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Will Foulger

Will Foulger

Will Foulger is vicar at St Nicholas Church in Durham city-centre. During his four years at Cranmer Hall he taught mission and evangelism and missional entrepreneurship at BA, and mission and ecclesiology and theological Reflection at MA, alongside supervising students at BA, MA and DThM level. He led on the establishing of the Centre for Church Planting Theology and Research, serving as director for 18 months. CCPTR exists to carry out original theological-empirical research into church planting activity within the UK. In 2023 Will organised and led an international conference on church planting theology, which saw over 60 delegates come to Durham. His book, ‘Present in Every Place: The Church of England’s New Churches and the Future of the Parish’, was published by SCM Press in 2023.

Before moving back to Durham in 2019 to take up the role at Cranmer Will was part of a team that planted Trinity Church Nottingham, a city-centre resource church. His ordination training took place at Cranmer Hall (2013-2016) during which time he completed by DThM on new churches as they relate to the parish structure within the CoE. Prior to ordination Will was a Secondary Religious Studies teacher in South East London. He completed my MA at Princeton Seminary in New Jersey, and his undergraduate degree at St Andrews University in Scotland. He has a wife, Vikki and four children: Iris and Jonah, Jesse, and Huck.

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