Growing a healthy, evangelistic, multiplying church is a team effort. We walk with you to provide the tools and encouragement to make a healthy church a reality in your specific context. We long to see Australia won for Jesus through local churches.
Within the Reach Australia network we have seen the significant impact of the Leadership Development Program for senior pastors. Through cohorts, coaching and a church consult we’re seeing healthier leaders and churches across Australia.
Our aim is to see church teams working towards the same goal, valuing each other’s perspectives and gifts. Having the tools needed to build trust and collaboration, and to work through healthy conflict effectively. Senior leaders need a team that has captured the gospel vision and is with them as they work together.
We know that senior leaders can’t do it on their own. Ministry is busy. Each leader has different abilities and bandwidths, and change management isn’t easy. Senior leaders need a team that has captured the gospel vision and is with you as you work together.
A multiplication mindset
Building a culture of disciple-making throughout your church, in every aspect of your team and ministry through:
Fruitful gospel leadership
We’re committed to seeing every church leader grow as they become theologically driven, evangelistically urgent, spiritually vibrant and practically skilled, through:
Healthy ministry teams
Teams of men and women working effectively towards the same goal with deep theological alignment through:
Dave Keun
Senior Pastor at Kellyville Anglican Church
A great time to think deliberately about how to be a good team member, take responsibility for your ministry and life as a team member, learn some new tools, and sharpen some others. And doing this with other people in positions like you.
This was the single best investment we have ever made as a staff team. It built greater trust, alignment, and inspired us for the future
I've taken lots of questions away about my current practices and plans - I have a strong desire to bring some clarity to these areas and will be working at it.
Had a helpful balance of identifying areas I need to be growing as a leader but also remembering that I am a child of God, all the ways my identity is in Jesus. It would have been easy to be burdened and weighed down...but I wasn’t!
So often we're aware of deficits in our ministries or a lack of personal skilfullness. This is an active way to address these issues, while also clarifying how I can serve Jesus with greater effectiveness.
It’s been deeply helpful to stop and take stock - to remove myself from the day-to-day grind of ministry and look from afar. I’ve picked up on areas I need to work on and improve, particularly in my leadership. The things I’ve realised about my spiritual formation, ministry philosophy and identity have been so helpful. It will have an impact on me that far outweighs the three-day cost of attending an intensive.
It’s been a bonding experience for our team and given us permission to have some important and hard conversations about mission, church planting and how we function together as men and women. These are conversations we wouldn’t have had otherwise amidst the busyness of ministry. It’s been really valuable.
Without this program we’d still be doing good ministry. But the advantage here is that we’re working as a team. It's helped us focus on those things that are really important.
It is worth it for the sake of the church. If you want to be serious about growing the people of your church, and reaching more and more people in the area, it is worth setting aside the time.
It lays good Biblical foundations for the work we are doing, provides great strategic input into how we can function in teams in order to see kingdom growth, and it is awesome to hang out with a group of ministry-oriented men and women for the week. Highly recommend!
I loved it! I was looking forward to it and it did not disappoint! It exceeded my expectations. It has been my favourite training of all time. Man alive, this is a great bunch of people, helping and supporting each other. I feel connected to the people in my program through this intensive, which will make the online parts of the program more rich and enjoyable.
Stream 1: Ministry Leaders
Sydney 2025/2026 cohort
Registration closes: 19 July 2025
First intensive: 28-31 July 2025
Second intensive: 27-30 July 2026
Pricing
$3,500 + GST per year
All meals, accommodation and resources are included in the program cost. Travel costs in relation to the intensive program are not included.
Stream 2: Teams
Brisbane 2025/2026 cohort
Registration closes: 20 February 2025
First intensive: 25-27 March 2025
Second intensive: 24-26 March 2026
Sydney 2025/2026 cohort
Registration closes: 19 July 2025
First intensive: 29-31 July 2025
Second intensive: 28-30 July 2026
Perth 2025/2026 cohort
Registration closes: 10 September 2025
First intensive: 21-23 October 2025
Second intensive: 25-27 August 2026
Pricing
$5,500 + GST per church base cost per year
$300 + GST per person per year
(For all new cost agreements signed from 17 Dec 2024 onwards)
All meals and resources are included in the program cost. Travel costs and accommodation in relation to the intensive program are not included.
