This workshop will look at developing a toolbox of strategies for you to use with children with special needs.

Natalie is a paediatric Occupational Therapist who works with children with a variety of special needs.

How can we as ministry leaders support families as they nurture their children's faith?

Jillian is a wife and mother with 2 young adult children. Jillian has been passionate about bringing generations together and resourcing households with faith materials for many years. Jillian has been involved in Children and Families Ministry both as a volunteer and paid worker for about 30 years.

Children and youth who are part of the wider faith community are more likely to feel a part of their faith community. Come along to hear more about doing ministry across the generations.

Jillian is a wife and mother with 2 young adult children. Jillian has been passionate about bringing generations together and resourcing households with faith materials for many years. Jillian has been involved in Children and Families Ministry both as a volunteer and paid worker for about 30 years.

A practical look at script writing, filming and editing amazing videos to help disciple kids when they're at home.

Steve has been a Youth and Kids ministry worker at his church for 17 years and also a School Chaplain at a Primary school for 12 years.

Visual, creative, exciting ideas to encourage your children to pray. Fun and effective ideas for families, church, RE, camps, bringing an understanding and acceptance of prayer into their everyday experience.

Judy has previous experience of 20 years as a Children`s Ministry Leader/Pastor including overseas training of children`s ministry workers, a valued team member on various mission trips connected with children & prayer. Also worked as a Teacher Aide with Special Needs children. Currently conducts workshops on encouraging and inspiring children to pray. Her passion is children, prayer & mission, which has enabled her to be involved with praying children around the globe!

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Karen is the State Chair of the Qld Christian RI Network (QCRIN) and sits on the Department of Education's RI Quality Assurance Advisory Group. Karen is a current RI Coordinator and Instructor and loves working alongside other Coordinators and Instructors across Queensland.

This elective will explore gender ID issues and young people – the research, the at-risk factors and the components of an effective pastoral response.

Meryem and Greg conduct a counselling service and have worked with clients and family members affected by gender ID issues. They are often invited to present workshops on relationship issues including aspects of sexuality.

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the 'why' we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Bethany is the Early Years Pastor at Gateway Baptist and works as a Children’s and Ministry Chaplain in a number of early learning centres across Queensland.

Visual, creative, exciting ideas to encourage your children to pray. Fun and effective ideas for families, church, RE, camps, bringing an understanding and acceptance of prayer into their everyday experience.

Judy has previous experience of 20 years as a Children`s Ministry Leader/Pastor including overseas training of children`s ministry workers, a valued team member on various mission trips connected with children & prayer. She also worked as a Teacher Aide with Special Needs children. Currently conducts workshops on encouraging and inspiring children to pray. Her passion is children, prayer & mission, which has enabled her to be involved with praying children around the globe!

With current data telling us that the Western church has been losing more than 50% of young people every year from the church and the Christian faith, there is an urgent need to rethink how we are outworking Jesus’ final command to ‘go and make disciples’. Come and explore 2 foundational principles and 8 key pillars that will help to shape a long term discipling strategy for the children and young people in your context.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

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Tracy is the Families Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church. She has been passionate about kids ministry for over 20 years and loves partnering with parents as they raise a generation of kids who love Jesus.

‘Unpacking a Sunday’ is a session where  we walk through each part of a Sunday from Team meeting - Set up - Check in - Hang time - Praise and worship - Big and small group teaching time - Games and the atmospheres.

Andy & Christie Kirk have been innovating and changing the landscape of Children’s Ministry for over 17 years together. From leading locally in churches, overseeing Multi-site Ministries, and years of Mentoring and Consulting into churches, their experience and knowledge of Kids Ministry is extensive. They are passionate about empowering and equipping people to live out all they were created to do matching people’s potential with God possibilities.

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For more than 35 years, Wendy’s been involved in children’s ministry in different parts of the world with Scripture Union and other agencies.

"Life is Intergenerational; anyone telling you different is selling you something!"  I am sure this is what the Dread Pirate Roberts said to Buttercup.  Come and ask the question "Why Intergenerational?" Is this just another ministry fad that will be short lived? Or just come and find out who the Dread Pirate Roberts is!

Michael Stalley is a Priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Queensland. Over 20 years he has led contemporary and traditional churches, urban and rural, through loss and new beginnings.  He has a particular interest in being part of communities in which all can find a valued place to belong, grow and contribute.  In recent years, Michael has completed the "Certificate in Lifelong Faith Formation" through the Vibrant Faith Institute as well as attending the International Intergenerate conference in 2019.  Michael has participated in the Australian Intergeneration Round Table (AIR 2019 and 2020) and is on the Intergenerate Australia planning team.  Michael believes "The Princess Bride" can be useful somehow in all circumstances!

How can you hold an audience without a rope? Come and discover the key elements in the art of storytelling that will help to connect with your audience, maintain their attention and create a special space for God to touch people’s hearts and minds. Such is the power of story and it is as easy as A, B, C & D.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.
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Understanding some of the factors that cause behaviour is a beginning step in shaping appropriate response strategies for helping children to manage their behaviour and keep you in control. Practical components of the session include some first step strategies, preparatory checklists and a 10 Point Discipline Plan to help you help a child to navigate through their challenging behaviours to bring positive results.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

“Why didn’t God stop the tsunami?”, “Why did God let my mum die?” These big questions are just a sample of the many questions that children ask and need to find some answers for as they struggle to make sense of life and faith. How we respond and journey with children in the conversations that follow is of vital importance for children to grow in their understanding of God and their own faith.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

So you find yourself with a young but passionate bunch of volunteers. How do you develop them into more competent and more capable leaders that will support and then out-lead you? How do you make them into a team that is humming along and kicking goals? In this session we’ll discover some ways to intentionally develop your team in a Christ-like way.

Brad Case is the Connection Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church and loves to see young emerging leaders cultivate healthy spiritual foundations to flourish in lifelong ministry. Brad has been a school chaplain, youth and children’s pastor and QLD State Director for Generations ministry, long time SU Qld camps director and has even written a children’s book. He is married to Mercy and together they are always making travel plans. He enjoys all kinds of sport and music, breaking out his saxophone whenever possible.

The success of any ministry relies heavily on the health of the leadership team. There are many challenges to maintaining a healthy team. Everything from taking the right steps to form a team through to keeping a team focused, motivated and passionate over the long run. This elective will give you practical insight and tips into starting a team well and maintaining the health of a team over many years so that your ministry will last and have true kingdom impact.

Tom has been leading teams of people involved in youth and young adult ministry for almost 20 years. From state wide events to small one off teams to long running ministries, he has successfully built and led teams for a huge variety of purposes.

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Jim Schirmer is a counsellor, educator, church re-former and spiritual mentor who has worked with youth and young adults for over 15 years. He is the author of 'The Way of the Rabbi: Stories of Discipleship from the Gospel of Mark' (Morning Star Publishing).

Jesus was good with outsiders. He seemed to like and know how to engage really well with those who were different. And his time with them was often life-changing. Our modern society however struggles with differences. We live most comfortably in our own social, cultural, faith or social media bubble, and experience frustration that others can be so wrong. In this session we will explore the rich benefits of connection with, talking with, and nurturing healthy relationships with those of a different faith or culture.  You will gain practical help in building stronger communities, one chat at a time.

Tim Fawssett looks after Cross-Cultural Innovations at Scripture Union. From 2010-2017 he led a ministry called The Feast in multicultural Birmingham, England, helping equip Christian young people to engage with, love and share their faith with others of different faiths and cultures. Now Tim is taking this experience of vibrant engagement with “others” and exploring how it can inform and enrich ministry with SU and the local church.

Designed for first time school-aged leaders at AMPLIFY 

These 3 sessions will give insight into the value of their role as a leader with children and youth as well as practical strategies to use immediately! 

• How children and young people learn: Switching young people on to learning using Jesus' simple methods. 
• Teachable Moments: Together we will identify and learn how to use those precious times when young people are open, willing, and ready to discover: matching teachable moments with our understanding of the Bible and our journey as a disciple.
• Learning through games: Fun ways to raise curiosity and awareness, a practical session of game and debrief design!

Jane is a qualified High School teacher and has been active in full-time ministry with children and training leaders for over 30 years. She got her start as a brand-new Christian at 14, when her mentors encouraged her to lead. Today working with Logosdor to help churches and families make disciples among children and teach children to make disciples! 

