About the Author

Jill Weber is a pilgrim, spiritual director, writer, musician, wife and mother, who has brought leadership to communities of prayer, mission and justice for the last eighteen years. She serves on the international leadership team of 24-7 Prayer UK as Director of Houses of Prayer and is Director of Spiritual Formation at Emmaus Road Church in Guildford, UK. She is also the Global Convenor of the Order of the Mustard Seed, an international lay, ecumenical religious order. In 2001, alongside her husband Kirk, she co-founded the Greater Ontario House of Prayer in Canada, and served as it's Abbess for 17 years. She and her team of urban missionaries explored the ancient monastic practices through the cultivation of ecumenical prayer spaces, intentional communities, leadership development and missional partnerships.