Hutt City Baptist Church is a large, inner-city church operating out of a complex that consists of the church offices, a number of auditoriums, and several shop front tenancies. Managing a staff of 8 direct paid employees along with a base of over 300 key volunteers and teams. Key aspects of my role include:- Developing and implementing a vision and growth sustainability plan; - Managing staff, volunteer teams, building and church assets; - Leading, directing and supporting the various church ministries and activities; - Financial operations including budget management, fundraising and continued development and management of support organisations; - Weekly public speaking and teaching; - Negotiating business development plans that included expanding agreements with local social development entities, the Lower Hutt City Council and developing business arrangements with key support partners, including large, multinational organisations such as Reading Cinemas. Over the course of the last four years I have overseen three major building projects as part of our overall future strategic plan, and raised over $750,000 on top the raised annual operational budget requirement.

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Presenter, lecturer and trainer for the Discerning Personal Vision session for Arrow Leadership New Zealand. This consists of a day seminar discerning and developing aspects of Personal and Corporate Vision.

Senior Manager, Team and Teaching Leader of the Opawa Baptist Church Organisation. Managed a staff of up to 5 direct paid employees along with over a dozen key volunteer groups. During my tenure we experienced the greatest natural disaster in the history of New Zealand with both the September 2010 and February 2011 earthquakes. During that time we lost a number of members who left the city and, as an organisation, we were crippled by damaged buildings and financial hardship. With limited resources, I was able to create opportunities and implement a vision and strategy to help navigate the church through a very trying time. This consisted of:- Re-imaging the church through the implementation of a new identity, vision and sustainability plan due to the environmental and social changes imposed. - The development of community ministry teams to deal with the growing needs of our local community; - Negotiating with Insurance, builders, Council and the local community over property redevelopment.

- Led the Junior and Senior High School groups, the Young Adult Ministry, and all the music, sound, media and technical aspects of the church services at Southview, along with managing the respective teams. - Built, trained and developed both the services and youth leadership teams.- Regularly preached at both morning and evening services.- Started a young adult ministry reaching young people aged between 18 and 29; - Developed the church web and blog sites.- Organised major Church outreach events including our yearly New Beginnings Weekend Event, and the - Living Nativity Story, both events which attracted hundreds of visitors from the community.- Designed and oversaw a complete renovation of the new worship auditorium and building.

REMEDY is a young adult ministry supported by YFC. My role consisted in assisting the organisation and running of Remedy. This consisted of reaching out to young adults between the ages of 18 and 29. My duties included:• Weekly teaching. This was performed in a Bible study environment with approximately 10 to 15 young adults present. The studies were primarily apologetic in nature, though many were also sessions for equipping the students for evangelical outreach• Discipling and counseling. This was achieved through the development of off-campus programs and relationships, primarily to assist young adults in their walk with the Lord. This was offered primarily through prayer and one on one interaction.Remedy also ran outreach events on local college campuses, of which I was also a part of organizing and running. I continue to this day in discipling many of the students and young adults from Remedy, both from a counseling stand point to assisting them with their walk in the Lord.

Co-Founding pastor at LifeSong Church, a new church plant supported by the Church Planting arm of the Baptist Churches of the West, Growing Healthy Churches (GHC). The idea of the church plant came to head in August of 2005 when the senior pastor of Helensburgh Baptist Church (located in Helensburgh, Australia), John Smulo, was approached by the then head of Growing Healthy Churches (GHC), John Kaiser. I was approached by John Smulo shortly thereafter, and after a meeting with John Smulo, John Kaiser and Paul Borden (The head of Baptist Churches of the West), was formally asked to assist John Smulo in the planting of a new church in Northern California. In December 2005 I formally attended the DCPI (Dynamic Church Planting International) training conference in San Diego, CA, preparing us for the imminent occasion of our church plant. Our first service was conducted January 29, 2006 at the Senior’s Center located in Elk Grove, CA, an outside suburb of Sacramento. My roles from day one were to establish and run the youth, young adult and worship ministries. Within a month most of the basic ministry areas were in place (including youth, worship, kids ministry and outreach).With time my role came to include also the multimedia ministry and regular Sunday morning preaching. An important point in the church’s life was meeting with Randal Broadhurst and the joining of his young adult group, Remedy, to LifeSong. This provided a great outreach opportunity and increased my workload to helping out in areas outside of the church. By this time we were running three midweek programs (youth, young adults and two home groups). My last service with LifeSong was October 22. I continued working with Remedy until my next appointment came up with Southview.

