Ian Mobsby has over 10 years of experience working as a lay pioneer/missioner, and over 20 years as an ordained missioner/pioneer practitioner, particularly with missional forms of new monastic communities and the renewal of parishes as mixed ecology contexts of the experimental alongside the traditional. Ian has lectured and spoken around various parts of the Anglican Communion in the USA, Canada, the UK & Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He has written a number of books on aspects of contemporary mission and spirituality, and recently completed a research PhD part exploration of the 'Spiritual But Not Religious' part theological response exploring a particular contemplative model of mission. A book was published in January 2025.

Ian was awarded the St Dunstan's medal by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2019 for services to the church in developing new forms of religious/spiritual communities, and in 2022 was made the Canon for Mission Theology in the Diocese of Niagara in Canada. In 2023, Ian moved to Canada to take up the senior position as the Community Missioner working directly to the Bishop of Niagara to develop mission and missional communities. Ian continues his work as a chapter member of the international new monastic Society of the Holy Trinity and as a Trustee of the St Anselm Community in Lambeth Palace and as a member of the Church of England's College of Bishop’s Advisory Council for the relations of Diocesan Bishops and Religious Communities.