Lawrence Moore & Michael Jagessar, Moderators-elect, 2012-14
The Revd Dr Michael Jagessar was born and brought up in Guyana, where he was ordained as a pastor in the Lutheran Church in 1980. He is the Secretary for Racial Justice and Intercultural Ministry for the United Reformed Church, as well as being honorary research associate at Westminster
College, Cambridge, and honorary lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
A theologian by training, Lawrence Moore grew up in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) during the civil war years before Independence. He began working for the United Reformed Church in 1997 as Training & Development Officer for the Eastern Synod. Since 2002, he has served the United Reformed Church as Director of the Windermere Centre, one of the URC's four Resource Centres for Learning.