2024/25 Speakers

10th October 2025: Andy Acheson

Andy has been the Minister of St Anne’s Church (Grantham) since summer 2023, a church revitalisation project within Lincoln Diocese. At the Keswick Convention Andy heads up the Week 1 youth ministry and has taken the all-age services in the main tent for many years, as well as speaking at an evening celebration. He is married to Katie, with three daughters, and a very soppy cocker spaniel. Andy has served the church in Northern Ireland, Sheffield, Dorset and London in various capacities. He loves to talk and sing about how good Jesus is, and how his light and love bring hope to this world. Andy’s passions involve song writing and spoken word poetry. He is sport mad as well as a film buff, enjoying nothing more than an evening devouring a good crime novel, or playing the guitar.

14th November 2025: Alasdair Paine

Alasdair is the Vicar of St Andrew the Great Church in Cambridge. Previously he served St Leonard’s Church in Exeter and Christ Church Westbourne, in Bournemouth. It was in Cambridge that he became a Christian as a first-year student through the witness of the Christian Union having been an atheist in his teens. Alasdair is married to Rachel and they have three grown-up children. He loves the Lake District fells and relishes afternoons to explore them, as well as catching up with friends.

5th December 2025: Mark Ellis

Mark has been a pastor, worked in cross-cultural mission in Asia, and led teams in student ministry. He is now Chief Executive of Keswick Ministries. In everything, his desire is to help people see the beauty of Jesus via Bible teaching that goes through the heart. And in so doing, that they will desire him and want to walk more closely with him so that Christ is formed in them. (Gal 4:19) And that their joy in him will instinctively overspill in mission. Mark is married to Joanne and they have three adult children. He is a hapless fisherman, a lapsed accountant, and has a shedload of DIY tools.

9th January 2026: Paul Mallard

Paul is married to Edrie and they have four children and nine grandchildren. For the last thirty years Paul and Edrie have had to live with Edrie's serious neurological degenerative disease. This has shaped their ministry and it has proved God's faithfulness. Paul retired from full-time pastoral ministry three years ago and is currently involved in serving the FIEC churches in the West Midlands and chairing the FIEC theological team. Paul loves reading military history and he is a life-time supporter of West Bromwich Albion.

13th February 2026: Matt Stone

Matt Stone is minister of Stag Community Church (Rotherham) and Ardeen Road United Reformed Church (Doncaster), as well as Chair of GEAR - the Group for Evangelism and Renewal in the United Reformed Church (gear.org.uk). Matt is married to Jenni, and they have two children. Matt is passionate about Jesus and seeing people's lives transformed by the Gospel, and loves attending the Keswick Convention!

13th March 2026: Martyn Taylor

Martyn Taylor has been the rector of St George’s Stamford since 2003 and has recently overseen the revitalisation of St Anne’s Grantham and St John’s Spalding from St George’s as a resource church in Lincoln Diocese. He has recently completed a D.Min in market town resource churches as a means to revitalising the church in our rural counties. He is married to Philippa who oversees the Westminster leadership/intern programme for CARE. They have three children in their twenties.

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