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.

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. MARK BERRY founded Safespace, a new monastic community in Telford. He heads the Church Mission Society's Community Mission Team and is an Associate Minister of Fresh Expressions.