Lawrence brings a wealth of ministry experience to his role as a Professional Pastoral Supervisor within Partners in Ministry. Lawrence enjoys accompanying individuals on their unique journeys, creating a safe space for supervisees to embrace Pastoral Supervision. He loves equipping individuals with the tools needed for lasting growth, and supporting church leaders to be healthy and effective in ministry.

Matt has been in church and ministry leadership for over 35 years and in full-time pastoral ministry for over 22 years. He is currently the Lead Pastor of Coast Vineyard Church, a congregation of over 600 people that he and his wife started in 2013 in Orewa, Auckland. He holds a Masters of Ministry and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree. Additionally, he co-founded an engineering consultancy practice – Blue Barn Consulting – in the early 2000s.

Matt has been married to Jacinda since 1990. Jacinda is a church pastor, spiritual director, and pastoral supervisor. They have three adult daughters who bring them great joy.

Matt has been assisting people in pastoral ministry for several years and finds it a privilege to be part of the journey of Christian leaders. His own experience of life-changing coaching has deeply impacted him, making it a joy to help others.

With a strong belief in the goodness of God working in people’s lives, Matt approaches life with gratitude and optimism. He would be honoured to be your coach, believing that a good coach may be exactly what you are looking for in this season.

Arthur draws on his leadership experience from commercial, church and Not-for-Profit settings to develop and equip Church leaders to apply their skills and gifts in enhancing ministry. Arthur also has significant board and governance experience, having served on church boards/elderships as well as having served on a variety of Not-for Profit boards.

Arthur is a qualified professional pastoral supervisor and a member of the Australian Association of Supervisors. He is also a qualified CPA.

Arthur leads the Partners in Ministry team in Queensland. He works with clients in the areas of coaching, mentoring, and supervision, and has a particular interest and expertise in the areas of team leadership, culture setting, staff development, and having difficult conversations in the workplace well.

Arthur has a passion for not only helping clients in their vocational leadership, but working on strategies to help  them stay physically, emotionally and spiritually healthy both at home and in their vocation.

Phil has led and served within local church in both a city and regional context for 30 years. The majority of time was as the Senior Pastor of a larger, regional church which was highly engaged in creative outreach enterprises. Phil then moved into denominational roles for a number of years, providing support to churches through consultancy and coaching churches towards greater health, creative engagement with their community and fruitfulness.

Phil is a trained church consultant, coach, mentor, and pastoral supervisor and takes great delight in walking alongside and serving leaders and churches in their own context. He has a Bachelor of Theology, Grad Cert. in Arts, Grad Cert. in Pastoral Supervision and Cert IV in Christian Leadership Coaching.

Phil brings wisdom, empathy, creativity and a deep love of churches and pastors.

Phil recognises the challenges, complexities and disappointments ministry can bring and is committed to seeing leaders and churches ministering effectively from a deep abiding place.  

For 30 years, Susan has been involved in various aspects of church ministry. She is currently the Associate pastor at Gateway Baptist church, serving alongside her husband Jason, who is a Senior Pastor. Together, they lead a thriving multi-campus, multi-generational church on the southside of Brisbane.

Susan has experience leading large teams of staff and volunteers, as well as preaching, teaching, and discipling people of all ages. She provides support to those seeking personal and spiritual growth and is passionate about empowering others to explore their God given gifts and talents.

Susan has developed and led various programs, workshops, conferences and spiritual retreats, designed to bring people into closer connection with each other and with God. Her formal qualifications include a BA Dip Ed – Primary, Master of Arts – ACOM and a Grad Dip – Pastoral Supervision.

Susan has a genuine love for people and enjoys coming alongside others to see them reach their God given potential. She remains committed to serving the Christian community, providing guidance and support by helping those around her overcome challenges and achieve their goals.

Steve has been in pastoral ministry for over 32 years as a church planter, senior minister, overseer, area director, denominational executive member, college lecturer, church health advocate and conference facilitator. More recently, since transitioning out of senior ministry, Steve has been engaged in pastoral supervision, facilitating group supervision and conducting spiritual formation retreats.

Steve is an accredited Professional Pastoral Supervisor and has post graduate qualifications in theology and Christian leadership.

