute. He was Director of Music of Homefield School from 1995-2007. 

Tim trained for ministry at Ripon College Cuddesdon and served his title at Croydon Minster, in the diocese of Southwark and was ordained priest in 2010.  From 2012-18, Tim was Team Vicar of St Luke’s Whyteleafe and St Peter and St Paul, Chaldon, part of the Caterham Team ministry.

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Revd Sally Hitchiner

Revd Sally Hitchiner is the Associate Vicar for Ministry at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Her responsibilities include leading the Sunday morning congregation alongside the pastoral care, liturgical and organisational aspects of the church. 

Prior to working for St Martins Sally coordinated a large multi faith chaplaincy supporting staff and students in a university. She has served as a parish priest in Hyde Park and in Ealing, where, amongst other things, she led a congregation for those who are homeless or feel disconnected to the church. Sally is a regular contributor to discussions about faith and current affairs in the national media and is a member of the Church of England’s governing council, General synod. 

Sally is in a civil partnership with Fiona who is also a member of St Martin’s.

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Revd Richard Carter

Revd Richard Carter is Associate Vicar for Mission.  He was ordained in 1992 and has been a full-time priest at St Martin’s since 2006. He has special responsibility for the education programme, international links and hospitality of the church and links up with the Connection at St Martin’s for services, events and to lead the Spirituality Group.

Before coming to St Martin’s Richard was Chaplain to the Melanesian Brotherhood in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.