Who are we?

Gerard and Chrissie Kelly founded The Bless Network in 2003. Together they lead Bless Church and teach the Seven Stories School which is a culmination of their learnings and experience from over 30 years of church leadership and teaching in the UK, The Netherlands and France.

Chrissie heads up SOS Chai and you can follow her updates on her instagram @chrissiebless. Gerard is a writer and has published several books on prayer, church and mission. You can buy his latest collection of poems plus ‘The Seven Stories that Shape your Life’ here.

Gerard & Chrissie Kelly

Founders of Bless

The UK team

The French team

The Dutch team

The business network

The Business Network is a group of businesses who were started and are run by members of Bless’ community. We keep in touch and support each other however we can!

  • Hope Gwilliam & Becky Rawlins are based in Shropshire, UK where together they run eco-friendly screen printing business, Hopefully Made, producing beautiful hand-illustrated and thoughtfully designed products including prints, t-shirts, tote bags, postcards and of course our annual round of Bless merchandise. They have a passion for the environment, people and creativity.

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  • Mylene and Stephanie Crocquevieille run Keys & Co, a coffee shop in the centre of Caen, bringing good coffee, good food and great company to the city. They bring flavours of their home country, New Zealand, to the town of Caen.

    Over the years Keys has been a gathering place for church, a meeting point for SOS Chai volunteers and a wonderful reminder of all that God is doing in the city of Caen - no visit to Bless is complete until you’ve been for brunch.

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  • Tim and Jane Rocke opened L’Orangerie de Beauregard for its first season in 2018 and it has since been included in the Guardian’s top 20 campsites in Europe. The site is ideally placed on the pilgrimage route of St Jacques in the beautiful Loire Valley near Tours and the Rockes host Blesstival there each year as well as regular prayer gatherings in the on-site chapel.

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