Conference Speakers
COMMISSIONER LINDA BOND
Background
- Born in the eastern province of Nova Scotia, Canada
- The last of 13 children
- Raised in The Salvation Army, came to know Christ as a child and was actively involved in corps programs
- Unmistakable call to Salvation Army officership
Appointments
- Following training as an officer had five corps (church) appointments over a 7 year period before going on the training staff of Toronto College for Officers’ Training for 4 years.
- After five years as Candidates' Secretary (recruitment officer for Canada & Bermuda Territory), was stationed in Kitchener, Ontario as a corps officer.
- Two years later, was appointed Assistant Training Principal at the CFOT, Newfoundland, Canada
- Divisional Headquarters appointments followed, as Divisional Secretary and then Divisional Commander for the Maritime Division (three Canadian provinces)
- Was stationed for three years at International Headquarters as Under Secretary for Personnel, developing a leadership plan for the international Salvation Army.
- In 1998 was appointed Divisional Commander in the United Kingdom & Ireland Territory in the Central North Division. (Manchester, England)
- Returned to Canada in 1999 as Chief Secretary (2nd in command of the Army in Canada & Bermuda)
- From 2002-2004 was Territorial Commander - USA Western Territory
- Previous appointment – Secretary for Spiritual Life & International Ecumenical Relations, travelling internationally in a preaching/teaching ministry to focus on the spiritual life within the Army, and representing The Salvation Army at international ecumenical and evangelical gatherings.
Other
- Education – Bachelor of Religious Education; Masters in Theological Studies
JARROD McKENNA
Gandhi said, “I claim to be no more than an average person with less than average ability” and Jarrod McKenna is convinced that all of creation groans waiting for “average person[s] with less than average ability” (like us!) to lose our lives in the extraordinarly beautiful business of living God’s love; of being “The Beloved Community”. As Martin Luther King, Jr. put it “A new world is emerging”(!) Jarrod has been seeking to inspire, equip, educate and empower communities in the grace-filled practices of living into this “new world” by rediscovering the “Sermon on the Mount”.
AUNTY JEAN PHILLIPS
Jean Phillips was born on an Aboriginal reservation in south-eastern Queensland about three and a half hours drive from Brisbane. Her spiritual roots are in the interdenominational church there and she trained and served with Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM). Aunty Jean was one of the founding pastors with the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship (AEF), has been involved in church planting, prison work, hospital chaplaincy and pastoral care and is currently attached to the Oodgeroo Unit of the Queensland University of Technology and serves on the board of Evangelical Alliance. Aunty Jean is a tireless campaigner, raising awareness and support for Aboriginal missions and churches in Australia.