Jane is deeply committed to helping people meet their potential and she loves training and facilitating indigenous creative workshops so that more resources can be produced to serve the unique needs of the kingdom anywhere in the world. She has facilitated Writing and Creative workshops in Australia, Hong Kong, the Pacific, Middle East, Central America, Russia, and global workshops in the US.

She is involved in the development and distribution of ministry resources via the Max7 website and strategic community; has served in the Australian Bible Society as a children’s field worker, and commissioning editor in their Publishing team, facilitating the creation of The BIG Rescue Bible. She’s been a puppeteer in Australian TV and a couple of films and ads, and is currently building skills as a camera operator. She teaches children at her local church, mentors new Christians and young leaders, and LOVES being involved in holiday programs that reach out to the wider community.

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the 'why' we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Bethany is the Early Years Pastor at Gateway Baptist and works as a Children’s and Ministry Chaplain in a number of early learning centres across Queensland.

This workshop will look at developing a toolbox of strategies for you to use with children with special needs (diagnosed or otherwise). We will look at the main reasons children may have difficulties accessing the curriculum and what strategies we can have in our toolbox to effectively include them in our program.

Natalie is a paediatric Occupational Therapist who works with children with a variety of special needs.

Visual, creative, exciting ideas to encourage your children to pray. Fun and effective ideas for families, church, RE, camps, bringing an understanding and acceptance of prayer into their everyday experience.

Judy has previous experience of 20 years as a Children`s Ministry Leader/Pastor including overseas training of children`s ministry workers, a valued team member on various mission trips connected with children & prayer. She also worked as a Teacher Aide with Special Needs children. Currently conducts workshops on encouraging and inspiring children to pray. Her passion is children, prayer & mission, which has enabled her to be involved with praying children around the globe!

With current data telling us that the Western church has been losing more than 50% of young people every year from the church and the Christian faith, there is an urgent need to rethink how we are outworking Jesus’ final command to ‘go and make disciples’. Come and explore 2 foundational principles and 8 key pillars that will help to shape a long term discipling strategy for the children and young people in your context.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

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Tracy is the Families Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church. She has been passionate about kids ministry for over 20 years and loves partnering with parents as they raise a generation of kids who love Jesus.

"In summing up, it’s the constitution, it’s Mabo, it’s justice, it’s law, it’s the vibe, and … no, that’s it … it’s the vibe. I rest my case.” The Castle, 1997

Often the emphasis of leadership is recruiting & training a team, and setting strategies & goals towards a vision of ministry & mission. As important as that is, that’s only part of the picture. This session will emphasise the need to attend to ‘the culture’ or ‘the vibe’ of your ministry or mission team. There are at least nine aspects to this and we will set ourselves a direction to explore them all!

Phil has 40+ years of experience of ministry in a variety of teaching, leadership, ministry and consultancy roles … roles to do with everything from urban and beach missions, camps, schools ministry, a large regional church, small country and urban churches, national conferences, CRE, MOPS, play groups, and kindergartens. Oh, and setting ’the vibe' in his family is some of his best work.

‘Unpacking a Sunday’ is a session where  we walk through each part of a Sunday from Team meeting - Set up - Check in - Hang time - Praise and worship - Big and small group teaching time - Games and the atmospheres.

Andy & Christie Kirk have been innovating and changing the landscape of Children’s Ministry for over 17 years together. From leading locally in churches, overseeing Multi-site Ministries, and years of Mentoring and Consulting into churches, their experience and knowledge of Kids Ministry is extensive. They are passionate about empowering and equipping people to live out all they were created to do matching people’s potential with God possibilities.

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For more than 35 years, Wendy’s been involved in children’s ministry in different parts of the world with Scripture Union and other agencies.

How can you hold an audience without a rope? Come and discover the key elements in the art of storytelling that will help to connect with your audience, maintain their attention and create a special space for God to touch people’s hearts and minds. Such is the power of story and it is as easy as A, B, C & D.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.
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Understanding some of the factors that cause behaviour is a beginning step in shaping appropriate response strategies for helping children to manage their behaviour and keep you in control. Practical components of the session include some first step strategies, preparatory checklists and a 10 Point Discipline Plan to help you help a child to navigate through their challenging behaviours to bring positive results.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

“Why didn’t God stop the tsunami?”, “Why did God let my mum die?” These big questions are just a sample of the many questions that children ask and need to find some answers for as they struggle to make sense of life and faith. How we respond and journey with children in the conversations that follow is of vital importance for children to grow in their understanding of God and their own faith.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

The success of any ministry relies heavily on the health of the leadership team. There are many challenges to maintaining a healthy team. Everything from taking the right steps to form a team through to keeping a team focused, motivated and passionate over the long run. This elective will give you practical insight and tips into starting a team well and maintaining the health of a team over many years so that your ministry will last and have true kingdom impact.

Tom has been leading teams of people involved in youth and young adult ministry for almost 20 years. From state wide events to small one off teams to long running ministries, he has successfully built and led teams for a huge variety of purposes.

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Jim Schirmer is a counsellor, educator, church re-former and spiritual mentor who has worked with youth and young adults for over 15 years. He is the author of 'The Way of the Rabbi: Stories of Discipleship from the Gospel of Mark' (Morning Star Publishing).

Jesus was good with outsiders. He seemed to like and know how to engage really well with those who were different. And his time with them was often life-changing. Our modern society however struggles with differences. We live most comfortably in our own social, cultural, faith or social media bubble, and experience frustration that others can be so wrong. In this session we will explore the rich benefits of connection with, talking with, and nurturing healthy relationships with those of a different faith or culture.  You will gain practical help in building stronger communities, one chat at a time.

Tim Fawssett looks after Cross-Cultural Innovations at Scripture Union. From 2010-2017 he led a ministry called The Feast in multicultural Birmingham, England, helping equip Christian young people to engage with, love and share their faith with others of different faiths and cultures. Now Tim is taking this experience of vibrant engagement with “others” and exploring how it can inform and enrich ministry with SU and the local church.

Designed for first time school-aged leaders at AMPLIFY 

These 3 sessions will give insight into the value of their role as a leader with children and youth as well as practical strategies to use immediately! 

• How children and young people learn: Switching young people on to learning using Jesus' simple methods. 
• Teachable Moments: Together we will identify and learn how to use those precious times when young people are open, willing, and ready to discover: matching teachable moments with our understanding of the Bible and our journey as a disciple.
• Learning through games: Fun ways to raise curiosity and awareness, a practical session of game and debrief design!

Jane is a qualified High School teacher and has been active in full-time ministry with children and training leaders for over 30 years. She got her start as a brand-new Christian at 14, when her mentors encouraged her to lead. Today working with Logosdor to help churches and families make disciples among children and teach children to make disciples! 

Jane is deeply committed to helping people meet their potential and she loves training and facilitating indigenous creative workshops so that more resources can be produced to serve the unique needs of the kingdom anywhere in the world. She has facilitated Writing and Creative workshops in Australia, Hong Kong, the Pacific, Middle East, Central America, Russia, and global workshops in the US.

She is involved in the development and distribution of ministry resources via the Max7 website and strategic community; has served in the Australian Bible Society as a children’s field worker, and commissioning editor in their Publishing team, facilitating the creation of The BIG Rescue Bible. She’s been a puppeteer in Australian TV and a couple of films and ads, and is currently building skills as a camera operator. She teaches children at her local church, mentors new Christians and young leaders, and LOVES being involved in holiday programs that reach out to the wider community.

Telling Bible stories is a non-confrontational way of sharing our faith. Instead of inviting arguments, it invites people to see a glimpse of God's big story. In this elective, we'll explore tips for telling a Bible story that is simple, accurate, and memorable. We'll also think about ways to help people reflect on and learn from Bible stories.

Josh has had many years of experience volunteering on Scripture Union camps, and now works as Bible engagement facilitator with Wycliffe Bible translators. In his role he helps people overcome whatever obstacles get in the way of them engaging with God through the Bible.

Access to an English-language Bible is easier today than ever before. Yet fewer people are reading the Bible. In this elective we'll discuss the top barriers to Bible engagement and what we can do about it.

