our presenters

• Kath Henry

  

  Kath is a passionate and gifted speaker, educator and pastor, with a rich and varied background in Theology, Leadership and Nursing. Kath, along with her husband Phil, serve on the National Board of Vineyard Australia and are founding pastors of Northridge Vineyard Church in Thornleigh, Sydney. Kath is a conference and retreat speaker and is passionate about spiritual formation. She has a history in ICU nursing, Midwifery, Education and Research and holds a Masters in Adult Education and a Masters in Theology and Christian Leadership, frequently mentoring other women in Christian Leadership. Kath became a PeaceWise trainer in early 2018 and has a deep desire to share the positive transformation that comes with the principles of a gospel of peace, lived out in relationships and communities.

• Kevin Warner

   

   

  Kevin has over 25 yrs Pastoral ministry with a focus on personal application of Biblical principles into everyday life. He has recently retired as Regional Minister for Hunter Baptist Churches and currently is a BaptistCare Chaplain.

  Kevin is also a founding Board member of HunterHarvest, Kingdomworks, and CityServe Charities, and is the PeaceWise Regional Ministry Coordinator in the Hunter. He has worked for many years in challenging and conflicted situations to see God glorified through transformed relationships. Kevin trained for ministry at Morling College & has degrees in Engineering, Arts and Theology. Kevin is a trained PeaceWise conflict coach and mediator, and is convinced that Biblical peacemaking skills are more essential than ever in today’s world.

• Li Ai Oh

  

  Li Ai gained her legal and commercial qualifications from the University of Western Australia in 1990 and has worked in private legal practice and for the Commonwealth Government. Currently she keeps busy as the Training and Conciliation Manager for PeaceWise and a member on a number of Christian Ministry boards. She is a mother of three adult daughters and mother in law to two sons-in-law. Li Ai loves spending time in God's Word and learning about God so that she can practise her faith in a way that brings glory of God. She attends Providence City Church.

• Lucy Dessington

  

  Lucy is passionate about sharing Jesus with young people and equipping local churches to be thriving, Jesus-centred communities for all generations. She is an experienced allied health professional and has also worked in the area of youth engagement for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Lucy has a growing interest in governance and has completed studies with the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and NonProfit Studies (QUT). 

• Matt Hunt

  

   

  Matt Hunt is a pastor and former lawyer based on the fast growing northern Gold Coast Queensland. He is Lead Pastor of CrossLife – a baptist church which has campuses at Helensvale, Southport and Upper Coomera. Matt loves Jesus and wants to help everyone follow him and love each other like Jesus loves us. He led CrossLife through the journey of planting the Highland Reserve campus with a community centric venue with neighbourhood shops, a community centre and a child care centre.

  Matt was born in Sydney and practised law before he moved into vocational Christian ministry. He is a past Chair of the Crusader Union of Australia, past member of the SIM National Council and the Morling College Council. He is married to Robyn and they have three sons, Stephen (21), James (19) and Ben (17).

• Matt Neufeld

  

  Matt studied Intercultural Studies and spent 25 years in the Middle East raising his family with his wife Robyn. They worked in multicultural teams and various training settings. Returning to Australia 5 years ago they completed graduate studies in Counselling which they practiced since as well as opening a relational coaching business called Relational Wellness. They have 3 adult children and 2 grandchildren. Matt loves travel and training and sharing his journey with Jesus with others.

• Max Monin

  

  Max has taught Mathematics, Biblical Studies and Sport to High School students for over 30 years and is part of the Wellbeing Team at Covenant Christian School in Belrose, Sydney. He is also the Mission Coordinator and leads two annual mission trips to the indigenous community of Yarrabah in North Queensland. Max pastors a House Church and is passionate to help Christians live honestly and transparently before each other, and before their God, and this means learning “how to do conflict well”. Max is a tragic footy fan and lives with his wife Beck and 3 beautiful children on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

• Michael Anway

  

  Michael completed his pastoral ministry qualifications at Morling Theological College in 1998, and then served as pastor in churches for 10 years. The next decade plus has been spent as a Christian school chaplain, teaching the children and staff Peacemaking principles. These conflict resolution skills transformed Michael’s personal life during 2009/10, and he is enthusiastic about continuing to see this message of hope and skills for relationship restoration taught to others, which now also involves doing so within a new Pastoral position at Kurri Kurri Baptist Church.

• Natalie Neubauer

  

  Natalie worked long-term with Youth With A Mission, an international missions organisation. She facilitated several Discipleship Training Schools and led teams around the world to serve and to help the students grow in their own personal development.  She also led other teams within the organisation, finishing with leading a team responsible for getting a vessel deployed to PNG to bring medical assistance. She has a diploma in counselling and other certificates around counselling and training. Her background is diverse but her desire to be in the field of peacemaking came when staffing a peace camp in Kurdistan in 2018. Since then she has maintained a focus on peacemaking, is currently doing further study in Religion, Peace, and Conflict, and maintains involvement in the team she went to Kurdistan with, The Peace Collective. She is passionate about us as followers of Jesus knowing what is true for right relationships, and taking the risks to live that out because it is the best way to live and is how other people know God is real!  She loves the ocean, meals with people, film photography, and her family. 

• Paul Arundell

   

  

  Paul has been involved in Christian education as a teacher, principal and administrator for the past 37 years. He loves the way that PeaceWise training and materials equip God’s people to transform conflict from messy crisis to Gospel restoration and reconciliation. His own early teaching career was saved from what seemed like a hopeless breakdown with his supervisor to an enduring friendship using Biblical PeaceWise principles. Now with PeaceWise tools, he has been blessed to be able to support teachers, students and church communities in building cultures of peace. Married with 3 adult children who all love God, he has a passion for remote hiking and outback touring in this wonderful country that we are blessed to call home.

• Paul Manning

  

  Paul has been in pastoral ministry for 22+ years; he was pastor for families at a Baptist Church on the Central Coast NSW, then Pastor for a Baptist Church in country NSW. Paul is now Senior Pastor of Sydenham Baptist Church in Melbourne’s North West. Over the past 30 years, Paul has studied economics, theology/ministry and psychology.

  Paul became involved with PeaceWise attending Personal Peacemaking and Culture of Peace in 2008. He’s since participated in all of PeaceWise’s training including Advanced Mediation and Reconciling Marital Conflict. Paul completed PeaceWise’s Train the Trainer in 2011 and has since been a trainer with PeaceWise.

  Paul is married to Liz, they have four adult children and one grandson.

• Peter Davies

  

  Peter has served in Baptist churches in the area of Pastoral ministry for over 30 years. Pete trained as a church consultant and has served in numerous churches in that capacity for 15 years. Pete served the NSW & ACT Baptist Association, for 10 years as the Associate director for Church Development. In that role, and as a church consultant, Pete became involved in many situations of church conflict. He saw first hand the devastating effect that conflict has on the health of congregations. This created a great desire in Pete to find conflict transformation processes that had the ability to help bring positive change to congregations experiencing conflict situations.

  Pete became involved with PeaceWise and has done PeaceWise training up to mediation level.  Pete's key interest lies in being proactive in training people in healthy responses to conflict situations and serves as a mediator for cases referred by PeaceWise.