Allan Anderson For over 40 years Allan Anderson has worked with people who grieve as they try to cope with situations of major loss. These losses have arisen from many different life situations: divorce, migration, economic loss, adoption, death and other major life changes. Allan is the WA State Learning & Development Manager for InvoCare, a large National group of funeral companies. Allan is a registered Minister of Religion. He has ministered in Churches in WA, NSW and Victoria and has worked in rural, regional and metropolitan areas. Allan has been a consultant to the Funeral Industry for over 25 years and has trained Funeral Directors throughout Australia. He continues to conduct training programs for the funeral industry and community seminars on Loss and Grief. He has lectured at many Secondary and Tertiary Institutions and has conducted seminars for educational, medical and theological professionals in all States of Australia. Allan has acted as a consultant to the West Wimmera Health Service and served as a Police Chaplain for the Horsham region in Victoria. Allan is constantly involved with a wide range of personal counselling situations and through these assists people to move back into life after the dislocation of major loss. He has served in Executive positions in the National Association for Loss and Grief (W.A.), the Funeral and Bereavement Educators Association and other professional associations.  He was a member of the Professional Advisory Council for the Stillbirth and Neo-natal Death Support Group and has worked with support groups for parents who have experienced sudden infant death.  Allan was instrumental in the founding of SOLACE in Western Australia (support for widowed people) and served as the Professional Adviser and Support Worker trainer. He has served as a Board member of the Churches of Christ Aged Care Homes Board in NSW. Allan was a foundation member of the Australian Critical Incident Stress Association and a past member of the Association of Death Educators and Counsellors (USA). Allan was a part of the teams called to assist following the Queen Street shootings and the disaster at Port Arthur. Over a period of two years he worked closely with the Nubeena Community following the Port Arthur massacre and still has contact with some of those who faced the losses produced by that situation.
Doug Bridge Doug Bridge has been head of the palliative care service at Royal Perth Hospital since 1993, and a consultant at the Murdoch Community Hospice for eight years.  He was Medical Director of the Cottage Hospice when it first opened in 1987. Doug trained in Perth as a general physician. After a year as an intern at Royal Perth Hospital, Doug spent one year travelling around Australia as a "University chaplain" working for the AFES. He has lived in a Bangladeshi village for two years. Doug is married to Trenna (a GP) with three sons, and is a passionate tree farmer in Bridgetown. Doug has taught "The Spirituality of Dying" in Taiwan each year since 2003. Doug is a member of the Mount Pleasant Uniting Church.
Bruce Brodie As director of momentum ybc, Bruce is a fully accredited executive and performance coach with Results Coaching Systems. He is a member of the International Coaching Federation and has a passion for the change outcomes delivered by professional business coaching, personal coaching and mentoring. Bruce has a broad range of commerical experience from sales / marketing roles in private enterprise through to senior corporate positions including managing director and general manager roles across Australia for top 200 listed companies. He brings a unique self-directed learning and solutions focus to his coaching and mentoring work. Bruce is also a volunteer mentor with the Australian Institute of Management, a past judge on the Ernst & Young Entrepeneur of the Year awards, a citizen's advocate providing administrative support for people with disabilities and a long time member of the Bibbulmun Track Foundation where he is a volunteer guide and maintenance worker. He attends North Beach Baptist Church in Perth with this wife Dorothy and has three adult children.
Philip Bryant Philip Bryant was a secondary School Teacher before becoming a Youth Pastor at Banyo Baptist Church (QLD). The same church called him to be its Senior Pastor within 12 months. He became the Senior Pastor of Aberfeldie Baptist Church (VIC) while planting the Sydenham Baptist Church.  He was soon called to be the Church Planting Director for the Baptist Union of Victoria where he oversaw the planting of 39 churches in seven years.  This was followed by ten years as the Senior Pastor of Lakeside Baptist Church in WA.  He is currently the Church Health, Planting and Evangelism Consultant for the Baptist Churches of Western Australia.  He has published a Church Planting Workbook and written articles related to Church Planting, Church Health and Leadership.   He has completed a Higher Diploma Teaching Secondary (Deakin University, VIC), Graduate in Theology (Malyon College, QLD) and Masters of Arts – Ministry (Vose Seminary, WA).
