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SURRENDER EXISTS TO RAISE UP CHRISTIANS TO LIVE THE RADICAL CALL OF JESUS AND FOLLOW HIM TO THE LEAST, THE LAST AND THE LOST.

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Introducing you to some of our amazing workshop speakers! Meet:⠀ ⠀ - Commissioned as a Salvation Army Officer in 1988, Sandra McLean Crowden has served in Australia, Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Her service has included seven Corps appointments as well as Divisional, Territorial and teaching roles. A mother and a grandmother, Sandra is committed to working to ensure that each person is recognised as having their own voice. ⠀ ⠀ - John Flett is associate professor of missiology and intercultural theology at Pilgrim Theological College, Melbourne. Having lived and taught in the USA, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, South Korea, Germany, the DRC, and Australia, he researches how beliefs take physical form in religious, social and political life. ⠀ ⠀ - James Harrison is currently a youth pastor at CityLife Casey and a member of the Berwick Secondary Wellbeing team. For over 10 years, he has worked in various capacities alongside young people including training and accommodation with Concern Australia, Streetlighters in Dandenong, social enterprise, taught trauma frameworks in community settings and is currently Co-directing Forge Melbourne. James is also a part of the KrossWerdz Australia collective, primarily as a graffiti artist and is an active member of both KWA and the Gospel Graffiti crew’s. Taking serious the Missio Dei, James is passionate about place making and celebrating other ordinary disciple’s fresh expressions and imagination for God’s family and justice.⠀ ⠀ - Oreste Pompetti is a passionate Jesus disciple and people connector who seeks to follow faithfully with a “wherever...whenever, anywhere...anytime” attitude. Oreste’s journey with Jesus has taken him to all kinds of spaces, places and work including Community Development and Place Making , Missional Community and Church Leadership, Early Childhood Intervention, Higher Education and the Transport industry. Oreste is also a co-Director of Forge Melbourne, a mission training network that seeks to birth and nurture the missional church.⠀ ⠀ We are so looking forward to all the amazing stories they will share with is. Don’t miss it. Register via the link in our bio. #interwoven #Surrender19
We love our volunteers! ⠀ ⠀ There is still time to join the team of amazing volunteers who share their experience, skills, and passion through serving! We'd love you to consider being part of the SURRENDER:19 Melbourne Team and get discounted tickets. To apply head to our website and click the Volunteer tab under SURRENDER19!⠀ #Interwoven #Surrender19
Introducing you to some of our amazing workshop speakers! Meet:⠀ ⠀ - L'Arche is an international federation of faith communities where people with and without an intellectual disability share life together. It will be a group of people with disability sharing their stories – “Presence and Experience of People with Disability in our World”. ⠀ ⠀ - Matt Anslow has worked in pastoral ministry, aid and development, church-based community development, community gardening, and refugee advocacy/activism with the organisation he co-founded, Love Makes a Way. He also has a PhD in Theology from Charles Sturt University, and serves as the Vice-President of the Anabaptist Association of Australia & New Zealand. ⠀ ⠀ - Mick Duncan has two types of degrees: street and academic. His ‘street degrees’ come out of working in neighborhoods in the following cities: Dunedin, Manila, Melbourne, Central and South Auckland. His new neighborhood is that of Whanganui. His academic degrees are in Sociology and Theology. His PhD explores the motif of walking toward the stranger in our midst. Mick has also written a number of books books; including Costly Mission and Alongsiders. Mick continues to teach, speak and write, pastor, mentor and come alongside whomever for the Kingdom. He is also the Chair of Open Homes Foundation, which seeks to place vulnerable children in care and is also on the Board of World Vision. ⠀ ⠀ - Peter Volkofsky, along with his family and friends, he is attempting to live the shared life of community. He says that in this process, he has found much joy, much sorrow and the captivating presence of Jesus. Peter currently teaches scripture in five regional high schools, manages Midnite Café, chairs the board of a small school and is an author. Peter’s books are Beautiful Quest (non-fiction contemplative memoir) and Mia’s Magic Wand (thriller). He sees these works as expressions of lament. ⠀ ⠀ We are so looking forward to all the amazing stories they will share with is. Don’t miss it. Register via the link in our bio! #interwoven #Surrender19
