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SPEAKERS
Each year, the Conference Core Team invites a variety of speakers who can encourage, teach and inspire us in different ways often using their own testimonies. In 2011 we had Michelle Moran, Canon Matthew Jones, Derek Williams and Andy Stayne plus the welcome return of Mime Artist Steve Murray.
MICHELLE MORAN together with her husband Peter is a founder member of Sion Catholic Community for Evangelism.
Michelle originally trained as a teacher and taught in a College for 5 years before ministering full time in Sion Community. In 1998, she completed a Masters Degree in Pastoral Theology at the Cambridge Theological Federation. Her Thesis was titled “Leadership and Ministry in Catholic Parishes”.
She has a great deal of experience of working full time in the Church, nationally and internationally over the last 25 years; her expertise lies in the areas of evangelism; communication and organisation. Michelle has been involved in Catholic Charismatic renewal from her youth.
She had a ‘conversion’ experience and was baptised in the Holy Spirit as a teenager. She has ministered in CCR all over the world as a conference speaker and teacher.
Michelle is currently Chair of the NSC for Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England and Wales and President of ICCRS, the International Council for Renewal in Rome. In 2007 she was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to be a member of the Pontifical Council of the Laity. One of her desires is to see the next generation of young leaders in CCR trained and equipped for ministry and leadership.
CANON MATTHEW JONES describes himself as a parish priest in north Cardiff, working with another priest in 3 churches.
Cardiff born and bred, he is also involved in other areas of church life, such as the National Tribunal for Wales, where he is currently Judicial Vicar.
In fact he is also a Canon lawyer and a gifted and eloquent speaker who has visited Hereford Catholic Conference in the past and celebrated Mass at the first Celebrate Conference in Cardiff earlier this year.
He is also the author of The Canon’s Stall -
DEREK WILLIAMS is a Catholic evangelist who teaches the Word of God. The primary purpose of this ministry is to help people, of all denominations and none, to read and understand God's Word.
His first visit to Hereford was at the 2010 conference where he gave a number of inspirational talks and workshops and jointly led the healing service with Andy Stayne on Saturday evening.
The healing was very tangible and those present felt the Holy Spirit act in waves. Visit his website: Word and Spirit Ministries
ANDY STAYNE is based in a community in Cornwall. His main focus has always been intimacy with the Lord and walking in his presence.
A key verse for him is, “I shall dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life” (Psalm 23:6).
He has been a worship leader for many years and has been led to evangelise in the UK, Malta, Ghana, India and Poland. He has led workshops in which people have been released in the gifts of the Spirit especially prophecy and he leads the prophetic intercession at New Dawn with Ros Powell
He also leads the prayer chair ministry in the local market place every Saturday which he describes as ‘prophetic evangelism’, like Jesus and the woman at the well in Samaria, where those working with him use the gifts of the Spirit to minister into people’s lives.
As was evident at the Hereford Catholic Conference last year, his teaching has always
had a prophetic edge to it as he seeks to give the prophetic message the Lord puts
on his heart for any particular group. A part-