Steve’s passion is to walk alongside ministry leaders with a view to seeing healthy local churches led by healthy local leaders who are equipped to navigate life and ministry transitions with sustainable discernment and grace.

Craig has led and served the local church for 20 years as a Senior Pastor (and other roles) of a multi-campus, multi-cultural church in Southwestern Sydney. Since leaving local ministry Craig set up a leadership, team, and strategic development company. He continues, when not helping churches, to work with leaders in government (National and State), large non-for profits and multi-national companies delivering leadership development programs, strategic planning facilitation and executive coaching.

Craig is a trained church consultant, leadership coach, mentor, and expert trainer. Has Bachelor level qualifications in Social Science, theology, a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and diplomas in Ministry and Coaching and various other accreditations to tools and inventories.

Craig leads the Church Development Stream, Leadership & Ministry Development Team, and the NSW/Tasmania team of Partners in Ministry. Craig has conducted numerous consultancies with a wide variety of churches – denominations, sizes, ministry models – across the country. Craig is also a sought after trainer and coach/mentor focusing on leadership development and strategic planning.

He has a driving passion for healthy, mission focused churches. Craig loves to come alongside churches that seek to take their effectiveness and health to the next level.

Peter worked as a Senior Business Executive in global and national companies in different industry sectors, before becoming CEO, Australasia of a Christian Mission Agency. For the past eight years Peter has consulted, coached, mentored, supervised and trained senior pastors in leadership development and effective ministry practices. In addition, Peter consults, coaches and mentor’s  business executives and facilitates senior leadership team alignment workshops. In the business world Peters mantra is:  ‘leadership drives culture and, culture drives performance’.

Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree with a double major - Psychology & Industrial Sociology, a Master’s of Science - Coaching Psychology and more recently, the Graduate Certificate - Pastoral Supervision (St Marks National Theological Centre).

Leadership can be a lonely place, so having someone who is able to care, support and challenge is both helpful and vital to sustaining faith, well-being and leadership effectiveness. With a passion for the Gospel and leadership development, it is a privilege to be able to serve in this way.

Bruce was a senior minister for over 30 years. He planted a church in Hoxton Park in the western suburbs of Sydney and then took on the role of senior minister of a large Anglican church with multiple staff in Menai, Sydney. He retired from pastoral leadership in 2020 to take up a role with partners in ministry as a coach, consultant and pastoral supervisor.

Bruce has a Bachelor of Law, Bachelor of Theology, and various other accreditations and training, including qualifications as a pastoral supervisor. He currently walks beside a large number of church leaders from varying denominational backgrounds mentoring, coaching and supervising them, and runs workshops on things such as running a small group ministry, developing leadership, strategic planning and much more. He also does consultancies helping churches and leaders to analyse their situation and make plans for the future.

Bruce is a very experienced ministry coach and supervisor having led both a church plant and a large, established church. His passion is to help churches and leaders to be as effective as possible with the resources and situation God has given them. His clients include leaders of small rural churches to leaders in large and very large churches.

Over the last 30 years, John’s ministry roles have focused on providing regular personal and professional support for pastors and other frontline workers from diverse denominations, cultures and contexts. Through training, resourcing, consultation, retreats, and one-on-one support he has helped countless pastors to persevere, grow and see fruit amidst the challenges and complexities of ministry.

John is an accredited Professional Supervisor (AAOS), a registered teacher (NESA), and a member of the Australian Christian Mentoring Network (ACMN). He has completed a Master of Divinity degree (MDiv), advanced Mandarin studies and has certifications in coaching and counselling.

For the last 6 years John has specialised in Pastoral Supervision and supervises dozens of ministry leaders across Australia in both English and Mandarin. He also serves as an adjunct lecturer with Charles Sturt University (through St Marks Theological College) training future Professional Supervisors.

At the heart of John's work is a both a longing to see communities of Jesus’ followers fulfilling the great commandment and the great commission, and a conviction that this starts with investing in leaders; helping them to nurture an authentic relationship with Jesus and be consistently encouraged, growing, and accountable in their ministry role.