Associate Pastor for Helensburgh Baptist Church, a medium sized rural community church located in the Illawarra region on the south coast of NSW. Duties included organizing and running the youth group consisting of a large number of children aged between 10 and 17. This consisted of: • Two weekly bible studies consisting of a girls group and a boys group. I ran the boys group while I helped in the equipping of the girls group. • Organizing and running a young men’s discipleship program. This consisted a weekly meeting of young men with myself. The purpose of the group was to help in each individual’s Christian growth along with developing strong Christian fellowship.• A weekly activity night event. This occurred during the school semester. I organized and the ran the events with a particular focus on evangelical outreach to kids in the community who were not attending the church.Other duties included:• organizing and running the young adults group consisting of young men and women aged between 18 and 28. This was a small group whose focus was primarily on fellowship and Bible study.• Setting up, organizing and running the Fish Bowl, a regular youth and young adult event with the focus of building up the community thru the arts. Some of the events that I organized involved concerts by Christian artists (including groups now popular in the US – Revive & Paul Colman). • Assisted in Pastoral care and duties, including regular Sunday morning preaching. • Assisted in the development, organization and implementation of church events. This included outreach events such as our beach fellowship, Jazz in the Park (an outreach event held in the main park of Helensburgh) and Jazz and Carols (a Christmas outreach program).

Links to Learning is a program for youth having difficulties at completing school, whether it be for academic difficulties or behavioral problems. The aim was to develop a program that encourages and builds up the youth both socially (by creating social awareness and building for their future) and academically (through tutoring). Responsible for the development, implementation, evaluation and oversight of all aspects to the Links to Learning program within the Parks Community District. Casework with young people, including assessment, counseling, development of a contract with individual young people regarding their goals and maintain progress records for each young person. Turned around a project that was running at a loss into a program that now meets its financial budget without detriment to the core program.My responsibilities included:• The ongoing reporting of the project to the Department of Education and Training, according to the funding agreement. • Prepare reports on project outcomes, expenditure and administration for the Parks Community Network Manager and management Committee on a regular basis.• To liaise with schools and other youth services, TAFE and other relevant bodies in the development and implementation of the program.• To recruit, employ, supervise and support tutors and specialist facilitators.• Oversight of the Links to Learning budget and applying for further funds through government grants.

Associate Pastor for youth and worship for Parkside Baptist Church. Parkside is a large multicultural church located in south-western Sydney, well known for having a congregation from over 60 different nationalities. The job included unique challenges consistent with such a diverse and multi-cultural congregation. Duties included organizing and running the youth group (ages 12 to 17); organizing and running the young adults group (ages 17 to 29); The area in which the church was located is a depressed neighborhood with many social concerns and needs. This created a unique youth ministry with the helping and assisting youth and young adults with life recovery work such as relief from drug and alcohol addiction, suicidal tendencies, abusive relationships and family problems. This was then extended to the work I began to do for the Links to Learning program. Commenced, organized and ran the Sunday evening service. The Sunday evening service was geared toward young adult/college aged people. The service was structured around multimedia presentations and contemporary worship. My job was to organize the service, lead the worship and preach. On occasion my job was liaise with Christian bands and hire them for special worship nights. My other duties at Parkside included identifying and developing leaders in both the young adults and youth groups; pastoral care and duties for a congregation in excess of 500 people; and assisting in the development, organization and implementation of church events.

Began with the duty of organizing and building up the youth ministry from scratch for the West Dapto church. The church did not have a youth ministry and the presence of youth in the church was minimal. I grew the youth ministry by:• outreaching to youth in the local community by making a presence at local sports events and school carnivals. • Started a weekly youth group bible study and “hang out” night.• Equipped others in the church to assist in the outreach and discipling of youth.Within a year we had an established youth program in place and was able to hand off the ministry to a young leader gifted in youth leadership.I took the role of Worship leader in February 2002. The concern was that worship had become stale. Reorganized the team, putting in place a vision and strategy. Organized workshop programs for the worship team. This included teaching music theory, understanding a Biblical worldview on worship, and developing a heart of worship.Was elected church Elder in April 2002. The role as Elder was to assist in the general running of the church, from analyzing the financial status, to following through and implementing the church vision. The role also consisted in being part of weekly planning meetings and monthly church business meetings. Was elected Associate Pastor in November of 2002. Took on the a more educational role, helping with the development of Small Group Curriculum and the Sunday morning teaching program. Other duties included assisting in the running of church activities and events (including regular evangelistic outreach programs), regular preaching assignments and leading a home small group.

Was a member of this community when approached by the Elders to help in the running of the youth group. My duties included both teaching and counseling. Organized once weekly bible studies along with weekly youth activity nights. Combined outreach events with other local church youth groups and supported local para-church ministry evangelical groups.Began a Sunday night youth service. Organized the youth so that they could independently run the service, from the worship to the ushering. My role was to preach regularly at the service, along with oversee the it’s smooth running.This was the first church in which I publicly preached. Was raised up by one of the Elders, who took me through a discipleship course, working with me to equip my abilities and focus on my gifts