Rick Lewis
Dr Rick Lewis is primarily a practitioner of mentoring, serving around 70 senior Christian leaders in Australia, the UK, Europe and South-east Asia.
Rick is the convenor of the ACMN leadership committee, founder of Anamcara Consulting in Australia, Director of Mentoring for ForMission in the UK and a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, having conducted action research into mentoring processes for pastors. His first book, Mentoring Matters, published in 2009, deals especially with formal, structured mentoring for Christian leaders.
Tim Dyer
Tim Dyer is a trainer of church consultants, mentors and leaders. He is linked to the Australian John Mark Ministries network which focuses on care, development and support for clergy and the health of congregations. Tim is a regular speaker at Pastors’ and Clergy Conferences in areas of leadership, church systems, professional ethics, mentoring, conflict management and the impact of clergy sexual abuse. He contributes to in-service training programs for clergy and leaders across several denominations and states.
Besides mentoring pastors and leaders himself, Tim trains Christian leaders in the skills required to equip others to become leaders through intentional one to one mentoring. Tim has an interest in healthy congregational and parish life and consults with churches and denominations on processes which create and support parish health.
ANGELA JOLLY
Angela is gifted trainer, event planner and stakeholder engager who has been a mentoring skills trainer and mentor for more than ten years. She has held leadership roles in church and school governance for more than 25 years and was the CEO of a large state-wide Not for Profit Schools Ministry Group for 8 years. With the parable of the Good Samaritan a huge ‘life’ influencer she is passionate about loving God, valuing others, coming alongside of them and equipping them on their life journey.
Driven by a passion to support and empower women to step into their calling, she has Co-Founded “Unlocking Your Calling”, offering mentoring, retreats and training grounded in Christian principles to help women discover and realise their calling.
Kylie Brown
Kylie originally trained as an occupational therapist and worked with children with disabilities. She then did a Ministry Apprenticeship with AFES (Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students) and subsequently completed a Master of Divinity through SMBC. While studying, she was a Student Minister at Randwick Presbyterian Church. In 2022 she also completed a Graduate Certificate of Christian Mentoring.
Kylie works at the Brisbane School of Theology as a mentor to students and lectures alongside Peter Moore in the Christian Mentoring Course. She mentors a number of women professionally, most of whom are in paid ministry or studying with that aim.
Kylie and her family have been attending Kenmore Presbyterian Church since 2008, where she serves on the music team, as a growth group and youth group leader. She also has a side hustle business teaching Sourdough breadmaking and is a bit of a hippy earth-mother type. She’s married to Andrew who is a Staffworker for AFES and they have 2 children. The family enjoy cooking, eating, gardening, making and adventuring in the outdoors together.
Luke Morgan
Luke has served in youth and community development mission for more than 20 years. He has led and taught in a variety of national and international contexts. Luke has lived in intentional missional communities for much of his ministry life.
His mentoring focus includes resourcing and supporting leaders and frontline workers in organisations, communities, churches, and denominations.
Carmen Wagenaar
Carmen is the part-time Coordinator for the ACMN. She has completed a three year mentor equipping training program with MEQ Sydney, and has worked in various pastoral and administrative roles.
Jeff Lawrence
Jeff comes to the ACMN as a reflective practitioner, has a Master of Ministry degree and is an accredited and practicing spiritual director, Biblical storyteller, pastor, retreat facilitator, and as a mentor to men and to persons in ministry. Jeff has also served as a visiting chaplain at a number of hospitals and nursing homes in Brisbane and as a community chaplain. And brings willingness to assist with some of the usual practical, organisation and administration aspects of being on the committee.
Ngaire Moore
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve this Christian community.
I was blessed to come to know Christ when I was 22 years old. In my formative years, I learnt the importance of sowing into my spiritual life and serving with others to make Christ known.
I have served alongside my husband, Peter in various Congregational leadership roles in country New South Wales and for a short time in Sydney. My more recent ministry experience has been in diverse chaplaincy roles. The last placement saw me gaining skills in palliative care.
Mentoring, with its focus on the whole person, aligns well with my own convictions on ministry among God’s people. ACMN supports me as I undertake this ministry with excellent resources and is a community that is supportive of mentors. I hope I can bring some skills to help in this valuable work.