Rodney Cox Rodney Cox is president and founder of Ministry Insights International, a ministry with the mission of Transforming Relationships Globally. This mission is driven from his love for pastors, staffs, couples, and families and his heart’s desire to unify the Body of Christ by helping everyone everywhere understand and lead from their strengths. His Leading From Your Strengths message has impacted more than 250,000 individuals and teams internationally. Rodney is a sought after speaker who challenges his audiences to build relationships based on their God- given strengths. He reveals God’s plan that differences are designed to complete and therefore unite, not divide, relationships. Rodney and his wife Beth live in Scottsdale, Arizona, with their two daughters.
Keith Farmer Keith has been described as a 'master mentor', currently mentoring eighty Christian leaders from a wide range of denominations and networks across Australia. He is a Churches of Christ minister with thirteen years of local church ministries experience in NSW and Victoria. Following this he was prinicipal of the Churches of Christ NSW Theological College for eighteen years and the Australian College of Ministries for six years. He is also a registered psychologist and has completed the Fuller Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry. Keith is married to Margaret and they have three children and nine grandchildren. His hobbies include bushwalking and watching sport.
Green Apple Green Apple Development is a Western Australian training organisation specialising in the delivery of mental health first aid, physical first aid, disability awareness training and customised workshops in mental health and disability training. It formed in 2005 in response to a growing demand for specialised training and development services, delivered by trainers with direct experience working in the area of mental health.
Wayne Field Wayne spent nearly ten years in the business world where he was employed as a manager trainer. These days he directs his entrepreneurial ability towards leading and stimulating positive change in the community through the ministry of the church he leads in Australind. He has a keen interest in “turn-around” churches and has studied this process in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, applying these principals effectively in his own context. Wayne is committed to the belief that everyone is a 10 out of 10 somewhere, and it is part of the church’s mandate to help people discover where that is and then equip and release them for ministry to the community in the name of Jesus Christ. He has spoken at numerous events across the State as well as presenting on the Better Than Life program broadcast in the Philippines. Wayne’s other interests include completing his MA in leadership, playing and listening to all kinds of music and also wilderness hiking. He is married to Jodie with three children, and they are all supporters of the Fremantle Football Club.
Mim Hosking Mim Hosking has been the Director of Children’s Ministry at Lakeside Baptist Church for the past 4 years and is passionate about Children’s Ministry. She has worked as a qualified carer in child care for over 10 years and as a part time relief teacher in primary schools. Mim learnt many skills whilst working with Rob Adams before heading to Morling Theological College in Sydney, and says that she hopes to continue to learn and grow in life’s journey everyday! Choosing to make her home in Western Australia, Mim enjoys scrapbooking, spending time with her 3 year old niece & chatting about life over a chai latte.
John Kaiser BA, MA, MDiv (Trinity), DMin (Denver) John is president of the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada, one of the country's larger evangelical denominations. Prior to that appointment he developed and directed GHC Network, a movement for growing healthy congregations. In the 1980s and 1990s he successfully founded and led both a midsize church and a large church in Florida with the Evangelical Free Church of America. John consults, trains and coaches leaders of churches, non-profit organisations and denominations across North America, New Zealand and Australia. He lives near Toronto with Lee, his wife of twenty-seven years. They have two adult children, Ben and Ruth.
