Our Team
We’re a community of people playing our part in transforming communities across the UK and Ireland.
Jude Davis Interim Chief Executive Officer
Jude Davis was appointed as Interim CEO in 2024 following Peter Rouch’s departure from Church Army.
Jude has previously served as Vice-Chair of the Church Army Board of Trustees and as the Director of Chaplaincy and Vocations for the last 4 years. She has a wealth of experience across the organisation, with our key partners and the wider Anglican church.
Jude says: “Church Army is full of people working with great resolve to see people’s lives transformed by God’s love shared in word and action. It has a remarkable heritage of which we are all immensely proud. As I step in to lead Church Army for this time, I do so with great hope for what God will continue to do through us.”
Rowan Williams President
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was appointed as President of Church Army in December 2014, the eighth president in Church Army’s history. Prior to this, Lord Williams was a Church Army Vice President for 9 years.
Lord Williams was elected as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002 and was previously Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales. He spent much of his earlier career as an academic at both Cambridge and Oxford universities. After stepping down as Archbishop in 2012, he took up the position of Master of Magdalene College at Cambridge University. In December 2012, he was elevated to the peerage as a Life Baron.
The former Archbishop of Canterbury has described Church Army as a “gift to the church.”
Our Senior Leadership Team
Jude Davis, Interim Chief Executive Officer
Robin Webb, Director of Finance and Services
Tim Ling, Director of Organisational Learning
Neville Willerton, Director of Mission Operations
Faye Popham, Associate Director of Organisational learning
Dan Lane, Director of Fundraising and Communications
Our Trustees
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Chair of Trustees
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Interim Chief Executive Officer
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Company Secretary
John joined the Church Army Board of Trustees in 2016 following a career in Accountancy. Formerly a partner with one of the large accounting firms, John specialised in IT audits, training and audit methods. On retirement John and his wife moved to the Hope Valley where they now run a holiday let business. John spends much of his time making music in the area with Castleton Silver Band and helping local churches (with accounting and music).
Treasurer
Bishop Saju was born in Kerala, in South India and grew up in a leprosy hospital in Bangalore, where his mother worked as a nurse. His family were part of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
In 2001, he graduated with a BA in Theology from the Southern Asia Bible College in Bangalore. He came to the UK, met his now-wife Katy, decided to settle in the UK and trained for ordination.
Saju served his curacy at St Thomas’, Lancaster, and then served as Vicar of St Mark’s, Gillingham. In 2022 Saju was consecrated as the second Bishop of Loughborough. Saju’s priorities are forming friendships, offering hospitality, encouraging others and, wherever possible, involve cricket. He is also passionate about communicating the gospel in relevant and engaging ways to people of whatever age or background.
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Andrew is an experienced Church Army Officer, commissioned in 1998 and elected to the board in 2020. He has served in the diocese of London as a Deanery Evangelist; been a Chaplain with the Mission to Seafarers both in the UK and, for three years in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and worked for the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in a Benefice near Cambridge and then as Diocesan Adviser for Evangelists. In 2021 Andrew returned to Sheffield. He is currently licensed in the diocese of Sheffield and undertaking various part time roles and training.
Andrew is married to Gemma, who is also a member of the Mission Community, and they have a grown-up son Daniel who lives in Ipswich.
Andrew and Gemma’s latest ‘hobby’ is spending lots of time in their camper van.
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Following an early career in local government career guidance, Karen spent fifteen years working at the Civil Service College/National School of Government. Then six years at Lambeth Palace as the first lay Adviser on Bishops’ Ministry to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Between 2017 and 2021 Karen worked independently as a coach, designer and facilitator of leadership and personal development programmes within the public and third sectors.
Karen has graduated with Masters Degrees in both International Development and Learning & Development.
Karen was ordained as a Church of England minister in 2021 and now serves as the part-time Resident Priest in the north of Hampshire and is a member of the Chaplaincy Team at a local hospice.
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Mark Preston is married to Zoe and is Dad to Emily and Dylan. He led Pentecostal churches for 10 years, worked in fundraising at a children’s charity and at Exeter University Medical School. In 2014 he joined Compassion UK where he served on the Executive Team as Senior Director of Partnerships. After 10 years at Compassion, Mark now works independently with several Christian ministries and charities.
Over 1200 Strong
As well as these key members, almost 200 others form Church Army’s staff team. Another 400 individuals are part of the Church Army Mission Community, plus over 650+ volunteers across the UK and Ireland.
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