Topics & Tracks

All our equip talks are free for anyone to attend and include a time to mingle with people from other tracks and enjoy a light supper afterward. Registration is encouraged. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with the team.

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Lead with Diligence

You might not think that you’re a leader, but you are! Everybody leads someone, somewhere, sometime. God assigns leaders to equip people to serve. Serving is an important part of building up the body of Christ. Come and be equipped to thrive in both everyday life and ministry, as you explore what it means to lead where you are, out of who you are, for God’s glory and the benefit of His people.

Week 1: Leading from the Inside Out

Who are you really and how will others know? This week we look at what self-aware leaders know that others don’t and why this knowledge impacts how they lead, and those they lead, in a positive and empowering way.

with Debbie Bossé

Week 2: I’m just a Volunteer

Explore 5 keys of influence every volunteer has. Discover what motivates you and how to you can use your gifts to lead more effectively. Btw – No one is ever just a volunteer!

with Margaret Spicer

Week 3: Leading Strategically

Ever feel like you are just going through the motions as you serve? Fulfilling the vision of the ministry leader? You are not alone. Discover how you can be a 360 degree leader, increase your leadership capacity and influence. Whether you lead a team or lead from within a team you can lead strategically.

with Margaret Spicer

Week 4: Creating and Maintaining a Healthy Culture

Culture exists in companies, teams, and even our families. Our culture will be a combination of the things we intentionally create, as well as those things we allow or tolerate. Creating a healthy culture is key to seeing our families, businesses, or organisations thrive.

Wynand Jacobs has a background in life and executive coaching and currently leads the nationwide FamilyLife ministry here in New Zealand. He will share some practical ways we can be intentional about the culture we create in our home, team, or work environments and why it matters.

with Wynand Jacobs

Communicate with Confidence

Come along and learn about things like: the essential ingredients for making a good talk, what you can do to keep audiences interested, how to better tailor your talks to your hearers, how to make the best use of illustrations, how to keep talks simple without losing depth, and that age old question, “What do I leave out?”. Whether you teach Sunday School, take devotions, preach for 5 or 35 minutes, or would just like to learn, the principles are the same. Author, Bible teacher and trainer of preachers Alan Stanley will show you how to communicate with confidence.

Week 3: Putting the talk together

The nuts and bolts of writing the talk. This session, in a nutshell, is thinking about how to know what to include in a talk and how to know what to leave out. We will think through the essential components of a talk, the audience, effective use of stories and illustrations, application, and the secret to all good communication.

Week 4: Delivering the talk

In this session we will look at tips for effective presenting, how to tell a good story, tapping into your creative side, and learning to read your audience while speaking.

Parent with Purpose

God has always worked to build a legacy of faith through the family unit. Families come in all shapes and sizes: committed couples, single parents, invested grandparents, or even kids’ leaders who invest time into the church family. To families, God has given the opportunity to purposefully communicate faith, and impact the lives of the kids they influence, for eternity.
Through this track we will explore different ways to parent with this purpose in mind.

Week 1: 5 Love Languages for Children

Come and learn about the 5 Love Languages for Children. This is based on the best-selling book by Gary Chapman. Find out what your child’s love language might be and how to connect with them. This is a practical workshop to help understand how to make our kids feel loved (even when they are being toads!).

with Gabrielle Sheddan

Week 2: Faith at Home

The biggest factor in a child’s faith formation is not what they learn about God at church, but what they learn about God at home. What does it look like to have faith conversations in the home? How do you fit God into the busy schedule of family life? In this session we will explore how to be purposeful with our faith at home.

with Annelli Morla

Week 3: Heart Led Change

“Our house is out of control!” I often wonder if successful parenting is about a rightful, God-ordained loss of control. This week we look at parenting as the process of championing heart led change in our children as they journey from dependence towards independent connectedness.

with Pastor Mark Wallace

Week 4: The Digital Dilemma

We are engaging, more than ever, in a digital world and so are our kids. It is a huge part of our life, perhaps more so for our teenagers than anyone else. In this session we shall explore how our kids, and especially teenagers, are interacting with social media and how we can parent with purpose in a digital age.

with Dan Ackermann and Yvonne Neville