Graham Mabury Graham Mabury has been presenter of 6PR’s Nightline program for the past 27 years. He says, “It’s been a great blessing to enjoy such a stay in an environment where you’re an optimist if you bring your lunch and no one buys a weekly bus ticket”. Graham began as a secondary educator, becoming Head of the Music department at one of Perth’s specialist music secondary schools. He then joined the ABC, but resigned to work with homeless young people in Perth in the mid 1970’s. He pioneered rehabilitation courses, and became a busy public speaker, as well as conducting seminars aimed at preventing social dislocation for thousands of secondary students. His work on Nightline saw the establishment of the Living Stone Foundation, now Lifeline WA, and the Christmas and Blanket Appeals that have become the Charity Link Appeals. He has extensive involvement with the community services sector, including serving on the Board of the Institute for the Service Professions at Edith Cowan University, the Chiropractic and the Animal Ethics Committee of the South Perth Zoological Gardens. He has served on the medical ethics committee of St John of God Healthcare, the Advisory Committee on Juvenile Offenders, He has received numerous awards including the Medal of the Order of Australia 2002 WA Citizen of the Year for community service, the Federation Medal, an Advance Australia Award, a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellowship and the Rona Oakley Award for Individual Achievement in the 2008 WA Consumer Protection Awards. He is a Fellow of Edith Cowan University. He has been on the team of Mt Pleasant Baptist Church for 26 years, Senior Pastor from 2000. In 2007 he became President of the Baptist Churches of WA. While still part of the Mt Pleasant team, in May he moved on from the role of Senior Pastor to work in the wider community – within the Baptist churches, across the denominations, and in the community services sector.
Keren Masters Keren has worked at South Perth Church of Christ as a Pastoral Carer for 5 years and as a Counsellor for 9 years. Keren is now the Manager /Supervisor for Life Streams Counselling and Life Skills at South Perth Church of Christ.  She initially did a BA in Family Studies, followed by a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling, and then went on to complete a Masters in Counselling. Keren is married with 4 children who are 17, 19, and two who are married aged 25 and 27. 2 nieces, 30 and 25, and a nephew, 27, are also part of the family. Keren was born and raised in the Kimberley, married at 21, and widowed with two small children at the age of 23 she then married Geoff Masters four years later and they had a further two children.  Keren’s life experiences have encouraged her to want to learn further about how life’s experiences shape our lives. Keren has taught in seminars in Indigenous churches and in Thailand. Her interests are her family, her fluffy pets, gardening, walking and travelling.
David Michie BA BSocW, MA, DTh David Michie is director of Journeylines Counselling and Training Services. He has  twenty-three years experience in social work, counselling, training and supervision.  For sixteen years he has lectured in counselling and spiritual formation. He has also been involved in developmental work in indigenous communities. He has been published in On Being, Carer and Counsellor, Journal of Practical Theology, Studio and Road to Emmaus – a worship anthology. David has been married to Carol for over twenty years and they have three children. He enjoys being married, being with his family, sitting with people, reading, and anything to do with being in, on or under water. His recreational highlights are sailing from Adelaide to Esperance; diving with sharks; and a week with his son in Kruger National Park discovering that nature is not benign.
Monica O'Neil Monica has been a leader in local church ministry for over twenty-one years in a broad range of roles. She is passionate about enhancing the brilliance, hopefulness, endurance and power in Christian ministers and leaders, whatever their field of endeavour. Most recently she served as Pastoral Supervisor at Riverview Church in Perth, and is currently part of the ministry team at Lesmurdie Baptist Church, as well as directing Vose Leadership. She is married to Michael and they have three adult children, two sooky dogs and an evil cat. She enjoys dirt, power tools and wood, and her garden.
Michael O'Neil Michael has recently been appointed as Head of Christian Thought and Director of Vose Research. He comes to the role with many years of pastoral experience, most recently as Team Leader at Lesmurdie Baptist Church (5 years). His doctoral work was in the early theology of Karl Barth (“Forming Moral Community: Christian and Ecclesial Existence in the theology of Karl Barth, 1915-1922”). Michael is deeply committed to the work of the local church in its mission to proclaim Jesus Christ and to shape the lives of God’s people as his disciples. Michael is married to Monica and together they have three fabulous adult children.