We are excited to announce Joel McKerrow will be performing at Surrender19!⠀ ⠀ Brian Mclaren says of Joel McKerrow, 'In a time when politics, theology, and other important avenues of human intercourse suffer from a flatness of prose and a vacuum of meaning, Joel walks on stage just when we need him, sounding off with all the craft of a first-rate poet and all the verve of a first-rate performer.’ Joel is a writer, speaker, educator, community arts worker and one of Australia’s most successful internationally touring performance poets. Based out of Melbourne, Australia he is the Artist Ambassador for the aid and development organisation ‘TEAR Australia’ and was the founder of community arts organisation, 'The Centre for Poetics and Justice' (2010-2013).⠀ ⠀ To register head to the link in our bio!⠀ ⠀ #Interwoven #Surrender19
Some of the SURRENDER Hosting Partner reps met up today to get our heads around SURRENDER19! Only 6 weeks to go until SURRENDER19:Interwoven conference! Have you got your tickets yet?? #Surrender19 #Interwoven
SURRENDER19 / 21-24 March 2019 / Belgrave Heights Convention Centre⠀ ⠀ INTERWOVEN: Can we all come together?⠀ "The accelerating polarization of the globe, our society, and even the church is at odds with Jesus’ identity as the Prince of Peace for all the world, and his command for us to love each other. Yet the work of His Kingdom continues unceasingly, as God continues to weave the torn parts of our universe back together, thread by thread. In our diversity, Christ calls us together. Will we listen and follow the call? Then, together, can we be a hope for a hurting world?"⠀ ⠀ The Surrender19 Conference is a gathering of Christians from across Australia to share ideas, stories and hope on justice, discipleship and mission. It is for people from all walks of life - with workshops for first-timers, amazing keynote speakers and performing artists, fantastic activities for all ages, and heaps more!⠀ ⠀ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS⠀ Heidi Baker⠀ Kyle Slabb⠀ Seforosa Carroll⠀ Setareki Macanawai⠀ Justin Duckworth⠀ ⠀ Register via the link in our bio!⠀ #Interwoven #Surrender19
Introducing you to some of our amazing workshop speakers! Meet:⠀ ⠀ - Bradon French is a husband & father, and the Youth Ministry Coordinator for the Uniting Church Vic/Tas. Bradon has been supporting youth ministry in churches for 15 years. Bradon has spent time teaching students with disabilities, supporting migrant communities, training youth workers and leaders & coordinating festivals for young people. ⠀ ⠀ - Cathie Staunton hopes to be a part of expanding God’s Kingdom through sharing in hospitality, encouraging and supporting others in order for them to live the life God created them for. In recent times opportunities that have come her way have involved multicultural groups and she thrives in the space of diversity. She is excited by the CALD church growth in the Australian Baptist movement and their potential involvement in Global Mission. Her work with the Global Interaction Vic/Tas office, as a Young Adults Consultant has led to her to discern her own cross cultural call and she is planning to move to Cambodia with her husband and three kids in 2019. ⠀ ⠀ - Amanda Merrett is a Salvo from Melbourne who currently works as a Policy and Social Justice Advisor. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion and has a particular focus on gender. Amanda believes that faith communities have a specific role to play in the prevention of violence and the empowerment of women.⠀ ⠀ - Along with his wife Christy, David McHugh is the leader of the justice expression of Stairway. In this role they both shape the direction of how Stairway answers the call for a just response to the poor and marginalized. David sits on a board of an anti-human trafficking organisation that operates in South East Asia and is currently studying a Master of Arts in Innovation and Leadership through Kilns College. ⠀ ⠀ We are so looking forward to all the amazing stories they will share with is. Don’t miss it. Register via the link in our bio! #interwoven #Surrender19

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