Ministry Team

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

Sarah Cheeseman

Sarah is responsible for Community and Outreach. She is also on the Core Team.

Sarah and her husband Paul have been a part of the Fellowship since the early 1990s, and they have three children, currently aged between eight and seventeen.  Sarah has been involved in various different aspects of the Fellowship’s life, including the worship team, children, and the prayer life of the church.  Currently she helps run the 11-16 year olds’ Sunday morning group and periodically preaches on a Sunday morning.

Sarah runs a holiday home business, and also works with a pregnancy crisis centre based in Twickenham.  Through that centre she is 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 whatever free time is left, Sarah enjoys watching films and listening to music, and has recently discovered the mixed joys and sorrows of growing vegetables!

Maureen Lay

Maureen is responsible for Communication within and outside the Fellowship. Maureen became a Christian at a very early age and, after living in Surrey and Hampshire, found the Fellowship on moving to Weybridge in September 1985 – just as the Fellowship began to meet in public on Sunday mornings.   She took early retirement from the Civil Service with the aim of being available to work within the Fellowship.

Maureen enjoys cooking and gardening, reading and crosswords, and holidays – retirement has given her the opportunity to pursue these activities more actively.

Adriana Barnes

Adriana heads up our Worship Team and is a regular worship leader. She works for Guildford YMCA as a fundraiser and newspaper editor.

Hazel Thompson

Hazel is a part-time book-keeper. She is responsible for the area of Prayer and Prophecy within the church.

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 met 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 where they 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 christen 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."