
Meet the team
Hello there!
We’re so glad you’re here, and want you to know you are very welcome at Ampthill Baptist Church. You can read a little bit of information about the team at ABC, and we encourage you to come along to get to know us in person.
Please contact the church office if you need anything.
The Ministry Team
The ministry team lead and support the various areas of the church’s many activities to pursue our mission: helping people meet Jesus Christ to become his fully devoted followers.
Andrew Goldsmith
Lead Pastor and team leader
Andrew’s main responsibilities are preaching (planning and delivering a programme of preaching, teaching, evangelism and discipleship), leadership and pastoral care. He is responsible for the spiritual leadership of the church alongside the Trustees and he leads the ministry team.
Shaggy Abdon Shortley
Associate Pastor
Shaggy shares in pastoral care, the preaching team and has oversight of our small groups. She is also a leader at Renew Wellbeing and helps to support The Bereavement Course.
Rich Stein
Youth Worker
Rich’s role is to reach, teach and serve young people as part of leading our youth ministry as a church, in our partnership with Young Life International. He leads our youth clubs, youth Bible studies, offers pastoral care to young people, and supports Christian Unions in schools.
Joy Mead
Pastoral Support Assistant
Joy’s role has two main responsibilities: (1) alongside other members of the Ministry Team, to offer pastoral care and support those with various needs or exploring faith, and (2) to support our small groups, especially by supporting leaders, helping people find the right group for them, and offering resources and training.
Marie Mead
Seniors Ministry Co-ordinator
Marie’s role is to oversee and support the various strands of ABC’s ministry to seniors, as we seek to offer our welcome, care, support and the gospel good news.
Sarah Duffy
Operations Manager
Sarah’s role is to support the many different strands of church life to enable our ministry and mission to be effective, sustainable, safe and to help engage the whole church in this. She is involved with oversight of matters related to HR, finance, IT, buildings, training, health and safety, and more!
Deacons
The deacons are concerned with practical areas of church life, such as finance, buildings, safeguarding, the staff team and our mission links. They engage with the church members’ needs and concerns. They serve as Trustees with legal responsibilities for the church as a charity and an employer. They share in the spiritual leadership of the church and have oversight of different areas of ministry and operations in support of the ministry team.
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Paul Spencer
DEACON
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Claudia Tyson
SECRETARY
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Catherine Sleight
DEACON
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Martha Spencer
DEACON
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Jack Moore
DEACON
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Simon Miller Cranko
DEACON
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Janice Evans
DEACON
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Tony Royston
DEACON
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Ben Gray
DEACON
Church Office
Pete Davies
Administrator
Pete’s role is to support the mission of the church in many practical ways: e.g. responding to enquiries, publicising and resourcing events, maintaining the website, taking bookings, organising resources and supplies, and much, much more!

And lots of volunteers!
You’re invited to come along to get to know us better…