When?
Monday 5 February 2024, 8:30am – 5:00pm (GMT +11 Australian Eastern Daylight Time).
Where?
Moore Theological College, 1 King St, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia, and via live stream.
Cost
| Standard (until Mon 15 Jan 2024) |
Late (from Tue 16 Jan 2024) |
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In-person registrations |
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| Full-time workers | $94.50 + booking fee |
$134.50 + booking fee |
| Concession (pensioners; students; MTS trainees; part-time workers; unpaid workers) | $64.50 + booking fee |
$104.50 + booking fee |
| CMS missionaries and Moore College students/student spouses/chaplains | $44.50 + booking fee |
$84.50 + booking fee |
| Moore College faculty/spouse/speaker/full-time PhD/conference helpers | Free | Free |
Livestream |
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| Livestream (individuals) | $45.00 + booking fee |
$45.00 + booking fee |
PLEASE NOTE:
- Delivery: This conference will be run both face-to-face as well as via live stream. However, only talks presented in Marcus Loane Hall will be live-streamed—that is, Andrew Leslie’s plenary addresses and Clare Deeves’ electives.
- Livestream registration: All livestream registrations are individual only. No group registrations are available. If you have any concerns about this, please contact us.
- Recordings: Provided everything goes smoothly with the technology, all talks and electives (where speakers have given their consent) will be recorded, and all delegates will have access to the conference talks for two weeks afterwards.
- Children: Nursing babies six months and under are welcome. Children over six months cannot be accommodated. In addition, as we are livestreaming and recording the proceedings, if your child becomes too noisy, please take them outside.
- Electives: Only those who have opted for Clare Deeves’ Group 1 elective may attend her Group 2 elective. If you would only like to do Clare Deeves’ Group 1 elective, feel free to choose something else for Group 2.
- Financial help: If you would like to attend the conference but are facing financial difficulties, please contact us before Thursday 25 January 2024.
About
Our 2024 P&A annual conference theme is “Following Christ as men and women”. Moore faculty member Andrew Leslie will unpack this topic in our morning plenary sessions. Understandably, much of our interest in the Bible’s teaching about men and women is centred on what it means in practice. In the morning plenary sessions, Moore College faculty member Andrew Leslie wants to take a step back from these practical concerns and reflect on the wisdom of this teaching. He’ll begin by exploring how the depiction of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden echoes the pattern of creation itself set out in Genesis 1. Reflecting on this pattern will shed much light on the nature of God and the complementary vocation he has given us as his image bearers. In his second talk, Andrew will take us to the New Testament where the same pattern underlays its description of Christ’s relationship to his people and the life of the church itself.
Our afternoon electives will further unpack the theme of “Following Christ as men and women”, with Clare Deeves sharing her PhD research about things to consider when men and women work together on a ministry team. Moore’s dean of Women Susan An and Senior Pastor of The Bridge Church Paul Dale will look at when we disagree with each other about complementarianism while being on the same staff team. Other electives include gender considerations in South Asian ministry; fatherhood; teaching the woman at the well in John 4; and if there are reasons for making different theological decisions than the Apostles.
About our speakers
Andrew Leslie
Andrew Leslie is Head of Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics, and a lecturer in Christian Doctrine at Moore College. His research interests include the early development of Reformed theology and its retrieval for contemporary systematic theology, and the doctrines of Scripture, humanity and the Fall, the person of Christ and divine sovereignty. He is a graduate of Moore College and served in parishes in North Sydney and Strathfield before being awarded his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Andrew joined the Moore College faculty in 2013. He is married to Felicity, and they have three children: William, Tessa and Hugh.
Clare Deeves
Clare grew up in Sydney but has lived in Perth since 2005, and now considers it home. She is an assistant minister at Kallaroo Anglican Church in Perth, with particular responsibility for women and co-ordinating the church’s training. Prior to this role, Clare worked for AFES before joining the faculty at Trinity Theological College, where she still lectures in Church History. Before completing her PhD in 2023, Clare did her MDiv at Sydney Missionary and Bible College and a ThM (Church History) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago. Her spare time is generally spent hanging out with friends, but in 2023, she added lawn bowls to her list of recreational activities and is thoroughly enjoying it.
