Who are we?
In 1981 four families from the American Church in London wanted to start a mission church in Surrey. It was named the American Community Church and 'incorporated' in Delaware. To reflect changes in membership and to make all nationalities welcome the name was changed to the International Community Church in 1988.
The current makeup of the church is mostly North American English; European, Australian and South African members make up a small but growing percentage of the church. The congregation has grown to about 150 families despite the fact that 30% of our members are transferred every year. Many church denominations are represented: Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, Catholic, Episcopalian, Southern Baptist, Bible Church, Assemblies of God, Disciples of Christ, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Church of England, Church of Christ, UCC and others.
Staff Information
The church staff manage most of the day-to-day operations for the church and train and resource the volunteers. According to our church bylaws, all pastoral staff members shall be regularly ordained Protestant clergy of an established denomination. As such, our pastors are accountable for their conduct and ministry to their denomination of ordination.
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Pastor - Rev. Dr. Barry Gaeddert |
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Barry Gaeddert - Pastor 
Dr. Barry Gaeddert comes to the congregation from the Bonhomme Presbyterian Church in
Dr. Gaeddert holds degrees from the
He and his wife Suzy have two sons, Zachary and Micah.
Barry can be contacted via: email or at 01372 841720
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Chris Yorks (MM) - Worship Director 
Chris spent his formative years in Berwick, Pennsylvania then majored in Music and graduated with a BA in music from the
University of Cincinnati, Conservatory of Music. From there he pursued a fulltime career in church music.
He served at Zion Lutheran Church, The United Church of Christ, and Northminster Presbyterian Church. Chris then entered Westminster Choir College at Princeton, New Jersey while also serving as choir director at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Springfield New Jersey.
It was there that he met his lovely wife, Barbara. They married in April 1994 and moved to England in the autumn of 1994.
Chris then served at All Saints Church, Chigwell Row, Essex and City Temple, London before settling at ICC in 1996. He and
Barbara live in Chigwell Row, Essex.
Chris can be contacted via: email or at 01372 841720
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Matt Blair - Assistant Worship Director
Matt hails orginally from the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to England with his family in 1995 where he finished high school. After graduating from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and performing in film and theatre throughout Britian for the last four years he found himself called to use his musical and dramatic gifts for the ministry of ICC. When he's not banging out chord progressions on his guitar in the church office he's probably on the phone to his lovely English lass, Verity. God bless mobile phone technology.
Matt can be contacted via: email or at 01372 841720
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Kerryn Bullough - Youth Intern
Kerryn and her husband, James, moved to England in January 2007 from South Africa, which has always been their home, to teach. Kerryn has always had a love for children and a passion to work with them. She worked as a remedial teacher while studying, where she thoroughly enjoyed helping kids through their difficulties.
Kerryn was very involved in the children’s ministry in their home church on a volunteer basis and so when they began attending ICC, she looked for ways in which to serve with the youth. Through an amazing series of events, she became part of the ICC team in August 2007, where she works full time with the youth. She is very excited about this new adventure that God has led her into and looks forward to building relationships with the youth and their families and encouraging them in their relationships with Jesus.
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Michelle Loubser - Director of Family Ministries
Michelle – a passionate, British born but mostly South African matured, trained teacher who just has a heart for children and people 
– has joined the full time team of ICC. Her responsibilities include running the different children’s programmes of the Church. With her extensive teacher training and experience and her love for God, she hopes to be an effective vessel through which the Holy Spirit can work, bringing growth, understanding and greater knowledge of God and His love to the children and families of ICC. Her experience of teaching children has gone from teaching poor, underprivileged children in
Michelle can be contacted via: email or at 01372 841720
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Suzy Gaeddert - Director, Women's Ministries & Outreach
Suzy's greatest joy is watching God at work in the lives of individuals to give them healing, hope, peace and purpose! In her 20+ years of ministry, Suzy has seen that happen often in the lives of youth, college students, and adults as she has served on the staff of churches, a Christian college and also as a campus minister in LA, Kansas, St. Louis. Suzy has a Masters of Divinity Degree from Fuller Theological Seminary (where Barry met her!) and especially loves international and interdenominational ministries. Suzy grew up as an expat in Saudi Arabia and loves Great Britain. God has already brought Suzy to the UK many times---as a university student at St. Andrews as well as to connect with other Alpha advisors at Holy Trinity Brompton in London. Suzy has said she is thrilled to join the ICC staff as they are also passionate about ministry and are a great team. You can find Suzy at the Weybridge Starbucks every Friday where she loves to meet the locals and help subsidize for her family's cravings for everything in the shop. Suzy is always available to meet YOU for a cup of coffee at any Starbucks if you would like get together with her. Just give her a call at 07990911134 or send her an email.
Carole Ford - Church Administrator
Carole has lived in Surrey, never straying far from her roots or family. She went to Brooklands Technical College in Weybridge and obtained a Private Secretarial Diploma. Her background is administration/personnel and accounts. Before joining ICC, Carole worked for five years at a girls' independent school in Ashtead which sadly closed in July 2006. This was a small community which allowed Carole to provide administrative and pastoral support to staff and children.
Carole has lived in Leatherhead now for 11 years with her husband Carl and her daughter, Hannah. Carole joined ICC in September 2006.
Carole can be contacted via: email or at 01372 841720
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Vicky Cannings - Financial Administrator
Vicky has worked at ICC over the past 5 years, gradually assuming more responsibility for the accounts management side of the church. Vicky grew up in
Vicky can be contacted via: email or at 01372 841720
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