About Elior
(Elior is a modern Hebrew name that means ‘God is my Light’)
A Partnership Rooted in Faith, Service & Love for the Local Church
Elior Church Growth Partnership was born out of a shared conviction held by Michael and Rosie Hardie: the local church is the hope of the world—a relevant, trusted, and available presence in a changing society, called to introduce people to Jesus, make disciples, and offer connection, hope, and belonging amid today’s challenges.
Elior exists to walk alongside churches, helping discern God’s leading, strengthen culture, and grow disciples across generations.
Connecting with the community lies at the heart of the church. Walking with a trusted partner helps reaffirm that calling, bringing clarity, confidence, and focused steps that strengthen relationships, deepen belonging, and enable growth for the season ahead.
Who we are
Michael and Rosie Hardie have spent decades embedded in the life and leadership of the local church. Their experience encompasses the everyday realities that shape healthy church life: building and supporting teams, walking alongside leaders, nurturing families, navigating seasons of change, and committing to communities over the long term.
Together, they have been involved across worship, leadership development, mission, pastoral care, youth work, and community engagement — as well as the unseen, often uncelebrated work that sustains church life week by week. Along the way, they have known both seasons of growth and seasons of challenge, giving them a deep empathy for the pressures, complexities, and responsibilities carried by church leaders and congregations today.
In more recent years, Michael’s role with The Leprosy Mission took him into churches across the UK, spanning a wide range of traditions, sizes, and contexts. Speaking regularly and building trusted relationships with local leaders gave him a broad, ground-level understanding of the diverse realities facing churches today.
Across these experiences, a consistent theme emerged: many churches deeply love their communities and long to see people come to know Jesus and grow as disciples, yet often feel stretched, uncertain, or unsure how to translate vision into sustainable, life-giving practice.
It was through listening carefully to these stories, praying with leaders, and reflecting together that the early seeds of Elior were formed.
Professional Experience
Elior draws on Michael and Rosie’s professional experience, bringing practical strategy and effective involvement in church life.
Michael brings many years of business leadership alongside extensive involvement in church life. Having led organisations through growth, change, and transition — and, more recently, completed an Executive MBA — he offers a thoughtful blend of strategic insight and practical experience. His passion is helping churches clarify their calling, make sense of complexity, and take confident, realistic steps forward, aligning vision, people, culture, and structure in ways that are faithful, sustainable, and right for the season they are in.
Rosie brings a deeply relational, pastoral, and grounding presence, shaped by long-standing involvement in church life and a clear sense of God’s calling to see care transformed within the older generation. Through her career in nursing and nursing home management, she has been deeply impacted by the number of older people living with loneliness, complex health challenges, and end-of-life realities — often without meaningful relationships, spiritual support, or the hope of Jesus, and with no one to walk alongside them in those seasons. This experience has formed a profound sensitivity to vulnerability, dignity, and the sacredness of later life. It fuels her desire to see churches become places of genuine belonging, compassionate care, and spiritual nurture across generations.
Together, they bring complementary strengths that serve the whole life of the church:
discernment and vision
practical strategy and implementation
pastoral care and relational insight
leadership that serves rather than dominates
healthy structure that supports nurture and growth
They believe healthy church growth is not driven by programmes alone, but grows out of culture, relationships, discipleship, and a shared, well-held sense of mission — lived out faithfully, patiently, and across generations.
Our Approach
At the heart of Elior is a simple conviction:
If the local church is the hope of the world, then strategy isn’t optional — it’s stewardship.
Everything we do is rooted in prayer, grounded in Scripture, and shaped by careful listening.
We work with confidentiality and sensitivity, honouring local leadership, context, and capacity.
Centred on Jesus.
We walk at your pace.
We honour your story.
We partner, because we care.
Our Invitation
If you are leading a church and carrying the weight of vision, change, or growth — you are not alone.
Elior exists to come alongside you with care, wisdom, and encouragement, helping you discern the next faithful step God is inviting your church to take.