About Rev. Keith Garner

"...a hands-on worker who uses organisational skills alongside an ability to delegate."

An inspired teacher – a vision to re-engage with the city and beyond.

Rev Keith Garner, the Superintendent of Wesley Mission, is an inspiring and gifted teacher who not only wants to influence the world, but to change the world.

Keith has a vision of a city church that reaches further – to the edges of society - “We need to tackle life’s complexities and spell out our faith in human terms.”

Rev Keith Garner can be heard every Sunday night at "Praise, Prayer and Preaching" – this is the heart of our teaching at Wesley.

Rev. Keith Garner was inducted as Wesley Mission's ninth Superintendent on Sunday, 5 February 2006. Read More

A native of the Bolton and Rochdale District, Keith was brought into the Christian faith through Methodist youth work.

Between 1977 and 1980 he was a student at Wesley College, Bristol. He began his ministry at Plymouth Central Hall and in 1983 became the minister of Elm Ridge in Darlington, where the church underwent a remarkable period of growth.

Best known as an inspiring and gifted preacher, he has preached throughout the world - in Africa, Iceland, across Europe, the United States of America, the Far East, Burma and India.

Keith has a vision for the church and is a hands-on worker who uses organisational skills alongside an ability to delegate. His interests include travel, community involvement and sport. He is a former chaplain to the Bolton Wanderers Football Club.

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