Terry Drummond

Terry Drummond was commissioned a Church Army Evangelist by Archbishop Michael Ramsey in 1972. Since then, his ministry has focused on linking the local church to the wider community. It has included work on a housing estate, a ministry with the street homeless, and nine years with lead responsibility for non-residential social work and policy development for the Church Army. While in this post, he gave evidence to the Faith in the City commissioners and was responsible for drafting the Church Army’s response. This was followed by a 15-month secondment to the government’s Inner Cities Unit, working on behalf of the Church of England and arranged as a response to the publication of Faith in the City. Subsequently, he spent 15 years working with local churches in the London Borough of Croydon. Between 2005 and 2015, he was bishop’s chaplain to the Rt Revd Tom Butler in Southwark, and later bishop’s advisor on urban and public policy to the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun in Southwark. In 2016, he was ordained a distinctive deacon by Bishop Christopher. He will shortly be submitting a PhD thesis to the University of Manchester on “Urban Mission and Ministry in the Church of England after the report Mission-Shaped Church”.