Name: Together for Communities – Victoria
Start: 2025-09-04
End: 2025-09-04
Location: Crossway Baptist Church

Together for Communities – Victoria

4th September 2025
Crossway Baptist Church
Burwood East, Victoria
9am - 3pm

Workshop Sessions will be listed closer to the event:

Keynote Speaker

Details coming soon!Rev Tim Costello

We will share with you more details about the keynote speaker and contributors who will be at the event closer to the event date. Stay tuned!

Contributors

After completing counselling studies, Anne worked in private practice for several years before joining Crossway LifeCare in 2011. In 2014 she became Team Leader and now divides her time between seeing a small number of clients and managing the counselling program at LifeCare.

Coming Soon!Anne Elliott

Megan serves as National Extraordinary Lives Coordinator at Prison Fellowship Australia. Previously she was Care Ministry Pastor at Crossway, pioneering care strategies and overseeing various ministries. She is dedicated to partnering with local churches to ensure that children of prisoners feel the love of Jesus.

Coming Soon!Megan Stock

Toby Baxter (our former COACH Network National Director) who will be part of the Leadership from the Margins: Transforming the Centre workshop at the Together For Communities VIC event next Thursday!

Toby has 30 years of experience in community work with people who are facing tough times and has helped mobilise community mentors to work with vulnerable people in Australia and the UK.

Toby is now the Senior Pastor at Bayview Church and is the co-founder of COACH Community Mentoring and Empowered Faith Communities.

Coming Soon!Toby Baxter

Nic is the National Director of NAYBA Australia, which helps churches to love their neighbour and transform neighbourhoods. He is the author of "Faith, Death & Pills", holds an Arts/Law degree, and received the Australian Leadership Award.

Coming Soon!Nic Mackay

Steve has been leading an Empowered Faith Community as a ministry of St Judes Anglican Church. Steve's experience as a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary in Pakistan for 14 years has helped him to understand and work with this community. He leads a team seeking to share the love of Jesus through relationships and community.

Coming Soon!Steve Sonneman

Mark is COACH Network's Empowered Faith Communities Founder & National Manager. He co-authored the COACH Community Mentoring program and has been responsible for its ongoing development since 2007. He developed Empowered Faith Communities (EFC) and is ongoing leader of the original EFC in Rosebud, Victoria.

Coming Soon!Mark Matthews

Rosie has worked across the lifespan from hospital maternity wards, early parenting programs, youth probation and parole, families with genetic disease, through to the elderly. She enjoys using skills in program development, training, supervision and group work but most particularly engaging with people 1:1 and seeing them to thrive.

Coming Soon!Rosie Merrigan

Rob is COACH Network's National Financial COACH Coordinator. He has 30 years’ experience in business and corporate management roles. In 2014 he developed a community-based financial coaching program built on an empowering and strength-based approach, geared to relieve financial stress and break generational poverty.

Coming Soon!Rob Cummings

Mark has worked in the social welfare sector of Melbourne for 30 years. Mark’s work has involved providing direct casework to clients, leading teams of Social Work and Health professionals in service provision, and being instrumental in designing, developing, and managing major crisis accommodation centres and housing programs across Melbourne.

Coming Soon!Mark Matthews