Our Leadership Team
John and Anne Coles took over the leadership of New Wine from David and Mary Pytches in 2001. As Director of New Wine John has seen the organisation grow significantly both in the UK and Internationally. He continues to be involved in the development of the New Wine Network of church leaders in the UK and has an increasing role representing New Wine in the wider church community. John and Anne have recently started a new missional congregation meeting in a home.
Mark Aldridge has been the Overseer of New Wine International Networks since the beginning of 2010, having partnered Bruce Collins in the leadership of this work since 2008. He is also the Minister in Charge of Oak Tree Anglican Fellowship in West London.
Mark and Karen Bailey have lived in Cheltenham for the past 14 years, where Mark is lead pastor at Trinity Church. Together they have been privileged to see a significant move of the Spirit, leading to substantial church growth. Trinity is a multi-congregational church, which seeks to live out the adventure of Christian mission, both in its local community and beyond. Together they are the New Wine Central and South West Regional Leaders.
Mark and Lindsay Melluish are the New Wine London & South East Regional Directors. They live in West London where they lead St Paul’s Ealing, a vibrant and lively church. They have a particular heart to make church relevant and accessible in today’s culture, and have worked at this during their 17 years at St Paul’s. They also wrote and pioneered the Family Time Parenting Children course. Before entering full-time ministry, Mark was involved in marketing.
Ian and Nadine Parkinson are the New Wine North and East Regional Leaders and work together in leading All Saints’ Church Marple, Stockport. They have a passion to support leaders and churches as they seek to reach communities with the gospel.
Chris Pemberton is the Training Director for the New Wine Training Partnership. From 1998 to May 2009 he was the vicar of St Mary Bredin in Canterbury. He has a background in marketing and worked for Dunlop Holdings in London before ordination in 1984. Before moving to Canterbury he was involved in local church leadership at St Luke’s in Maidstone (Kent), then St Aldate’s in Oxford, where he worked as a chaplain in the University and taught part-time at Wycliffe Hall.
David and Mary Pytches started New Wine in 1989 while David was vicar of St Andrew’s, Chorleywood (1977-96). Married in 1958, David and Mary went as missionaries to Chile in 1959 to plant churches. They experienced renewal in 1969 and David became the Bishop of the Dioceses of Chile, Bolivia and Peru. Returning to the UK they were radically impacted by John Wimber, who visited them at Pentecost in 1981. New Wine gave birth to Soul Survivor led by Mike Pilavachi, who started it when he was the youth worker at St Andrew’s. The Pytches still minister around the world: David speaks and writes on renewal and leadership issues, while Mary is also a popular speaker and author on issues of personal development.