Meet the team
Chris Sharman
Current Role:
Cambridge Campus Pastor
What I'm passionate about:
I lead the team here in Cambridge and I'm involved in all aspects of church life, especially weekend services and pastoral care.
Interesting fact:
I am married to Annabel and we live in the north of the city. I used to play a lot of rugby but a couple of years ago I got into watching NFL, and now support the LA Rams
Simon Deeks
Current Role:
I work closely with Chris and the rest of the leadership team to help provide spiritual oversight and ensure strategic direction for the campus. You will find me occasionally hosting and speaking at weekend services. Outside of Cambridge, I am involved in the overall leadership of KingsGate, with a particular emphasis on teaching, pastoral work, freedom ministry and overseas.
What I'm passionate about:
Married to Zia, proud Father to William and Hannah, and unbearably delighted to be a grandparent to Elsie. Born in Nigeria, raised in Yorkshire, degree from Durham, 20 years secondary school teacher and over 11 years as a church pastor.
Interesting fact:
In my spare time I enjoy tandem riding with Zia, reading and watching TV box sets and most sport, and eating!
Zia Deeks
Current Role:
Head of KingsGate Kids / Pastoral Oversight and Equip Team
What I'm passionate about:
I love seeing our children encountering our heavenly Father and also seeing peoples lives transformed by the power of God’s love, as He sets them free from past hurts and hangups.
Interesting fact:
I have been a KingsGate member for over 20 years. In the past I’ve worked as an administrator, IT network manager and an IT teacher at secondary school level, but I left all that behind when God called me out to work full time for the church in 2014. I’m wife, daughter, sister, aunty, great aunty, niece and finally Grandma!
Ru Cullen
Current Role:
Worship, Production and Prayer Team Leader
What I'm passionate about:
My husband, Jon, and I spent 5 years in Peru before touching down in Cambridge, originally just for one year for Jon to do a Masters degree. 15 years, 3 children, a dog and too many instruments later, here we are. And we love it.
Interesting fact:
I'm part Brit, part Kiwi, having grown up in New Zealand.
Martha French
Current Role:
Student, Youth and Community Action Team Leader
What I'm passionate about:
Arriving in Cambridge to study history in 2015 I fell in love with the city, a guy called Jonathan and the church. After graduation I became a townie, married the guy and started working for the church. You'll usually find me in a café with a flat white and a book, or baking something sweet in my kitchen.
Interesting fact:
A key ambition in life is to buy so many plants that my flat becomes an indoor jungle!