{"id":2340,"date":"2025-06-04T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:24:07","slug":"diocese-of-sydney-2025-wollongong-regional-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=2340","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Sydney &#8211; 2025 Wollongong Regional Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Faithful hearts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have enjoyed being at the Southern Regional Ministry Conference at Nowra and to catch up with many old and new friends.  It has particularly encouraging to talk with quite a number who have been involved in Focus on Ministry groups within this region.  The theme of this conference was on faithful hearts and Bishop Peter asked me to reflect on what I had learned over the years around three specific topics.  These are listed below:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/www.johnmark.net.au\/resources\/\/Screenshot-2025-06-04-100120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/www.johnmark.net.au\/resources\/\/Screenshot-2025-06-04-100120-1024x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/www.johnmark.net.au\/resources\/Screenshot-2025-06-04-100120-1024x286.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/www.johnmark.net.au\/resources\/Screenshot-2025-06-04-100120-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/www.johnmark.net.au\/resources\/Screenshot-2025-06-04-100120-768x215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/www.johnmark.net.au\/resources\/Screenshot-2025-06-04-100120-1536x429.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/www.johnmark.net.au\/resources\/Screenshot-2025-06-04-100120.jpg 1604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Presentations and resources from our 3 sessions together are attached below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/do4zbixonkg6utstpteez\/Faithful-Hearts-Followership.pdf?rlkey=861glkb2o16o1h1sqlz9x6ps2&amp;dl=0\">Presentation 1 &#8211; Faithful hearts &#8211; Followership<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/rdt01g50u7ia3fw6iqr2v\/2-Faithful-Hearts-Leadership.pdf?rlkey=zke5w6o35zyb6qmzzpixoob25&amp;dl=0\">Presentation 2 &#8211; Faithful hearts &#8211; Leadership<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/ytk85tud4mkusok3sh3zd\/3-Strategies-for-Keeping-Ministry-Safe-2023.pdf?rlkey=js93mk465unxx9t3m0i64nywv&amp;dl=0\">Strategies for keeping ministry safe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/5uql32lqlu8wn5fyehiwn\/3-Faithful-hearts-Conflict.pdf?rlkey=k0yml0fl0tpf1sheudyvq588t&amp;dl=0\">Presentation 3 &#8211; Faithful hearts &#8211; Conflict<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/j0r6lanolfaq0ckmzwc00\/Commitments-for-Christians-in-Times-of-Tension-2023.pdf?rlkey=jn5xelkp3bxdopiqtg699du7h&amp;dl=0\">Commitments for Christians in Times of Tension<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faithful hearts I have enjoyed being at the Southern Regional Ministry Conference at Nowra and to catch up with many old and new friends. It has particularly encouraging to talk with quite a number who have been involved in Focus on Ministry groups within this region. The theme of this conference was on faithful hearts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=2340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Diocese of Sydney &#8211; 2025 Wollongong Regional Conference&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}