Rev. John Haley was appointed minister of Ridgeway Methodist Church in September 2002. After graduating in law at Leicester Polytechnic, John offered for the Methodist ministry, was trained at Wesley College, Bristol, and ordained in 1985. Before moving to Plympton, John had served Methodist Churches in Mitcham (Surrey), St Agnes (Cornwall), Barry (South Wales) and Inverness (Scotland). John is a personal member of the Evangelical Alliance, Methodist Evangelicals Together (formerly Headway) and the Wesley Fellowship, and supports the work of the Peninsula Gospel Partnership. He is honorary research fellow at the University of Wales, Bangor. John believes in the importance of teaching the Bible and blending the traditional and the contemporary in worship. John is married with four children. His hobbies include football and music.

John has published four books and contributed to one journal article:

• Foundations of our Faith: A Methodist Perspective, Blackwater, Teagle Print (1993); no longer in print but an edited version is available on our website.
• John Wesley, The Means of Grace and the Holy Life Today, Lutterworth, Wesley Fellowship (2003); available from the Wesley Fellowship or through Ridgeway Methodist Church office.
• 'A Little Body of Experimental and Practical Divinity': Hymns in the Wesleyan-Arminian Tradition, Lutterworth, Wesley Fellowship (2005); available from the Wesley Fellowship or through Ridgeway Methodist Church office.
• British Methodism: What Circuit Ministers Really Think (with Leslie J. Francis), Peterborough, Epworth Press (2006); available from Methodist Publishing House.
• The personality characteristics of Methodist ministers: feminine men and masculine women? (M. Robbins, L.J. Francis, J.M. Haley and W.K. Kay); Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40, 123-128, (2001).