Leaders 2 Go!
Every two years, a highlight of my PD calendar comes around - an opportunity to interact with other leaders of family ministry and children's ministry from across Australia and New Zealand, hearing of successes and struggles across denominations and boundaries. I was surprised to learn this was the ninth time the biennial "Leaders 2 Go" conference has been held. About 80 delegates gathered once again at the beautiful Stanwell Tops conference centre between Sydney and Wollongong NSW to share in three days of worship, fellowship and of course learning about what is happening across the world in our shared areas of ministry interest. One of the highlights was the theme itself and how this was worked out over our time together. There was a lot of focus on the natural growth of the trees around us, tree imagery in the Bible (like Hosea 14:5-9) and how we could grow and mature over the course of the conference, and how our congregations could grow in the future. This was