Anderson Church Family

We have an  active membership of 80, half of whom are Nepali speakers.  We seek to be accepting and welcoming of all who come and so our current congregation includes European, Asian and African people of all ages.

Our extended church family includes 120 people connected to our Sunday services, and around 200 in our community groups (Scouts, toddler group, etc). About half of those connected with the church live in the vicinity.

Sunday morning is our central gathering, with a congregation of around 80, including people of different ages, backgrounds and nationalities.

Church Leadership

Our church is led by the members through the bi-monthly members meetings where the church decides on all all issues of strategy, direction, finance.

There are a group of deacons, ministry team leaders and ministers who offer leadership to the church.

Below is a list of the current ministers, deacons and ministry team leaders

Judith Wheatley  – Minister

Judith has been in ministry within Anderson since 2000, initially working with children , youth and their families.

In  2011 she was called to be our Minister and now works with the deacons to provide oversight and leadership.

Judith is married to Phil and they have three grown up children who live away.

Alina Rai – Minister (part-time) 

Alina has been with Anderson since September 2014, where she started training at Regents Park College began working 3 days for the church.

She assists with the leading and preaching, supports the ministry amongst the Nepali community. She is helping us pioneer a different way of being church that includes English and Nepali speakers.

Alina is married to Deepak and they have one son, Adamo.

Joe Forson – Outreach Minister (part-time)

Joe joined Anderson in 2018 to support our Youth work and also Outreach into the local community. Joe is married to Nana and they have two children Baaba and Adino.

Angela Lawrence – Pastoral Care Ministry Team Leader

Angela co-ordinates a team of pastoral carers who take responsibility for the care within the church and the local community when requested.

She is married to Jon and they have three daughters

Deacons  (Leadership team)

Andrew Menzies (treasurer)

Glenna Menzies

Maggie Taylor

Deepak Rai

Tirtha Rai

Pat Dyer – Administrator 

Pat works for the church collating all the information, producing notice-sheets, answering queries and supporting the leadership in all aspects of church administration.