Josh has had many years of experience volunteering on Scripture Union camps, and now works as Bible engagement facilitator with Wycliffe Bible translators. In his role he helps people overcome whatever obstacles get in the way of them engaging with God through the Bible.

Structured Conversations for Difficult Topics. Sometimes a group (any age) wants to discuss a strategy or an issue so everyone is heard in a time-efficient and non-confronting way. This elective will give you the skill of facilitating a Circle to do that, in both on and off-line formats.

Jonathan Kemp is the Director of Youth, Children's and Families Ministry for the Anglican Church of Southern Queensland.

Drawing from the teaching of John Roberto and other leaders in the field, this elective will walk you through how a traditional church can become intergenerational across all of its activities, on Sunday and throughout the week.

Jonathan Kemp is the Director of Youth, Children's and Families Ministry for the Anglican Church of Southern Queensland.

Use fun, games and activities to teach Christian values by practising rather than preaching in your children's and youth ministry.

Andrea Eadie is a school chaplain with over 18 years experience, she also works with SUQld in Children and Youth Programs. With a career that has included teaching, training and counselling, Andrea is passionate about seeing children and young people not merely participate in our programs and activities, but be transformed by what they learn and experience.

Explore practical ways to support and encourage children and young people through death, family separation and other major life changes.

Andrea Eadie is a school chaplain with over 18 years experience, she also works with SUQld in Children and Youth Programs. With a career that has included teaching, training and counselling, Andrea is passionate about seeing children and young people not merely participate in our programs and activities, but be transformed by what they learn and experience.

How do we help kids grow UP with the Bible - not to grow OUT of it? Let’s invite them to join God in His big story and open their eyes to the adventure of living with Jesus.

For more than 35 years, Wendy’s been involved in children’s ministry in different parts of the world with Scripture Union and other agencies.

Using Puppets is a great way to engage and excite kids whilst teaching them the good news of Jesus. Come and learn the basics to be able to do this well.

Quiz Worx is a group that seeks to share Jesus with kids everywhere through creative and engaging shows (especially in schools). Puppetry is one of their major tools that they use.

Using experiential learning in Kids and Youth Ministry contexts to develop active and practical discipleship.

Dean Herring is married to Simone and together they have three young adult children. As First-Quarter Team Pastor, Dean leads the Children’s and Youth ministry teams across the three CrossLife campuses on the Gold Coast bringing his experience in adventure education and camping to the role. Dean is passionate about walking (or cycling) alongside others in their journeys of discipleship.

Forming, developing and leading healthy teams in Kids and Youth Ministry contexts that promote discipleship and growth.

Dean Herring is married to Simone and together they have three young adult children. As First-Quarter Team Pastor, Dean leads the Children’s and Youth ministry teams across the three CrossLife campuses on the Gold Coast bringing his experience in adventure education and camping to the role. Dean is passionate about walking (or cycling) alongside others in their journeys of discipleship.

Kids are busy with life; everything is new, exciting and just waiting to be discovered. Childhood is the time of their lives when they will learn more than at any other time and, crucially, when their brains are establishing learning pathways. Kids are receptive to God, and by helping them to make connections to God through their everyday play and activities we are opening up so many opportunities for them to explore faith. This is a hands on workshop that is packed full with tips and ideas that you can take with you and put into practice next week in your ministry!

Maree heads up the Children’s Ministry Team in Queensland with The Salvation Army and is passionate about engaging kids with the gospel. She has many years of experience in working with children and families both in ministry and professional roles. She is committed to seeing children as individuals and drawing out their strengths. Maree excels in working with children who may have difficulty fitting in for a variety of reasons. Maree has been actively working in Children's Ministry for the past 25 years and has written many resources for kids ministry. Maree and her husband Rod have two adult children and have three amazing grandchildren! In her spare time Maree likes to watch kids movies and speaks fluent Minion!

With YouTube being the number 1 brand amongst Generation Alpha, in this session we will take a look at how this current generation of kids are interacting with technology, and ways the local church can utilise technology to help engage and reach kids in a new digital playground.

Daniel has been leading in kids and youth ministry for over 15 years and most recently was the State kids pastor for a large Australian church. He is currently launching Link Kids Network, an organisation whose goal is to help equip the local church to reach children and families through technology.

How to provide a successful RI program in a school, that is a blessing to the whole school community.

Colin has taught RI in schools for over 40 years. He is passionate about children learning about Jesus and understanding Bible truths that apply directly to their lives. In every school he teaches he works hard to build up a rapport with the Principal and other staff, especially the classroom teacher. He sees the RI ministry as not only to the children, but also to the staff and families. Often it's the only time in their lives they get to hear of the God who loves them unconditionally.

On the journey towards faith no one is exempt from getting tripped up by doubts. Our role as leaders is to demonstrate the freedom we have to ask away at the Christian story, equipping them to know how to go in search of reasonable answers to life's deepest questions.

Dan is the founder of Questioning Christianity, a ministry aimed at connecting the Christian story to life’s deepest questions. Dan is based in Brisbane, where together with his wife Erin their favourite job is raising three boys: Josiah, Zachariah, and Seth.

Participants will have the opportunity to explore whether they are interested in engaging with people of different faiths and what motivates them to do so. Tools will focus on effective dialogue with "the other".

Tanja Hagedorn is a senior professional with 20+ years of experience in health, youth development, community & volunteer engagement in the USA, South Africa and Australia. Tanja practiced as an Occupational Therapist for over 10 years, and was on the staff at Riverlife Baptist Church until the end of 2020. She currently is the Queensland Coordinator for Together for Humanity, facilitating diversity education through reflection, interaction and collaboration in schools and community organisations.  She is passionate about challenging people’s biases and societal norms, encouraging critical thinking and empowering people to use their voice to fearlessly journey through conflict and find peaceful and lasting resolutions. She loves traveling, reading historical fiction and spending time with her husband and three children.

Teaching in ways children learn, using a variety of skills and great ideas that work.

Helene has made RI her passion for many years on the Gold Coast. She is a highly skilled trainer and leader who trains and equips 100's of RI teachers on the Gold Coast every year. She also advocates for RI in schools at a regional level. Helene continues to teach many classes every week in a creative and energetic way. She has a large and supportive family, including a number of grandchildren.

Making the Bible real for today's kids, within their culture and experience.

Helene has made RI her passion for many years on the Gold Coast. She is a highly skilled trainer and leader who trains and equips 100's of RI teachers on the Gold Coast every year. She also advocates for RI in schools at a regional level. Helene continues to teach many classes every week in a creative and energetic way. She has a large and supportive family, including a number of grandchildren.

The right question, a timely reflection, an encouraging word, can have a huge impact in the life of a young person. Sometimes, intentional and prayerful conversations can shape someone for years to come. But they don't just happen and you can't simply program for them. How do we enter into these kinds of conversations? How do we discern what God is doing in a young person’s life and join with God in speaking life and bringing truth? How do we take a conversation from a "chat" to something deep, significant and impacting?

Tom has been leading teams of people involved in youth and young adult ministry for almost 20 years. From state wide events to small one off teams to long running ministries, he has successfully built and led teams for a huge variety of purposes.

This workshop will look at developing a toolbox of strategies for you to use with children with special needs (diagnosed or otherwise). We will look at the main reasons children may have difficulties accessing the curriculum and what strategies we can have in our toolbox to effectively include them in our program.

Natalie is a paediatric Occupational Therapist who works with children with a variety of special needs.

‘Unpacking a Sunday’ is a session where  we walk through each part of a Sunday from Team meeting - Set up - Check in - Hang time - Praise and worship - Big and small group teaching time - Games and the atmospheres.

Andy & Christie Kirk have been innovating and changing the landscape of Children’s Ministry for over 17 years together. From leading locally in churches, overseeing Multi-site Ministries, and years of Mentoring and Consulting into churches, their experience and knowledge of Kids Ministry is extensive. They are passionate about empowering and equipping people to live out all they were created to do matching people’s potential with God possibilities.

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Jim Schirmer is a counsellor, educator, church re-former and spiritual mentor who has worked with youth and young adults for over 15 years. He is the author of 'The Way of the Rabbi: Stories of Discipleship from the Gospel of Mark' (Morning Star Publishing).

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Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the 'why' we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Bethany is the Early Years Pastor at Gateway Baptist and works as a Children’s and Ministry Chaplain in a number of early learning centres across Queensland.

