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Tim Dyer's ministry blog – John Mark Ministries Tasmania
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Tim Dyer

  • Tim Dyer serves with the John Mark Ministries network (Established by Rev Dr Rowland Croucher and later joined by Rev Les Scarborough) as a national trainer of church consultants, mentors and leaders.

Tim

  • Tim is a regular speaker at Pastors’ and Clergy Conferences in areas of leadership, church systems, professional ethics, mentoring, conflict management and the impact of clergy sexual abuse. He contributes to in-service training programs for clergy and leaders across several denominations and states.
  • Besides mentoring pastors and leaders himself, Tim trains Christian leaders in the skills required to equip others to become leaders through intentional one to one mentoring.
  • Tim has an interest in healthy congregational and parish life and consults with churches and denominations on processes which create and support parish health.  He also trains and supervises denominational church consultancy teams which work with program evaluation, church governance, vision and direction, pastoral transitions, staff team reviews and in times of conflict.
  • Tim trains consultants nationally to work with congregations in crisis as a result of conflict or sexual misconduct in leadership. He has a particular interest in developing healthy recovery processes for whole congregational systems.
  • Tim equips facilitators for Pastors Renewal Retreats, a John Mark Ministries clergy support and development program founded by Les Scarborough in the 1990s and run in many denominations around Australia.
  • He retired this year as Chair of International Teams Ministries Australia, an international mission partnership planting churches in challenging environments and ministering to displaced persons especially on the ‘refugee highway’.
  • Tim trained in psychology at Melbourne and Monash Universities before researching and publishing on Youth Homelessness as a staff worker with Scripture Union Victoria.
  • Tim is married to Merran, a GP with interests in nutritional medicine and women’s health. They have 2 adult sons doing tertiary studies and 2 teenage daughters at high school.
  • Tim is supported in ministry by his home congregation in Sheffield, Tasmania where he serves as a Bible teacher.
  • For relaxation, Tim enjoys bushwalking in the Tasmanian highlands, camping, reading and music.

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