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News about Nigel Styles
After eight years as Director of the Proclamation Trust (PT) and Director of the Cornhill Training Course, Nigel Styles is to take up a new role from this summer working with Cross Connections to grow significantly PT’s commitment to expository preaching around the world. Cross Connections emerged from the Proclamation Trust many years ago and now has twenty ‘International Hubs’ training expository preachers. It will be a great benefit to the wider PT mission to have Nigel driving the work of Cross Connections with its heritage in, and close links with, the Proclamation Trust.
During the eight years of Nigel’s leadership, Cornhill has grown materially with over 220 students studying across its different courses, a threefold increase. These numbers include 50 international students studying on-line in their home country. Cornhill has also grown in complexity as its courses have been restructured, and with the addition of ‘Cornhill Plus’. A the same time, Nigel has found himself increasingly travelling to preach, train and ‘train the trainers’ in the UK and internationally. Nigel’s great love is teaching, and the Trustees of the Proclamation Trust are delighted that the changes at PT have facilitated his move into a role of promoting expository preaching through Cross Connections.
The Trustees of the Proclamation Trust are extremely grateful to Nigel for his leadership of PT over these past eight years. He has a huge passion for expository ministry and has built and led an excellent team at Cornhill to train up future generations of preachers and teachers.
The PT trustees are now finalising the requirements for the role of Director of the Proclamation Trust in its next season and will start the process of appointing a new Director to build on the growth that Nigel has overseen, and to continue the legacy of PT which Dick Lucas established in the mid-1980s.