Meet our team

Carl has worked in both business and the voluntary sector, he has an apostolic calling and has been active in Church and para-church leadership for over 25 years pioneering market place ministry and ekklesia style community transformation.

He has a passion for leading worship, for teaching, and for helping people to be empowered, and liberated into the fulness of their calling, gifting, and relationship with God.

Carl is one of the founders of the community development charity Inspire Middleton, and more recently one of the founders and leaders of Inspire Community which is an emerging apostolic team which is bringing together disciple making and missional community.

Carl was born and has lived in his home town of Middleton all of his life, he has been married to Janet since 1987 they have two children, Matthew, and Claire.

Janet has a pastoral heart and is a fully qualified Chartered Accountant and has been working in private practice for over 30  years, looking after many types of organisation, charities, and businesses.

She has been a church deacon, a trustee of an African missionary organisation working with disadvantaged children and orphans in East Africa, and a local Child Contact centre in Middleton.

Janet has also been involved in community and faith based voluntary work, youth work and leadership for 30 years and  is also one of the founding leaders of local charity Inspire Middleton, and Inspire Community.

Her current passion is to see people coming into the fulness of Gods love and healing in their lives, and to be fruitful in their calling within the wider community.

Pam has a strong prophetic anointing and has been trained by the Global Prophetic Alliance on their Emerging Prophets and National prophets programmes. She  is a member of the Northwest Prophetic Collective, and the Strategic Intercessory Strikeforce in Manchester

She has ministered in the local church and local community for over 25 years and has a passion to see broken lives restored, healed and set free. She has a strong and passionate desire to see new believers discipled, released and equipped, and for the wider body of Christ to be trained to minister and bring in the upcoming harvest.

Pam is one of the founders and leaders of Inspire Community, an apostolic team who minister in the marketplace with a vision to see the local community transformed by the presence and power of God.

Pam has lived in and around Middleton for over 30 years, She is mum to two beautiful daughters who are now both married, and she is excited at being a ‘soon to be’ grandma.

Cath has a background in administration and has worked for the Lighthouse Project community hub for the last 6 years in a variety of roles, including being the Volunteer Coordinator and a Debt Advisor.

With generational roots going back to the welsh revival, Cath is passionate about leading and encouraging people to step into the plans and purposes that God has for them. 

As a strong prophetic voice, she is a member of the North West Prophetic Collective and the Global Prophetic Alliance, and is part of the apostolic leadership team at Inspire Community.

Cath has been youth worker, a trustee of a children’s mission charity, and volunteer at a child contact centre. She is married to Andy, who is also part of the Inspire Community leadership team.

Andy has a pastoral heart and a passion for serving and supporting people, and encouraging the best in them. He is a retired Police officer and since retiring he has added to his skills by retraining as an electrician.

He regularly volunteers at the Lighthouse Project, a local Community Hub, serving tea & coffee to members of the Pantry food club, and chatting, offering advice, and being a shoulder to lean on when required.

Andy is a keen cyclist and has completed several Manchester to Blackpool cycle rides to raise funds for an orphanage in Uganda. He has visited Uganda on several occasions, taking the gospel and the Word of God into far to reach areas.

Andy became a believer in Jesus late in life, and as part of the founding leadership team at Inspire Community has a great desire to see  “church” taken to people in their home’s , coffee shops, streets, and anywhere people’s needs can be met.

Clive has been involved in both Christian based and secular environments for over 50 years counselling young people, and he has a heart to serve God through using his counselling skills and experience, and by linking them into prayer and ministry gifts through which people are enabled to receive Gods healing in their spirit, soul and body.

Clive has been involved in many areas of local church ministry, including youth work, home groups, street evangelism, counselling and prayer teams. He is an elder and director of a large Pentecostal church. He retired early as a college lecturer and became a founder member of Tapestry Counselling Partnership and set up his own private counselling service.

His wider Christian work has involved being a member of the Association of Christian Counsellors where he served on the National Board and acted in the role of a North West Regional Representative and Chair.

He is currently the Chair of the Philippi Trust UK, is one of their International directors, and was their director of training. This organisation counsels adults and children in various centres in different countries.

Clive is married to Sheila with two children Simon and Ruth and four grand children, and he is part of the apostolic leadership team at Inspire Community.