Our Senior Pastors Forum is a time for our senior leaders to meet to talk, plan and pray together about our vision of reaching Australia for Christ. Every third year we extend the event a little and invite pastors wives to join as well. We also hold our Annual General Meeting at the Forum. It is a rich and productive time of fellowship for our leaders.

Mantra Legends Hotel, Gold Coast
25 Laycock Street
SURFERS PARADISE QLD 4217

All accommodation, meetings and group catering will happen at the Mantra Legends Hotel.

The hotel is located 30km from Coolangatta Airport, 80km from Brisbane Airport, 100m to Surfers Paradise Beach and 100m to shops restaurants and cafes.

Limited undercover parking is available onsite at a cost of $22 per day. You will need to arrange this on arrival (subject to availability) and pay separately.

There is a lagoon style pool, a gymnasium, sauna and steam room. Reception is open 24 hours and there is a concierge service.

Each registration (couple or single) will be allocated their own room. For those wanting to arrive on the weekend or stay a while afterwards, Mantra Legends is offering a reduced rate of $190 per night for up to three nights either side of the FIEC Forum. You will have to call them on (07) 5588 7888 to make your own booking. Please let them know you are part of the FIEC “leaders conference” group and they will arrange it so that you don’t have to move rooms.

Some of our Session content is still being finalised. We will announce these details a little closer to the Forum.

For those booking flights, you can check in any time from 2pm on Monday (and enjoy the afternoon of free time). The first committment is the Senior Pastors & Wives Dinner at 7pm Monday night. Lunch on Wednesday will likely be finished by 1pm so you can begin your journey home then.

Everything is catered except for the dinner on Tuesday night. You will have free time then to organise dinner at many of the nearby cafes and restaurants.

Our keynote Bible Teacher will be Dr Mark Baddeley, one of the full-time faculty at the Queensland Theological College. Prior to joining QTC in 2012, Mark was at Oxford where he was working on his D.Phil. on Athansius’ Doctrine of the Atonement, having already done a masters degree in systematic theology (also at Oxford University). Prior to that, Mark had studied and then taught at Moore Theological College in Sydney. Mark lives on Brisbane’s bayside and is an Elder at Redlands Presbyterian Church. He is married to Jenny and has two boys who are in High School.

Our equipping sessions will be led by Tim Dyer. Tim trained in psychology at Melbourne and Monash Universities before researching and publishing on youth homelessness as a staff worker with Scripture Union Victoria. Besides mentoring pastors and leaders himself, Tim trains Christian leaders in mentoring and pastoral leadership, and consults with churches and denominations on processes which create and support leader and community health. Tim is a visiting lecturer with SMBC in Sydney. He is a member of Sheffield Bible Church, an independent church in Tasmania.