Andy Hawthorne is the founder of The Message Trust an award-winning Christian mission organization that works with over a 100,000 of the hardest to reach young people in Greater Manchester and beyond. Andy’s particular calling to enable young people growing up in difficult neighbourhoods to hear and experience the gospel led him to found Eden. Eden is a network of missional communities in which teams of Christians move, work and support local churches in some of the UK’s most disadvantaged communities to reach young people.

While CB has developed a global ministry, teaching frequently in Asia, USA and Australia, he and his wife Selina remain strongly engaged in integral mission in India. They have a particular passion for building and strengthening younger leaders in their spiritual formation and their mission engagement. CB is Chairman of Micah Challenge India, serves on the Board of the UK-based Oxford Centre of Mission Studies and is an associate field worker with our hosting partner, TEAR Australia.

Sereki is part of the Praxis network and is the Pacific co-ordinator for Ola Fou (meaning ‘new life’). Ola Fou is an initiative aimed at supporting Pacific based youth workers develop their leadership skills and gain a qualification around working with young people in their community. Sereki is based in Suva, married to married to Asinate and is a dad to two great boys.

Goma Conlon is the training co-ordinator for Jisas wantaim which works across denominational and geographical boundaries, focussing on partnering to advance the Gospel in our Indigenous communities. They key objective is equipping, empowering and enabling Indigenous Christians and ministries.

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With a background in education, Cheryl spent fifteen years at Tabor College Victoria, first as a lecturer, then as a principal and now as the Head of Theology. She has a strong interest in the access of women to ministry opportunities and for six years coordinated the network, Women in Ministry. She has more recently worked as the Director of Evangelical Alliance and Director of Victorian Council of Christian Education (VCCE).

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.

Australia’s first and up until recently, Queensland’s only ordained Indigenous Baptist minister, is creating a new pathway of Christian leadership training for Indigenous communities and churches.