Dennis Ryle Dennis lives with his wife Jennifer and son Lachlan in Wembley Downs. He has been minister of the Church of Christ in Wembley Downs since 1996. Prior to that he served in local church ministries in South Australia and Canberra, beginning in Fremantle, Western Australia, in the mid 1970s. His recreational interests are eclectic and have involved bushwalking, watercolours, cinema and reading. Although his three decades of ministry have focused mainly on the local church scene, he has served in various capacities in vocational ministry education. He holds a Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training along with Graduate Diplomas in Christian Education and Spiritual Direction. He has developed the Weddings and Funerals workshop from the experience and conviction that these rites of passage provide unique pastoral and missional opportunities for today’s church. Dennis writes a blog called 'Wondering Pilgrim'.
Fred Stone Fred Stone was a psychiatric nurse for five years before training for Baptist ministry.  His longest pastorate was at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, where he developed a growing church with a strong pastoral care emphasis.  Fred established Pathways (the Baptist Counselling service), and was Director of Counselling at Lifeline, Perth, for two years.  Fred lectured in Pastoral Care at the Baptist Theological College of WA (now Vose Seminary) and in Pastoral Counselling at Curtin University for over ten years.  Now retired, Fred is involved in pastoral care and mentoring at Mount Pleasant Uniting Church.  Fred is married to Pauline with four children and eight grandchildren, the eldest of whom is a clarinettist extraordinaire who sometimes takes time off from her exacting task as minder for Monica O’Neil to play for the ABC and WASO.
Safe Church Over the past fifteen years Australian churches have become more aware of the challenge of ensuring their ministries are safe programs run by safe leaders, free from abuse. The National Council of Churches in Australia has responded with the Safe Church Project. The project helps churches learn from each other and work together to prevent abuse in churches and to respond correctly if it does occur.
Anna Sheehan Grad. Cert. Mgmt. Senior Consultant. Anna is an experienced Senior Consultant specialising in assisting clients in the most efficient use of their computer accounting systems and financial management.  Anna is currently a Senior Consultant with Resolve Consulting and prior to this has worked with an accounting firm performing file reviews, setting up systems for clients and assisting in audits.  Preceding this Anna  was a school Business Manager for a Christian Independent school for 11 years.  Anna has also had positions within the Ministry of Justice and operated her own bookkeeping and secretarial service for several years along with voluntarily serving as Treasurer for a church for 5 years.  Anna has expertise in the financial management, systems and operational side of schools and churches and has detailed working knowledge of the issues faced by both in different phases of operation.
Dave Turner Dave returned from the United Kingdom to live and work in Australia in 2000.  Whilst living in Britain for 12 years, Dave was a consultant in the related fields of enterprise and careers education, vocational education and training, active citizenship, youth policy, social inclusion, human resource development and local/regional development.  Over the last 20 years, Dave has worked across various sectors i.e. business, education, training and the voluntary sector.  A consistent theme of Dave's work has been the facilitation of young person led community based project work and its contribution to enterprise skills development and the employability of young people. In addition to working in the UK, Dave has worked extensively in Australia (his home) and Southern Africa.  Dave has also undertaken consultancy work for OECD, the Commonwealth of Nations and various governments on enterprise education and school industry/community links. Dave has worked as a freelance consultant for all state governments and a series of key and independent agencies (including ECEF, The Salvation Army and Australian Volunteers International (AVI)) on matters pertaining to enterprise education, careers and vocational education, international youth volunteering and school-industry-community links.  He completed a report for the British Government (DfEE Connexions Program) on an inclusive framework for supporting 13-19 year olds through their transition from school to post compulsory options and retains up to date networks in Britain that have a keen and renewed interest in enterprise education e.g. Davies Review.  