Encouraging and equipping youth and young adults to make disciples on the road in
WORD. SPIRIT. ACTION
We do this through relationship and running events to encourage and equip you, your youth, and your church.
Word, spirit and action are all expressed throughout our ministries.
Our values.
RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
We value an intimate relationship with God – Jesus Christ is the Lord, we are his servants; he is the Bridegroom, we are his bride; God is our Father, we are his children. We express this through specific acts of worship and devotion (particularly through music and song) combined with a lifestyle of worship that reflects intimacy and relationship with God, righteousness and justice. We recognise and value the person and work of the Holy Spirit.
RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER
We place a high value on community and family. Whilst we look for excellence in our music and teaching we will sacrifice professionalism in favour of being relational. We value informality and fun. We take God seriously but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We want our meetings and events to be accessible to everyone.
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WORLD GOD LOVES
We aim to make the message of God’s love relevant and accessible to everyone. We want to engage with the world around us and not escape it through creating a Christian sub-culture. We believe that worship, evangelism and justice go hand in hand and we recognise that we – through our words and actions – can be a living representation of God in our world. We express that relationship particularly in following the biblical commands to care for the poor, the broken, the marginalised and the dispossessed and to stand for justice as an expression of the Kingdom of God.
what we do.
april conference.
Each April school holidays we get together all the youth groups that we've spent time with throughout the year and have an amazing time of worship, teaching, serving, seminars, venues, games, and community.
Click here for more info about conference.
young adults.
Each August we run a retreat for young adults. This time is designed for busy young adults to take a weekend to simply be with God. This weekend is full of worship, friends, prayer, times of input, and reflection time.
Click here for more info about Young Adults events.
soul.equip
soul.equip is all about training youth leaders, worship teams and women in ministry. It’s an opportunity for learning, reflection, worship, building relationships and growing as individuals and teams.
Click here for more info about soul.equip
soul.teams
Our way to encourage, support, bless, serve and equip churches and youth groups in the values we share. soul.teams are travelling groups made up of a worship team, speaker, prayer ministry team. We visit city and rural churches, youth services, camps, schools and conferences near and far.
our history.
Soul Survivor NSW/ACT was born out of a passion and need to provide a base for what we called ‘middle-ground’ practice of worship, valuing intimacy with God, gifts of the Spirit, and practical servant-evangelism.
In 2000, a small team from St Stephens Belrose and Holy Trinity Baulkham Hills held two nights of worship at Turramurra Uniting Church in Sydney. In 2001 we held our first conference at Northern Beaches Christian School, Terrey Hills. In 2004 we stepped out in faith by appointing Matt as full-time Director of Soul Survivor NSW/ACT.
Soul Survivor in NSW/ACT is now a full-time ministry, run by a core team in Sydney and Canberra. Soul Survivor’s activities have been steadily growing, to now include regional events, servant evangelism projects, and training in addition to the annual conference.
our team.
Matt Gelding
Director NSW
Matt has been in youth and 20's ministry for over 20 years. He completed 10 years with Belrose Anglican in 2003, finished his degree at Morling College and is now ministering full-time for Soul Survivor NSW since 2004.
He is married to Emma, and dad to Joel, Laura and Ben.
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Jake Wendt
soul.teams
Jake has been apart of the Soul Survivor family for many years. After interning with us in 2019 he began working with Soul Survivor a couple days a week. He loves all things sport and long drives.
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Hannah Blair Admin + Communications Coordinator
Hannah came on board in 2021, serving in an admin + communications role. She finished school in 2020, and jumped straight into her next adventure with God at Soul Survivor, while studying Law + Arts at university.
Hannah has a passion to see the hearts of youth changed, so she is excited to see where God is going to take her and how He is going to grow Soul Survivor’s mission.
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Cassie Osborne
Event & Operations Coordinator
Cassie came on board in 2018 as our events coordinator.
She finished school in 2014 to run whole heartedly into all the God had for her in the coming years with travel, hard work, and now; Soul Survivor. She finished studying events management at the end of 2018 and loves a good adventure with the fam.
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*The events coordinator role is currently open. Contact us at [email protected] for the job description.
Brayden & Matilda Slade
Worship Coordinators
Brayden & Matilda are our worship coordinators at Soul Suvivor. They have been leading with us for many years. With a team they write home grown songs for us to sing as a community.
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our conference team
Soul Survivor would not function without a grand host of dedicated volunteers. These legends form bands and technical help with soul.teams, help us pull together large projects, and make our April conferences happen.
To apply to join our volunteer team, click here. We would love to have a coffee with you!
Board Members
Matt Gelding // director
Fuzz & Carolyn Kitto // co-chairs
Kate Lockery // secretary
Paul Hewson // treasurer
Steve Bernard
Gabbi Barraclough
Contact Us
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