The Profile

Shell Perris - once a singer in a Christian girl band - now leads Alive Ministries which helps families worship. She works with Gary Spicer at The Lions which guides Christians in setting up and running successful businesses, not just to make money,...

Andy Peck chats with the national director of Development Associates International (DAI UK) about their leadership training and support of Diaspora Christians including overseas students. They talk about her background in community health and develop...

Podcaster Carey Nieuwhof has said being a pastor 'nearly killed' him. Not that he felt a particular call to church leadership initially. Nieuwhof grew up in a Christian home to immigrant parents who lived in Canada but it wasn't until he was 13 and...

Andy Peck chats with the authors of Healing Leadership Trauma: Finding emotional health and helping others flourish (IVP). They discuss how past trauma can impact a leader’s style and approach, what signs we should look for, and what we might do to g...

After a tough year Wycombe Wanderer's Jason McCarthy was looking to assess his priorities. He was having a successful career as a defender but after a close relative died and during a nasty spell when he got held up at knifepoint he began to qu...

Singer and songwriter Victory Boyd grew up in a big musical family. She's one of nine children and credits her parents for her musical success and the investment they put into her and her siblings. As a family they moved to New York with littl...

Andy Peck chats with Phil Moore about his transition from serving as pastor at Everyday Church Wimbledon for a new kind of discipling based ministry. They explore his new book, ‘The Forgotten Manifesto of Jesus’ and how new believers can become leade...

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce is one of the most outspoken pro-life activists working in the UK today. She is the Director of 40 Days for Life and March for Life UK which uses volunteers and prayer to encourage women to believe that their pregnancies are...

Andy Peck chats with Kate, the founder of Next Leadership and her co-director Cham. As the first black and Asian ministers in the Baptist Union of Great Britain respectively, they share their experience as pioneers. They look at what racism is, and...

Australian-born Christine Caine is an author, and activist. She grew up to Greek immigrant parents in Sydney but from the age of 3 she was sexually abused by men living in her house. In her childhood and early adult life she lived with great shame bu...

Andy Peck chats with the author of ‘The Unhurried Leader’, who is the founder of a range of ministries, resources and events for leaders who wish to slow down. They talk about Alan’s journey to near burnout, how he recovered and what he says to leade...

Actor David Gyasi (pronounced 'Josse') is on a career high. He's appeared in Hollywood films such as Interstellar with Matthew McConaughey and alongside Halle Berry in Cloud Atlas. You can also catch him as UK Foreign Secretary in the Netflix series...

In a classic re-run, Andy Peck chats with the retired Baptist minister and Cambridge scholar about how we should best understand Luke and Matthew’s portrayal of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus. Does the likely scandal surrounding the events...

Gospel singer songwriter Michelle John has sung with some great names in the music industry including Eric Clapton and Maria Carey though as she says - she still feels like "Michelle from Peckham". John grew up on a council estate in South Londo...

Andy Peck chatted with the leadership enabler at CPAS (Church Pastoral Aid Society) about the work of equipping lay leadership to serve in the local church. They discuss how moving from Holy Trinity, Brompton to revitalise a church in Fulham helped s...