Libby Hawkness-Smith is our lead Community Chaplain. She has been on the chaplaincy team from the beginning, in May 2017. Prior to that, she trained as a Lay Pioneer through the Church Mission Society and graduated with a diploma in Mission, Ministry and Evangelism in 2017. She completed her local preacher training in 2023. She grew up in the mission field in Southeast Asia and is also Community Chaplain and Outreach Worker in Oxford Methodist Circuit (where she's based at Cowley Road).