Leadership at Liberty

At Liberty, leadership is shared, relational, and team-based. We don’t believe leadership is about control or personality. We believe it’s about serving the community, creating healthy space for people to grow, and helping one another follow Jesus well.

Rather than being led by a single individual, Liberty is led by a group of elders, supported by trustees, home church pastors, and a small staff team who help equip and serve the wider church.

Elders: shared spiritual leadership

Liberty is led by a team of elders (leaders within the church, recognised for their spiritual maturity, wisdom, and care for others) who share responsibility for the spiritual direction, health, and faithfulness of the church.

Elders help ensure that Liberty stays true to what we believe Jesus has called us to be, as expressed in our loves and practices, and that what we teach and model remains rooted in Scripture and centred on Jesus.

They meet weekly to pray for the church, seek God’s guidance, and discern direction together. Elders are actively involved in the life of Liberty: each elder leads a Home Church, mentors other Home Church Pastors, and participates in the mission of God in everyday life.

Leadership among the elders is shared, but not leaderless. Rob Duff, as Lead Pastor serves the eldership by leading the team, helping hold vision, direction, and focus. In leading the elders, he also serves the wider church.

Home Church Pastors: Local Care and Connection

Home Church Pastors are the primary pastors of Liberty. They lead churches that gather in homes and everyday spaces across the city, shaping communities where people learn to follow Jesus together in real, lived ways.

A Home Church Pastor doesn’t simply provide care or support, though that matters deeply. They give themselves to discipleship, which means walking closely with people as they grow into who Jesus has made them to be. They help foster relationships marked by love, honesty, forgiveness, and shared life, creating space where the gospel is not only believed but experienced. Because Home Churches are small, people are known, supported, challenged, and encouraged to play their part in the life of the church.

Home Church Pastors are ordinary, working people who practice the ways of Jesus in their own lives and invite others to do the same. They lead their churches outward as well as inward, helping their church to love their neighbours, serve the places they live, and respond in obedience to Jesus together. In this way, Home Churches become families on mission, and Home Church Pastors serve as spiritual parents who help those families grow in maturity, love, and faith.

Trustees: legal and financial responsibility

Liberty is supported by a Board of Trustees who serve the church by providing careful oversight, accountability, and good governance.

Their role is to help ensure that Liberty operates with integrity in every practical sense: stewarding finances responsibly, meeting legal and charitable obligations, and making sure the church’s resources are used wisely and transparently. This kind of oversight matters because it protects the church, builds trust, and allows people to give, serve, and participate with confidence.

Trustees work closely with the elders to support the long-term health and sustainability of the church. While much of their work happens behind the scenes, their service helps create a solid and credible foundation on which the spiritual life and mission of Liberty can flourish.

Lead Pastor: Rob Duff

Rob serves Liberty as Lead Pastor.

His calling is to help cultivate the conditions in which people and communities can grow and be sent into the world as everyday missionaries. He leads the team of Elders and serves Liberty by helping us stay attentive to the Holy Spirit’s leading and grounded in our calling.

Rob has a gift for helping people see how the life of the church fits together. He focuses on teaching the gospel in ways that bring clarity, depth, and direction, and on helping the church understand what God is inviting us into together. By listening carefully and discerning prayerfully, he helps Liberty respond faithfully in the present and remain ready for what God may do next.

Rob believes the church is central to God’s purposes in the world, that Jesus gave His life for it, and that when it is healthy and faithful it carries extraordinary potential for renewal, hope, and transformation. He gives his life to helping Liberty grow into that reality with trust in God.

Missional Catalyst: Noel Kenny

Noel was the founding pastor of Liberty Church. Much of who Liberty is today has been shaped through his faith, leadership, and obedience over the first twenty years of the church’s life. We are deeply grateful for that legacy.

Today, Noel serves Liberty as what we call a Missional Catalyst. Missional reflects Noel’s long-held calling to see the gospel take root in new places, communities, and contexts. Catalyst speaks to the way he serves: not by directing everything himself, but by discerning, encouraging, and helping release movement in others.

In this role, his focus is not on the day-to-day leadership of the church, but on helping Liberty remain outward-facing and attentive to what God is doing beyond our immediate gatherings. Noel gives himself to prayerful listening and exploration, helping Liberty stay responsive to the Spirit and open to new expressions of life and mission.

For those who belong to Liberty, Noel’s role is a gift. It helps ensure that we don’t become inward-looking or settled, but continue to live as a people sent into the world. Through his presence and leadership, Liberty is continually invited to lift its eyes, to imagine what faithful obedience might look like next, and to step into mission with courage, creativity, and trust in God.

Becky ChappLE: Administration FOR GLOBAL MISSION

Becky serves Liberty through administration, with a particular focus on One Day, the charity founded by Liberty that supports orphans and vulnerable children in Lesotho.

Her work helps sustain and strengthen a mission that reaches far beyond our local church. Her careful organisation, communication, and oversight enables the vision of One Day to be carried with integrity and care, ensuring that what God has entrusted to us is stewarded well. Her role frees others to participate meaningfully in this work, helping turn compassion into practical, life-giving action.

Becky also serves Liberty as a Home Church Pastor.

Anna Hyland: Administration For Liberty

Anna serves Liberty as both an administrator and an elder. She has been part of the church since its earliest days and brings a steady, faithful presence to its life and leadership.

Through her administrative role, Anna helps ensure that Liberty is well organised, clearly communicated with, and able to function smoothly in everyday ways. This kind of work often happens quietly, but it is essential. It creates the space in which gatherings can happen, people can connect, and ministry can flourish.