Check out some of the amazing contributors at nua 2025!
Main Session Speakers
Jonny & Amy Hughes
Amy & Jonny live in Nottingham with their five children, where they lead Trinity Church Nottingham, a church they planted in 2016. Amy, along with her sister Rachel, leads The Orchard, a ministry with a vision to empower women. Jonny enjoys golf. They both share a love of seeing people encounter Jesus, and raising up leaders.
Jill Weber
Jill Weber has been founding and leading Houses of Prayer for almost a quarter of a century, and currently leads the Waverley Abbey Community in the UK.
She is also the Global Convenor of the Order of the Mustard Seed,
24-7 Prayer’s missional/monastic order, and serves 24-7 Prayer as Director of Houses of Prayer.
Jill is a regular contributor to Lectio 365, and is a spiritual director, retreat leader and educator, and author of the book, ‘Even the Sparrow: A Pilgrim’s Guide to Prayer, Trust and Following the Leader.’
Hannah Heather
Hannah Heather, alongside her husband Adam, is Senior Pastor of House Church in Newtownards. Hannah is a theologian, writer, and Bible teacher.
Hannah is part of the 24-7 Prayer movement and is one of the authors and voices of Lectio 365’s 'Night Prayers’ so you may recognise her as the voice that puts you to sleep at night!
Hannah and Adam are proud parents to Thea and Noah and passionate advocates of the joys of single origin coffee accompanied by a good book.
Seminar Speakers
Sara Carlisle
Seminar: "Spiritual Direction and the Kingdom Within:
Responding to God's Invitations"
Sara has just moved in the last year from the Netherlands and she couldn’t be happier to have settled beside the sea here in Northern Ireland! She truly feels at home here as she leads Sustainable Faith and learns to speak the Northern Irish vernacular like a pro, slipping in words like “awk” and “wee” like a native. Sustainable Faith’s main focus is training pastors and leaders in spiritual direction and introducing people to the contemplative path.
She enjoys: travelling, cooking/baking, upcycling vintage furniture, riding her bike, teaching, writing (especially poetry), sipping good wine or whiskey, playing outside, walking along the sea, hiking, reading, painting, spending time with her 12 nieces and nephews who are Stateside, enjoying live music (especially Dana Masters), and staring at the birds. She has a very full life!
Adam Heather
Leading When You Don’t Know the Way - Remaining fruitful in
an ever-changing landscape
Adam has a background in both science and faith, with a degree in Chemistry and a Master's in Theology. He spent ten incredible years serving as COO for 24-7 Prayer and later as Executive Pastor at Emmaus Road Church in Guildford. Recently, he and his wife Hannah felt called to a new adventure in Northern Ireland, where they now have the joy of serving as Lead Pastors of House Church in Newtownards.
24-7 Prayer Ireland & IJM
Prayer + Justice: Bridging the Gap
IJM is part of the world’s largest anti-slavery organisation, working to protect people from violence and end human trafficking.
24-7 Prayer Ireland is a movement calling and equipping people to seek God in prayer, mission, and justice — transforming lives, campuses, and communities across Ireland with a vision to see the church revived and culture rewired in praye
Mark Miskimmin
WORK EAT SLEEP: Is having a Calling dead, or just out of date?
Dr Mark Miskimmin is a previous chair of New Horizon Ministries, workplace speaker for the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, and the Faith@Work initiative BBC. He is currently Managing Director of the Alfred Daisy Foundation after spending three decades in the Financial Services Industry exploring what it looks like to work well.
He is married to Simone, has three adult children, and is an Ulster and Ireland rugby fanatic.