MJR - Who is involved?
MJR is led by a group of trustees and supported by a number of advisors and consultants. Together these represent a wide cross-section of Christian organisations and traditions. It is our hope that the reconciliation we seek for wider society can in some small way be reflected within our movement.
Trustees
Alton Bell (Chair)
Alton is a qualified Industrial Chemist, a pastor, a writer and community activist. He is the CEO of Pivot Point Community Development foundation and a director of SWAY youth project in LB Brent. He is concerned with the disproportionate amount of black youngsters underachieving educationally and at risk of prison. |
Joe Aldred
Responsible for Pentecostal and Multicultural Relations at Churches Together in England, Joe is also a bishop in the Church of God of Prophecy. He has extensive experience as bishop and pastor, chair and member of strategic councils, boards and committees mainly in the areas of religion, education, health and community relations and is a BBC broadcaster. Joe has a PhD in Theology and is author/editor of several books. |
Jenny Cooper
Jenny runs ‘Mystery in History’. She is a qualified school teacher with experience in developing workshops and materials relating to the Atlantic slave trade. She has set up and managed an historic house as a visitor attraction, and has worked as a consultant in museum development and tourism management. |
Clifford Hill
Author of over 40 books, the Revd Dr Clifford Hill MA, BD, PhD, had many years pastoral experience in inner-city areas of London, is a former Senior Sociology of Religion Lecturer at London University and was an adviser to the Home Office on Community Relations. In March 2007, with his wife Monica, he led the team that brought the Zong (a replica slave ship) into London to mark 200 years since the Abolition of the Slave Trade. |
Monica Hill
Monica has a background in education and community development, particularly in multi-cultural inner-city areas where she reopened a number of redundant churches. She helped establish and lead the British Church Growth Association for 25 years and also led the European Association. Monica and her husband Clifford now lead Issachar Ministries, a prophetic and biblically based national ministry. |
Clive Ireson (deputy Chair)
Clive spent 32 years in primary education - 16 of them as Head Teacher of an Urban Primary School. Currently Clive is Director of The Association of Christian Teachers representing Christians in Education at national level and in the media. Clive also is Development Manager of Springs Family Centre in Northampton working in particular with many young people on the edges of society in an area of great deprivation. |
Khareem Jamal
Khareem Jamal is a historian, writer and musician. Chairman of Micah Community Projects, founder and senior lecturer in African history at the School of Africology in Bromley, London. He is the author of the play 'The Voices of Black Folk'. |
Paul Keeble
Paul has lived in inner-city Manchester for over 30 years and is a co-founder of Urban Presence. He has been involved in numerous shalom-generating community projects and church-based initiatives and is the author of 'Mission With'. |
Nigel Pocock
Nigel is the Director of Vision Training and Research, and Project Leader of the East Tytherton Heritage Project, concerned with the rediscovery of slave stories in the Caribbean and the UK. |
