Category Archives: Updates
Vision Conference Declare 2021
Shane Willard
Shane is from Charleston, SC (USA), and has been in full-time ministry for over 20 years. He began working in full-time ministry as a youth pastor of a small church. Since that time, Shane has held multiple pastoral positions at various sized churches. Shane now ministers full time in America, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. With degrees in both clinical psychology and theology, Shane is known for being an informative, brilliant and humorous communicator.
Shane is mentored by a pastor with rabbinical training, and teaches the context of the Scriptures from a Hebraic perspective. This perspective helps people to see God's Word in a completely new way and leads them into a more intimate relationship with the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Ron Simms
Matt Prater
Matt is married to Carol & they have 3 children - Lydia, Joshua & Grace. Matt has previously served as a Youth Pastor at Coffs Baptist Church & Coffs C3 Church, and has been Senior Pastor at New Hope Brisbane since 2006. Matt also hosts a weekly radio show called “History-makers” which now plays on over 730 radio stations around Australia, and has released two books featuring interviews from History-makers. He has also hosted two series of History-makers TV, now available on DVD. He currently hosts weekends on Vision Radio across Australia. More than anything he is passionate about sharing his faith with business people, students, churches, media, and anyone who'll listen. Especially over a good coffee.
New Hope Church Brisbane & Vision Radio
Paul Smith
Paul 'Skip' Smith has been ministering for nearly 30 years in almost every aspect of Kingdom life. From worship to missions, children to seniors, radio to senior pastor (yes, and even women's ministry), he is a prophetic trainer and creative equipper of the Body of Christ who loves to see the power and presence of God manifest. He currently works for Alpha Australia, is married to Leah and they have three children, Isaac, Sophie and Josiah.
Slabbert Pretorius – LTh, BA, BTh Hons, TAE4, MACE, MACEL
Slabbert is a third generation missionary, striving to lead as many people as possible to self-fulfillment in Jesus Christ. He sees Biblical Worldview Education as an integral part of bringing believers, young and old, to spiritual maturity. He believes that going to the nations to establish and support Christian schools and educational institutions is essential for true Biblical discipleship. He has a desire for Accelerate Educational Ministries and SCEE to minister and serve every client, church, pastor, teacher, and student until they come unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Every believer needs to understand God’s paths and purposes, His plans and patterns, and our full potential as children of the most High God.
He was called to the full-time ministry in 1979. He began his ministry career as a Youth Pastor in his local church. He received his LTh through Berea Theological College, and in 1983, he was served as an operational chaplain in the military for almost three years. He also served as Chairman of the South African National Executive Youth Council for 11 years, and chaired an Interdenominational church forum for a number of years. He is a Church Growth consultant and assisted in planting a large number of Churches in Southern Africa.
Slabbert was appointed by his denomination to assess A.C.E. in the early eighties, and followed the progress and growth of this ministry with great interest. He used his business skills to turn around a faltering school, and later served as Senior Administrator and Principal of Vine Christian School, a school using the A.C.E. program in the Southern Cape.
In 2011, Slabbert joined the ministry of Southern Cross Educational Enterprises (SCEE) as the Chief Operational Officer, and his responsibilities were to serve as visionary leader and lead the ministry into the future. He is currently the chairman of the Board and the CEO of Accelerate Educational Ministries (AEM) in the South Pacific/Indonesian region, an organization providing ministry support, training, and educational materials to churches and schools in this region. He has started a local church as part of this ministry and is working towards mustering support of a 1000 churches to assist in starting a 1000 bush schools in remote villages in the region.
He was married to Anna-Marie for 37 years before she passed away in 2019, and has two lovely daughters; Marcelle, a qualified pastor and business woman, and Charlize, an A.C.E. graduate and head of a Accelerate Academy, a music and arts training institute. Recently the Lord added Atraù Paul as husband to Marcelle, Trinity Alexis Paul as granddaughter and Joel Nisbet as friend to Charlize.
Guest Speaker – Ps. James Kozina
This Sunday we are excited to have Ps. James Kozina ministering at Accelerate Church!
James Kozina is a Church Engagement Manager for Open Doors, and found a passion for the persecuted church after serving as a worship pastor for over ten years.
He has recently returned from the Middle East and shares stories of faith amidst intense suffering by Christian refugees fleeing the terror of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Ps. James Kozina is celebrating 13 years of marriage to his wife, Stephanie, this November and have three beautiful children - Rose, Jude and Joy. After serving for over 10 years as the Worship Pastor of King’s Church on the Gold Coast, he moved to Sydney in 2016 to work for Open Doors. In that time he was asked to oversee their Church Engagement team for Australia and New Zealand before moving back to the Gold Coast in late 2018 after helping to open a QLD office in Brisbane South.
Open Doors has been serving the persecuted church since 1955, and currently works in over 70 countries. They believe that caring for the persecuted church should be a part of the DNA of every person who calls themselves a follower of Jesus. James passionately prays that churches will be profoundly challenged by the stories of the persecuted church.
We invite you to join us this Sunday at 9:30am as we host Ps. James.
Our Accelerate Church Family would love to meet you!
You can also plug into our Livestream and be blessed by Ps. James' ministry.
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Guest Speaker – Ps. Daniel Zelli
This Sunday we are excited to have Ps. Daniel Zelli ministering at Accelerate Church!
Daniel Zelli Ministries is an apostolic ministry with a prophetic edge.
Ps. Daniel has a demonstrated history of moving in signs wonders and miracles. He is known for an accurate operation in the words of knowledge, unusual miracles and a keen sense for prophetic words. Ps. Daniel's leadership gift has resulted in him speaking at government, senior corporate and senior church leadership levels. He has helped to plant many churches all through Asia and Australia.
Formerly the leader of the Glory City Network of Churches and co-leader in the senior leadership team at Glory City Church Brisbane, Daniel has recently focused his attention on more international work and has now extended that ministry to move Apostolically across many denominations and networks. One of the latest initiatives is to pioneer an apostolic network called “World hope Online”. Founder and current leader of an international mission agency called World Hope Network, he works with governments to provide humanitarian aid alongside the presentation of the gospel in countries that are not usually open to the gospel. Through this ministry, thousands have been saved and hundreds of churches have been planted.
Daniel is married to Jeanice Zelli, whom he wed in 1992. Together they have three beautiful adult children - Jessica, Caitie and David. Jeanice has been and is fully committed to and supportive in the international ministry alongside her husband, Daniel.
Daniel’s life message is to see believers become everything God has called them to be. He is well known for one of his works on living the supernatural life - "9 Supernatural Steps".
We invite you to join us this Sunday at 9:30am as we host Ps. Daniel.
Our Accelerate Church Family would love to meet you!
You can also plug into our Livestream and be blessed by Ps. Daniel's ministry.
What else is happening at Accelerate Church?
