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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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We are excited to announce that Helen Wright will be leading worship at SURRENDER19!⠀ ⠀ Helen Wright is the evenings pastor at Newtown Mission and oversees the missional project of Annandale Creative Arts Centre. Her work sees her engaging with artists of all disciplines from all different backgrounds around issues of justice and social transformation. Helen is passionate about joining local initiatives that push against self-interested cultural norms and that celebrate inclusion, diversity, creativity and generosity. She also writes and records worship songs with a passion to find a collective voice in crying out to our God of justice and seeking his Kingdom restoration.⠀ ⠀ To register head to the link in our bio!⠀ ⠀ #Interwoven #Surrender19
Introducing you to some of our amazing workshop speakers! Meet:⠀ ⠀ - Mark Scandrette is an internationally recognized expert in practical Christian spirituality. He is the cofounder of Reimagine, a center for integral Christian practice. His most recent books include Free, Practicing the Way of Jesus, Belonging and Becoming, and The Ninefold Path Notebook. In addition to leading retreats and workshops for leaders and teams around the world, Mark teaches in the Doctoral program at Fuller Seminary. He is on the creative team for the Nine Beats Collective, an international project exploring the beatitudes as a 21st vocabulary for the living way of Jesus.⠀ ⠀ - Brooke Prentis is an Aboriginal Christian Leader who is a descendant of the Waka Waka peoples. Brooke is the Aboriginal spokesperson for Common Grace, the Coordinator of the Grasstree Gathering, and a board member of NAIITS Australia. Brooke is a community pastor, speaker, writer, and advocate who has a vision "to build an Australia built on truth, justice, love and hope". ⠀ ⠀ - Rev Meewon Yang, Multicultural Church Health Consultant⠀ Meewon Yang has over two decades experience of the challenges faced by first and second-generation migrant Christians from culturally diverse backgrounds in Australia. As a Multicultural Consultant in the BUV, she is aiming to build health, governance and sustainability into LOTE congregations. Meewon has been a passionate advocate for asylum seekers and refugees, and heavily involved in issues of immigration and settlement.⠀ ⠀ - Tri Nguyen has been part of the pastoral team of Ashburton Baptist Church pastoral team since June 2017. Tri came to Australia in 1982, as a refugee fleeing Vietnam after the war. Tri came to faith through the ministry of Moonee Ponds Baptist Church. Their welcome and love for Tri inspired him to dedicate his life to serving the body of Christ and the wider community. Since then, Tri has been walking alongside marginalised children, youth and young adults in Melbourne and in Vietnam.⠀ ⠀ We are so looking forward to all the amazing stories they will share with is. Don’t miss it. Register here: https://buff.ly/2Fw4nMO #interwoven #Surrender19
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

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