Meet the Team
Nick Crawley
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Hi, my story is that my father is an Anglican Clergyman and I was brought up in a Vicarage family. I was good at sums at school – and not much else – so I did a maths degree at Southampton University and then went to London because everyone else was going there. Barclays Bank let me work for them for six years. I wasn’t that good at Banking but I could have made a career in Investment Management. I was very involved with Holy Trinity Brompton where I was a lay pastor. |
I began to realise that my heart was in the ministry I was doing there and so in 1985 I applied for, and was accepted for training as a clergyman. I trained at Wycliffe Hall, and then served a five year curacy under a very godly man, Martin Peppiatt, who was vicar of St. Stephen’s East Twickenham. While I was there I met and married Lucy my gorgeous wife and we had two children before accepting an invitation, which came completely out of the blue, to be Rector of a large multi-ethnic church the centre of Harare, Zimbabwe. We went there in 1993 for six years. It was a time when God was working powerfully across the churches and we witnessed strong growth through using the Alpha course.
In 1999 we moved to a completely different church in inner city Sheffield with housing estates and tower blocks. It was a different work, but we saw God change the church community. We also engaged in and completed the reordering of the church building. We moved to Bristol in 2004 to pioneer this new Mission Church which we love. There isn’t any job in the world I would want to do instead of this.
Lucy and I have four boys; Seth (15), Harry (13), Roscoe (11) and Jem (8). I love playing golf, swimming, riding my motor bike, reading when I have the chance and watching films. I am strongly committed to the ministry of the Word and the Spirit, and teaching about spiritual exercises.
Lucy (Peppiatt) Crawley
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Hi, I help lead Crossnet with my husband Nick. I have special responsibilities for the students at our church, so if you’re a student and would like to be in touch then that would be great. Apart from that I help to lead and preach at our services, and am involved in mentoring younger people. As a team we meet to pray, study the Bible, seek God and brainstorm. I love Crossnet and doing church in the way that we do, mainly because most of what we do involves food, drink, and chatting (about anything from random topics to deep God-things), all of which are some of my favourite pastimes. |
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As well as working at Crossnet, I run a household of four boys (five if you include Nick, six if you include the dog) which mostly involves keeping the fridge stocked and doing copious amounts of laundry. In my other time that’s not Crossnet and not being a mum, I am doing a part-time PhD in Systematic Theology on the topic of Spirit Christology and mission. I love talking about theology with anyone who’s interested and thinking about some of the bigger questions about God. I don’t have a huge amount of spare time for hobbies, but I do like watching inane programmes on telly with my boys, listening to music, having time to cook a really nice meal with a glass of wine nearby, films (when I get the chance), Pilates, and walking our dog, Cosmo.
Sonja Arnold
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