Contact details: e: laurie.scandrett@outlook.com

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

Contact details:   e:   secretary@iccoreis.asn.au   jude.hennessy@dow.org.au ; p: (02) 4222 2407

Contact details: e:Craig.Roberts@youthworks.net 

Stephen Kinsella

Contact details: e: stephen.kinsella@edcomm.org.au

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 18 years and has three children.

Barbara is currently the Director of SRE for NSW Australian Christian Churches. She has taught in primary schools for twenty six years with five of those being Head of Primary in a K-12 school. She has served as a pastor for thirteen years, working with children, youth and adults. Barbara teaches SRE in her local primary school.

Contact details: e: sre@nswacc.org.au

Lisa has been involved in SRE ever since she left school and has taught primary and high school SRE for a total of ten years now. It is a huge part of her passion and she is always looking for new ways to serve others through SRE. Originally from Albury/Wodonga, she currently lives in Sydney after completing her educational degree, having taught in three different states in both primary and high school (her methods are English and Mathematics), finishing theological studies and meeting her husband here. Lisa currently teaches SRE at a local high school and is also involved in overseeing SRE for the Baptist Union of NSW. In her spare time she loves to be creative by involving herself in music, art, cooking and writing.

Contact details: e: sre@nswactbaptists.org.au

Rev Steve Dixon

Steve is the Associate Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Baptist Churches of NSW and the ACT. His role is to oversee the visions of the ministry and its events as well as helping churches in finding youth and young adult pastors. Steve is also employed by Morling College to develop and deliver their youth ministry training program.

Steve served for 9 years as Coordinator of Youth & Young Adult Ministry at Gymea Baptist Church, overseeing the Friday night youth program, life groups, interns, volunteer leadership teams, evening congregation, camps and schools ministry for the 12-30 age demographic.

Steve speaks regularly in churches, as well as at camps, events and conferences.

Steve and his family are now part of H3O Church in Dee Why.

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.

Anna is Coordinator of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in the Diocese of Lismore, a position she has held since 2016. Prior to that, Anna was a teacher in Catholic schools for almost 30 years teaching all grades from Kinder to Year 6.  For twenty years, Anna held the school executive positions of Religious Education Coordinator and Leader of Catechesis, involved in Curriculum, Liturgy and Evangelisation. In her current role, Anna leads and supports Parish Coordinators and facilitates training and faith formation. Anna is Acting Chair of the Far North Coast ICCOREIS Committee providing training and in-service to SRE teachers.

Contact details: e: anna.odwyer@lism.catholic.edu.au; p: (02) 66 276 286

Contact details: p: (02) 8719 2679

Jacqui Mikac is the SRE Manager for C3 Church Australia; she trains and equips SRE teachers in NSW.  As the School Scripture Pastor at C3 Church Oxford Falls, Jacqui reaches out to various local schools through SRE.  She coordinates a local team of SRE teachers, and teaches primary SRE classes herself. Jacqui has been on church staff for most of the past 30 years (taking time out to start a family – she is married and has 2 daughters).  She passionate about Kids Ministry, having served often as part of the C3 Kids team at Oxford Falls since 1986.

Contact Jacqui via C3 Church Oxford Falls p: (02) 9972 8688

Contact details: e: CpWarren@optusnet.com.au; p: 0412 510 858

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

Murray Norman is now the CEO of ChristianSRE. He was the General Manager of Presbyterian Youth and the Deputy Chair of Generate.  Murray is involved in youth camps, training youth leaders, and the development of SRE in for ICCOREIS. 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

Territorial Youth and Children’s Secretary for the Salvation Army

Contact details: p: 02 9727 3836

Father Nemanja S. Mrdjenovic is a parish priest at St Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church at Blacktown, NSW. He teaches SRE at King Park Public School in Wakely and Mitchel High School in Blacktown. He is the coordinator for religious education for NSW in the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand.

Contact details: e: fr.nemanja@stnicholasblacktown.org

Family and Children’s Ministries Director NNSW Conference

Contact details: e: daronpratt@adventist.org.au; p: 4951 8088

Ms Catherine (Cathie) CochraneUniting Church NSW/ACT representative to ICCOREIS, Member Nowra Uniting Church, daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, friend, High School Teacher (BA Dip Ed), dairy farmer, accredited lay preacher( 5years), Elder(36 years), Master of Theology(2016), Volunteer for Frontier Services Outback Links and Uniting Aged Services,  Chairperson Shoalhaven Teachers of Christian Education Teachers,  international citizen with an Australian passport, still a student – a learner for life and a friend of Jesus.