UK Approved Trainers

Christine has been married to David for over 35 years and loves being a mum to 3 boys, Paul, Marc and Adam and ‘Nana’ to 4 wonderful grandchildren.

Armed with a Bachelor of Divinity from King’s College London and a teaching qualification from Roehampton University, she embarked on a career teaching Religious Studies in a variety of senior schools for some 30 years.

Christine was then “head hunted” to be the Education Liaison Manager for an International Aid Charity. She says that visiting impoverished townships in Africa was, “life changing”.

She eventually left this post to look after her elderly parents who are now “having a party in heaven”.

Alongside her decades of passion for the prophetic ministry, Christine has been pastoring people in various leadership capacities for over 30 years. Her passion for seeing people live whole & free, almost inevitably, led her to the first ever Bethel Sozo Training event in the UK back in 2008. Since then, Christine has thoroughly enjoyed training church teams and mentoring Sozo practitioners across the UK and occasionally internationally. She says that what she loves about Bethel Sozo is, “…the freedom that it facilitates, seeing people more intimately connected to Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit. It is a joy to see people leaving their Sozo session free from the lies that have shut them down and the unhealed wounds that have held them back”.

David, not surprisingly, has been happily married to Christine for over 35 years – for which, he says, she gets all the credit! Having trained as a teacher, David chose a career in Human Resources eventually becoming HR Director for a Global Logistics business. In early 2010, David was Chief Executive of an International Aid Charity in the UK serving schools in the poorest parts of the world, mostly in Africa.

Having a passion for the Prophetic for the past 25 years has made that his ministry focus. His vision is to train, coach & release others into greater levels of gifting creating a prophetic culture across the whole church – rather than a group of gifted specialists.

David first encountered Bethel Sozo in 2008 at a UK Basic Training course run by Dawna & Teresa from Bethel, Redding. Sozo has brought David new levels of personal freedom that had previously eluded him and transformed the way that he ministers both in prayer & prophetically.

David’s experience in business and the not for profit charity sector means he will also have responsibility for governance, finance and charitable status of the Bethel Sozo ministry in the UK.

They are passionate about helping people become whole hearted, knowing their authentic self, the person God created them to be and to fully embrace what He’s called them to do. They believe this is what freedom looks like, loving God with all of our heart, loving others and loving ourselves. Darrell and Anthea are co-founders of the Sozo for couples ministry. Darrell is the author of the post-Sozo devotional, ‘Wonderfully Free…no going back’, now available in five languages, as well as a number of other inner healing related books including “Going Deeper” and the  ‘Starting Out’ pre-marriage manual and course. Their ministry site can be found at www.wonderfullyfree.org.

Born and brought up in the North of England she enjoys walking whether by the sea or in the mountains. She has 3 adult children and 2 grandchildren.

Liz is the UK Financial Sozo director sitting on Stephen De Silva’s core team as well as being one of the founders of Sozo for Couples. Liz has coauthored a number of books including Kingdom Finances,  Starting Out for marriage preparation , Going deeper – a devotional for married couples and the Sozo for Couples manual. She trains basic, advanced, Financial Sozo and Sozo for Couples.

“We have been involved in running Bethel Sozo ministry in Winchester Vineyard for over ten years now and are also a Resource church offering training and mentoring to other churches.

We continue to be delighted and blessed with Sozo prayer and with the help and support of a great team have seen many lives changed, healed and liberated using the ministry tools under the power of the Holy Spirit. We continue to be amazed at the deep connection people can find with Father God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit empowering them to fulfill their destiny and calling.

We have both carried a vision for many years to see ‘broken hearts healed and captives set free.’

Our backgrounds are in healing as Mervyn was a GP and Clare a Psychotherapist and we have 3 adult children and 4 grandchildren.

We also run the ‘Streams of Hope’ ministries in the church that offer a variety of healing approaches”.

Revd. Tandy Ruoff is married to Mark who is also an ordained minister, and they have four amazing children. Tandy and Mark have been in full time Christian ministry for over 20 years and have a passion to see revival. They both love leading in many aspects of church life and have a heart for the apostolic and prophetic, and to see each person fulfil their God-given destiny.

Tandy is the author of “Sozo for Families” and “Encountering God with your Senses” and has been involved in children’s ministry for over 25 years. Tandy longs for all children and young people to have an opportunity to encounter and experience the unconditional love of Father God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit. She wants both the young and old to hear the voice of their Heavenly Father speak to them and receive truth to replace every lie the enemy, the world or they themselves have spoken.

