At Hope Community Church, we aim to build church the way they did in the Bible.

Debbie is the deacon responsible for church administration and finances.  She is married to Andy and they have 2 children. Trained as an accountant and with many years experience in the world of accountancy and taxation, Debbie now uses her skills to serve the Church.

She is a Trustee of Hub Community Project which seeks to develop projects to meet the needs of the community and her role includes overseeing the projects and securing funding. Debbie is also a keen member of the Uber Children’s work team.

When time allows, Debbie is a bookworm and her interests are in food & nutrition, social history and old buildings.

After 30 years as a Primary School teacher, Elisabeth left her job in 2015 and has served as the Children’s Worker for Hope since then. She is married to Steve, and they have 2 grown up children living at home with them.

Elisabeth came to faith in Jesus at the age of 5 and traces her passion for sharing Jesus with children back to that. At an early age she grasped the importance of the building your life on the promises of God and she has an overwhelming desire to see children enter into all that God has for them at an early age.

When she is not working, she loves cooking, walking in the wonderful Norfolk countryside, and giving hospitality to family, friends and whoever else would like it! She is a trustee of a charity that seeks to support children in Zimbabwe with their education and has been able to travel there in recent years – something which she has counted as an enormous privilege.

Part of the technical team that supports the church, Andy’s role encompasses sound, video, and lighting; he records and uploads Sunday services to our website and podcasts, and as Sunday Manager is responsible for setting up the venue every week.

Andy is married to Sue and have two grown up children. His interests include all things automotive, technology, Southampton Football Club and cycling.

On a Sunday you will normally find Andy operating technology and making sure that the tech team have a steady supply of coffee!

Fliss is deacon for worship at Hope.

Fliss is married to Andy Jones and mum to Caitlin and Benjamin. She loves watching her family grow up, spending time with friends especially when it includes good food and laughter, and having a clean house! Fliss is passionate about worship and encouraging others to engage in worship to our God.

Linda is deacon for pastoral care.

Married with 2 children and 2 grandchildren, Linda has been a Christian for over 50 years, involved in almost every area of church life during that time.

She has been part of Hope since its inception and has a passion is for building strong relationships within the church and empowering people to strengthen each other in their faith. She has a heart for people’s pastoral needs and releasing people to use their gifting in church life.

In her spare time she enjoys cooking and singing in a local choir as well as trying to keep fit at the gym.

Sue, Deacon for Under 5’s work at Hope. Married to Andy, and they have 2 grown-up children, living away from home. Sue’s working life was within nursing, specialising in paediatrics, most recently in neonatal units, caring for sick and premature babies. Sue’s passion for under 5’s continues, both on Sundays and during the week heading up the Hoppers parent/toddler group teams. Her interests revolve mostly around crafting, both for children and crochet and sewing. Sue also love quiz shows, her claim to fame having been on Pointless!

Matt trained as a physician then eye doctor in Birmingham, Nottingham, East Anglia and Sudan. Moving around can be difficult but has brought lots of opportunities to meet different people! He is married to the beautiful and very musical Selina and is dad to Ella, Lydia and Luke. He always enjoys chatting, particularly about things of faith.

In recent years he has been learning more about Christian ministry at the church whilst studying ministry with Relational Mission. This has led on to a masters in theology and medicine which is fascinating. He loves running Alpha and planning evangelism with Chris Stevenson and the Alpha team. Each Alpha group is unique and the discussions are fun and very rewarding. See you there!