Elders

David Thornhill-Smith, Pastor

David is the local lad returned home.  Born and educated in Sheffield, David worked for a number of well-known Sheffield organisations moving south to work in student ministry in Bournemouth.  This led to him studying for three years at Oak Hill, before returning to Bournemouth and from there to Salisbury.  David joined CPC as senior pastor in January 2026. Married, with three children, David supports the blue team in Sheffield.

Rob James, Elder

A Loughborough lad who came to study Software Engineering in Sheffield and met the love of his life, Rob is a founder member of CPC.
Rob leads a home group and works with the CPC tech team, although he confesses to enjoying serving people much more than playing with sound and computers.
Rob and Emma have two children and care for Rob’s mum who lives with them.

Chris studied via distance learning at the UNION School of Theology with the late Melvyn Tinker as his mentor. He likes talking to people about the Lord and His wonderous grace and has a passion for people to experience that grace for themselves.  Married to Becky, blessed with two daughters, Chris preaches at CPC, helps out on the tech team and in the week works part time as a hospital doctor in Worksop.
In his spare time he enjoys history, birds of prey, table tennis and exploring.

Martin Daniels, Associate Pastor

Having trained in London Theological Seminary, Martin was one of the founding members of CPC.  Serving as an elder initially, Martin took on the role of Pastor in April 2017, stepping back to make way for David in 2025.  As well as using his spiritual skills to guide the church, his building skills came to the fore when he oversaw (and did much of the work) during the church refurbishment in 2020.

Married to Jenny, his other claim to fame is to probably have more grandchildren than the rest of the church put together!

Steve Horton, Associate Pastor

An elder at Wycliffe Church, Steve joined the staff team in 2012 as church planter.

Working with Martin Daniels from the start, Steve’s job was the establish a new church, get it running reasonably smoothly and them help appoint a pastor – which was achieved in April 2017.

Steve also serves the Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches (EFCC) as a Ministry Co-ordinator, supporting EFCC churches in the West Midlands and North Wales.