With current data telling us that the Western church has been losing more than 50% of young people every year from the church and the Christian faith, there is an urgent need to rethink how we are outworking Jesus’ final command to ‘go and make disciples’. Come and explore 2 foundational principles and 8 key pillars that will help to shape a long term discipling strategy for the children and young people in your context.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

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Tracy is the Families Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church. She has been passionate about kids ministry for over 20 years and loves partnering with parents as they raise a generation of kids who love Jesus.

‘Unpacking a Sunday’ is a session where  we walk through each part of a Sunday from Team meeting - Set up - Check in - Hang time - Praise and worship - Big and small group teaching time - Games and the atmospheres.

Andy & Christie Kirk have been innovating and changing the landscape of Children’s Ministry for over 17 years together. From leading locally in churches, overseeing Multi-site Ministries, and years of Mentoring and Consulting into churches, their experience and knowledge of Kids Ministry is extensive. They are passionate about empowering and equipping people to live out all they were created to do matching people’s potential with God possibilities.

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For more than 35 years, Wendy’s been involved in children’s ministry in different parts of the world with Scripture Union and other agencies.

How can you hold an audience without a rope? Come and discover the key elements in the art of storytelling that will help to connect with your audience, maintain their attention and create a special space for God to touch people’s hearts and minds. Such is the power of story and it is as easy as A, B, C & D.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.
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Understanding some of the factors that cause behaviour is a beginning step in shaping appropriate response strategies for helping children to manage their behaviour and keep you in control. Practical components of the session include some first step strategies, preparatory checklists and a 10 Point Discipline Plan to help you help a child to navigate through their challenging behaviours to bring positive results.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

“Why didn’t God stop the tsunami?”, “Why did God let my mum die?” These big questions are just a sample of the many questions that children ask and need to find some answers for as they struggle to make sense of life and faith. How we respond and journey with children in the conversations that follow is of vital importance for children to grow in their understanding of God and their own faith.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

So you find yourself with a young but passionate bunch of volunteers. How do you develop them into more competent and more capable leaders that will support and then out-lead you? How do you make them into a team that is humming along and kicking goals? In this session we’ll discover some ways to intentionally develop your team in a Christ-like way.

Brad Case is the Connection Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church and loves to see young emerging leaders cultivate healthy spiritual foundations to flourish in lifelong ministry. Brad has been a school chaplain, youth and children’s pastor and QLD State Director for Generations ministry, long time SU Qld camps director and has even written a children’s book. He is married to Mercy and together they are always making travel plans. He enjoys all kinds of sport and music, breaking out his saxophone whenever possible.

The success of any ministry relies heavily on the health of the leadership team. There are many challenges to maintaining a healthy team. Everything from taking the right steps to form a team through to keeping a team focused, motivated and passionate over the long run. This elective will give you practical insight and tips into starting a team well and maintaining the health of a team over many years so that your ministry will last and have true kingdom impact.

Tom has been leading teams of people involved in youth and young adult ministry for almost 20 years. From state wide events to small one off teams to long running ministries, he has successfully built and led teams for a huge variety of purposes.

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Jim Schirmer is a counsellor, educator, church re-former and spiritual mentor who has worked with youth and young adults for over 15 years. He is the author of 'The Way of the Rabbi: Stories of Discipleship from the Gospel of Mark' (Morning Star Publishing).

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Jarek Reah

It can be challenging at times to focus on things that we do well, particularly in a culture that can tend to highlight our failures and mistakes. In this elective, we'll be looking at identifying our strengths, understanding the limitations we have, then harnessing our natural gifts and passions to make the most of how God has shaped us. This will be an interactive session with lots of opportunity for discussion and learning.

Sandy has many years experience ministering to young people and families in the Gladstone region including Church, community and school settings. Now practicing as a private counsellor Sandy connects with and supports a wide range of people in our local community. She enjoys weak black coffee with no sugar and hosting conference electives during the afternoon session.

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the 'why' we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Bethany is the Early Years Pastor at Gateway Baptist and works as a Children’s and Ministry Chaplain in a number of early learning centres across Queensland.

Visual, creative, exciting ideas to encourage your children to pray. Fun and effective ideas for families, church, RE, camps, bringing an understanding and acceptance of prayer into their everyday experience.

Judy has previous experience of 20 years as a Children`s Ministry Leader/Pastor including overseas training of children`s ministry workers, a valued team member on various mission trips connected with children & prayer. She also worked as a Teacher Aide with Special Needs children. Currently conducts workshops on encouraging and inspiring children to pray. Her passion is children, prayer & mission, which has enabled her to be involved with praying children around the globe!

With current data telling us that the Western church has been losing more than 50% of young people every year from the church and the Christian faith, there is an urgent need to rethink how we are outworking Jesus’ final command to ‘go and make disciples’. Come and explore 2 foundational principles and 8 key pillars that will help to shape a long term discipling strategy for the children and young people in your context.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

"In summing up, it’s the constitution, it’s Mabo, it’s justice, it’s law, it’s the vibe, and … no, that’s it … it’s the vibe. I rest my case.” The Castle, 1997

Often the emphasis of leadership is recruiting & training a team, and setting strategies & goals towards a vision of ministry & mission. As important as that is, that’s only part of the picture. This session will emphasise the need to attend to ‘the culture’ or ‘the vibe’ of your ministry or mission team. There are at least nine aspects to this and we will set ourselves a direction to explore them all!

Phil has 40+ years of experience of ministry in a variety of teaching, leadership, ministry and consultancy roles … roles to do with everything from urban and beach missions, camps, schools ministry, a large regional church, small country and urban churches, national conferences, CRE, MOPS, play groups, and kindergartens. Oh, and setting ’the vibe' in his family is some of his best work.

TBC

For more than 35 years, Wendy’s been involved in children’s ministry in different parts of the world with Scripture Union and other agencies.

How can you hold an audience without a rope? Come and discover the key elements in the art of storytelling that will help to connect with your audience, maintain their attention and create a special space for God to touch people’s hearts and minds. Such is the power of story and it is as easy as A, B, C & D.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.
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So you find yourself with a young but passionate bunch of volunteers. How do you develop them into more competent and more capable leaders that will support and then out-lead you? How do you make them into a team that is humming along and kicking goals? In this session we’ll discover some ways to intentionally develop your team in a Christ-like way.

Brad Case is the Connection Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church and loves to see young emerging leaders cultivate healthy spiritual foundations to flourish in lifelong ministry. Brad has been a school chaplain, youth and children’s pastor and QLD State Director for Generations ministry, long time SU Qld camps director and has even written a children’s book. He is married to Mercy and together they are always making travel plans. He enjoys all kinds of sport and music, breaking out his saxophone whenever possible.

The success of any ministry relies heavily on the health of the leadership team. There are many challenges to maintaining a healthy team. Everything from taking the right steps to form a team through to keeping a team focused, motivated and passionate over the long run. This elective will give you practical insight and tips into starting a team well and maintaining the health of a team over many years so that your ministry will last and have true kingdom impact.

Tom has been leading teams of people involved in youth and young adult ministry for almost 20 years. From state wide events to small one off teams to long running ministries, he has successfully built and led teams for a huge variety of purposes.

TBC

Jim Schirmer is a counsellor, educator, church re-former and spiritual mentor who has worked with youth and young adults for over 15 years. He is the author of 'The Way of the Rabbi: Stories of Discipleship from the Gospel of Mark' (Morning Star Publishing).

Designed for first time school-aged leaders at AMPLIFY 

These 3 sessions will give insight into the value of their role as a leader with children and youth as well as practical strategies to use immediately! 

• How children and young people learn: Switching young people on to learning using Jesus' simple methods. 
• Teachable Moments: Together we will identify and learn how to use those precious times when young people are open, willing, and ready to discover: matching teachable moments with our understanding of the Bible and our journey as a disciple.
• Learning through games: Fun ways to raise curiosity and awareness, a practical session of game and debrief design!

Jane is a qualified High School teacher and has been active in full-time ministry with children and training leaders for over 30 years. She got her start as a brand-new Christian at 14, when her mentors encouraged her to lead. Today working with Logosdor to help churches and families make disciples among children and teach children to make disciples! 

