Paul Cowley served in the army for seventeen years before becoming an ordained minister in the Church of England. He is on the leadership team at Holy Trinity Brompton and founded the charity Caring for Ex-Offenders. He has twenty years' experience of working with people inside and outside prison and with socially excluded and vulnerable adults. Paul is Bishops' Advisor to Prisons in London and in 2015 was awarded the MBE for Services to Ex-offenders.

Amanda Cowley worked in television for nearly ten years. She went on to produce a short documentary about men in prison finding faith in God. A landscape painter and writer, she has exhibited paintings in several London galleries and is in the process of completing a novel. She is involved with her husband in ministering to the people of an estate church in North Kensington.