Pete Stedman
Senior Minister at Norwest Anglican Church
The intensive is intense, but the content and teaching is so valuable. There is a great balance of upfront teaching and discussions that allows for peer learning. If you are in a church staff team, this program is for you.
A great opportunity to set aside time to learn, plan and think about how I can be a godly and helpful team member. It's helped me consider how I can take greater responsibility for ministry areas in my church and share that responsibility with others.
If you want to gain clarity on what it is to be a leader in ministry and how to be that leader in the way God has created you, then ya gotta do it!!!
Do it. It’s helpful for thinking through working on the ministry, strategic thinking, and implementation of helpful practices for everyday ministry.
It forced me to pause, recalibrate and refuel to continue serving Jesus to see our city find new life in Jesus.
Stream 1 is designed for anyone leading a significant ministry in their church both men and women – associate pastors, ministry directors, and other key ministry staff.
Stream 2 is designed for senior pastors with their whole ministry team.
The program works in conjunction with the Leadership Development Program for senior leaders. With a primary focus on supporting the senior leader, it makes sense to be familiar with our frameworks and to have already started to implement them in your contexts. If your senior leader is a participant (past or present) in the Leadership Development Program we encourage you to apply. If they’re not, we encourage you to still reach out to us and have a chat about how the program might work for you.
We’re committed to supporting and equipping churches in regional areas. We’d love to run Stream 2 for Teams in regional centres in the future. Please reach out to us if you’re part of a group of churches that might be willing to host Stream 2.
One of the outcomes we long to see from the Leadership Development Program is a network of leaders joined together in the vision of thousands of healthy, evangelistic and multiplying churches. We believe we really are better together! This can take many forms, but could include being trained as a coach, assisting on consultations and being willing to share your experiences with others in similar situations to you. You may also consider partnering with us financially, by contributing the resource library fund or to Reach Australia’s ministry generally. Some leaders have been so helped they’ve made supporting others in the program part of their budgets each year. Being connected with a group of leaders from around the country and across denominational lines who share a similar heart of urgency for the lost is deeply refreshing and encouraging. We hope the network persists for many decades stirring leaders towards healthy, evangelistic and multiplying churches.
The leaders of churches are key to the vibrancy of the church in Australia. Regardless of denomination, Reach Australia is glad to serve church leaders from across Australia including Presbyterian, independent evangelical, Reformed, Baptist, Anglican and others who affirm our biblical convictions.
We long to encourage and equip gospel ministers to become spiritually vibrant, theologically driven, evangelistically urgent, practically skilled leaders, and to lead churches that also display these attributes. Our framework outlines five key gospel convictions that lie behind everything we do. Our key principles run like a thread through the cohort programs we run for church leaders; they’re the basis for the consulting we do with churches. You’ll find that we theme our conference around these ideas. Read the Reach Australia Framework ebook.
The aim of the Team Development Program is to create a network that you both benefit from and where you can bless others. This can take many forms, but could include being trained as a coach, praying regularly, financially giving, and being willing to share your experiences with others.
Many participants testify that being connected with a group of leaders from around the country and across denominational lines who share a similar heart of urgency for the lost has been deeply refreshing and encouraging. We hope the network persists for many decades, stirring leaders towards healthy, evangelistic and multiplying churches.
Reach Australia is driven by a passion to see Australia won for Christ. The Team Development Program is a huge investment, backed by generous patrons, who contribute substantially to keeping the price of the program affordable. If money is a blockage hindering your church’s involvement in the program, please be in touch. We’d love to have a conversation about what you’re able to contribute, partnering with you and others in providing the assistance you might need.
We’re committed to making the program available to teams around Australia. Please reach out to us if there are a few churches in one location who would like to do the program together.
Head to the Leadership Development Program webpage to read stories from senior leaders of the impact the program has had in churches around Australia.
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