Twenty-one days and counting down from Monday, Feba UK’s new Chief Executive is due to begin work at the Worthing office. You may be wondering, who is Jonathan Frank? Gill Knowles, Communications Manager, talked with him recently about his faith, his family and his future with Feba UK.

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Q: So tell us, what does a chief executive do?
A: Well, that’s a good question. Perhaps you ought to come back in 6 months and ask the question again! I see my role very much as one of leading a great bunch of talented people to help the whole of this organisation to be even more effective, even more focused about where it’s going and what it’s doing. My approach in the early days is one of listening and finding out what’s going on and learning from people’s experience here, of which there is a massive amount. I particularly want to ask lots of difficult questions because I think it is really important that as we move forward we do a lot of good quality thinking as well as action and making things happen.

Q: I guess that, as Chief Executive, there’s budgets, management meetings, significant decisions to be made, how does your faith help you approach such tasks?
A: Well I think my faith underlies everything that I am and everything that I do. Obviously for all of us, our faith has made us the people that we are today and I think for me two aspects of my character that are very much influenced by my faith are my focus on people and how important people are in how I make decisions and how I work; and also the sense of how important it is to have integrity and to be someone that other people can trust. Both of those things come directly out of my faith in Christ and the work that he has been doing in me over the years.

Q: So how did you come to faith and what is your experience of faith?
A: Well, I was brought up in a Christian family and a family of believers, so I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love Jesus and when I didn’t see myself as following him. Obviously there have been steps along the way, where that has deepened and developed, sometimes just bit by bit and sometimes significant events such as my confirmation in my early teens and Billy Graham’s Mission England rallies a couple of years later, but I think generally my relationships with Christian friends, my participation in things that were happening at church in youth groups, in university CUs and then in church life as an adult, have all just been steps that have built on those foundations as when I was a child.

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Read previous newsbrief, Feba UK Appoints New Chief Executive.