Members | ICCOREIS

Office Bearers

	Chairperson – Mr John Donnelly John Donnelly is a Catholic who has worked all his professional life as a religious educator. After twenty five years of teaching and coordinating religion in Catholic Schools, John was called to serve Government School children and their families in 2003. He has a degree in Theology and a Masters in Religious Education that he put to good use in the development of the K–12 Catholic SRE program. John is currently employed by the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle as the Director of the Office of Life and Faith. He heads a team of coordinators in the Hunter and Manning regions who support and train SRE teachers, parish catechists, Seasons for Growth companions, marriage educators and Natural Fertility Services. Formation and training of church workers is a real passion for John who gains great satisfaction in organizing conferences, workshop days, forums and retreats. John and his wife Brenda have five grown up children and many grandchildren. The faith formation of children has been a life work through involvement in family, parish and schools. John has taught SRE in many state schools including Belmont, Floraville, Cessnock West and Hamilton South public schools. Contact details: e: john.donnelly@mn.catholic.org.au; p: 02 4979 1329
	Deputy Chairperson – Mrs Lynda Mulder Contact details:deputychair@iccoreis.asn.au
	Honorary Secretary – Mr Jude Hennessy Ph: 02 4222 2407 Email: secretary@iccoreis.asn.au jude.hennessy@dow.org.au
	Honorary Treasurer – Rev Craig Roberts Contact details:Ph: 02 8268 3300Email: treasurer@iccoreis.asn.au Craig.Roberts@youthworks.net
	Executive Officer – Mrs Roslyn Deal Roslyn was employed by ICCOREIS as its Administration Officer in Jan 2018. Contact details: e: execofficer@iccoreis.asn.au; m: 0400 652 505

Representative Members

Anglican Church of Australia, NSW Province

Rev Craig Roberts

Email:Craig.Roberts@youthworks.net

Stephen Kinsella

Email: stephen.kinsella@edcomm.org.au

Mrs Janene Lewers Janene worked for Anglican Youthworks for 8 years training and resourcing Scripture teachers and church leaders in children’s ministry. She has a Diploma in Divinity and Mission from Sydney Missionary and Bible College and has completed the Preliminary Theological Certificate through Moore College. She currently teaches two SRE classes each week and assists in another and is seeking to help in the same school with a Breakfast Club and an after school club. She is passionate about making the most of the opportunities afforded in the school community and building those relationships.

Rev Michael Ridge

Michael taught geography for 14 years in the UK before getting ordained in 2009. He is currently Rector of St Stephens Dorrigo in the Anglican Diocese of Grafton. He teaches SRE every week in the local primary school and is Vice Chair of the Waterfall Way Christian Education Committee which employs a high school SRE teacher in the Dorrigo and Bellingen area.
He has been married to Stephanie for 16 years and has three children.

Australian Christian Churches

Pastor Barbara Scott

Email: sre@nswacc.org.au

Baptist Churches, NSW and ACT

Ms Lisa Andrawes

Email: sre@nswactbaptists.org.au

Catholic Church, NSW and ACT

	Mr John Donnelly (Chairperson) John Donnelly is a Catholic who has worked all his professional life as a religious educator. After twenty five years of teaching and coordinating religion in Catholic Schools, John was called to serve Government School children and their families in 2003. He has a degree in Theology and a Masters in Religious Education that he put to good use in the development of the K–12 Catholic SRE program. John is currently employed by the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle as the Director of the Office of Life and Faith. He heads a team of coordinators in the Hunter and Manning regions who support and train SRE teachers, parish catechists, Seasons for Growth companions, marriage educators and Natural Fertility Services. Formation and training of church workers is a real passion for John who gains great satisfaction in organizing conferences, workshop days, forums and retreats. John and his wife Brenda have five grown up children and many grandchildren. The faith formation of children has been a life work through involvement in family, parish and schools. John has taught SRE in many state schools including Belmont, Floraville, Cessnock West and Hamilton South public schools.
	Mr Jude Hennessy Jude is Director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Catholic Diocese of Wollongong. He has 20 years experience in the teaching of Religious Education to young people in schools around Sydney. Jude has significant experience in the development of Religious Education curriculum materials and in training adults who are involved in the catechesis and evangelisation of young people. Contact details: e: jude.hennessy@woll.catholic.org.au; p: 02 4253 0987; m: 0408 236 191.
	Alison Newell Alison Newell has been involved in Catholic religious education for over 25 years at a local and State level, teaching every year group from Kinder to Year 12. She is currently employed by the Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay which covers an area from Manly to Palm Beach in the northern beaches, the North Shore and Hornsby regions of northern Sydney and the Central Coast. Alison leads a team of coordinators and administrative staff whose work involves authorisation, training, curriculum development and support to coordinators and SRE teachers. She is responsible for the continuing development of the K-12 Catholic SRE program Walking With Jesus Pathways of Discipleship. Alison is currently the Chair of the Central Coast SRE Committee, an interchurch group which supports SRE across the Central Coast region. She serves as the Chair of the Catholic Conference of Religious Educators in State Schools (CCRESS), whose membership is drawn from the eleven Catholic Dioceses of NSW and ACT. Alison is a Catholic representative on the DEC Consultative Committee. Her objectives are to promote SRE as a valuable inclusion in the State school curriculum, whilst respecting the rights of parents and all SRE providers; and to support SRE teachers to provide quality religious education to children and young people of the 21^st Century.

