I quite literally live and breathe faith-based social justice and am committed to equipping leaders with the knowledge and confidence to grow diverse communities that are inclusive and encourage and value the stories and giftings of everyone in them.

I was born in London to Muslim parents but brought up in a Methodist residential special education school in Oxfordshire. My own need for answers and search for cultural and spiritual roots took me down an international development path, cultivating a passion for authentic storytelling and a nomadic life working with the hardest to reach people group in the community: the invisible ones.

After a long and culturally rich season that took me around the world, I returned to settle in Bicester, just a few miles from where I grew up. Putting down and growing some of those spiritual roots, I obeyed God's call not only to share my own story of faith, but more crucially, to encourage and equip others to share theirs.

Following God's call "to make disciples of all nations" (by that I mean all people groups), I set up Kingdom Storytellers, a digital storytelling platform created to equip the disciple-making potential within the most overlooked people group of our community: disabled people. What excited me the most in this call was that it enabled me to come alongside leaders eager to explore new wineskin thinking on what inclusion looks like in their communities too: not just seeing disabled people as recipients of God's grace, but as practitioners of his word in kingdom building.

Through conversation and question, I love helping leaders:

• Explore the ‘missing’ and hard to reach in their communities

• Harness stories that speak life and inspire others

• Identify ‘people of peace’ through community relationship building

• Transition missional activity into microchurch disciple making

• Navigate accessibility challenges in missional and worship spaces