Steering Group

Simon Hoare is the Senior Manager for Acts Trust, a charity founded by Alive Church in 2007. Simon trained as a debt counsellor with Christians Against Poverty, founding the CAP Lincoln debt centre. He has since helped to develop several other Acts Trust projects, including the Restore Furniture project and Lincoln Foodbank, which deliver aid to those in need across the City.

Simon is also a founding member and Chair of the Lincoln Active Faith Network, which coordinates church based projects across the City. In 2016 he was awarded a Mayoral Medal for his commitment to tackling poverty in Lincoln.

Simon lives close to Lincoln Cathedral with his wife and two children, attends Alive Church and has a keen interest in writing, performing and recording music.

Sian has been an Assemblies of God Pastor in Lincoln for 13 years. She has a passion to see the local Church fully engaged with the community where it is based. She loves to pioneer and create new projects, seeking creative ways to impact people’s lives. She believes that Christians should be forging the way in terms of City transformation which is why the Active Faith Network is crucial for Lincoln, seeing Churches relate well together, seeing Christian projects achieve more in partnership, and having a voice at leadership level in the City.

James Prentice is the Lead Pastor of Life Church Lincoln.

In January 2015 he began working for Life Church as a pastor and two years later in March 2017 become Lead Pastor.

James has a desire to see the church grow in influence locally, nationally and even further afield.

He has two children, Isabella and Alfie, and is married to Kelly. In his spare time, James enjoys walking in the countryside, films, music, reading and sampling real ales. James also likes to watch football with Alfie.

Sarah helps to lead Threshold, a church who have a vision to see new people, new communities and new cultures in Lincolnshire. Sarah has a particular emphasis on how the church connects with the community in terms of social action and evangelism.

I'm excited about the impact that GLAFN will have as we work together for God's glory in Greater Lincolnshire. It is wonderful how so many different churches are coming together with one purpose and through GLAFN, to have a united voice and a co-ordinated approach to see some amazing things happen for the good of the communities we live in.

Andrew has lived in Lincoln since 1994 when he was appointed Industrial Chaplain in the City. In that time he worked closely with many of the engineering companies in the City, as well as playing a significant part with many of the regeneration groups that helped change the face of our City.

Currently, Andrew is the Priest in Charge of the Swinderby Group of Churches, although he is still Chaplain to the Siemens Gas Turbine sites in Lincoln. Andrew is also the Chaplain to Lincoln City FC. He is passionate that the churches play both a practical, and prophetic role in building up the Common Good within the Greater Lincoln.

Churches Together in All Lincolnshire (CTAL) serves the eight major church denominations and networks in the historic county of Lincolnshire.   

Our aim is to strengthen the mission of the Church in Lincolnshire through partnership and to strengthen the partnership of the Church in Lincolnshire through mission. CTAL provides a forum for church leaders to meet, pray, discuss, speak and act together - with one voice. CTAL is a vector through which the churches can connect with statutory bodies and others, where input from the churches, acting together, is required CTAL provides opportunities for the churches acting together to engage with the significant spiritual and social issues facing the county.

Andy is minister at Bailgate Methodist Church, with responsibility for the Lincoln Circuit's City Centre ministries. He arrived in Lincoln in 2010, moving to The Methodist Church after 18 years as a Salvation Army officer, pastoring churches in County Durham, Southampton, London, Swindon and Dunstable. He is married to Ruth and has three children and one granddaughter. Andy's passion is to see the church fulfil its purpose as a growing fellowship of disciples 'saved to serve' (to borrow a Salvation Army phrase!)