About the speakers

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Abraham Sin

Abraham has a background in classical music, HR and safeguarding. He now works full-time for St Helen’s Bishopsgate. He has personal links with Catholicism/Anglo-Catholicism, Buddhism and Hinduism, and enjoys sharing about how the Bible interacts and contrasts with these beliefs. 

•  What happens when we die?

• How to secure a good life in a volatile world

• How to deal with evil

 

Ali Blundy

• Is Christianity a crutch?

• What Jesus says about dealing with anxiety

• Good Friday – What the death of Jesus Christ means today

Ben Stone

Equity Portfolio Manager at MFS managing $50bn assets 

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Callum Elwood

Callum is Associate Minister at St. Peter's Barge, Canary Wharf. When he's not looking at the life of Jesus with Wharf workers or exploring London with his wife Sarah, he enjoys a long run, and a decent game of squash.  

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• What would Jesus say to Sam Bankman-Fried?  

• Life: to the full? 

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Giuliu Abortivi

For the last three years he has been part of the team at St Helen’s Bishopsgate, working with lunchtime congregations in the City and in the Covent Garden area. Originally form Italy, he has a background in linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. 

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• Jesus the pinnacle of history (Mark 1:14-15)​

• The heart of the human problem (Matthew 15:10-20)

 

Henry Eatock-Taylor

Vicar of St Michael’s Cornhill and heads up the International ministry at St Helen’s; happy to do talks in English and Mandarin. 

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• The ultimate eco-warrior

• Ultimate life insurance

 

Jeremy Anderson

35 years in financial services. Until December 2017 was Chairman of KPMG’s Global Financial Services Practice. Is now a Non-Executive Director of UBS Group AG. He’s been involved at St Helen's for 30 years. 

 

• Why is Easter more important than Christmas?

• Personal testimony

 

John Wood

Mandarin speaker, worked in business in Hong Kong and Taiwan with Jardine Matheson Group, has more recently been in full-time Christian ministry. Able to deliver talks in English or Mandarin.

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Joel Chia

Joel grew up in Singapore and formerly worked in banking with experience in credit risk and FX sales. Have some experience in understanding Asian, particularly southeast Asian working context. Leads Covent Garden Talks. Married to Matilda, loves football and cycling (a.k.a MAMIL) in the countryside.

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• Life after death – make belief comfort blanket or verifiable truth?

• How can we really know what God is like?

• Will Jesus make me happy?

• What is eternal life?

 

John Wood

Mandarin speaker, worked in business in Hong Kong and Taiwan with Jardine Matheson Group, has more recently been in full-time Christian ministry. ​​

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Luke Cornelius

Luke is on the staff at St Helen’s Bishopsgate. He is available to meet one-to-one over coffee with anyone who is interested in exploring Christianity.

 

Marc Doring

Marc was a lawyer for nearly 26 years. He joined a City law firm in 1995 and left law at the end of 2020 having become a Partner and Group Head. He continues to work in the City as a leadership coach and with the City Team at St Helen’s, where he is involved in running partnership bible studies, 1-2-1s, lunchtime talks and CE courses. He is a church warden at Christ Church Mayfair.

• What do I have to do to get to heaven? (Mark 10: 24-27) 

• Did Jesus really die and come back to life - what is the evidence?

• What would Jesus make of our corporate values? (Matthew 6:1-4 and Matthew 5:43-48)

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Paul Williams

Paul works as part of the city team at St Helen's.  He previously worked in the newspaper industry.  He is married with three grown up children. ​​​

 

Simon Congdon

Simon was a partner in a City law firm for 25 years, which included a five year stint in Hong Kong.  Simon regularly speaks at and leads Christianity Explored at St Helen’s. 

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• What is the evidence for the Resurrection? (and other apologetic themes) 

• A gospel talk using four or five works of art 

• A guided tour of St Helen’s (similar to City Open House)

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Simon Pilcher

Simon Pilcher is CEO of USS Investment Management, Britain’s largest pension fund, serving the University sector. He has worked in the City for 37 years, is married to Rachel and has 5 adult children.

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• “Is belief in Jesus delusional?” (based on John 20v24-31) 

• “Why Christianity is too hard for us” (based on Luke 18v15-27); 

• “What and who rules over your life? A Christian perspective” (based on Luke 9v18-27) 

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Tiff Carter-Whittley

Tiff began her career studying electronic engineering at university, moved on to working as press officer alongside working as an intelligence officer in the Army Reserves. She now works full time as a woman’s worker for St Helen’s Bishopsgate. Tiff enjoys exploring the outdoors, talking to people about Jesus and having a good laugh with friends.

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• Why is Good Friday called ‘good’?

• Why Easter changes everything

• Newsflash: a dead man in his thirties comes back to life after three days’ being buried​

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Tom Custance

Partner in a law firm.​

 

Wes Illingsworth

Heads up the City ministry team at St Helen's Bishopsgate.

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• Where to find God and how to meet him

• What’s Easter all about? / The hope of Easter: fact or fiction (John 20:24-31)

• Why do Christians celebrate the death of a good man? (John 18:1-11)

• The Bible has been burned, banned and remains a best-seller. But what’s it all about - in 7 minutes?

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William Taylor

Rector of St Helen's Bishopsgate.

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• ​A platinum plated investment strategy (Matthew 6:19-21) 

• Three steps to a stress free life (Matthew 6:25-34) 

• Putting an end to biased judgmentalism (Matthew 7:1-5) 

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Will Trump

Will Trump has always been fascinated with how people behave. After spending 14 years building Swiss Re's Behavioural Science practice, he now runs Unconventional Wisdom, a consultancy helping business by harnessing psychological insights. Having grown up in Belgium as the son of a vicar, it was when Will got to university that he felt compelled to figure out if he truly believed in Christianity for himself. He found himself going back to basics, looking at the Bible and investigating the Christian claims in detail. What he found convinced him all the more that the Christian message is not only true, but good - and worth building his whole life on. Will is married to Natalie and has two daughters. He is actively involved in his local church in Brentwood and regularly runs discussion groups for those looking into the Christian faith.     

• Is faith (ir)rational?

• Personal testimony: "Son of a preacher man" 

• Happy to meet with individuals to discuss Christianity

 

Ziggy Rogoff

 Jewish believer in Jesus, PhD in Mathematics, worked at Deutsche and Glencore, now works full time with Jews for Jesus. 

• Passover Easter?

• Personal testimony 

• Reflections on Jewish suffering 

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