Lewis Allen pastored Gunnersbury Baptist Church in London for over twelve years, and in 2010 was called to plant what is now Hope Church in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, where he is now Senior Pastor. Lewis has degrees in Classics and Theology and Historical Theology from Cambridge University and Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and is pursuing a doctoral degree through Oxford University, researching Henry Venn of Huddersfield and Eighteenth Century Yorkshire Evangelicalism. He has published with Crossway Books as well as with the Banner of Truth. In his spare time Lewis loves fly-fishing and running.
He and his wife Sarah have five children.