The Four Big Ideas of Ministry to Children, Young People and their Families

This workshop explores four of the most important ideas that scripture, research, and decades of experience have taught us about good ministry to children, young people, and families.  This workshop is packed with challenging questions and very practical suggestions for your parish.

Transformation 101 - How do we help people become who they were meant to be?

We'll explore biblical, practical and research based perspectives to discover the best approach to seeing transformation happen in the people we care for.

Three years,12 mongrels.

Although this sounds like a bad movie spoof this was the essence of Jesus' strategy to revolutionise the world. This workshop will explore Jesus' strategy of discipling a few to transform the world and wrestle with how we can we follow His example in 2015.

Getting inside the head of a teen
Understanding the developmental shifts going on in an adolescent will greatly assist you in helping them to navigate life and faith in the teenage years. After this workshop you will have a good working knowledge of adolescent development and have lots of helpful strategies to support your teens.

What a teen really wants.
This workshop explores the key longings that drive our young people to do what they do. We’ll look at some of the big hurdles that our young people have to negotiate and explore ways that you can make your youth community a place that young people will crave to be part of.

Communicating the Gospel to a lost generation

The Gospel or good news is the most important message that we can share with young people, however often it feels like the hardest message for us to communicate. In this seminar we will look at helpful ways to present the gospel message to teenagers who can’t even spell Jesus.

Spiritual practices for an ADHD generation

This workshop is oozing with practical ways that you can engage the highly strung and entertainment obsessed with sustaining spiritual practices.

Outsmarting Porn - A teen perspective
This workshop covers smart approaches to equip our teens and parents for the pornography epidemic

How to fill your church with young people and keep them there

Whether your church is teeming with young people or it looks more like a high school class of 1949 reunion this workshop will highlight simple strategies from scripture and evidence based practice that will help to meaningfully connect young people into a church community and help them stay connected as a lifelong follower of Jesus. 

Everything is Discipleship

This workshop will get us thinking practically about how we can make the large, small and organic gatherings you already have in your church more effective in making lifelong disciples of Jesus across the generations who in-turn make lifelong disciples of others.