INSTRUCTORS
JON PAYNE, DIRECTOR
Rev. Dr. Jon D. Payne (ThM University of Edinburgh, New College; D.Min Reformed Theological Seminary) has served as church planter / organising pastor of Christ Church Presbyterian (PCA) in Charleston, South Carolina since 2013. Previously he served ten years as senior pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Douglasville, GA. For over thirty years Dr. Payne has been heavily involved in foreign mission and church planting. He has preached and lectured in over a dozen countries. Dr. Payne is a trustee of Westminster Seminary UK, Director of the Oxford Church Planting Institute, and Executive Coordinator of the Gospel Reformation Network. He has authored, edited, and contributed to almost twenty books including the Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (co-editor with Joel Beeke), In the Splendor of Holiness; Rediscovering the Beauty of Reformed Worship for the 21st Century, John Owen on the Lord’s Supper, A Faith Worth Teaching: The Heidelberg Catechism’s Enduring Heritage, and A Faith Worth Defending: The Synod of Dort’s Enduring Heritage. He is also a regular contributor to TableTalk magazine. Dr. Payne and his wife Marla have been married for twenty seven years and have two adult children.
MICHAEL BROWN, ITALY
Rev. Michael Brown is an ordained minister in the United Reformed Churches in North America and a missionary called and overseen by the Escondido United Reformed Church. He serves as pastor of Chiesa Riformata Filadelfia, a small but growing congregation located on the northwest side of Milan. Before being called as a missionary, Rev. Michael Brown planted Christ United Reformed Church in Santee, California, where he served as pastor from 2003-2018. He is a graduate of Westminster Seminary California, and the author of numerous articles and books, including Sacred Bond: Covenant Theology Explored. Pastor Mike served as the chairman both of the URCNA Study Committee on Missions and the URCNA Missions Committee. He and his wife, Janie, have four children.
FLORIAN WEICKEN, SWITZERLAND
Rev. Florian Weicken (MDiv, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, MA, University of Durham) is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England & Wales (EPCEW) labouring as a church planter in the Zürich Presbyterianische Gemeinde, Switzerland. Florian, himself Swiss, is married to Veronica and studied business law at the University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. After his studies and a few years in the workforce, he studied theology at Westminster Seminary UK in their Master of Divinity program. Florian is a reservist within the Swiss Special Forces Command.
PETER SZABO, HUNGARY
Rev. Peter Szabo (MDiv, Karolyi Gaspar Institute of Theology and Missions) is an ordained minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Central and Eastern Europe (RPCCEE) laboring as the pastor of Budapesti Református Presbiteriánus Gyülekezet (Budapest Reformed Presbyterian Church) in Hungary. A former economist (MS, Corvinus University of Budapest) and a graduate of Karolyi Gaspar Institute of Theology and Missions (MDiv), Peter Szabo was called as a church planting pastor in 2010. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis in Ecclesiology at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Peter is married to Erika, and they have three children.
PAUL YEULETT, ENGLAND
Rev. Paul Yeulett hails from Cambridgeshire and came to faith in Christ at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he studied mathematics. After a career as a teacher and senior leader in a Christian-ethos secondary school in the northeast, Paul studied for the ministry, becoming in 2007 the minister of Shrewsbury Evangelical Church, Shropshire, In 2014 he accepted a call to Grove Chapel, Camberwell, South London, which is now a congregation of the International Presbyterian Church (IPC). A trustee of Westminster Theological Seminary, Paul is the author of Jesus and his Enemies, Reformation Reboot, and Time for Judgement. An occasional lecturer, Paul also chairs the biennial Affinity Theological Study Conference. He is married to Ruth and they have three teenage children.
ANDY YOUNG, ENGLAND
Rev. Andy Young is originally from Cardiff and studied at Cambridge University. He has advanced degrees from Reformed Theological Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary in the US. Andy is a Banner Trustee and Chairman of the Westminster Conference for Theological & Historical Study. In 2018, after serving as the minister of Cheltenham Presbyterian Church for ten years, Andy became the minister of Oxford Evangelical Presbyterian Church, a new church planted in the centre of Oxford, England. He is a frequent speaker at conferences in the UK.