Tandy is currently a School Chaplain and serves as a priest on a Sunday in her local community, alongside her exciting role as UK Facilitator for Children’s Bethel Sozo. She has worked with several churches training and releasing them in Bethel Sozo ministries over the past ten years and is excited to see a new team raised up in Devon where she now lives.

Tandy also has a passion to see children become radical disciples of Jesus. She longs to see children and young people living in complete freedom while transforming their communities around them. As a former prison chaplain, she witnessed transformation happening by teaching people to lead a lifestyle of forgiveness. She truly believes this is possible in our homes, churches, communities, towns, cities, and nations! 

Tandy truly believes transformation begins with family and that starts in the home! As parents teach their children to forgive and to take time each day to stop and be still they will be giving their children not only tools for encountering Father God, Jesus and Holy Spirit, but also equipping their children with the tools needed for spiritual warfare in the years to come!

Alison, now retired, is married to Stuart and has two children and two grandchildren.
Alison has worked in the Christian sector for 35 years. Her heart has been to see people healed both physically and emotionally and freed to be all that they were created to be in Christ.

Trained in Christian Counselling she has been using a variety of counselling and discipleship methods to draw people deeper into relationship with Christ. In March 2008 whilst attending the School of Transformation at Bethel Church Redding California, she was introduced to Sozo. Although the basic principles of what was taught weren’t new to her, the tool belt given by Sozo and the speed at which it worked so impressed her that she went back to Scotland and started building a Sozo Team.

Alison worships at the Moodiesburn Church of Scotland in Glasgow. She runs Basic Sozo Training Courses mostly in Scotland.

Alison has been married to Andrew for over 42 years and has two children and two grandchildren. She works part time with a Christian Child sponsorship Charity – Adopt-A-Child and as part of her ministry she leads groups of short term missionaries to Albania and Guatemala to see the work there and partner with the local teams.  She encourages teams to step out of their comfort zones and discover where they can use their gifting. Alison’s Passion is for people to be released from wounds and lies, to know who God is, Father, Son & Holy Spirit, who they are and to walk in their destiny of who they are called to be. For people, both young and old, to be healed physically, mentally and spiritually. For them to be encouraged and released to follow God’s call on their lives and for them to be serving in their community or further afield.
Alison has been part of her church prayer ministry team for about 20 years, has served on a Healing on the Streets team and has been a Street Pastor. She has also served on encounter teams at Belladrum Festival and local Spiritual Fayres. For the past 12 years has been trained and released in Bethel Sozo Ministry and has a particular passion for Art Sozo, having facilitated workshops in the local community and further afield in Romania with mission teams there.

Diana was born and raised in Hong Kong. In 1976 she married Leslie and they have one grown up daughter.

The move in 1978 to Inverness enabled Diana to pursue her creativity in sugar craft and cake decorating. An Alpha course in 2000 radically changed her life and she was propelled into exploring Christian healing.

She worships at Kings Inverness and under their missions’ umbrella has led teams on Healing on the Streets and on prophetic outreaches. She has a passion for people to taste and see that the Lord is good and to experience His love through healing (body, mind & spirit).

She attended Dawna & Teresa’s Sozo training course at the 2010 CLAN Gathering Conference. 2013 saw the establishment of Sozo teams in Inverness. She leads Sozo teams and is part of the training and mentoring team in Scotland. It’s a privilege and honour to see individuals experience freedom and become closer connected with Father God, Jesus and Holy Spirit resulting in transformed lives and transformed communities.

Lesley began her Sozo journey in 2009 going on to attend training run by Donna Desilva and Teresa Leibsher when they visited Scotland. After a period of mentoring from Gaynor Martin, she now runs a Sozo team at Community Church Edinburgh, her church for over 20 years.

She loves the gentle and respectful process of Sozo. Her heart is to enable people to be free to
make good choices and to enjoy the benefits of a closer connection to a good God.

She is married to Stephan and has five adult children. She has been an art teacher, a carer and loves to spend time in the hills.

Lisa has been a facilitator in her area for many years and has helped to set
up and mentor teams in the South East of England.

For ten years, Lisa headed up a team offering Sozos at the annual
David’s Tent worship event and during the Covid lockdown, she steered
her church Sozo team to conduct Sozos over Zoom. This proved to be
very effective and remains ongoing. As an alternative way of connecting
with people, this has widened the scope of the church team’s ministry,
even on occasions reaching other nations.

Lisa was brought up in a Christian home in Finland but has lived in England
for all her adult life. She worked as a nurse for most of her working life. She
has worked on a voluntary basis for her local church since her early
retirement.

Lisa is married to Graham and they have two daughters and four
grandchildren.