Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.

On this edition of Nomad, I caught up with Sean Stillman, who oversees Zach's Place, an alternative

church community in Swansea in South Wales. As you'll hear, it was Sean's extensive experience

of reaching out to the biker community that initially led to Zach's Place being established.

Music to Zach's place being established. Sean, great to have you with us.

It's good to be here. Thanks for the invite.

Sean, tell us a little bit about yourself to start with, please.

Okay, well, I'm in my early 40s.

I've been a minister for over two decades now. I started

early and grew up in a church-based family. I'm a preacher's kid. I'm a blind. I'll never do

the same as my father, and it's funny how things turn out. But in more recent years, originally I'm from Berkshire,

but the last 13 years I've been living in Swansea in South Wales.

Married to a local girl in town, we have four children.

And you've been involved, since you've been in Wales,

you've been involved in like a fresh expression of church.

Can you tell us a little bit about that and how that started?

Yeah, sure.

I mean, it came about by accident, really.

Most of the mission work I've been involved in the past 20 years

has been pretty much on the fringes and on the margins,

particularly amongst the biking community, motorcycle community,

musicians and artists.

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