March 2012 – Tim Dyer – The Johnmark Extension

22 March, 201226 March, 2012

Central Region ADF Chaplains Seminar–Adelaide

The Chaplains of the ADF serve in a complex and challenging environment. Along with pastoral responsibilities for service personnel and their families, they provide counsel and support to the unit command on matters to with the ethics of engagement, relating to local civilian populations and on unit morale. It was a privilege to work with the Central Region Chaplains this week in Adelaide on pastoral transactions around moral injury and repair, leadership practices and processes for systemic health.

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17 March, 201217 March, 2012

Salvation Army NW Cluster – Enabling Gifts of Grace

Our March NW Cluster meeting spent some time reflecting on the nature of Spiritual Gifts and how to assist Corps members identify and use these in the church and community. We looked at the Biblical basis for gifts and discussed how these might have looked and worked in the early Christian communities Paul in particular was writing about. We then examined several of the New Testament lists of gifts and discussed whether this was a complete catalogue or a kind of sample list of the phenomena Paul was talking about. Finally we spent some time on the body life metaphor and a discussion about the place of love in relation to the gifts. A presentation and some notes are linked below.

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5 March, 2012

Mentoring Network Australia

I have just spent this afternoon with Keith and Marg Farmer. They have been sharing about the Mentoring Network Australia. This is an open network of Christian mentors who are particularly interested in the formation of Christian leaders and pastors through mentoring. There is an annual training conference which this year will be held from May 9 –11 at Stanwell Tops just south of Sydney.

2012 Mentoring Network Training Conference

Les Scarborough from John Mark Ministries NSW is one of the keynote speakers this year along with Mindy Caliguire from Willow Creek in the USA, Keith Farmer, Andrew McCafferty and Rick Lewis.

I hope to be able to attend the last two days. See you there.

1 March, 20123 March, 2012

Baptist Union of NSW and ACT – Church Consultancy Training Workshop 10

For the last workshop in our introduction to the areas of specialisation in Church Consultancy, we looked at Vision and Strategic Planning consultancies. Some time was spent on understanding the theology and spirituality of listening to God in the context of visioning. We explored processes of assisting churches to surface their vision and to engage in strategic planning processes. As usual notes are our DropBox. A highlight of the day was hearing Rev Ian Duncum outline his findings from his D.Min. research on the effectiveness of this model of consultancy on 10 Baptist Churches in NSW.

Welcome

Welcome to ‘the johnmark extension’, my current primary website. If you have attended a seminar or training day that I have facilitated, the notes and resources should be linked below in my ministry blog.

The ‘johnmark extension’ provides leadership training in a wide range of areas oriented toward the professional learning of pastors and the leaders of Christian and not for profit organisations. See the areas in which I am currently teaching and training
Leadership Development Workshops.

Many of these resources have also been shared on
The Christian Leadership Exchange

Developed out of our mentoring training, the MEQ course, which is offered in a range of formats from ACT accredited through to workshop based short courses, there is a resources site for leaders who mentor others. Check out resources on The Mentor Exchange

Over recent years teaching skills in Conflict Management has become an area in its own right for me. Find conflict resources and training in peacemaking here:
Peace Train