Tina Hodgett

Rev Tina Hodgett is a daughter and granddaughter, sister of two brothers, half-Manx and half-English. She is a pioneer, teacher, speaker and leader with a reputation for inspiring hope and drawing whole congregations into a kind of mission ‘with a twinkle in its eye’. She learned to recognise and appreciate different cultures studying German and Russian in-country, and after an early career in secondary education now leads the CMS Southwest Hub which trains lay people in the postures and practices of pioneer mission through creativity and play. Tina was a parish priest in Portishead, planting small new congregations there; she is co-author of the Pioneer Spectrum and birthed the Pioneer Project in the Diocese of Bath and Wells.  She is one of the creators of Pioneering Parishes – a small start-up training organisation funded by the Church of England for church leaders wanting to learn how to shift the energy of the local church outwards in order to invite a wider range of people into the life of the kingdom of God.