Just Jesus Ministry (JJM) is a local church based in Werribee, Victoria, with branches across Australia and New Zealand. The Melbourne team is made up mostly of young people who love God and love music. They lead worship every week and regularly serve the community through outreach and events. JJM's Music sound is a mix of well-known worship songs and their own originals. In 2025, their first original release hit over 100,000 views on YouTube. The team leading worship at Surrender includes both vocalists and musicians, and they’re passionate about helping people connect with God through heartfelt, authentic worship.

Faithful Melodies is a collective of young Christian artists who use rap, spoken word, and gospel music to share their faith and life experiences. The group is part of Faithful Coalition, a community of young men connected to ASPYA Foundation. Most of the members have overcome tough backgrounds, including the youth justice system and now use music as a way to speak life, hope, and truth into the lives of others. Their songs tackle real issues like violence, grief, faith, and change but always with a message that points back to Jesus. Faithful Melodies is all about showing that you can be creative, honest, and still glorify God.

Sean & Rachel Attard are Officers in The Salvation Army who have worked in faith settings across rural, suburban and city Victoria over the last 15 years. In recent years Rachel has brought her love of organising to the forefront of ministry, specialising in decluttering with people largely at risk of losing their tenancy. Sean has dedicated the last few years to ministry and outreach in the community of North Richmond. His favourite worship songs are Christmas Carols or whatever they’re singing at Pub Choir. They are both team members of the Richmond Salvos, have two sons and a cat called Victor.

Joel McKerrow is an award winning writer, keynote speaker, educator, MC and one of Australia's most successful performance poets. A long time friend of the festval, he first appeared on the surrender stage back in 2011. Since that time, he’s been quite busy. He is the VIC/TAS President of PSA (Professional Speakers Australia), the artist ambassador for Tearfund Australia, Director of The School for Creative Development, an author with Penguin-Random House, an award-winning writer of eleven books, Australia’s only certified Applied Narrative Intelligence specialist and the host of The Deep Place Podcast.