Staff
Jeff Brunton - Senior Minister
Jeff is the senior leader of Life Church and has been part of the leadership for 25 years including around 10 years as Senior Minister.
He is responsible for the vision, strategy and oversight of the church and his heart for Europe takes him regularly to Crimea, Ukraine with NLI.
Married to Trish, Jeff has one son Matt, and two stepchildren Adam and Amie.
Joyce Brown - Senior Assistant
Joyce leads Life Women, is part of the teaching team and helps connect many of the departments to people and vision.
Matt Brunton - Youth & Young Adults Pastor
Matt leads THE NOISE; Life Church’s loud and passionate movement of youth and young adults. He also oversees the Arts & Media department and has a key role within events management and as a teacher.
A creative and thought-provoking speaker, Matt is part of the Pais:GB Leadership Team and Youth Alive UK North West team (see National Mission).
Judith Carey - Centre Manager
Judith is responsible for facilities, financial management and also oversees many of our volunteers on Sunday teams and admin support.
She and her husband Carl keep many things ticking in the life of the church.
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Kirsteen Bairstow - Children’s Pastor
Kirsteen leads Life Kids, our work with 0-11s, including school assemblies, kids clubs and Sunday mornings.
She’s artistic, rather zany and Scottish (and she gets a lot of teasing for it).
Her husband Luke is involved in leadership within the youth department.
