Alistair Brown
Alistair Brown is one of the key leaders in International Justice Mission in the UK. This organisation does an amazing job of legally representing people in parts of the world where their human rights are denied. They stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves.
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Andrew Owen
Andrew Owen is the inspirational leader of Destiny Ministries of which Destiny Church Edinburgh is a part. Andrew has inspired the planting of many churches all across the world and is also the lead pastor of Destiny Church in Glasgow.
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Bill Prentice
Bill was the first person to join Destiny Church in Edinburgh when it started in Peter’s flat in 1998. Having moved up to Inverness a few years ago, Bill and his wife Izzy started Destiny Church Inverness, which is now growing strongly and making a difference in many people’s lives in the Highlands.
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Brendan Dowling
Brendan pastors Destiny Church in Dublin, which he and his wife Myrto pioneered from scratch a few years ago. The church has just moved into its first building and is growing and influencing the city.
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Casey Treat
Casey Treat pastors the largest church in the Pacific Northwest region of the USA, with over 10,000 people attending weekly services. As a teenager, Casey Treat was involved with drugs and at the age of 19, he entered a rehab centre where he was born again and learned how to renew his mind through the Word of God. Since then, Casey Treat has shared the straightforward message that God’s Word works and that through the renewing of the mind by the Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, we can all live a victorious and prosperous Christian life here on this earth.
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Charles Nieman
Charles Nieman leads Abundant Living Faith Centre in El Paso, Texas, with over 9,000 people attending weekly church services.
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Daniel Cheah
Daniel Cheah Kam Thong from Malaysia leads a growing church in Kuala Lumpur, and also provides oversight for hundreds of churches worldwide.
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Dave Henderson
David Henderson has always been a man of faith and has been significantly used by God to see many people’s lives turned around. After relocating from Glasgow to Aberdeen to pioneer a church, David was involved in a serious accident in which he broke his neck and was left paralysed. David has amazed and inspired everybody by holding on to his deep faith in God, and has continued the work in Aberdeenshire despite his condition.
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David Carr
David Carr is the senior pastor of Solihull Renewal Centre near Birmingham. This church is experiencing phenomenal growth and at their midweek prayer meeting alone they have 800-900 people in attendance. This church is known for the miracles that take place and also for their passion for reaching out to the needy in the community.
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Dr. Jerry Savelle
Dr. Jerry Savelle was an average, blue-collar man who was struggling and needed God’s help. While he considered himself a “nobody,” when he became a believer God told him not to worry about it because He was a master at making champions out of nobodies. God has since taken Dr. Savelle from being a constant quitter to a man who knows how to stand on the Word of God until victory is experienced. Because of the life-changing combination of God’s faithfulness and Dr. Savelle’s “no quit” attitude, his life is totally different today. He and his wife, Carolyn, serve as founding Pastors of Heritage of Faith Christian Center in Crowley, Texas.
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Dr. Rob Waller
Consultant Phychiatrist at St Johns and Director of Mind and Soul.
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Feridoon Mokhof
Feridoon grew up as a Muslim but because of a vision he had of Jesus while he was a student, he turned to become a believer in Jesus Christ. Feridoon now leads the Iranian Church based in London and Glasgow.
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George Alexander
George Alexander is the Founder and Director of Artios Ministries, a teaching fellowship based in Dunfermline. An ordained minister, George has been privileged to serve in a full-time ministry capacity for twenty-five years, spending most of that time in pastoral ministry. Now concentrating on teaching and training, he is still based at Liberty Church in Dunfermline, where formerly he was Senior Pastor. George is married to Mary, and they have four grown-up children.
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Gerald Coates
Gerald Coates, who leads the Pioneer network of churches, is well known both nationally and internationally for his prophetic ministry. God is using Gerald not just in the Christian world, but in politics and on radio. Gerald believes that the prophetic ministry can have an effect on both the secular and the religious arenas.
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Gordon MacKintosh
Gordon MacKintosh is the pastor of Destiny Church in Stirling. He is an outstanding church leader and an inspirational speaker. He has a close walk with God and is highly sensitive to the voice of God. We are sure this message will inspire you.
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Graeme Williamson
Graeme trained as an architect but the call of God on his life led to full time ministry as Associate Pastor at Destiny Church Edinburgh. Graeme oversees the pastoral care of the church and is a skilled Bible teacher. Graeme and his wife Katrina have a beautiful baby Sophie, and have devoted their lives to building the house of God.
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Ian Rawley
Ian Rawley is a barrister and pastors at New Life Church, Cambridge. Ian is a Prophet and good friend of our church here in Edinburgh.
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Ian Rayner
Growing up in an abusive home, Ian in his teenage years turned to a life of crime and drugs. It was not long before he found himself homeless and selling The Big Issue to pay for his drug addiction. Jesus Christ has totally changed his life. Today Ian is based in the Isle of Man and works extensively with youth and churches helping people avoid the pitfalls of drug abuse.
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Ivan Squillino
As a very wealthy and successful businessman, Ivan had everything life could offer but in his heart there was an emptiness and a longing for true happiness. Ivan met a man who told him about Jesus and about the hope that He offers. This was to be the turning point in Ivan’s life. Today Ivan and his wife Daphne travel the world telling people the good news about God’s love and also work extensively with the poor. Ivan has founded and oversees the Tapestries of Life Orphanage in Mexico and the Spirit of Liberty Children's Orphanage in India.