Andrew Ranucci has led and served the local church for thirty years. Andrew pioneered Coast Community Church on the Central Coast of NSW (Aus) and served for 24 years as its Senior Pastor, from 1994-2018. During this time, by God’s grace, the church grew to be multi-campus, including a Christian School and a Not-For-Profit Charity.  In February 2018, Andrew transitioned from this role to serving Pastors and Christian leaders through teaching, mentoring, spiritual direction, supervision and retreat leading.

Andrew’s studies include: Doctor of Ministry (Spiritual Direction) from Fuller Theological Seminary (USA); Master of Arts (Christian Leadership), Bachelor of Theology and Diploma of Ministry from Australian College of Ministry; Graduate Certificate in Pastoral Supervision from St Marks National Theological Centre; Andrew is also a graduate of Renovare International Institute for Spiritual Formation (Santa Barbara USA Cohort).

Andrew lives and breathes to see the Kingdom of God expand through healthy vibrant churches. To this end, Andrew invests himself into the lives of Pastors and Leaders for their spiritual health, personal discipleship & leadership growth.

Andrew has a love of cycling and kayaking and most weekends you’ll find him on the roads or waterways of the northern beaches of Sydney. Andrew is married to Kerrell and they have three adult daughters.

Kerrell together with her husband, Andrew church planted on the Central Coast in the early 1990’s, where they served for nearly three decades. They established two church campuses and pioneered a school, charity and a spiritual retreat ministry.
Kerrell has a heart for empowering leaders to live out of their true identity as Christ’s beloved. Her vision for healthy spiritual leadership is being able to lead from the overflow of a life abiding with Jesus. Kerrell has a pastoral heart and loves the privilege of walking alongside pastors and leaders. She is passionate about spiritual formation and engaging in the spiritual practices Jesus himself lived out.

Kerrell regularly facilitates spiritual retreats and workshops for pastors and churches, and loves hosting a safe space for others to hear from God. She is gifted in creative communication, hospitality and has a contemplative prophetic edge.

Kerrell has Bachelor of Design, in Visual Communication (Uni SA) and launched her own design business, working as a designer for close to twenty years, while in local church ministry. Kerrell has a Master of Arts in Spiritual Leadership (Australian College of Ministry) and is a qualified Professional Pastoral Supervisor (St Marks Theological College). She is currently furthering her studies to become a Spiritual Director (Richmont University, USA).

Originally working as an architect, Lloyd found he preferred building people rather than structures, and transitioned into church ministry including as senior pastor. His interest in pastoral health, experiential learning and leadership equipping led him onto the faculty of the Australian College of Ministries, with focus areas in spiritual formation, mentoring and communication of the faith, as well as roles in strategic development as part of the senior leadership team. For the past 20 years, he has worked in an organisational development consultancy founded with his wife, to equip leaders, teams, and culture to meet the demands of today’s rapidly changing workplace.

Lloyd is a trained church consultant and workplace trainer and is a member of the Daimler global coaching pool. He has bachelor qualifications in Architecture and in Theology, and a Doctorate in Ministry with a focus on personal leadership formation. He also holds a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. 

Lloyd provides support through mentoring and coaching, facilitating equipping and consulting processes and in leadership development.

He has a passion for helping churches and pastors stay healthy, dynamic, and effective in following and sharing Jesus in an increasingly detached and sceptical society and is delighted to be part of the PIM team

Louisa has led and served at the local church (that she planted) for the past 18 years. She has a proven track record in leadership and a driving passion for discipleship, and she wants to see everyone apprenticed to Jesus. Her love of God and belief that Christ came to give life and life abundantly influences every area of her life.

Louisa is passionate about leadership and continually places herself in a learning space to grow and develop. She holds her Masters in Christian Spirituality, trained in Professional Pastoral Supervision, Mentoring, and Marriage coaching and is currently studying at Richmont University in Spiritual Direction. It is out of the overflow of her learning and application that she wants to share and impart to others practical, workable strategies that will produce life transformation.

Louisa lives and breathes to see the Kingdom of God expand through healthy, vibrant churches. To this end, Louisa willingly invests herself in the lives of others, including Pastors and Leaders, for their spiritual health, personal discipleship and leadership growth.

A burning question that drives Louisa is, ‘How do we practice and apply the knowledge we have learned?’ and see the abundant life Christ promised.