The son of missionaries in Vanuatu, Ian has served in many ministry roles including those of Senior Pastor, Missionary, Youth Pastor Church Planter. His academic management roles have included those of Vice-President of Higher Education, Principal, Academic Dean, Director of Training or Registrar in a number of Bible Colleges in Australia and internationally. Ian's deep strengths as a facilitator of learning and transformational teacher has seen him lecture and coach in a range of undergraduate and postgraduate institutions in Australia and overseas. As a third-culture kid, Ian has developed his inherent abilities in cultural intelligence to consult with educational organisations and national churches to craft leadership development programs that are Scripturally-faithful, culturally-appropriate and educationally-effective. He has pioneered and restructured organizations, and consults with churches, student groups, missions and other training organizations in the Asia Pacific Rim. Ian served with the Apostolic Church among the Enga people of Papua New Guinea developing national church leaders - the focus of his PhD thesis at Monash University. His MA thesis at Fuller School of Intercultural Studies examined implications of worldview theory on the cross-cultural communication of the Gospel. Ian has developed and accredited degree programs, courses, and has authored a number of manuals and training resources for churches, missions and colleges. He is passionate communicator of the call of God, leadership-emergence dynamics, and equipping new generations of leaders, and is presently developing fresh approaches to training emerging cross-cultural field workers. God's singular activity in the burgeoning southern church, renascent global missions, and the effective, global communication of the Gospel remain his passion, making him an impacting speaker at missions, church, youth and student movement conferences. An ordained Minister with the Australian Christian Churches, Ian is also a Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society and a past President and Secretary of the Australian Association for Mission Studies. While studying for his PhD, he supported his wife Nai's and four sons as they pioneered a contemporary, youth/young adults' church in Melbourne, Australia. Ian's also passionate about espresso, Thai cuisine, contemporary worship, forests and reefs! His love for the natural world and environment would be consummated if David Attenborough encountered his Creator!