Live On Tour Events
Join us as we gather together for the first time since 2019! With both local and international voices speaking at one-night only events across the country, The Justice Conference exists to create that unique space where God’s Spirit, our vocational call and the needs and concerns of our world come together. Together, we will see how all of these elements intersect and what it means for us (individually and collectively) to see God’s kingdom come here on earth, as it is in heaven.
Thandi Gamedze
Thandi Gamedze currently works for an NGO called The Warehouse in Cape Town which journeys with churches in their practical and theological responses to injustice within their contexts. She is deeply committed to the work of critique and reimagining (as both action and reflection) towards a world that is just, nurturing and kind and believes that the arts- and for her personally, poetry in particular- are integral to this work.
Dr Krish Kandiah
Dr Krish Kandiah is a social entrepreneur with a vision to help solve some of society’s seemingly intractable problems through building partnerships across civil society, faith communities, government and philanthropy. As the chair of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board Dr Kandiah advises the government and brings strategic leadership to the finding of permanent loving families for children in the care system.
Lucille G. Dejito
Lucille G. Dejito is Field Office Director for International Justice Mission, Cebu Field Office. She spearheads IJM Cebu’s strategic efforts to collaborate with local authorities and other partners to build communities in the Visayas and Mindanao regions in the Philippines where children are safe and protected from online sexual exploitation. She leads the implementation of IJM’s community protection model and global advocacy model in these regions.
*Melbourne/Brisbane/Sydney events
Jon Owen
Jon Owen became Pastor and CEO of Wayside Chapel in July 2018. He and his wife Lisa have over the years shared their lives and their home with friends and neighbours seeking asylum, refugees, people in recovery, and ex-prisoners. Jon heads up Wayside Chapel and continues Wayside’s mission of creating community with no “us and them”. As an immigrant, Jon's life is testament to the power of hospitality and he is passionate about working alongside people who are socially excluded as they seek reconciliation, welcome, justice and healing and believes that Wayside's power lies in its proximity to the street.
*Sydney event
Aunty Jean Phillips
Aunty Jean Phillips is one of Australia's most senior Aboriginal Christian Leaders of all denominations across these lands now called Australia. She was born on Cherbourg mission over 80 years ago and is still doing full time ministry. Aunty Jean started out in ministry with the AIM (Aborigines Inland Mission) and for over 60 years Aunty Jean has faithfully followed Jesus, focusing on justice, and serving those living in poverty. Aunty Jean has served many Aboriginal communities, churches of all denominations, raised up the next generations of Aboriginal Christian Leaders, and has called non-Aboriginal Christians to come on the journey of fighting injustice for decades. *Brisbane event
Naomi Chua
Naomi Chua is passionate about empowering churches to work together with refugees to create new communities of belonging in Australia. She is founding director of Embrace Refugees Australia and has worked amongst refugees for over 20 years in Australia and throughout Africa. She is currently working with NAYBA and Micah on an initiative focused on changing the narrative around refugees in this country, building capacity for us to increase our intake and ability to settle refugees in this time of unprecedented global crisis.
*Melbourne event
Bianca Manning
Bianca Manning is a Gomeroi woman and an emerging Aboriginal Christian Leader living in Brisbane on the lands of the on Yuggera and Turrbal peoples. Bianca is Common Grace's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice Coordinator and works closely with Senior Aboriginal Christian Leader Aunty Jean Phillips in the Brisbane and Logan areas. Bianca has a Social Work degree, previous ministry experience with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), and is passionate about Aboriginal social justice, youth work, asset-based community development, dance, and pursuing a genuine relationship with Jesus. *Brisbane event
Peter Branjerdporn
Peter Branjerdporn is a Melbourne-born, Bangkok-raised, Brisbane-based Pharmacist, musician, husband and dad. He is also the Anglican Church Southern Queensland's Justice Enabler (part-time). In this role he supports the work of the Social Responsibilities Committee in fulfilling the 2 Anglican Marks of Mission: "to transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and pursue peace and reconciliation" and "to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the Earth". He loves bringing people together to advocate for change in creative ways while celebrating God's love for all people and for Creation.
*Brisbane event
September Online Event
Join us for our second online event as start our exploration of our 2022 theme “On Earth, as it is in heaven” with a deep dive into the first line of the Lord’s Prayer: Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name…
Come prepared to hear from your old favourites and some new faces as we explore and grapple with what this means for us as Christians and how this outworks practically in our society today.
“The Lord’s Prayer deals with the major themes of the personal and social existence of all human kind in every era.”
Reverend René August
Reverend René August lives in the lands of The Khoi and the San Peoples, in a country now known as South Africa, in a city now known as Cape Town. She longs to see the reign of God become a more visible sign of God’s love for all creation. As a strategist, thought leader, disciple maker, speaker, author, co-conspirator, trainer, reconciler and friend, and a peacebuilding specialist at Tearfund UK, René seeks to mitigate against the systemic causes of poverty, injustice and conflict in the world.
Grace Naoum
Grace is a Sydney-based actor, working across theatre and screen since 2014. She is also an acting coach, teaching in various acting studios throughout Sydney. Grace is currently undergoing a writing mentorship with Performance Poet and Author, Joel McKerrow, which is supported by Tearfund Australia.
Uncle Ray Minniecon
Ray is a descendant of the Kabi Kabi nation and the Gurang Gurang nation of South-East Queensland. Ray is also a descendant of the South Sea Islander people with deep and abiding connections to the people of Ambrym Island. Pastor Ray has a BA in Theology from Murdoch University in Western Australia. At Murdoch, Ray helped establish the Aboriginal Education Unit where he assisted in the founding of a graduate degree program in Aboriginal Studies. Ray is the father of three children, he has two grandchildren. Ray loves writing, singing and songwriting. He also loves music, sport, public speaking and travel.
August Online Event
Join us for our first online event of the year as we go back to our roots and explore what a theology of justice is and what that means for us as Christians.
“When we talk about a theology of justice what we’re fundamentally talking about is a theology of the restoration of relationships between God, ourselves, others and the world.”
Philip Powell
Philip Powell is the co-director of the Justice Conference, UK. He is also the Theology and Network Engagement Manager (UK) with Tearfund, having previously worked for eight years at the Cambridge-based Christian think tank Jubilee Centre. Philip has a passion for serving as an ecumenical bridge-builder across cultural differences and theological streams. He supports the England football team and the Indian cricket team.
Dot Tyler
Dot Tyler leads Tearfund UK’s Youth and Emerging Generation team. She is passionate about seeing a young generation empowered to make a difference in our world. Dot believes in this young generation to live with courage and curiosity as they build toward a better future.
Joel McKerrow
Based out of Melbourne, Australia, Joel McKerrow is an award winning writer, speaker, educator, artist, creativity specialist and, having performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, is one of Australia’s most successful internationally touring, performance poets.