Jane is deeply committed to helping people meet their potential and she loves training and facilitating indigenous creative workshops so that more resources can be produced to serve the unique needs of the kingdom anywhere in the world. She has facilitated Writing and Creative workshops in Australia, Hong Kong, the Pacific, Middle East, Central America, Russia, and global workshops in the US.

She is involved in the development and distribution of ministry resources via the Max7 website and strategic community; has served in the Australian Bible Society as a children’s field worker, and commissioning editor in their Publishing team, facilitating the creation of The BIG Rescue Bible. She’s been a puppeteer in Australian TV and a couple of films and ads, and is currently building skills as a camera operator. She teaches children at her local church, mentors new Christians and young leaders, and LOVES being involved in holiday programs that reach out to the wider community.

The world is changing at an exponential pace. Technology will not go away and denial is not a strategy that is going to work! While this is a huge issue, we will explore some basic principles that undergird any strategy to help young people and parents to navigate safely through the realms of cyber space. Being informed is the start of the journey.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

Understanding some of the factors that cause behaviour is a beginning step in shaping appropriate response strategies for helping children to manage their behaviour and keep you in control. Practical components of the session include some first step strategies, preparatory checklists and a 10 Point Discipline Plan to help you help a child to navigate through their challenging behaviours to bring positive results. 

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

“Why didn’t God stop the tsunami?”, “Why did God let my mum die?” These big questions are just a sample of the many questions that children ask and need to find some answers for as they struggle to make sense of life and faith. How we respond and journey with children in the conversations that follow is of vital importance for children to grow in their understanding of God and their own faith.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the 'why' we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Bethany is the Early Years Pastor at Gateway Baptist and works as a Children’s and Ministry Chaplain in a number of early learning centres across Queensland.

This workshop will look at developing a toolbox of strategies for you to use with children with special needs (diagnosed or otherwise). We will look at the main reasons children may have difficulties accessing the curriculum and what strategies we can have in our toolbox to effectively include them in our program.

Natalie is a paediatric Occupational Therapist who works with children with a variety of special needs.

Visual, creative, exciting ideas to encourage your children to pray. Fun and effective ideas for families, church, RE, camps, bringing an understanding and acceptance of prayer into their everyday experience.

Judy has previous experience of 20 years as a Children`s Ministry Leader/Pastor including overseas training of children`s ministry workers, a valued team member on various mission trips connected with children & prayer. She also worked as a Teacher Aide with Special Needs children. Currently conducts workshops on encouraging and inspiring children to pray. Her passion is children, prayer & mission, which has enabled her to be involved with praying children around the globe!

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Tracy is the Families Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church. She has been passionate about kids ministry for over 20 years and loves partnering with parents as they raise a generation of kids who love Jesus.

"In summing up, it’s the constitution, it’s Mabo, it’s justice, it’s law, it’s the vibe, and … no, that’s it … it’s the vibe. I rest my case.” The Castle, 1997

Often the emphasis of leadership is recruiting & training a team, and setting strategies & goals towards a vision of ministry & mission. As important as that is, that’s only part of the picture. This session will emphasise the need to attend to ‘the culture’ or ‘the vibe’ of your ministry or mission team. There are at least nine aspects to this and we will set ourselves a direction to explore them all!

Phil has 40+ years of experience of ministry in a variety of teaching, leadership, ministry and consultancy roles … roles to do with everything from urban and beach missions, camps, schools ministry, a large regional church, small country and urban churches, national conferences, CRE, MOPS, play groups, and kindergartens. Oh, and setting ’the vibe' in his family is some of his best work.

‘Unpacking a Sunday’ is a session where  we walk through each part of a Sunday from Team meeting - Set up - Check in - Hang time - Praise and worship - Big and small group teaching time - Games and the atmospheres.

Andy & Christie Kirk have been innovating and changing the landscape of Children’s Ministry for over 17 years together. From leading locally in churches, overseeing Multi-site Ministries, and years of Mentoring and Consulting into churches, their experience and knowledge of Kids Ministry is extensive. They are passionate about empowering and equipping people to live out all they were created to do matching people’s potential with God possibilities.

TBC

For more than 35 years, Wendy’s been involved in children’s ministry in different parts of the world with Scripture Union and other agencies.

"Life is Intergenerational; anyone telling you different is selling you something!"  I am sure this is what the Dread Pirate Roberts said to Buttercup.  Come and ask the question "Why Intergenerational?" Is this just another ministry fad that will be short lived? Or just come and find out who the Dread Pirate Roberts is!

Michael Stalley is a Priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Queensland. Over 20 years he has led contemporary and traditional churches, urban and rural, through loss and new beginnings.  He has a particular interest in being part of communities in which all can find a valued place to belong, grow and contribute.  In recent years, Michael has completed the "Certificate in Lifelong Faith Formation" through the Vibrant Faith Institute as well as attending the International Intergenerate conference in 2019.  Michael has participated in the Australian Intergeneration Round Table (AIR 2019 and 2020) and is on the Intergenerate Australia planning team.  Michael believes "The Princess Bride" can be useful somehow in all circumstances!

So you find yourself with a young but passionate bunch of volunteers. How do you develop them into more competent and more capable leaders that will support and then out-lead you? How do you make them into a team that is humming along and kicking goals? In this session we’ll discover some ways to intentionally develop your team in a Christ-like way.

Brad Case is the Connection Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church and loves to see young emerging leaders cultivate healthy spiritual foundations to flourish in lifelong ministry. Brad has been a school chaplain, youth and children’s pastor and QLD State Director for Generations ministry, long time SU Qld camps director and has even written a children’s book. He is married to Mercy and together they are always making travel plans. He enjoys all kinds of sport and music, breaking out his saxophone whenever possible.

The success of any ministry relies heavily on the health of the leadership team. There are many challenges to maintaining a healthy team. Everything from taking the right steps to form a team through to keeping a team focused, motivated and passionate over the long run. This elective will give you practical insight and tips into starting a team well and maintaining the health of a team over many years so that your ministry will last and have true kingdom impact.

Tom has been leading teams of people involved in youth and young adult ministry for almost 20 years. From state wide events to small one off teams to long running ministries, he has successfully built and led teams for a huge variety of purposes.

TBC

Jim Schirmer is a counsellor, educator, church re-former and spiritual mentor who has worked with youth and young adults for over 15 years. He is the author of 'The Way of the Rabbi: Stories of Discipleship from the Gospel of Mark' (Morning Star Publishing).

Jesus was good with outsiders. He seemed to like and know how to engage really well with those who were different. And his time with them was often life-changing. Our modern society however struggles with differences. We live most comfortably in our own social, cultural, faith or social media bubble, and experience frustration that others can be so wrong. In this session we will explore the rich benefits of connection with, talking with, and nurturing healthy relationships with those of a different faith or culture.  You will gain practical help in building stronger communities, one chat at a time.

Tim Fawssett looks after Cross-Cultural Innovations at Scripture Union. From 2010-2017 he led a ministry called The Feast in multicultural Birmingham, England, helping equip Christian young people to engage with, love and share their faith with others of different faiths and cultures. Now Tim is taking this experience of vibrant engagement with “others” and exploring how it can inform and enrich ministry with SU and the local church.

Designed for first time school-aged leaders at AMPLIFY 

These 3 sessions will give insight into the value of their role as a leader with children and youth as well as practical strategies to use immediately! 

• How children and young people learn: Switching young people on to learning using Jesus' simple methods. 
• Teachable Moments: Together we will identify and learn how to use those precious times when young people are open, willing, and ready to discover: matching teachable moments with our understanding of the Bible and our journey as a disciple.
• Learning through games: Fun ways to raise curiosity and awareness, a practical session of game and debrief design!

Jane is a qualified High School teacher and has been active in full-time ministry with children and training leaders for over 30 years. She got her start as a brand-new Christian at 14, when her mentors encouraged her to lead. Today working with Logosdor to help churches and families make disciples among children and teach children to make disciples! 

Jane is deeply committed to helping people meet their potential and she loves training and facilitating indigenous creative workshops so that more resources can be produced to serve the unique needs of the kingdom anywhere in the world. She has facilitated Writing and Creative workshops in Australia, Hong Kong, the Pacific, Middle East, Central America, Russia, and global workshops in the US.

