Listening to Britain’s Churches is a chance for the Christian community to engage directly with the Conservative Party. A ‘Question Time’ style event held at Emmanuel Baptist Church there are no questions barred and all are welcome. This is a chance for the congregations of Gravesham's churches to be heard.
Time: 19:00 for a 19:30 start, light refreshments on arrival
Your Panel:
Charing the evening
Colin Bloom Executive Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship
Colin is the Executive Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship (CCF). He worked for ten years in industry and almost ten years running a charity, as well as being a local councillor for eight years in a large unitary authority and standing for parliament in booth 2005 and 2010. He is passionate about social justice and firmly believe that people of faith have an increasingly important part to play in the public sphere.
Adam Holloway MP Member of Parliament for Gravesham
Adam Holloway was born in Faversham. He read Theology and then Social and Political Science at Cambridge University and was then comissioned into the Grenadier Guards, where he served for 5 years.
After leaving the Army he became an investigative journalist reporting for ITN from Bosnia and made a series of documentaries including undercover films on diverse subjects such as living as a schizophrenic, living rough on the streets of London for three months, people trafficking & asylum seekers and living life in a wheelchair.
Adam was elected to serve as the MP for Gravesham in May 2004 and re-elected in 2010
Revd Michael Fanstone Senior Minister at Emmanuel Baptist Church
Michael was born in Brighton. He studied theology at Spurgeon's College in London and following his ordination in 1976, served Horley Baptist Church, before moving to Gravesend, where he has been Senior Minister at Emmanual since 1985. Michael is also a broadcaster and currentlyworks for Premier Christian Radio as a presenter of both Premier Tonight and Friday Night Live.
Further pannellists include Prince Adewale Adeola & Michael Coveney