Church Elders

City Gate Church is primarily led by a group of four Elders, who are responsible for the overall running of the Church.

Andy Au

Lead Elder for apostolic work

Andy Au is a founding member and the senior elder of the City Gate. Married to Yvonne, he has two children and three grandchildren. He has overall responsibility for the local City Gate community; leads the City Gate Hub, which draws together various churches and ministries that are linked to City Gate; and is a founding director of ‘Movement In Worship’, a creative ministry that has been birthed by City Gate. He travels widely developing relational links with networks, organisations and churches. He is also the City Gate link with the Pioneer Network.

Gwyn Davies

Lead Elder for the local congregation

Gwyn Davies has been a member of City Gate since 1990. She leads the local leadership team. She is married to Johnie. They have been foster carers for more than 16 years.

Yvonne Au

Elder

Yvonne Au, a founder member of City Gate is a director of Enable Children: an early years consultancy and training company. She is an advisory elder on the team and married to Andy Au.

Sue Coull

Elder

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Church Deacons

CGC also has a number of deacons—people with specific areas of responsibility who carry weight within the church releasing the Elders to do more of its governance and oversight. These individuals are all long–standing and strongly involved members of the Church.

The City Gate Board

City Gate Church UK and City Gate Community Projects are governed by one board comprising of trustees of both charitable companies and the elders of City Gate Church.

Chair: Sue Coull
Treasurer: Jonathan Wilkins

City Gate Church UK exists to:

  • worship God
  • care for and teach children and adults
  • share the Christian faith
  • relieve poverty and help people in need.

City Gate Community Projects was established as the social action agency of City Gate Church. It exists to:

  • advance education for all ages
  • relieve need, hardship or distress
  • provide recreation and leisure facilities
  • protect and preserve health through the provision of nutritional food

City Gate Church UK trustees

Andy Au
Becky Godden
Gwyn Davies
Jonathan Wilkins
Louise Wort
Sue Coull
Yvonne Au

City Gate Community Projects trustees

Betsy Brewer
Brooke Courtney
Caroline Ward
Gwyn Davies
Jamie Marchant
Jonathan Wilkins
Keith Harrison
Nigel Wright
Pam Mitchell
Suzie Maine
Yvonne Au

CGC Hub

The City Gate Hub consists of various leaders from different ministries who meet together every two months in order to pray, discuss and help each other with their work.

The Hub provides mutual support, both spiritually through prayer and resourcing one another. We are a channel of different ministries working together, exploring all that God has placed within The Hub.

“For just as in one body we have many parts, and the parts do not all have the same function, so we—the many—have one body in Christ, but each individual is a part of the others.” – (Romans 12:4-5)

The Hub consists of:
City Gate Church: Andy Au, Gwyn Davies, Yvonne Au, Andrea Mason
Movement in Worship: Kirsty Hallett, Andy Au miw.org.uk
Fundelaship: Andrea Mason
Community Church Eastbourne: Graeme Bunn bridgemere.endisinsight.com
New Life Christian Church: Kendall Mason www.inewlife.org.uk
Connect Southwater Community Church: Kath Jones, Juliett Fuller southwatercommunitychurch.org.uk),
Images of Light: Jeannine & Ian Rodriguez-Everard imagesoflight.us

We have a number of overseas connections including:
God’s Great Commission Church (GGCC),
Phila Ubomi (Live Well)