She is involved in the development and distribution of ministry resources via the Max7 website and strategic community; has served in the Australian Bible Society as a children’s field worker, and commissioning editor in their Publishing team, facilitating the creation of The BIG Rescue Bible. She’s been a puppeteer in Australian TV and a couple of films and ads, and is currently building skills as a camera operator. She teaches children at her local church, mentors new Christians and young leaders, and LOVES being involved in holiday programs that reach out to the wider community.

Lyn is going to present her 'strengths-based' model of resilience - 'The Resilience Doughnut' and the benefits of using it with individuals, groups and communities. She is going to outline how it connects strengths to build resilience, with practical helpful examples, and then illustrate how it enables people to thrive (not just survive!) during experiences of adversity.

Lyn Worsley is the Director of The Resilience Centre Sydney and the author of her own model of resilience - 'The Resilience Doughnut'. She is also a Senior Clinical Psychologist over 20 years experience working with children, adolescents, adults and families from a strengths-based and solution-focused perspective, as well as a Trainer and Presenter.

"In summing up, it’s the constitution, it’s Mabo, it’s justice, it’s law, it’s the vibe, and … no, that’s it … it’s the vibe. I rest my case.” The Castle, 1997

Often the emphasis of leadership is recruiting & training a team, and setting strategies & goals towards a vision of ministry & mission. As important as that is, that’s only part of the picture. This session will emphasise the need to attend to ‘the culture’ or ‘the vibe’ of your ministry or mission team. There are at least nine aspects to this and we will set ourselves a direction to explore them all!

Phil has 40+ years of experience of ministry in a variety of teaching, leadership, ministry and consultancy roles … roles to do with everything from urban and beach missions, camps, schools ministry, a large regional church, small country and urban churches, national conferences, CRE, MOPS, play groups, and kindergartens. Oh, and setting ’the vibe' in his family is some of his best work.

TBC

For more than 35 years, Wendy’s been involved in children’s ministry in different parts of the world with Scripture Union and other agencies.

"Life is Intergenerational; anyone telling you different is selling you something!"  I am sure this is what the Dread Pirate Roberts said to Buttercup.  Come and ask the question "Why Intergenerational?" Is this just another ministry fad that will be short lived? Or just come and find out who the Dread Pirate Roberts is!

Michael Stalley is a Priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Queensland. Over 20 years he has led contemporary and traditional churches, urban and rural, through loss and new beginnings.  He has a particular interest in being part of communities in which all can find a valued place to belong, grow and contribute.  In recent years, Michael has completed the "Certificate in Lifelong Faith Formation" through the Vibrant Faith Institute as well as attending the International Intergenerate conference in 2019.  Michael has participated in the Australian Intergeneration Round Table (AIR 2019 and 2020) and is on the Intergenerate Australia planning team.  Michael believes "The Princess Bride" can be useful somehow in all circumstances!

Opening the Bible together in a way that is engaging and genuine for a diverse group is no easy ask, yet it is possible, worthwhile, and there are lots of models and parallels to draw from in our facilitation of such an experience. Join with Beth and Brendan to explore the what, the why and the how of gathering in life giving and life transforming groups that span generations, cultures and other real or perceived barriers.

Brendan works with SU Victoria in training for ministry and mission with children and is part of the kids band Snack Music. He loves thinking about ways to facilitate groups, especially interactively and online.

Beth works in the messy zone where the streams of learning among all ages, the arts, theology, academia, life, mission, innovation and Bible engagement overlap. Her blog, multivocality.wordpress.com champions her life long passion for listening for God in the midst of listening to diverse sounds and voices.

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the 'why' we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Bethany is the Early Years Pastor at Gateway Baptist and works as a Children’s and Ministry Chaplain in a number of early learning centres across Queensland.

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Tracy is the Families Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church. She has been passionate about kids ministry for over 20 years and loves partnering with parents as they raise a generation of kids who love Jesus.

With current data telling us that the Western church has been losing more than 50% of young people every year from the church and the Christian faith, there is an urgent need to rethink how we are outworking Jesus’ final command to ‘go and make disciples’. Come and explore 2 foundational principles and 8 key pillars that will help to shape a long term discipling strategy for the children and young people in your context.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

This workshop will look at developing a toolbox of strategies for you to use with children with special needs (diagnosed or otherwise). We will look at the main reasons children may have difficulties accessing the curriculum and what strategies we can have in our toolbox to effectively include them in our program.

Natalie is a paediatric Occupational Therapist who works with children with a variety of special needs.

Visual, creative, exciting ideas to encourage your children to pray. Fun and effective ideas for families, church, RE, camps, bringing an understanding and acceptance of prayer into their everyday experience.

Judy has previous experience of 20 years as a Children`s Ministry Leader/Pastor including overseas training of children`s ministry workers, a valued team member on various mission trips connected with children & prayer. She also worked as a Teacher Aide with Special Needs children. Currently conducts workshops on encouraging and inspiring children to pray. Her passion is children, prayer & mission, which has enabled her to be involved with praying children around the globe!

Being welcomed into schools is not a ‘given’ for any of us. This workshop explores a simple and profound approach for churches to be AND bring blessing to a school and its community. Relevant to Primary and Secondary school settings. (Please bring a suitable prize with you to add to the fun during this session)

Naomi Swindon is a training specialist for SU Victoria with a lifelong focus on engaging, impactful youth work that embodies Jesus’ way and invites people on board. She loves a good laugh, justice and singing her heart out!

Understanding some of the factors that cause behaviour is a beginning step in shaping appropriate response strategies for helping children to manage their behaviour and keep you in control. Practical components of the session include some first step strategies, preparatory checklists and a 10 Point Discipline Plan to help you help a child to navigate through their challenging behaviours to bring positive results.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

Husband and wife presenters, Mathew and Monique, will share from their experiences of working in both the Government and Independent school contexts, drawing on their different roles. School Chaplaincy is diverse, and offers a fantastic opportunity to engage with a school community in a range of ways. This session will give an overview of some of the possible directions of School Chaplaincy, as well as the differences between working in the Government and Independent School sectors. This session will explore everything from running Services, Breakfast Clubs, Speed Stacking and Service Learning opportunities.

A trained Secondary School English, Religious Education and Humanities teacher, Monique decided to commence further study in Theology with the view of going in to Chaplaincy after working for five years in the Catholic Education system. After completing the degree, she was appointed as the Chaplain at a P-12 Ecumenical school in South-East Melbourne where she has worked in the role for the past four years. 

Mathew worked in State School Chaplaincy through the Salvation Army for three years before taking a year of Paternity Leave. He has worked at two different schools in this role, and has also combined it with his experiences as a Family and Children’s Worker in a local Uniting Church. He is part of the federally funded Chaplaincy program and has returned to the role from Paternity Leave in 2021.

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Korus Connect (The Council for Christian Education in Schools) has been working in and with school communities for 75 years, focussed on the delivery of Special Religious Instruction and the provision of pastoral care through school chaplaincy.

How can you hold an audience without a rope? Come and discover the key elements in the art of storytelling that will help to connect with your audience, maintain their attention and create a special space for God to touch people’s hearts and minds. Such is the power of story and it is as easy as A, B, C & D.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

Put your burning questions to some seasoned practitioners.

Naomi Swindon is a training specialist for SU Victoria with a lifelong focus on engaging, impactful youth work that embodies Jesus’ way and invites people on board. She loves a good laugh, justice and singing her heart out!

“Why didn’t God stop the tsunami?”, “Why did God let my mum die?” These big questions are just a sample of the many questions that children ask and need to find some answers for as they struggle to make sense of life and faith. How we respond and journey with children in the conversations that follow is of vital importance for children to grow in their understanding of God and their own faith.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

So you find yourself with a young but passionate bunch of volunteers. How do you develop them into more competent and more capable leaders that will support and then out-lead you? How do you make them into a team that is humming along and kicking goals? In this session we’ll discover some ways to intentionally develop your team in a Christ-like way.

Brad Case is the Connection Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church and loves to see young emerging leaders cultivate healthy spiritual foundations to flourish in lifelong ministry. Brad has been a school chaplain, youth and children’s pastor and QLD State Director for Generations ministry, long time SU Qld camps director and has even written a children’s book. He is married to Mercy and together they are always making travel plans. He enjoys all kinds of sport and music, breaking out his saxophone whenever possible.

