I grew up in Chile in a missionary family and am bilingual. I share life with my husband Dr Hugh Kemp and our three adult daughters and can be found kayaking or walking our family Labrador on a remote beach in my spare time. 

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My background includes nursing, community development, ministry, missions and theological education in Australasia, Chile, Mongolia, and the UK. Christian leadership, theological education, ministry and mission are woven through my adult life. I am an ordained Anglican minister and bring a deep love for people and commitment to the Church as a place where followers of Christ can flourish and grow — for the sake of their wider communities and world. I am an idealist-reformer at heart so have learned the hard way that we live in a broken world and I am not exempt from that brokenness myself! 

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My life has been shaped by time in a war zone, working alongside people who are poor and marginalised, the hard knocks of advocacy and organisational leadership, and by multiple cultural adjustments as I’ve worked interculturally across a range of organisations. Throughout I’ve turned to Scripture and fellow sojourners as I’ve wrestled with the questions thrown up by my experiences. When all is said and done, this much I know is true: 

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• God is good, just, faithful and true even when we don't feel it.
• Our world is a broken place populated with broken people — but because of Christ, it is not without hope. 
• As we surrender our lives to Christ, God equips us with all we need to be faithful disciples in the places of our calling.

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These three convictions underpin my coaching practice. 

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I believe that we grow in the direction of the questions we are asking and can think of no greater privilege than to hold spaces where leaders can explore and wrestle with their questions in ways that lead to deeper faith, robust leadership development, and observable flourishing of the communities they lead. 

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I’ve mentored and supervised leaders in ministry and beyond the church for over twenty years. Along the way I’ve completed Coach training and am on track to full accreditation with the International Coaching Federation.

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