Ilse Gainsford is a minister-in-training in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. She is passionate about diversity, inclusion, flourishing, and ministries that affirm the inherent dignity and sacred worth of all. She is academically trained in the intersections of gender, religion, health, Christian leadership, practical theology, and youth ministry, and is always on the lookout to partner with organizations and ministries that seek to address issues that are life-denying toward their transformation into life-affirming spaces.