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Jan Eriksen
Jan Eriksen, a former pimp and drug lord, lived in a world of violence, murder, rape and prostitution. It was from this living hell that God saved, restored, and healed him.
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John Lennox
John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, Lecturer at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, author of “God’s Undertaker – Has Science Buried God?”, and famous for his debates against atheist Richard Dawkins in 2007 and 2008.
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John McKay
John McKay is the leader of an organisation called Creation Research Network. Based in Australia, John is an expert in fossils and archaeology. As a creationist, John argues scientifically for the accuracy of the Bible’s account of creation.
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Joseph Kobo
Joseph Kobo is Nelson Mandela’s nephew and former military commander of the ANC. Joseph was formerly a terrorist and because of his activities with the ANC in South Africa ended up in solitary confinement. It was there that Joseph had an experience with God that was to change the rest of his life. Having been miraculously released from prison, Joseph went on to become a church leader and now oversees more than 40,000 people in churches in the Transkei area of South Africa.
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Julyan Lidstone
Julyan Lidstone is the Operation Mobilisation’s Regional Overseer for Central and South East Asia. Julyan works extensively among Muslims in many hostile parts of the world.
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Ken Ross
Ken Ross lives in Edinburgh with his wife Julie. He has four children (one with special needs) and one golden retriever! He works as a commercial lawyer and serves in the church as a home group leader and business adviser.
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Mark Driscoll
Mark Driscoll is Pastor at Mars Hill church in Seattle, one of America’s fastest growing churches.
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Marvin Andrews
Marvin Andrews joined Raith Rovers in 1997 where he spent 3 seasons. Marvin then signed a two-year deal with Rangers in May 2004 and scooped the Rangers Player of the Year award. The club won the Scottish Premiership title at the end of the 2004/05 season, after which Marvin returned to Raith Rovers. Marvin is a devout Christian and attends a church based in Kirkcaldy.
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Peter Anderson
In 1998 Peter moved to Edinburgh to start work with an architects’ firm and launch Destiny Church in the living room of his city centre flat. Twelve years on, the church now has over 600 in weekly attendance and owns two retro cinemas on either side of the city. Peter's passion is to reach the unchurched and teach the Bible with accuracy, creativity and energy.
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Peter Pretorius
Peter and his wife Ann head up an aid organisation based in Africa (JAM) where they feed, clothe and educate nearly half a million children a day. They are also involved with large evangelistic crusades which have seen over 9 million people come to faith in Jesus.
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Phillip E Johnson
Phillip has been a world leader in the intelligent design movement and has been highly influential in motivating the academic world to think both philosophically and scientifically. Phillip’s conviction is that our world has clearly been designed and this fact points towards the existence of a creator.
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Ray Bevan
Having come from a life of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, Ray Bevan is now the lead pastor of King's Church in Newport, Wales. Over the years he has become a good friend of the Destiny network of churches. Ray has an amazing ability to present profound truth from the Bible in the most energetic and hilarious ways.
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Richard Taylor
Richard’s life has changed from a life of crime and drugs. Today Richard is the associate pastor at Solihull Renewal Centre near Birmingham and he has also featured on a number of television programs. Richard is best known for his role in “To Catch a Thief”.
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Sammy Ewan
Sammy Ewan lives in Edinburgh with his wife Helen. Originally from Ireland he now works as a physiotherapist in the city. He has served in the church as a home group leader and led a missions team to South Africa in 2010. Sammy and Helen have devoted themselves to developing and serving the Leith campus of the church.
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Simon Foster
Simon Foster is former pastor of the Elim church in Glasgow. Simon, as a former homosexual, speaks very openly and honestly about his homosexual past and about how coming to faith in Jesus has had a massive impact on his life.
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Steve Campbell
Steve Campbell moved to Cambridge in 1994 from pastoring in the north west of England to head up the leadership team of Cambridge Community Church, a dynamic and growing church.
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Sue Owen
In 1991 Andrew and Sue Owen started Destiny Church in Glasgow. Sue has played a pivotal role in seeing the church, and the subsequent network of churches, emerge to a place of strength. God is also powerfully using Sue through Destiny’s women’s ministries, through her leadership of the worship ministry, and through her regular lectures at Destiny College. We highly value Sue and the work God is doing through her.
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Tim Brown
Tim Brown and his wife Allison were hugely influential in Peter Anderson’s life in his teenage years while they all served God together as part of Destiny Church, Glasgow.
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Tony Anthony
Growing up Tony Anthony was trained by his grandfather, a Kung Fu Master, and was three times crowned World Kung Foo champion. Before long his lifestyle of violence led him to become a hitman and he ended up in a jail in Cyprus. There he met God and his life changed forever.
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Tony Sargent
Tony Sargent is the former Principal of International Christian College in Glasgow and is one of the directors of Operation Mobilisation. Tony has worked extensively in India and Africa to help alleviate the suffering of the poor and needy. Tony speaks not only with theological accuracy but also with the passion of a man who is truly making a difference in the lives that most need it amongst the poorest of the poor.
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