Richard Coekin is stepping down as Senior Pastor at Dundonald Church and Mission Director of Co-Mission in 2024 to pursue a ‘new season’ of ‘ministry, training and equipping church leaders’.
Coekin has ‘faithfully and courageously served’, declared a statement from the trustees of the Co-Mission Churches Trust, Co-Mission Initiative Trust and the Dundonald Church Governing Elders.
He has been Senior Pastor over 28 years and for the last 18 years has been Mission Director of Co-Mission. The trustees said: ‘We hope that Richard will take up “Emeritus” roles at both Dundonald Church and Co-Mission, and are wholly supportive of him giving his time from summer 2024 to developing the new ‘Pebble’ initiative offering consultancy and training for pastors and church leadership teams as part of the new “Reach Ministries” work.
‘By God’s grace, Richard, together with Sian and their family, has led Dundonald from a small church-plant in a school hall, through a number of local church plants and two building projects, to become a diverse, thriving and resourcing church in South-West London. Over that time Richard was instrumental in planting other churches and starting other ministries, including Christ Church Mayfair, Westminster at One, and the Parliamentary Bible Study in central London.
‘Since 2005 Richard has headed Co-Mission, a network of churches which he founded. Helping to plant and grow churches across London into a network of churches, Richard has also contributed to growing various other ministry initiatives such as the 9:38 recruitment ministry, the London Men’s and Women’s Conventions and the Planting Collective.’