Dave is also a member of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Community Experts Forum. Between 2005 – 2008, Dave was lead consultant to two national DEST funded projects which •    Enabled partnerships between schools and external youth service and training organisations to review their collaboration in a structured manner, and to strategically plan for the future. •    Enabled those partnerships to identify how a LCP could assist them to make their shared efforts sustainable and strengthen the capacity of the 4 pillars of career and transition support. Over the last 12 months or so, Dave has continued to develop strategies for partnering for career and transition support with governments (e.g. DET – NSW), youth service agencies (e.g. Brotherhood of St Lawrence) and individual schools and LCPs. Through this work, Dave has begun to explore the separate (yet related) issues of Raising Aspirations and Freedom’s Orphans; the latter being an equity analysis of Y Generation. He is currently in the process of developing materials and training with various educational and youth services on how partnerships (that incorporate these two concepts into their work) can respond to meet the needs of the “at risk”. Dave has recently returned from 12 weeks work in the UK where he presented workshops to education, youthwork and employment services on the topics of •    Raising aspirations and attainment (in a social as well as educational sense). •    Partnerships strengthening and tapping the 4 pillars of career and transition support – parents/caregivers, professionals, employers and significant adults and peers. •    New models of work experience and career development that are young person led, yet engage all other three pillars. •    Schools (particularly in low SES areas) cannot do it alone! - the need for partnership friendly schools. Whilst in the UK (April – July 2009), Dave was contracted by DEEWR to review British Government policy and practice with respect to partnership building and sustainability, and approaches to engage the disadvantaged and at risk. Respondents were candid and offered their insights at all levels: local and operational, regional and strategic and at national policy level. There is a great deal of experience and learning to share.
Graham Taylor Graham has spent the past 38 years of his life working with people. Over that period he has worked in leadership roles in community based youth work, management roles in government and private enterprise and has directed a Management, Coaching and Training Consultancy for the past 24 years. He sees this as a calling and his vision has been to assist in unlocking potential that lives within human beings that leads to an effective and satisfying way of being. In short, his commitment has been to help people to learn rather than teaching them. Graham has had extensive experience in the Training and Development field. This experience started in the field of Youth work where Graham was instrumental in developing strategic training and development for youth workers and young people and then, in the mid 1980’s, he moved into the management and development consultancy field within organisations. His consultancy has three interrelated arms or services: Leadership development programs, Coaching and Facilitation services and a Training arm.  Over the 24 years Graham has built up a formidable client base that includes small to large business enterprises and government organisations covering such sectors as health, human services, education and training, oil and gas, mining and manufacturing. Over the past 14 years there has been a clear bent toward leadership development and the powerful process of coaching. Today, within the scope of the ‘three arms of the consultancy’ up to half of Graham’s professional time is focussed on Executive Coaching (coaching leaders and managers) within organisations. Graham was first introduced to a ‘formal’ coaching structure in 1994 while working overseas. Although he would argue that the model that he was trained in captured a lot of what he was doing intuitively it did provide a powerful structure and a use of linguistic tools that clearly assisted clients (and himself!) in developing the inner person and producing possibilities and options that  did not seem visible outside of coaching. This inturn led to a pursuit of coaching models and methodology that crescendoed in the completion of an Advanced Diploma in Professional Coaching from Newfield Australia in 2001 that focused on ontological coaching models and frameworks. In the past 10 years Graham has coached around 160 people. He is usually coaching between 25 – 35 clients at any given time. His coaching tends to move in and out of what he likes to call ‘Outer Work’ and ‘Inner Work’. Outer Work being coaching for performance – to do with setting and achieving goals and choosing and executing actions. Inner Work relates to coaching for ‘being’ and is to do with beliefs, values, purpose, confidence, courage and centring. In addition to holding coaching contracts with a number of organistions and coaching individuals, Graham is a member of the Faculty of an institution offering a Certificate and Diploma in Professional Coaching in Perth, WA. Graham has a Bachelor degree in Commerce from UWA, a Management Diploma from PTC, a Certificate 4 in Training & Assessment from ETAS (WA) and the Advanced Diploma in Professional Coaching mentioned above. Graham is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF).  Graham brings a healthy mix of genuine care, support, astuteness around challenge and responsibility and a deep interest in his coaching clients. He has a growing range of coaching tools, distinctions, perspectives and observations that are shared with dignity and compassion. Graham has based the development of his consultancy around a set of principles for ‘building and maintaining relationships’ called the ‘REG PRINCIPLES’ (Respect, Empathy and Genuineness) – he endeavours to personify these principles in all of his work.
