Lis Goddard and Ed Shaw have become Co-Chairs of the Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC), it has been announced.
Ed Shaw is pastor of Emmanuel City Centre Church in Bristol, a congregation established in recent years via a Bishop’s Mission Order. He is also Director of Living Out – an organisation run by same-sex-attracted Christians setting out an orthodox, Biblical view of sexuality.
Preserving and calling out
He commented: ‘In the challenging year ahead I am looking forward to playing my part in preserving the beauty of historic evangelical Anglicanism and calling out the ugliness of some recent distortions of it.’
Lis Goddard is Chair of The Junia Network of Anglican evangelical women in ministry. She has been involved in student ministry, taught in a theological college and worked in a variety of different parish contexts.
She commented: ‘It has been a privilege to be a member of the CEEC for several years, representing The Junia Network. In that role I have seen it develop and grow, particularly around deeper and more diverse fellowship within evangelicalism.’
Bishop Keith Sinclair becomes National Director of CEEC on 27 April.
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