Graham Cray was the Principal of Ridley Hall theological college in Cambridge before being appointed Bishop of Maidstone in 2001. Graham left this ministry in 2008 when he was appointed Archbishop's Missioner and Team Leader of Fresh Expressions. He chaired the working group which produced Mission-shaped Church and has contributed to several other books regarding the future of the Church including Mission-shaped Youth, The Future of the Parish System and Making Sense of Generation Y.

Ian Mobsby has worked as a lay pioneer/missioner and as an ordained pioneer practitioner particularly with missional forms of new monastic communities and the experimental alongside the traditional.

Ian has written a number of books on aspects of contemporary mission and spirituality, recently completing a research PhD part exploration of the 'Spiritual But Not Religious’. 

He is currently working in Canada as the Diocesan Community Missioner to the Bishop of Niagara and remains a member of the Church of England's College of Bishop’s Advisory Council for the relations of Diocesan Bishops and Religious Communities.

Ray Simpson was educated at Woking Grammar School for Boys, London University and London College of Divinity. He was ordained into ‘the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church’ at Lichfield Cathedral, founded by Saint Chad of Lindisfarne in 669.

In 1978 he was uniquely commissioned by Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, United Reformed Churches and The Religious Society of Friends, with a Salvation Army band and ‘the right had of fellowship’ from Community and Pentecostal churches to establish ‘one family of Christians for one neighbourhood’ at Bowthorpe, Norwich, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

He is the Founding Guardian of the dispersed, international ecumenical Community of Aidan and Hilda. The CORE of CAH comprises followers of the Way from Catholic, Orthodox, Reformed and Emerging expressions of the world-wide Body of Christ and other faith communities.

He lived on England’s Holy Island of Lindisfarne for over two decades where he established the Celtic Christian Library and the Community’s retreat accommodation for pilgrims.

He has been the Community’s principal liturgist and Celtic Studies tutor, is the author over forty books on prayer, spirituality and new monasticism, and has travelled and lectured widely on three continents.

GRAHAM CRAY is Archbishops' Missioner and Team Leader of Fresh Expressions. IAN MOBSBY is Associate Missioner of Fresh Expressions and founder of MOOT, a worship community exploring fresh ways of being the church in the centre of London.