Our Team

Ed served churches in Mississippi and at Independent Presbyterian (1974–76, 1997–2023). He co-founded the United Kingdom Partnership and serves on boards of Third Millennium Ministries and Seminary. A Consultant Coach with McGowan Global Institute, he and his wife, Sally, have three children and eight grandchildren.

Frank Hitchings earned a business degree from UT-Knoxville and an MBA in finance from Memphis before completing his M.Div. at Reformed Theological Seminary. He has served at LMPC since 1991. Frank and his wife, Mary Vassar, have three children, two sons-in-law, and two grandsons.

David is a Mississippi State graduate in public accounting, spent 36 years in business as a CPA, REIT executive, healthcare COO/CFO and Director of Operations and Finance for Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church. His expertise spans management, finance, HR, and development. He is married to Amy and they have three adult children.

David Meredith, born in Paisley and educated in Skye, studied English and Politics at Strathclyde before training for ministry in the Free Church. Ordained in 1984, he served Smithton Church, Inverness, until 2015. Moderator in 2010, he now serves as Mission Director for the Free Church in Edinburgh.

Ralph Cunnington is Senior Pastor and planter of City Church Manchester, which helped plant or support four churches in Manchester. He is a research associate at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology, editor of Foundations, and has served on the boards of Crosslands, UCCF, and 9:38. Ralph and his wife, Anna, have three children.

Jonty Rhodes is minister of Christ Church Central Leeds in the International Presbyterian Church. Over the past decade, he has planted churches in England and authored Covenants Made Simple. Trained at Oak Hill Theological College, he previously served in Duffield and Derby. Jonty and his wife, Georgina, have four children.