Jon Beardon

Jon Beardon is a member of the Relational Mission core team, with responsibilities that include overseeing the team of directors responsible for governance, finance, and communications and directly supervising some of the Relational Mission churches in the United Kingdom, France (Lille), Serbia (Nis), and Nepal. Jon loves working with these local churches to strengthen them and foster unity between them, overflowing into ownership of shared church planting mission. In the United Kingdom, he has moved to the city of Bath where he is planting River Church Bath, the first church of a new initiative called Go West. Go West is following a similar model to one that he pioneered called the 20/20 Initiative – reaching 20 more places in the East of England over 20 years. In the south of Serbia, he is working with longstanding local partners to serve a movement of Roma churches through teaching and training. Jon has a secondary teaching qualification, he spent six months in Ghana as a missionary, and for nearly five years worked as a schools’ evangelist in the United Kingdom, before focusing solely on local church ministry and mission since 2000. Jon has a BA in Theology from London School of Theology. He is married to Nicky and has four children. In his spare time, he plays field hockey and likes to walk.