May 29, 2024

Darren Spyksma

Darren’s driving motivation is supporting educators and emerging leaders in creating engaging, empowering learning environments that foster faith formation. In his leadership roles, he seeks to challenge educators to explore ideas that bring schools to a place of continuous improvement within a distinctly Christian framework. Darren is committed to promoting learning built on meaningful relationships, demanding, rigorous,…

February 1, 2024

Dr Roshan Allpress

Dr Roshan Allpress is National Principal/Chief Executive of Laidlaw College, Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest Christian higher education provider that serves to train people for church ministry, mission, teaching, counselilng and all forms of Christian leadership. An historian by training, with degrees from Canterbury and Oxford, his research focuses on how networks effect intergeneratioanl social and…

October 25, 2023

Sam Burrows

Sam has had a range of experience in education and church leadership, including teaching in Christian and state schools in New Zealand, a role as a deputy principal and working in young adults ministry. He has also been on staff at Saint Augustine’s Anglican Church as part of the preaching team and youth ministry. Since…