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.

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.

Annie understands the complexity of ministry, having spent over 30 years in various pastoral roles from senior pastor, worship pastor, through to church planter. Over those decades she’s experienced the enrichment that comes with working on team for a variety of denominations from Baptist to Pentecostal, whilst successfully navigating the changing landscape of female pastoral leadership in Australia.

She also had a long history with teaching and training in churches in creative ministries, including overseeing a Christian School of Performing Arts and having significant involvement in a Christian theatre company, alongside hosting large annual interdenominational musical outreaches.

With qualifications in theology, advanced professional supervision and coaching, she left pastoral ministry to start her own consultancy leadership business, having worked with Thought Leaders, then joining the Christian Coaching Institute (now Arrow), as both a coach and trainer.

She also spent decades as a co-owner of a significant Australian publishing business, involved in a multitude of roles from sales through to the curating/editing of author submissions.

She has first-hand experience in the incredible power and growth of having someone walking beside you when in leadership, and she continues to be encouraged by the good news stories of changed lives coming from the Partners in Ministries support of pastors and churches.

Annie leads Partners In Ministry’s Pastoral Stream overseeing supervision, coaching, mentoring and spiritual direction nationally, and is also the State Director of Victoria.

Craig brings 45 years of experience in education, consultancy, leadership and ministry.

A former teacher, youth-worker, consultant and pastor, Craig served as the Director of Leadership at the Uniting College for Leadership & Theology, Adelaide, developing graduate and post-graduate leadership courses, and lecturing and training nationally and overseas. In his work with Partners in Ministry, he engages in professional Pastoral Supervision, coaching, consulting and workshop facilitation and training. Craig has degrees in education and theology and a Graduate Certificate in Pastoral Supervision. He is regularly called upon for seminars and presentations on leadership, preaching, and Christian faith and discipleship. Craig is committed to ‘doing whatever I can to assist in the formation of pastors and leaders for a Church that is a called upon to take seriously God's mission to reach out to others with the gospel of Jesus Christ.’  He currently serves in leadership of an evangelical faith community recently planted in Adelaide.

Peter has been ‘walking beside’ church leaders since 2012 and leads the team at Partners in Ministry as the Chief Executive. Peter has a background in organisational leadership, people management, marketing and training having worked for over two decades in the pharmaceutical industry in Australia, New Zealand and across Southeast Asia. He finished up in pharmaceuticals as the leader of Australia and New Zealand for Inova Pharmaceuticals. Since then he has dedicated himself to supporting church leaders to lead well and in spiritual and [personal health.  Peter currently serves as a director on the Boards of Partners in Ministry, Sustainable Development Group, and Magnify Research (National Church Life Survey).

Peter is a trained church consultant, leadership coach, pastoral supervisor and expert trainer. His undergraduate degree was in Science and since then he has competed a Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision (Pastoral), a Graduate Diploma in Management and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

After twelve years working with church leaders and churches across a range of denominations and countries Peter is very grateful to God for the development of Partners in Ministry and the faithful and capable team that God has brought together.

He has a huge desire to see the church of Jesus Christ flourish and to see the leaders God has appointed to be healthy and effective in their leadership. He believes that leading a church is one of the most challenging roles - with too many church leaders suffering from burnout and imposter syndrome. Peter is committed to seeing more and more church leaders flourish under God. This is what Partners in Ministry is all about!

Margaret’s experience in management of operations and administration was developed in the Australian furniture industry. Moving to the disability sector in 2016, combined with her experience on her local church board she brings a blend of business acumen and church governance that will assist her in leading Partners in Ministry’s Operations.