Sarah McDonald Haden
Vicar
Sarah is the Vicar of Cheltenham Network Church with Emmanuel Church, taking the lead since March 2020. Trained at St Mellitus College, she previously served as an associate Vicar at an HTB plant in North London, where she established a church community in a coffee shop. Sarah holds theology degrees from Nottingham University, St Mellitus College, and a doctorate from Asbury Seminary. Beyond her role at CNC, she enjoys teaching and speaking on Christian leadership, mission, and calling. Outside of church life she enjoys netball, gaming and most recently- watching thousands of episodes of bluey.
Robert Atkin
Curate
Robert Atkin is a Curate at Emmanuel Church as a self-supporting minister. Rob is originally from Sheffield and is married to Becky, an Assistant Headteacher in a secondary school. They have a teenage daughter. After a career in IT for a financial services company, Rob took voluntary redundancy when his job was outsourced and became a stay-at-home dad, whilst pursuing his interest in writing speculative fiction. Rob started exploring a call to ordained ministry over twenty years ago, which led to pursuing a degree in Kingdom Theology. He started ordination training at Trinity College Bristol in September 2022 and was ordained as a Deacon at Gloucester Cathedral in June 2024. For relaxation he enjoys board games, gardening and writing speculative fiction.
Abbie Marsh
Youth Worker
Abbie joined our team as youth worker in April 2023. She comes with lots of experience in leading youth ministries in the south and south west of the UK. Abbie is married to Sean and they have one daughter. She works across the churches and communities of South Cheltenham support youth work in churches.
When not doing youth work Abbie enjoys country walks, boardgames and coffee!
Sarah Kelly
Reader in Training
Sarah Kelly is our lay reader in training. She is involved with leading services, preaching and supporting our toddler group. As well as her role in Church Sarah is a professional musician (see the Jigantics) and ukulele teacher. She is married to Nick and outside of music and church enjoys cycling and exploring the Gloucestershire area.