Core Team

In addition to Yaabari Uebari and Chris Thompson (see Elders), the following are on the Core Team.

Sarah Cheeseman

Sarah is responsible for Community Outreach.

Sarah and her husband Paul have been a part of the Fellowship since the early 1990s, and they have three children, the oldest of whom is at university and the youngest at primary school.  Sarah has been involved in various aspects of the Fellowship’s life, including the worship team, children and teenagers’ work, the prayer life of the church and preaching on a Sunday morning.   As a part of the leadership team, she has responsibility for Community and Outreach.

Sarah runs a holiday home business, and also works with a pregnancy crisis centre based in Twickenham. Until recently she was involved in teaching ‘sex and relationships’ to teenagers in senior schools in the Twickenham area, and also in being a ‘listener’ for people experiencing the crisis of an unplanned pregnancy. 

In 2010 Sarah was diagnosed with cancer, and you can listen to her story from the home page of this website under ‘Choose Hope’. 

In her free time, Sarah enjoys reading books, watching films and listening to music.   She has recently welcomed a Labradoodle puppy into her family, and is thoroughly enjoying the joys and challenges he brings!

Chris McCormick

Chris McCormick leads our Youth Club. Chris was christened as a baby in a Catholic church, but spent many years as an agnostic, enjoying a good argument over life, the universe and everything with his Christian friends at University. However it was they that had the last laugh when Chris encountered God after a hard day skiing the grass slopes of the Nottingham Alps in 1988 after a friend's baptism in a local swimming pool. "I only went for a swim!", is maybe what should be written on his tombstone, because not only did he meet Jesus that night, but he also met his future wife Miriam whom he married in 1991. A wife for life and an eternal life, in one night!

They came to live and work in Guildford, Chris as a chemical engineer and Miriam as a doctor. They were both involved in youth work at their local Anglican Church. Chris was confirmed as an Anglican along with some of the youth group. They moved to Weybridge and continued to run the youth group, but eventually looked for a new church to be involved more locally. They joined the WCF around 1998 about a year after the birth of their first-born child Rachel. They were again involved in teaching Sunday School. To their great joy God continued to bless them with the birth of their second child Josh in 2000.

Chris was on the wider leadership team as the Treasurer for a couple of years and heavily involved in organising and leading a holiday club for kids in Weybridge in 2004. They moved to America for a couple of years with Chris' work where they were again involved in teaching youth in a Mennonite (Anabaptist) church in Evanstan, Illinois. Whilst at the WCF Chris was baptised and "slain in the Spirit". So he thinks he has just about covered every possible denomination from been christened in a Catholic church, confirmed in an Anglican and baptised in a "happy clappy" church.

On moving back to the UK in 2007, both Chris and Miriam have again been involved in youth work. Life is a journey, but it is a lot more fun when you have a guide and you know where you will end up. "We aim to point the kids to Jesus and let them discover for themselves the wonders of His kindness and the joy and colour that He brings to all our lives if we just let Him."