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CCX appoints H Miller as Executive Director
H Miller shares his excitement for the role CCX can play in equipping the Church in a season of growth and multiplication.
CCX is announcing the appointment of H Miller as its new Executive Director. H takes the role after 10 years with CCX, helping found the organisation alongside Ric Thorpe, Bishop of Islington, and most recently serving as its Chief of Staff.
In May 2025, Bishop Ric was elected to the role of Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia. He will resign as the Bishop of Islington and step down from his leadership role at CCX as he moves to Melbourne with his wife, Louie, later this year, but will continue to sit on the board of CCX. After prayerful discernment, the CCX board was delighted to appoint H to the role of Executive Director.
‘I’m very excited about the challenge that lies ahead in my new role,’ said Bishop Ric. ‘There are so many exciting things going on in the Church across the country, but I leave with a confidence that in H, CCX has a superb new leader who will help support anyone who shares a vision to reach new people in new and renewed ways with the love of Christ. He brings over three decades of church planting and multiplication experience, and has been with CCX since we started the centre over ten years ago.’
Prior to moving to the UK to work alongside Bishop Ric, H worked across North America in a range of church planting and growth roles. He first trained as an architect at the University of Southern California, before sensing a call to full time ministry.
Throughout his theological education and early work with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), H recognised a common theme of reaching new people with new and renewed activity, from starting new services to planting worshipping communities, drawing on his architectural craft.
‘Ultimately, architecture is about problem solving; you’re given a set of constraints that you have to work in, and there are multiple approaches to achieving a solution. A way in which I’ve developed as a leader is to bring a strategic, architectural eye to problems, to help individuals and organisations find the best solutions that enable them to live into God’s call on them.’
‘We have a conviction that multiplication is scriptural,’ says H. ‘Right now at CCX, we are applying our own teaching to ourselves, asking what it looks like for CCX to be in a place of true multiplication. Part of that is giving more and more away, giving out from ourselves, equipping others with our resources and courses so they can apply it to their contexts. We’re entrusting what we’ve been given to other people, and equipping them to run with it. I believe that we achieve far more when we’re not concerned with who gets the credit.’
After a period of financial challenge experienced by many UK charities, CCX is now entering an exciting new season. Partnerships are growing with a wide range of church networks and denominations, equipping others to multiply using CCX courses and resources in their own contexts. The ‘Quiet Revival’ experienced across the UK is resulting in many seeking strategic support to grow and plant to meet new opportunities. While the vision of CCX remains the same – to help the Church reach new people in new and renewed ways with the love of Jesus – H is hopeful about the new opportunities of this season.
‘The fundamental question we ask the Church is, “Who is it we’re not reaching with the love of Christ, and what would it take to reach them?” What’s standing in the way, or what might we do differently to reach them?
‘CCX exists for the whole Church, and I believe that church planting is for the whole Church. We have an unchanging gospel, but how it interacts with a changing world requires us to adapt, to try new things in order to connect with the people that God’s placed around us. We serve a God who is creator, and he’s given us the gift of being creative. I believe part of that creativity is expressed in engaging in new mission and ministry, and renewing existing ministry. And so this creative action of the Creator God is at work in His church, and is at work in the culture around us.’
To find out how CCX can support you, get in touch with us at hello@ccx.org.uk, or explore our resources for church growth, church planting, estates ministry and pioneering.
