
MEET
THE TEAM
LEADERSHIP TEAM

Adam Chisnall
Church Leader
Adam joined the leadership team back in 2018 and became co-leader alongside Ceri in 2021. After a three year handover, Adam was commissioned into leadership in January 2024. Looking ahead into his leadership, Adam is excited to see what God is going to do in River Church!

Bethani Chisnall
Leadership Team
Head of Childrens & Families
Beth has been sitting on the leadership team and working for River heading up the Youth and Children’s work since 2018. Since returning to work after maternity leave, Beth re-focused her role to Children and Families and loves to support parents in bringing faith into the home.

Heike West
Leadership Team
Administration Lead
Heike is the latest addition to our leadership team, sitting with us since May 2023.
Heike is gifted with administration skills that outrank us all and without her our church diary would fall apart within days! Not only blessed with this super power, Heike can knock up a yummy cake at the drop of a hat, and looks after our social media pages! So drop us a “like” or a thumbs up!

Daniel King
Leadership Team
Dan joined the leadership team back in March 2022. He has a huge heart for teaching and has helped prepare and deliver many of our teaching series since then.

Mike Holt
Leadership Team
Mike joined the team in January of ’26 but isn’t new to Leadership having been serving our church as Chair of our Trustees for the last 9 years.
Mike brings a huge amount of leadership experience to the table with a background in business and a history of serving across multiple denominations. With wise words, a soft heart and a gentle presence he’s a blessing to have on the team.

Rachael Odeniyi
Leadership Team
Head of Safeguarding
Rachael’s roots go deep in River, with a passion for leading worship, practicing the prophetic and walking alongside other women in faith. Joining the leadership team in January 2026 Rachael brings a fresh perspective, bubbling with energy and a strong spiritual wisdom. This woman of God is a strong addition to our teams next season.
STAFF TEAM

Janet Tinkler
CAP Debt Coach
Janet joined the team in February 2023. Over the last year she’s trained as a Debt Coach and loved spending time with people. Listening to their story and leading them through the CAP process. Janet loves the wow moments when someone goes debt free but also loves to give the time to drink coffee and chat chat chat!

Graham Burgess
CAP Service Team Leader
Graham took on this management role in September 2025. With our CAP Debt Centre moving into an exciting new season it requires a strong management with clear vision and we hit the jackpot with Graham.
Graham has a passion to see our Debt Centre grow, strength and unity between the churches and for chains of debt to be broken!

The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:12
TRUSTEES
Our team also work together with our River Trustees, who oversee the central works, strategy, finance and other practical aspects of the four churches. The trustees love serving River in this way and are whole-heartedly committed to seeing River fulfil its God-given calling. Our trustees work hard behind the scenes meaning most of their work goes unnoticed, but we love to honour their hard work and dedication.

Ash Vickers
(Chair of Trustees)

Mike Holt

Lina Read

Alistair Handford

Mary Porter

Graham Burgess

Ruth Parry
RIVER CENTRAL TEAM

Nigel Rivers (Treasurer)

Rachel Smith (Admin)
