Garth Bainbridge - Elders Leadership Development (Sun - 9:00am)
The pastors and elders make up the pastoral team of the local church. This workshop will explore the idea of team work and will examine how, as a team and as individuals, elders can be effective spiritual leaders.

Garth Bainbridge - Leaders As Mentors (Sun - 10:30am)
Everyone is in a mentoring relationship, both receiving from and giving to others. Yet mentoring is one of the greatest functional lacks in the church, causing many potential leaders to come to a tragic end.

Erna Johnson - Hospitality - It Takes A Church (Fri - 2:30pm)
Around the world society is becoming fractured. People are often separated from family and friends. As people move more frequently and travel more extensively, they often find themselves in communities and churches where they know no one.

Kenn Duke - Pastoral Care (Sun - 10:30am)
Pastoral Care lives in the space between our everyday lives and God. This workshop explores our face-to-face relationships, awakening these to the living relationship with God in grace and integrity.

Alan C Bates - Leading People To Serve (Sun - 9:00am)
This workshop will inspire you to lead volunteers to greater efforts by understanding what motivates and sustains them in every aspect of gospel ministry.

Garth Bainbridge - Self Leadership (Fri - 10:30am)
This workshop will teach you how to lead yourself, how to direct your spiritual growth, your time and emotions, your priorities and energies, your thinking and speaking. Leadership has everything to do with the qualities of the leader.

Andre Afamasaga - Ordinary Christians Sharing Their Faith (Sun - 9:00am)
God calls us - ordinary Christians - to share our faith, spreading it to as many other people as possible. He wants to use every one of us to bring others into a relationship
with Him that will last throughout their lives and into eternity.

Gilbert Cangy - Spiritual Formation (Sabb - 2:30pm)
How do we move from being Church members to being a disciple of Christ; from knowing about God to knowing God? How do we move from Bible study that increases knowledge to Bible meditation that transforms life?

Murray House - Preaching For Life Change (Sabb - 2:30pm & 4:15pm)
Over two workshops Murray will share ideas and resources for constructing sermons that connect with people and inspire them to action.

Jonathan Duffy - Growing Resilience In Youth (Sun - 10:30am)
Australian youth are participating in risk behaviour at an alarming rate. A recent study showed that 85% of year 10 students and 94% of year 12 students binge drink and that 25% of year 10 students and 50% of year 12 students are sexually active.

David Gibbons - Sharing Your Church News (Fri - 2:30pm , Sun - 9:00am)
It is very important that we share our church news with our own members as well as the public. This seminar is a practical workshop where you will learn how to write stories that get published and read, and how to take photos that people will look at.

David Haupt - Walk Where Jesus Walked (Sabb - 4:15pm)
David draws from his personal experience and walk with God. He shares a journey of faith, dotted with excitement, disappointments, danger and seeing the impossible becoming possible as God transforms the lives of the most hopeless cases.

Erna Johnson - Reclaiming Former Members (Sun - 9:00am)
Many congregations would probably be satisfied with 70% of the members attending worship services regularly. However, most churches have far less than 50% attending. Should we be satisfied with seeing only a fraction of our members in church regularly?

Jim Dhiacou - Assimilating New Members (Sabb - 2:30pm)
If you’d like to know how to attract non-Christians to your church; how to worship Jesus with them, help them grow spiritually, then help them share their faith with other non-Christians, then you’ll want to attend this workshop.

Mirella Gordon - Becoming An Interactive Church (Sabb - 4:15pm)
The interactive church program has been developed by Adventist Media Network. It is a five point plan to teach church leaders how they can become externally focused and known in their community.

Peter Brewin - Church Structure, Committee, Minute Keeping (Fri - 10:30am)
This workshop will bring you up-to-date with our worldwide organisation. It will help you be better organised for your committees and teach you how to accurately and efficiently keep minutes and records.

Danuta Makosz - Sharing Your Faith (Fri - 10:30am)
Discover that sharing your faith is fun, fulfilling, and easier than you realise when you follow the example of Jesus. Find practical ways that you can reach people in your local community that are not time consuming, non-threating, not pushy and loads of fun.

Brendan Pratt - Effective Church Boards (Fri - 2:30pm)
What are the big questions the Church Board really needs to pray and work through? What’s the difference between a governance Board and a management Board? What does it take to be part of an effective Board that makes an impact?

Jim Dhiacou - Ministering To Men (Fri - 4:15pm)
Our children, our families and our churches need men to be real, to have purpose, and be accountable. Our loved ones are also in desperate need for men to be role models who can shine and encourage spiritual growth in others and themselves.