Jennifer Turner DipT (Adelaide Teacher's College), BA Hons (Uni of Adelaide), BDiv (Murdoch), DMin (Fuller) Jennifer is a highly experienced minister, trainer and writer. Recently retired from her position as Senior Minister at Dianella Church of Christ, she is now spending half of each year in development and training work overseas. Having run the Caring Skills workshop earlier in 2008, Jennifer is offering mentoring-coaching services through Vose. Jennifer was minister and then senior minister at Dianella Church of Christ  1998-2007. From 1993 to 1998 she was pastor at Parkerville Baptist Church, while between 1989 and 1993 she was on the pastoral team at Mt Pleasant Baptist Church. She has lectured at Vose Seminary, Australian College of Ministries and Tabor College, and provided supervision for pastoral students. She is currently on the state committee of Forge (an emerging church network) and has served on the Churches of Christ in WA Executive and the boards of Zadok, the Baptist Theological College and Scripture Union. Her writing has been published in Zadok Perspectives, The Australian Christian, On Being, The Australian Evangelical and St Mark’s Review, and she edited the book Small Groups That Catch the Wind (Openbook, 2002). She is married to Neil, a scientist, and has three married sons, two granddaughters and three grandsons.
Eliot Vlatko Eliot Vlatko has been married to Sandy for 16 years, and together they have 3 children - Leah (14), Josh (11) and Stevie (7).  He is Associate Pastor at Inglewood Community Church (formerly known as Bedford Baptist Church) and has been a Worship Leader and Musician for 20 years. Eliot has led congregations ranging from handfuls of people gathering for worship in the Goldfields, to the 2009 Perth Mighty Men's Conference, with over 3000 people present on the Sunday morning. Eliot enjoys the comfort zone, cranking up his electric guitar and amp at the back of the stage, and letting the extroverts step up to the front - but for some unfathomable reason has sensed God's call to lead worship.
Mark Wilson Pastor Mark Wilson is the Director of Ministries with the Baptist Churches of Western Australia, providing servant leadership through positively influencing leadership teams in a growing number of member Churches, Vose Seminary, campsites and affiliated ministries. Being a visionary leader and an excellent communicator, Mark speaks to thousands of people in Australia and around the world each year.  Using his unique abilities, he is committed to training and mentoring people to reach their full potential. He does this by combining life experience, humour and Biblical truth. With over 22 years experience in both church and mission work, and 6 years as a school teacher, Mark has great insight into the needs of people from all walks of life.  His genuine concern for people is displayed in the value he places on each individual and his desire to see them achieve their goals in life and ministry. Mark, together with his wife Karen, and their son Daniel and daughter Katherine enjoy a very active lifestyle, taking every opportunity that comes their way.
Telford Work Telford Work is associate professor of theology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of Living and Active: Scripture in the Economy of Salvation (Eerdmans, 2002), Ain’t Too Proud to Beg: Living through the Lord’s Prayer (Eerdmans, 2007), and Deuteronomy (Brazos Theological Commentary of the Bible; Brazos, 2009), in addition to many articles and chapters in journals and books. He is also an associate editor of Pro Ecclesia. His Ph.D. in religion (theology and ethics) is from Duke University, where he minored in New Testament and Islamics and distinguished himself by failing to attend even one basketball game. He maintains an extensive website at http://telfordwork.net/. He and his wife Kim have four children (Jeremy, Daniel, Junia, and Benjamin), and thus he has no time for hobbies!