Check out some of the amazing contributors at nua 2026!
Main Session Speakers
Tyler Staton
Tyler Staton is the Lead Pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife Kirsten, and their sons Hank, Simon, and Amos. He is passionate about living prayerfully and relationally.
Tyler is the author of three books: The Familiar Stranger, Praying Like Monks, Living like Fools, and Searching for Enough.
Pete Greig
Pete Greig is the bewildered founder of the 24-7 Prayer movement, an award-winning author of nine books, and a co-host of the much-loved daily devotional Lectio365.
Pete and his wife Sammy are Founding Pastors of Emmaus Rd church in the south of England.
Today he brings leadership to Waverley Abbey, and continues to be an Ambassador for the international relief and development agency Tearfund.
Laura Bell
Laura hails from the Causeway Coast of our beautiful Island and in 2025 returned home to serve as the Senior Pastor of Causeway Coast Vineyard after 16 years on the leadership team at Christian Fellowship Church in Belfast.
She is passionate and committed to equipping the church to demonstrate and declare the good news of the kingdom of God.
She finds joy in travel, sports, reading, movies & good conversations. Laura lives on the North Coast with her husband Chris and two daughters Maeve and Fia.
Dana Masters
Dana Masters is an American-born soul and jazz singer-songwriter based in Northern Ireland, where she lives with her husband Andrew (on whom she still has a massive crush) and their three children.
Through her music, she invites people into a more honest, courageous and deeply human way of living. Her life is a beautifully chaotic mix of jazz clubs and airports, school runs and trying to get everyone to bed on time.
Seminars
Kenny Innes
Kenny is the Teaching and Preaching Pastor at Falkirk Vineyard Church and also teaches Spiritual Formation with WTC, a charismatic interdenominational theological college with learning communities all over the UK and NI. He hosts the podcast ‘TheoDisc’ which hosts discussions to encourage theological understanding and deeper faith. He is also a board member of Kyria Network. Kenny lives with his wife Sandra, who is a spiritual director, and their two teenage children.
Ross Robinson
Ross leads and coordinates Home Fellowship- a student ministry in Belfast with a heart for every student in the city to know God’s passion and purpose for their life.
Chris McBurney
Chris lives in Comber, attends CFC Comber with his young family and has been working with students on the island for just over 7 years. He is the director of Christian Unions Ireland.
Alison Solomon
Alison Solomon is a Mayo girl living in Dublin with her husband Ezekiel and their toddler. They serve as ministers together in Ballyfermot Elim in West Dublin. Alison is a staff worker with Christian Unions Ireland, working with Trinity College Dublin, RCSI and Maynooth University. Alison has a passion for equipping young people in formative years in their lives wanting them to become full disciples of Jesus.
Lucy Hill
Lucy, originally from Belfast, now lives in Dublin with her husband Ross and 3 girls, Maddie, Ruby and Iris. Lucy is currently serving as the National Director for 24-7 Prayer in Ireland, helps co-lead a house church community in Dublin called Eden Collective and serves on the board of Tearfund in Ireland. Lucy is passionate about seeing young leaders equipped and especially seeing young women released to lead in the church. She also loves a bit of retail therapy and a good book!
Roscoe Crawley
Roscoe works for Fusion Movement, a student mission organisation based in the UK. The vision of Fusion is to work with local churches to help equip them to reach the student generation so that every student may have the opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. He lives with his (Irish!) wife and young baby.
Matthew Williams
Matthew is a theologian originally from Wales and now living in East Antrim with his family. He is starting a farm-based education organisation based at Jubilee
Farm near Larne, which connects people to the land, each other and ultimately to God. His mission experience in Malawi inspired him to develop a holistic theology addressing poverty and environment with Christ at the centre and he has published writing on these and other subjects. He is part of Antrim Coast Vineyard church.
Eoghan Heaslip
Eoghan is an ordained Anglican priest and Lead Pastor of Saint Catherine’s Church in Dublin, passionate about helping others notice and respond to God.
He and his wife, Becky, have three adult daughters.
Tash McBride
Tash is married to Ross and together they have three wonderful children. They are part of the Elim movement and have been in ministry for over 24 years. Tash loves great coffee and a good laugh.
She also works for the UK-wide Christian charity Home for Good and Safe Families as the Northern Ireland Church and Community Relationship Team Lead. Tash is passionate about the local Church, believing it is God’s chosen vehicle for transformational change in our communities. She gets especially excited when the Church steps into all she was created to be.
Nathaniel Jennings
Nathaniel Jennings is of Anglo/Caribbean/American heritage, but was born and spent his childhood in Bangladesh.
Since 2011 Nathaniel has lived in Belfast and is currently OMF UK & Ireland's Intercultural Ministries Director. He also founded and
leads the Intercultural Ministries Ireland network. His ministries focuses on encouraging and equipping churches to share the good news of Jesus with people of all backgrounds and cultures, and grow as Christ-centre communities of intercultural worship and witness.
Charlotte Curran
Charlotte is an author, speaker and the site pastor of CFC in East Belfast. Her greatest joy is studying and unpacking Scripture and her deep desire is to see a fully devoted Church, reawakened to the beauty of God and his word. Charlotte is married to Drew and they have two teenage sons.
Ross Hill
Ross lives in Dublin with his wife Lucy and their three daughters (who are becoming keen Irish rugby fans!) Together, they help lead Eden Collective, a house church community centred on creating spaces shaped by prayer, mission, and justice. He also runs an art materials business, as well as serving on the leadership teams & boards of 24-7 Prayer Ireland and Praxis Movement.