Daron Pratt - Family Worship Ideas (Sun - 10:30am)
How many people do you know who have time on their hands? We live busy lives and tend to squeeze family worship time out of our lives. This interactive workshop will inspire you to share your passion for God with your children.

Brendan Pratt - Leading Healthy Churches (Sun - 9:00am & 10:30am)
How are Adventist churches being effective? What does it take to move an Adventist church forward in terms of mission? Brendan will facilitate discussion time and Q & A with some innovative leaders including Eddie Tupai and Glenn Townend.

Richie Reid - Leading A StormCo Team (Fri - 10:30am)
StormCo’s goal is to send teams of trained young people to work for, learn from, and encourage individual communities. The aim is to share God’s love by building bridges with all peoples through an adventure in service to others.

Sue Redman - Powerful Testimonies (Fri - 2:30pm)
Why did Jesus tell His disciples to testify? (John 15:27) What made the apostles’ testimonies so powerful? (Acts 15:27) These are important questions if you want to share Jesus with others today.

Litiana Qiosese - Deuteronomy Model In A Changing World (Sun 10:30am)
As a 2nd generation Pacific Islander living in Sydney there are numerous tensions within this cross-cultural world. Many young people are reported as statistics within the Juvenile Justice System. God has a Dream. We have a problem. God has a Model. We have an opportunity to impact the lives and hearts of young people for God’s glory.

Litiana Qiosese - Teaching PowerPoint/Real Time Faith (Fri - 10:30am)
Are you having trouble engaging the juniors and teens in your Sabbath school classes? Using effective teaching strategy/learning styles you can be involved in a lesson study that will challenge young people to choose Jesus for themselves.

Cheonneth Strickland - Puppetry That Inspires (Sabb - 4:15pm)
Ever wanted to learn how a puppet ticks? How to make a piece of cloth move as if it were alive? Can you use puppetry in your local setting? This workshop will answer these questions and more and help you learn the ten commandments of puppetry.

Troy Roberts - Impacting Your Local Community (Fri - 2:30pm)
This interactive workshop will look at different opportunities we have to make an impact through serving in our Sydney communities. Come and discover areas in which you can make an impact.

Eddie Tupai - Developing Healthy Churches (Fri - 2:30pm)
Provides an overview of what a healthy Adventist Church is. Looks at how to move a church towards being healthier in worship, outreach, spiritual growth, church unity and ministry. Come with a willingness to be God’s Church in the last days.

Eddie Tupai - Building Community (Sabb - 4:!5pm)
Church people need to get on with each other! (Someone say AMEN!) Need I say more? We will start with Authentic Community and then it’s all uphill from there.

Eddie Tupai - Spiritual Gifts (Sabb - 2:30pm)
You are best at what God has designed you to be the very best at. Knowing and focusing on your gifts is more important than trying to improve on what God hasn’t even gifted you for. Be prepared to be blown away.

Johnny Wong - Leading Life - Changing Small Groups (Friday - Sabbath)
This workshop will look at case studies of how churches can be reinvented and fulfill God’s great commission. Proven practical skills to run a soul winning CARE group will be the focus of the presentation.

Scott Wegener - Web Based Evangelism (Fri - 10:30am)
This workshop will help you to get your church web-site noticed by members and the public. We will look at the content presented and how the new net Adventist V3 software can help.

Daron Pratt - Ballooning Ministry (Sun - 9:00am)
Discover how the power of the gospel and the magic of ballooning continues to inspire the children in your church and community.

Glenn Townend - Facilitating Change In The Local Church (Sabb - 2:30pm & 4:15pm)
It’s not about change but about grasping together God’s preferred future or vision for your church and working as a team with God to make it happen, (over two workshops).

Brendan Pratt / Lyle Southwell - Evangelism Planning (Sabb - 2:30pm)
How can your church engage in an evangelism process that moves people who are far from God to active disciples reaching more people? What stepping stones in the evangelism process does your church already have in place?

Lyle Southwell - Life Changing Bible Studies (Sun - 10:30am)
This workshop will be an introduction to practical and effective Bible work. We will look at the basic methods of getting Bible studies, preparing Bible studies, presenting Bible studies, answering questions and leading a person to Christ.

Community matters. That's about like saying oxygen matters. As our lungs require air, so our souls require what only community provides. We were designed by our Trinitarian God (who is Himself a group of three persons in profound relationship with each other) to live in relationship. Without community, we die. It’s that simple. Without a community where we know, explore, discover, and touch one another, we experience isolation and despair that drives us in wrong directions, that corrupts our efforts to live meaningfully and to love well.