{"id":140,"date":"2012-02-19T02:19:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T02:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/?page_id=140"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T09:49:06","slug":"john-mark-ministries-australia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/?page_id=140","title":{"rendered":"The Johnmark Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mark Ministries was founded over 20 years ago by a group of concerned Christian leaders in Australia to pioneer research and establish ministry support structures for clergy. The founder, Rev Dr Rowland Croucher (Vic) and Rev Les Scarborough (NSW) have consulted extensively across the nation with denominations in the training, formation, continuing education and care of their ministers. Training programs have also been developed to equip denominational leaders working with leadership development and also facilitating congregational health.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Tim Dyer (Tasmania) joined them in training and consulting nationally with church organisations. \u00a0Tim is responsible for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmark.net.au\/jm\">The Johnmark Extension<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/kz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Leadership Exchange,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Mentor Exchange<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/ps\">Peace Train<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you are looking for Rev Dr Rowland Croucher\u2019s extensive website, it can still be accessed at <a title=\"JohnMark RC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jmm.aaa.net.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jmm.aaa.net.au<\/a>.\u00a0 It hasn&#8217;t been updated since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>See also this article on\u00a0<a title=\"What is John Mark Ministries?\" href=\"http:\/\/jmm.aaa.net.au\/articles\/8048.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Mark Ministries<\/a> from Rowland Croucher &#8211; it in now a little dated at 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mark Ministries was founded over 20 years ago by a group of concerned Christian leaders in Australia to pioneer research and establish ministry support structures for clergy. The founder, Rev Dr Rowland Croucher (Vic) and Rev Les Scarborough (NSW) have consulted extensively across the nation with denominations in the training, formation, continuing education and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/?page_id=140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Johnmark Extension&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}