Adrian Chatfield oversees prayer and spirituality for the Fresh Expressions core team.
Adrian was born in Trinidad and brought up there and in Brazil. After training for ministry at Mirfield, he worked in parish ministry for 15 years in Trinidad and Devon. For the last 21 years, he has been a theological educator in Nottingham, Johannesburg and Oxford, while continuing in ministry in his local village church. He is married to Jill, with 2 children, 4 granddaughters, and a passion for cycling and hill walking.
Adrian is Director of the Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, whose aim is to help Christians to grow in their desire and capacity to pray and to equip others in the disciplines of prayer. He also teaches Worship, Spirituality and Anglicanism, and is involved in aspects of the training of Pioneer ordinands. As a reminder to himself of the need to grow communities of faith in our villages, he belongs to the Rural Churchplanting Network.
Adrian has written many distance learning programmes, and authored Something in Common, an introduction to Anglicanism. This came out in its 2nd edition in 2007, and has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Swahili. He has recently acted as Consultant to the Editor of The Anglican Communion and Homosexuality, produced as a resource for the 2008 Lambeth Conference and published by SPCK.
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