Christian Community Churches of Australia (Christian Brethren)

Bradley Scott
Brad is employed by Christian Community Churches (CCCAust (NSW)) for 3 days a week. His role includes the training of SRE teachers, Marriage Celebrants and running personal and church growth seminars. He is a leader in his local church and is married with three teenage children. Brad runs his own engineering consultancy, Scott Tech Consulting, offering structural and civil engineering solutions to the public.
Mr Bradley Scott – p: (02) 9626 005 e: brad@cccaustnsw.com

Fellowship of Congregational Churches

Mr Paul Warren

p: 0412 510 858

Email: CpWarren@optusnet.com.au

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia

Rev Fr Constantine Varipatis
Constantine is the Parish Priest in the Sutherland Shire for the Greek Orthodox Church. He teaches SRE at Endeavour and Sylvania High schools. His qualifications are a Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Theology and Masters Hons in Theology with a thesis on Marriage and the Freedom of the Human Person using Archbishop Stylianos’ Poetry.
Contact details: p: 02 9587 5083.

Presbyterian Church

Mrs Lynda Mulder (Deputy Chairperson)

Contact details: e: deputychair@iccoreis.asn.au

Murray Norman

Murray Norman is the General Manager of Presbyterian Youth and has been for with PY for the last 16 years. He is also the Deputy Chair of Genr8. Murray is involved in youth camps, training youth leaders, and the development of SRE in the Presbyterian church and beyond. He has a background in law and accounting, is married with four children and attends Abbotsford Presbyterian Church. Contact details: e: murray@pynsw.org.au; p: 02 8567 4700

The Salvation Army (Eastern Australia Territory)

Major John Viles

Territorial Youth and Children’s Secretary for the Salvation Army

p: 02 9727 3836

Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand

Father Nemanja Mrdjenovic

Email: fr.nemanja@stnicholasblacktown.org

Seventh-day Adventist Church, Greater Sydney, North and South NSW Conferences

Pastor Daron Pratt

Family and Children’s Ministries Director NNSW Conference

p: 4951 8088 e: daronpratt@adventist.org.au

Uniting Church in Australian, NSW and ACT

Mrs Jean Evans
Jean is a State Councillor, Life Member, and former Country Vice-President of the NSW Federation of P&C Associations. She has also represented the P&C on the Director-General’s Consultative Committee on Special Religious Education. Jean lives in Albury, where she is active in many church and community organisations. She is an elder of St David’s Uniting Church; Chairman of St David’s Uniting Care; Education Chairman of the Albury Business and Professional Women’s Association; and a member of the ecumenical Chaplaincy Support Group, which supports the University Chaplaincy in Albury and Wodonga. Jean also works part-time as a job trainer at Wewak Special School, helping students with special needs who are close to leaving school. Jean is married to Malcolm, and they have three children and four grandchildren.
Contact details: e: evansmalcolm1@hotmail.com; p: 02 6025 6448.

Ms Emma Parr
Emma is the coordinator of SRE and Child Protection for the NSW & ACT Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia. She has been an active leader in youth and children’s ministry since she was in high school herself. Having studied education at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst for two years, Emma felt a strong call to youth ministry and has since undertaken tertiary study in youth ministry and theology at United Theological College, North Parramatta. Emma has experience teaching SRE and is passionate about ministry with people in the first third of life, particularly multi-generational ministry and helping prepare and support leaders in ministry with young people. Emma is currently involved in both congregational and presbytery youth work in Sydney North and Kuringai presbyteries, and attends Burwood Uniting Church where she is an active member of the evening congregation.
Contact details: e: emmap@nsw.uca.org.au; p: 02 8267 4290.

Elected Advisors

	ICCOREIS has a pool of advisors who provide information and advice on a range of issues related to religious education in public schools.

Life Members

Mrs Jean Ferrington

Dr George Hazell

Rev Dr Mark Hillis

Dr Grant Maple

Dr Ann Maree Whenman