Nourish October 2025

TOPIC: Thrive: The Ecosystem of a Flourishing Ministry

Nourish is a day for Victorian Baptist Pastors and spouses.

This October’s Nourish will equip you to step into this next season refreshed and empowered to thrive in every part of your life.

Join Mark Conner, a seasoned church leader, speaker, and author with over 30 years of experience, for a day of practical teaching and encouragement. Through three focused sessions, Mark will help you to think through the ecosystem of a flourishing ministry to:

· reconnect with your identity as God’s beloved and clarify your calling,

· develop confidence and internal security by resisting comparison, and

· maximise emotional intelligence in relationships and set healthy priorities for sustainable ministry.

Date: Friday 17th October, 2025
Time: 9:30am - 3pm (Registration from 9:00am)
Venue: Syndal Baptist Church, 588 Hight Street Rd, Glen Waverley

Online Tickets available - Our preference is always for you to join us in person, to connect and fellowship with colleagues and join in corporate worship together, but there are a variety of reasons why this may not be possible for some on the day. If this applies to you, we would love you to join us online to watch the live stream. You will still have an opportunity to connect with other online participants via a zoom breakout room during the discussion sessions.

Ticket Options :

1. In person ticket

Price: $45 (plus booking fee)
Catering: Morning tea and a hot lunch will be provided

2. Online ticket

Price: $25 (plus booking fee)
Requirements: Access to a computer to join the live stream via you tube and connect to a zoom meeting.

Professional Standards Workshop

Topic: Relating Interculturally with Respect

We live and serve in an increasingly diverse cultural context. Within our churches and across our Union, people from different cultural backgrounds are seeking to build fellowship and do mission together. This presents us with the challenges and opportunities of relating interculturally. The BUV Code of Ethics for Pastoral Leaders calls us to conduct these intercultural relationships with respect, honesty, justice, and compassion. This workshop will address mutual respect in intercultural relationships at the interpersonal and congregational levels.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Rev Dr Ian Dicks, Lead Pastor of Moonee Ponds Baptist Church and Senior Lecturer Intercultural Studies (Adjunct) at Tabor College. Ian has over two decades experience serving in culturally diverse settings here and overseas.

A culturally diverse panel of Pastors will share some key insights about intercultural respect from their perspectives and experience.

Date: Friday 17 October, 2025
Time: 3.30pm - 5:00pm
Venue: Syndal Baptist Church, 588 High Street Rd Glen Waverley
Price: $20 (plus booking fee)
Attendance at Professional Standards Workshops will count towards BUV Pastoral Accreditation.

*A booking fee will be charged per registration by the ticketing company. Profits are donated to charity. Check out the impact your booking fee has at https://www.humanitix.com/au/our-impact