Before ordination Bob Jackson was a Government Economic Adviser. After twenty years in parish ministry he joined Springboard - the Archbishop of Canterbury's initiative to encourage, renew and mobilise the Church for evangelism. He then spent five years as Archdeacon of Walsall with responsibility for the Diocesan Growth Strategy in the Diocese of Lichfield.

Bob Jackson is a church growth expert with vast experience of consultancy work across the Church of England. He is Archdeacon of Walsall and a Growth Officer in the Diocese of Lichfield as well as the author of Hope for the Church, Road to Growth and Going for Growth. George Fisher is Director of Parish Mission for Lichfield Diocese. He works with parishes to help them focus on mission, evangelism and growth and previously ministered as Vicar of a parish in Sheffield.