About

I help churches grow disciples who make disciples.

I’m Mack Deptula, a pastor in the Church of England. I serve as Minister of St Peter and St Paul, Fareham, and Associate Minister at St John’s Fareham, in the south of England.

Mack Deptula

How I got here

I grew up in Gdańsk, Poland, and came to England in 2012 with very little English and an almost empty wallet. A Christian bookshop in Leicester, and the friendship of its manager, had one of the biggest influences on my life.

At thirty I spent a year as a ministry intern at St John’s Clarendon Park in Leicester, running Alpha, leading small groups and helping to plan its future as a resource church. That year confirmed a call to ordained ministry.

I trained at St Mellitus College from 2019 to 2023, studying Theology, Ministry and Mission. Alongside my studies I worked for CCX, the Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication, led by Bishop Ric Thorpe. When the first lockdown arrived days after I joined, I took on the technical delivery of the MultiplyX conference, moving it online. Nearly 3,000 people joined online. I then helped build CCX.media, an online library of courses on church growth and church planting.

From 2021 to 2023 I served as small groups pastor at St Barnabas in North London. Altogether I’ve started, led and handed on ten small groups. Through them around twenty people have given their lives to Jesus, and about ten have moved on towards full-time ministry. I’ve also run around eight Alpha courses so far.

I was ordained in 2023 and spent my initial ministerial training at St Andrew’s Exwick in Exeter. I arrived to find a congregation of 12 to 15 people, few resources and no team. When I left, it was a community of around 60 with an established team. In June 2026 I was licensed to St Peter and St Paul, Fareham.

What I believe

I’m a Reformed evangelical Anglican. I hold to the historic creeds and receive the Thirty-Nine Articles and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer as faithful guides to the gospel and to the life of the church. I wrote a course introducing the Articles to church members, because I’ve seen how much clarity and confidence they give ordinary Christians.

I believe the Bible is God’s word and our final authority, that we are saved by grace alone through faith in Christ alone, and that every Christian is called to make disciples. In every diocese where I have served I have been a member of the Evangelical Alliance.

The writers who shaped me most are John Stott, J. I. Packer, J. C. Ryle, C. S. Lewis, George Whitefield, John Wesley and Nicky Gumbel. I count many of them as spiritual fathers, including where I would put some things differently. Even more than them, the missionaries whose lives are told in YWAM’s Christian Heroes books taught me what prayer, sacrifice and perseverance look like in practice.

What I give my time to

My aim in ministry is simple to say and takes a lifetime to do: make disciples, develop leaders, and build churches that plant churches. In practice that means preaching and teaching the Bible clearly, building small groups that multiply, raising up leaders and handing ministry on, and helping tired or small churches find their confidence again.

A big part of my work is helping churches use technology for mission and growth. Before ordination I worked in digital marketing, and I’ve used those skills ever since: taking the MultiplyX conference online at CCX, and designing and building websites for ministries such as The 39 Course and The Crew.

In brief

2026
Minister, St Peter and St Paul, Fareham, and Associate Minister, St John’s Fareham
2023–2026
Initial ministerial training, St Andrew’s Exwick, Exeter
2023
Ordained in the Church of England
2021–2023
Small groups pastor, St Barnabas, North London
2020–2021
CCX, the Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication: MultiplyX conferences and CCX.media
2019–2023
St Mellitus College: degree in Theology, Ministry and Mission
2018–2019
Ministry internship, St John’s Clarendon Park, Leicester

Get in touch

Whether it’s an invitation to speak, a conversation about ministry or a question about something I’ve written, I’m glad to hear from you.