The success of any ministry relies heavily on the health of the leadership team. There are many challenges to maintaining a healthy team. Everything from taking the right steps to form a team through to keeping a team focused, motivated and passionate over the long run. This elective will give you practical insight and tips into starting a team well and maintaining the health of a team over many years so that your ministry will last and have true kingdom impact.

Tom has been leading teams of people involved in youth and young adult ministry for almost 20 years. From state wide events to small one off teams to long running ministries, he has successfully built and led teams for a huge variety of purposes.

Neurodiverse people think and operate a little differently. This term is used when describing people with autistic spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and others. Neurodiverse youth often struggle fitting in at church and school. This session will provide some practical ideas on how to help them.

Stuart has worked in Christian ministry with children, youth and adults for almost 30 years. He has been a teacher, worked in local missions, and pastoral ministry. More recently, he has started a counselling practice and has a passion for helping people discover hope.

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Jim Schirmer is a counsellor, educator, church re-former and spiritual mentor who has worked with youth and young adults for over 15 years. He is the author of 'The Way of the Rabbi: Stories of Discipleship from the Gospel of Mark' (Morning Star Publishing).

Jesus was good with outsiders. He seemed to like and know how to engage really well with those who were different. And his time with them was often life-changing. Our modern society however struggles with differences. We live most comfortably in our own social, cultural, faith or social media bubble, and experience frustration that others can be so wrong. In this session we will explore the rich benefits of connection with, talking with, and nurturing healthy relationships with those of a different faith or culture.  You will gain practical help in building stronger communities, one chat at a time.

Tim Fawssett looks after Cross-Cultural Innovations at Scripture Union. From 2010-2017 he led a ministry called The Feast in multicultural Birmingham, England, helping equip Christian young people to engage with, love and share their faith with others of different faiths and cultures. Now Tim is taking this experience of vibrant engagement with “others” and exploring how it can inform and enrich ministry with SU and the local church.

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the 'why' we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Bethany is the Early Years Pastor at Gateway Baptist and works as a Children’s and Ministry Chaplain in a number of early learning centres across Queensland.

This workshop will look at developing a toolbox of strategies for you to use with children with special needs (diagnosed or otherwise). We will look at the main reasons children may have difficulties accessing the curriculum and what strategies we can have in our toolbox to effectively include them in our program.

Natalie is a paediatric Occupational Therapist who works with children with a variety of special needs.

Visual, creative, exciting ideas to encourage your children to pray. Fun and effective ideas for families, church, RE, camps, bringing an understanding and acceptance of prayer into their everyday experience.

Judy has previous experience of 20 years as a Children`s Ministry Leader/Pastor including overseas training of children`s ministry workers, a valued team member on various mission trips connected with children & prayer. She also worked as a Teacher Aide with Special Needs children. Currently conducts workshops on encouraging and inspiring children to pray. Her passion is children, prayer & mission, which has enabled her to be involved with praying children around the globe!

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Tracy is the Families Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church. She has been passionate about kids ministry for over 20 years and loves partnering with parents as they raise a generation of kids who love Jesus.

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For more than 35 years, Wendy’s been involved in children’s ministry in different parts of the world with Scripture Union and other agencies.

"Life is Intergenerational; anyone telling you different is selling you something!"  I am sure this is what the Dread Pirate Roberts said to Buttercup.  Come and ask the question "Why Intergenerational?" Is this just another ministry fad that will be short lived? Or just come and find out who the Dread Pirate Roberts is!

Michael Stalley is a Priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Queensland. Over 20 years he has led contemporary and traditional churches, urban and rural, through loss and new beginnings.  He has a particular interest in being part of communities in which all can find a valued place to belong, grow and contribute.  In recent years, Michael has completed the "Certificate in Lifelong Faith Formation" through the Vibrant Faith Institute as well as attending the International Intergenerate conference in 2019.  Michael has participated in the Australian Intergeneration Round Table (AIR 2019 and 2020) and is on the Intergenerate Australia planning team.  Michael believes "The Princess Bride" can be useful somehow in all circumstances!

How can you hold an audience without a rope? Come and discover the key elements in the art of storytelling that will help to connect with your audience, maintain their attention and create a special space for God to touch people’s hearts and minds. Such is the power of story and it is as easy as A, B, C & D.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.
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“Why didn’t God stop the tsunami?”, “Why did God let my mum die?” These big questions are just a sample of the many questions that children ask and need to find some answers for as they struggle to make sense of life and faith. How we respond and journey with children in the conversations that follow is of vital importance for children to grow in their understanding of God and their own faith.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

So you find yourself with a young but passionate bunch of volunteers. How do you develop them into more competent and more capable leaders that will support and then out-lead you? How do you make them into a team that is humming along and kicking goals? In this session we’ll discover some ways to intentionally develop your team in a Christ-like way.

Brad Case is the Connection Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church and loves to see young emerging leaders cultivate healthy spiritual foundations to flourish in lifelong ministry. Brad has been a school chaplain, youth and children’s pastor and QLD State Director for Generations ministry, long time SU Qld camps director and has even written a children’s book. He is married to Mercy and together they are always making travel plans. He enjoys all kinds of sport and music, breaking out his saxophone whenever possible.

The success of any ministry relies heavily on the health of the leadership team. There are many challenges to maintaining a healthy team. Everything from taking the right steps to form a team through to keeping a team focused, motivated and passionate over the long run. This elective will give you practical insight and tips into starting a team well and maintaining the health of a team over many years so that your ministry will last and have true kingdom impact.

Tom has been leading teams of people involved in youth and young adult ministry for almost 20 years. From state wide events to small one off teams to long running ministries, he has successfully built and led teams for a huge variety of purposes.

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Jim Schirmer is a counsellor, educator, church re-former and spiritual mentor who has worked with youth and young adults for over 15 years. He is the author of 'The Way of the Rabbi: Stories of Discipleship from the Gospel of Mark' (Morning Star Publishing).

Jesus was good with outsiders. He seemed to like and know how to engage really well with those who were different. And his time with them was often life-changing. Our modern society however struggles with differences. We live most comfortably in our own social, cultural, faith or social media bubble, and experience frustration that others can be so wrong. In this session we will explore the rich benefits of connection with, talking with, and nurturing healthy relationships with those of a different faith or culture.  You will gain practical help in building stronger communities, one chat at a time.

Tim Fawssett looks after Cross-Cultural Innovations at Scripture Union. From 2010-2017 he led a ministry called The Feast in multicultural Birmingham, England, helping equip Christian young people to engage with, love and share their faith with others of different faiths and cultures. Now Tim is taking this experience of vibrant engagement with “others” and exploring how it can inform and enrich ministry with SU and the local church.

Designed for first time school-aged leaders at AMPLIFY 

These 3 sessions will give insight into the value of their role as a leader with children and youth as well as practical strategies to use immediately! 

• How children and young people learn: Switching young people on to learning using Jesus' simple methods. 
• Teachable Moments: Together we will identify and learn how to use those precious times when young people are open, willing, and ready to discover: matching teachable moments with our understanding of the Bible and our journey as a disciple.
• Learning through games: Fun ways to raise curiosity and awareness, a practical session of game and debrief design!

Jane is a qualified High School teacher and has been active in full-time ministry with children and training leaders for over 30 years. She got her start as a brand-new Christian at 14, when her mentors encouraged her to lead. Today working with Logosdor to help churches and families make disciples among children and teach children to make disciples! 

Jane is deeply committed to helping people meet their potential and she loves training and facilitating indigenous creative workshops so that more resources can be produced to serve the unique needs of the kingdom anywhere in the world. She has facilitated Writing and Creative workshops in Australia, Hong Kong, the Pacific, Middle East, Central America, Russia, and global workshops in the US.

She is involved in the development and distribution of ministry resources via the Max7 website and strategic community; has served in the Australian Bible Society as a children’s field worker, and commissioning editor in their Publishing team, facilitating the creation of The BIG Rescue Bible. She’s been a puppeteer in Australian TV and a couple of films and ads, and is currently building skills as a camera operator. She teaches children at her local church, mentors new Christians and young leaders, and LOVES being involved in holiday programs that reach out to the wider community.

Lyn is going to present her 'strengths-based' model of resilience - 'The Resilience Doughnut' and the benefits of using it with individuals, groups and communities. She is going to outline how it connects strengths to build resilience, with practical helpful examples, and then illustrate how it enables people to thrive (not just survive!) during experiences of adversity.

