Speakers
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| Bart Campolo Bart is a veteran urban minister and activist from the US who speaks and writes about grace, faith, loving relationships and social justice. Bart is the leader of The Walnut Hills Fellowship in inner city Cincinnati. He is also founder of Mission Year, a ministry which recruits committed young adults to live and work among the poor in inner-city neighborhoods and executive director of EAPE, which develops and supports innovative, cost-effective mission projects around the world. |
Rudo Kwaramba Born in Zimbabwe, Rudo moved to the UK in 2004 to join World Vision UK. She headed up World Vision in Zimbabwe and is a human rights lawyer. She has worked for a women’s rights organisation as well as UNHCR. Rudo has recently taken the post of National Director of World Vision in Uganda and she hosted the recent series produced by the BBC’s Channel 4 ‘Millionaires Mission’. |
David Ruis David Ruis is a Canadian Christian artist known for his blending of pop, rock, electronica and world into his musical style. His music seeks to discover an integration of theology and creative worship that addresses the issues of poverty and social justice. He has also written two books on the subject, “The Justice God Is Seeking” and “The Worship God Is Seeking” David, his wife Anita and their four children are currently reside in Los Angeles, USA. |
Claudio Oliver Claudio has spent over 20 years living and working with the urban poor on community development, dental and medical projects, environmental projects, team equipping and teaching in Curitiba, Brazil. Claudio is a practitioner of the Gospel who believes in questioning what you think and thinking about what you practice. He has an amazing new way of revealing the transformative and justice seeking heart of God through story and metaphor. |
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| Billy Williams Pastor Billy and Vicki Williams head up dhiiyan Community Church in Queensland. Billy is currently undertaking Theological studies at the Queensland Baptist’s Malyon College and is the director of Djaywunti, one of SURRENDER’s Founding Partners.Billy’s has worked in Indigenous affairs for over 12 years for groups such as Queanbeyan City Council, ATSIC Central and Townsville Regional Office; and many more. Billy is widely used as a Cross Cultural Communicator and he has delivered sessions to NRL players, AFL players and other National Sporting Organisations. |
Danielle Strickland One of the groups most often identified in our society with care for the marginalised is the Salvation Army, and the Salvos are gearing up for the 21st century. They have set up an International Social Justice Directorate with Canadian Captain Danielle Strickland recently appointed Social Justice Director for the Salvation Army Southern Territory based in Melbourne. Danielle is also involved in the leadership of a missional gathering in the inner city suburb of Collingwood. |
Jarrod McKenna Gandhi said, “I claim to be no more than an average person with less than average ability” and Jarrod McKenna is convinced that all of creation groans waiting for “average person[s] with less than average ability” (like us!) to lose our lives in the extraordinarly beautiful business of living God’s love; of being “The Beloved Community”. As Martin Luther King, Jr. put it “A new world is emerging”(!) Jarrod has been seeking to inspire, equip, educate and empower communities in the grace-filled practices of living into this “new world” by rediscovering the “Sermon on the Mount”. |
Dave Andrews Dave, his wife Ange, and their family, have lived and worked in intentional communities with marginalised groups of people in Australia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal for more than thirty years. He now lives in a large joint household with his wife, children, grandchildren and others in an inner city community called ‘The Waiters Union’ in Brisbane, Australia. Dave is also National Educator for TEAR Australia. He is author of many books and articles, including Christi-Anarchy, Not Religion, But Love, Building A Better World and the newly released People of Compassion |
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| Ray Minniecon Ray is a descendant of the Kabi Kabi people of South-East Queensland. He belongs to the Douwaburra tribe. Ray is also a descendant of the South Sea Islander people with connections to the people of Ambrym Island. Currently, Ray works with the Anglican Diocese of Sydney as Pastor in Redfern and director of Crossroads Aboriginal Ministries. He is also the Chairperson of the Sydney Anglican Indigenous Peoples Committee. |
Mark Sayers Mark is the co-director UBER, a ministry initiative that provides research, commentary and insight into today’s culture and the pertinent issues affecting the lives of young adults. Mark also spends his time doing mission and ministry with the Red Network — an innovative network of urban churches. Mark is the author of ‘The Trouble with Paris’ and his second book ‘The Horizontal Self’ is soon to be released through Thomas Nelson. |
Mick Duncan Mick, a convert out of the hippie drug counter culture has pastored churches in Dunedin, Manila, Melbourne and Auckland. With his family, he lived in the slums of Manila, engaged in church planting, mercy ministries, community development and justice making. He has degrees in sociology and theology and has authored several books including his most recent Wild Ones (2006) He travels and speaks extensively in Australia and New Zealand inviting people to be there for those who sit and stand alone.
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Ann Van LeerdamA nn is one of the Pastors of St Martins Community Church in Collingwood, Victoria and the Director of Concern Australia’s LiveWires program so she is very fortunate to work along side Shirley Osborne and John Smith. LiveWires project is a free and accessible after school program for children aged 5 to 11 who reside in and around the Collingwood Housing Estate. These children otherwise would not have an opportunity to attend such a program. The program runs two nights per week. There are up to 400 children living on the Estate, many of which are left unsupervised after school.
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| John Smith Dr John Smith, founder of God’s Squad Christian Motorcycle Club, is one of our modern day prophets. Pastor at St Martins Church and Executive Director of Concern Australia, John has given his life to those on the margins and speaks regularly at conferences throughout the world. John is also the author of numerous books including an updated and revised version of The Cutting Edge and Advance Australia Where – A lack of meaning in a land of plenty |
Jo Duncan Jo has completed a Bachelors of Social Sciences, double majoring in Social Policy and Sociology. She has been working with young people in High Schools around NZ for four years, particularly with those ‘at risk’, largely focusing on issues around Sex, Sexuality and Relationships. Jo is also involved in pioneering a volunteer project ‘StreetWorks’ which has seen hundreds of volunteers enter into communities they would have never engaged with before; breaking stereotypes, moulding leaders and creating sustainable community initiatives. |
Milliwanga Sandy Milli is a charasmatic Elder from Beswick community near Katherine in the Northern Territory. She is widely recognised as a significant teacher and leader in the area of bilingual education for Indigenous Australians. |