Lyn Worsley is the Director of The Resilience Centre Sydney and the author of her own model of resilience - 'The Resilience Doughnut'. She is also a Senior Clinical Psychologist over 20 years experience working with children, adolescents, adults and families from a strengths-based and solution-focused perspective, as well as a Trainer and Presenter.

"In summing up, it’s the constitution, it’s Mabo, it’s justice, it’s law, it’s the vibe, and … no, that’s it … it’s the vibe. I rest my case.” The Castle, 1997

Often the emphasis of leadership is recruiting & training a team, and setting strategies & goals towards a vision of ministry & mission. As important as that is, that’s only part of the picture. This session will emphasise the need to attend to ‘the culture’ or ‘the vibe’ of your ministry or mission team. There are at least nine aspects to this and we will set ourselves a direction to explore them all!

Phil has 40+ years of experience of ministry in a variety of teaching, leadership, ministry and consultancy roles … roles to do with everything from urban and beach missions, camps, schools ministry, a large regional church, small country and urban churches, national conferences, CRE, MOPS, play groups, and kindergartens. Oh, and setting ’the vibe' in his family is some of his best work.

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For more than 35 years, Wendy’s been involved in children’s ministry in different parts of the world with Scripture Union and other agencies.

"Life is Intergenerational; anyone telling you different is selling you something!"  I am sure this is what the Dread Pirate Roberts said to Buttercup.  Come and ask the question "Why Intergenerational?" Is this just another ministry fad that will be short lived? Or just come and find out who the Dread Pirate Roberts is!

Michael Stalley is a Priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Queensland. Over 20 years he has led contemporary and traditional churches, urban and rural, through loss and new beginnings.  He has a particular interest in being part of communities in which all can find a valued place to belong, grow and contribute.  In recent years, Michael has completed the "Certificate in Lifelong Faith Formation" through the Vibrant Faith Institute as well as attending the International Intergenerate conference in 2019.  Michael has participated in the Australian Intergeneration Round Table (AIR 2019 and 2020) and is on the Intergenerate Australia planning team.  Michael believes "The Princess Bride" can be useful somehow in all circumstances!

Opening the Bible together in a way that is engaging and genuine for a diverse group is no easy ask, yet it is possible, worthwhile, and there are lots of models and parallels to draw from in our facilitation of such an experience. Join with Beth and Brendan to explore the what, the why and the how of gathering in life giving and life transforming groups that span generations, cultures and other real or perceived barriers.

Brendan works with SU Victoria in training for ministry and mission with children and is part of the kids band Snack Music. He loves thinking about ways to facilitate groups, especially interactively and online.

Beth works in the messy zone where the streams of learning among all ages, the arts, theology, academia, life, mission, innovation and Bible engagement overlap. Her blog, multivocality.wordpress.com champions her life long passion for listening for God in the midst of listening to diverse sounds and voices.

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the 'why' we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Bethany is the Early Years Pastor at Gateway Baptist and works as a Children’s and Ministry Chaplain in a number of early learning centres across Queensland.

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Tracy is the Families Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church. She has been passionate about kids ministry for over 20 years and loves partnering with parents as they raise a generation of kids who love Jesus.

With current data telling us that the Western church has been losing more than 50% of young people every year from the church and the Christian faith, there is an urgent need to rethink how we are outworking Jesus’ final command to ‘go and make disciples’. Come and explore 2 foundational principles and 8 key pillars that will help to shape a long term discipling strategy for the children and young people in your context.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

This workshop will look at developing a toolbox of strategies for you to use with children with special needs (diagnosed or otherwise). We will look at the main reasons children may have difficulties accessing the curriculum and what strategies we can have in our toolbox to effectively include them in our program.

Natalie is a paediatric Occupational Therapist who works with children with a variety of special needs.

Visual, creative, exciting ideas to encourage your children to pray. Fun and effective ideas for families, church, RE, camps, bringing an understanding and acceptance of prayer into their everyday experience.

Judy has previous experience of 20 years as a Children`s Ministry Leader/Pastor including overseas training of children`s ministry workers, a valued team member on various mission trips connected with children & prayer. She also worked as a Teacher Aide with Special Needs children. Currently conducts workshops on encouraging and inspiring children to pray. Her passion is children, prayer & mission, which has enabled her to be involved with praying children around the globe!

If you think schools are closed or closing to Christians, come check this perspective out.

Naomi Swindon is a training specialist for SU Victoria with a lifelong focus on engaging, impactful youth work that embodies Jesus’ way and invites people on board. She loves a good laugh, justice and singing her heart out!

Understanding some of the factors that cause behaviour is a beginning step in shaping appropriate response strategies for helping children to manage their behaviour and keep you in control. Practical components of the session include some first step strategies, preparatory checklists and a 10 Point Discipline Plan to help you help a child to navigate through their challenging behaviours to bring positive results.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

How can you hold an audience without a rope? Come and discover the key elements in the art of storytelling that will help to connect with your audience, maintain their attention and create a special space for God to touch people’s hearts and minds. Such is the power of story and it is as easy as A, B, C & D.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

Put your burning questions to some seasoned practitioners.

Naomi Swindon is a training specialist for SU Victoria with a lifelong focus on engaging, impactful youth work that embodies Jesus’ way and invites people on board. She loves a good laugh, justice and singing her heart out!

“Why didn’t God stop the tsunami?”, “Why did God let my mum die?” These big questions are just a sample of the many questions that children ask and need to find some answers for as they struggle to make sense of life and faith. How we respond and journey with children in the conversations that follow is of vital importance for children to grow in their understanding of God and their own faith.

Terry trained and worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools before joining the staff team of Scripture Union Queensland, where he has worked for 37 years as a specialist in ministry with families and children. Terry’s passion is to help children to find and live out a lifelong faith in Jesus and to find the ‘life to the full’ that He provides as well as supporting families in their primary role in faith formation. Terry is married to Margaret and they have three adult children and five grandchildren.

So you find yourself with a young but passionate bunch of volunteers. How do you develop them into more competent and more capable leaders that will support and then out-lead you? How do you make them into a team that is humming along and kicking goals? In this session we’ll discover some ways to intentionally develop your team in a Christ-like way.

Brad Case is the Connection Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church and loves to see young emerging leaders cultivate healthy spiritual foundations to flourish in lifelong ministry. Brad has been a school chaplain, youth and children’s pastor and QLD State Director for Generations ministry, long time SU Qld camps director and has even written a children’s book. He is married to Mercy and together they are always making travel plans. He enjoys all kinds of sport and music, breaking out his saxophone whenever possible.

TBC

Tom has been leading teams of people involved in youth and young adult ministry for almost 20 years. From state wide events to small one off teams to long running ministries, he has successfully built and led teams for a huge variety of purposes.

Neurodiverse people think and operate a little differently. This term is used when describing people with autistic spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and others. Neurodiverse youth often struggle fitting in at church and school. This session will provide some practical ideas on how to help them.

Stuart has worked in Christian ministry with children, youth and adults for almost 30 years. He has been a teacher, worked in local missions, and pastoral ministry. More recently, he has started a counselling practice and has a passion for helping people discover hope.

Jesus was good with outsiders. He seemed to like and know how to engage really well with those who were different. And his time with them was often life-changing. Our modern society however struggles with differences. We live most comfortably in our own social, cultural, faith or social media bubble, and experience frustration that others can be so wrong. In this session we will explore the rich benefits of connection with, talking with, and nurturing healthy relationships with those of a different faith or culture.  You will gain practical help in building stronger communities, one chat at a time.

Tim Fawssett looks after Cross-Cultural Innovations at Scripture Union. From 2010-2017 he led a ministry called The Feast in multicultural Birmingham, England, helping equip Christian young people to engage with, love and share their faith with others of different faiths and cultures. Now Tim is taking this experience of vibrant engagement with “others” and exploring how it can inform and enrich ministry with SU and the local church.

TBC

Jim Schirmer is a counsellor, educator, church re-former and spiritual mentor who has worked with youth and young adults for over 15 years. He is the author of 'The Way of the Rabbi: Stories of Discipleship from the Gospel of Mark' (Morning Star Publishing).