Adult Speaker - Night Meetings
Pr Peter Casillas
Pr Peter Casillas is from the Rocky Mountain Conference in Denver, Colorado, US. He is the Associate Pastor for the Green Team-(Creative Ministries) and Common Ground-(Young Adults) at LifeSource Adventist Fellowship. His three primary passions are; meeting people anywhere and everywhere, traveling for missions, and just plain travelling! Peter has a multi-cultural background which allows him to enjoy life with meaning. His education includes a B.A. in Theology, Masters in Divinity, and 8 Units of Clinical Pastoral Education. He believes in people and where they come from as part of the beauty of how the Jesus' message is able to reach, understand, and journey together with a life.
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Adult Speaker - Morning Meetings
Dr Paul M. V. Siope
Paul is Samoan sown, Taihape born, and Kiwi grown. He is married to Fiona (nee Sauni) and blessed with five children and two grand daughters.
Before leaving to the United States for further study, he ministered in the South Pacific Division for thirteen-and-a-half years from the Kiwi context of many local churches in Auckland, that included the planting of Calvary Community.
He has ministered internationally and inter-denominationally, trained pastors and leaders, planted a church in California, mentored a church plant in Sydney, and called to be a key note speaker for Asian, Pacific, Hispanic and African American Churches, Convocations and Camp Meetings.
He has a Bachelor of Theology, done postgraduate studies in Marriage and Family Therapy, holds a Masters of Theology, a Masters of Intercultural Studies, a Master of Divinity, and a Doctorate of Ministry.
He is privileged to be part of the North New Zealand Conference, serving with the Healthy Adventist Church Team as a Regional Pastor for Auckland, a Local Church Pastor at Calvary Community, and a Grass Root Pastor for the Church Planting Network.
His favorite hobbies are reading, studying churches, critiqing movies, listening to Gospel music, walking, watching the Los Angeles Lakers, supporting the All Blacks, cheering for the Warriors and the Manu Samoa. But his passion in life is to make missional disciples of the local church that will plant a multiplicity of churches in their lifetime, to the glory of God.
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Youth Speaker - Night Meetings
Pr Troy Fitzgerald
Troy Fitzgerald is the pastor for youth and evangelism at the Walla Walla College Church in College Place, Washington where he and his wife, Julie, and their two boys, Cameron and Morgan, reside. He is also the founder and director of Leadout Ministries, an organization that serves churches and schools with leadership training and resource development, to empower young people, and those who are young at heart, to deepen a sense of ownership to the mission of the church.
In addition, Troy wrote Christwise, a series of resources on discipleship, as well the devotional Forty Days Wild. Troy has been working as a writer and consultant to the General Conference Sabbath School department as well as other organizations.
Troy has been a pastor and a teacher, as well as a coach, landscaper, ice cream scooper, a wanna-be-skater, and desert consultant. He holds a bachelors degree in theology, a master’s in education, as well as doctorate in leadership.
Troy enjoys hanging out with his family and romping through the woods with his sons looking for dangerous creatures to catch. He loves to play sports with his students and golf with his buddies. Relationships with people are his most treasured possession and he is deeply devoted to his church family. Troy enjoys traveling, speaking, and making new friends around the world.
Troy considers Australia to be his home away from home and continues to seek dual citizenship. He regularly takes medical/evangelism teams to Africa along with students. Troy loves to teach young people how to serve others, offering them a cup of cool water, as Christ commanded. He is terrible at building or fixing things around the house, but that never seems to discourage him from trying.
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Teens Speaker
Litiana Turner
Litiana Turner (nee Qiosese) originates from Wainibuka in Fiji, she grew up in Australia and has lived and worked in Australia, New Zealand and England.
She currently works as the Associate Director for Youth Ministries at the South Pacific Division. Litiana is married to John Turner and they have three teenage children.
Prior to her return to Australia in December 2005, Litiana was the Deputy Principal of Auckland SDA High School in Mangere Bridge.
Litiana loves to sing, travel , camp and spend time with family and friends. Her greatest daily challenge is the adventure of pursuing and spending time in Gods’ presence.
Jeremiah 29:11 is her favourite passage of scripture and it is her desire that every teenager she comes into contact with will know and believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that God made them for a significant purpose at this time in the world’s history. Her prayer is that the teens at Big Camp will see that they can be World Changers all they need to do is to spend time with God on a daily basis!
Litiana is a firm believer and advocate for the fact that when God calls you to a role in life, school or work then HE will equip you for the space He called you to fill.
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Juniors Speaker
Ken Weslake
Ken Weslake comes originally from Norfolk Island. That makes him a mutineer not a convict!
After completing his primary teacher training at LAC, he worked as a school principal in a variety of Adventist schools in the North Island. During this time he spent four years in Papua New Guinea as a School Supervisor and Mission Pilot.
He currently is the associate Education Director for the South Pacific Division. This means oversight of 60,000 students in more than 350 schools from Tahiti to Perth and Kiribati to Invercargill. He is passionate about making all of our schools truly Seventh-day Adventist, right from policies to teachers, to the total school and classroom environment.
Ken is married to one wife, Julie. They have four children and five grandchildren. Together they want our children growing up to love Jesus with all their heart, mind and body.
Ken’s other hobbies include anything to do with aviation, jogging if it’s not too cold or dark and mowing lawns!
Ken strongly believes that before every child is born God has a plan written out for their lives. He enjoys encouraging young people to discover what that great plan is and then doing all they can to live it out in their lives.
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Primary Speaker
Julie Weslake
Julie Weslake is a Kiwi with over 15 years teaching experience from preschool through to tertiary. The last 10 years she has devoted to the ministry of children and currently she is the Director of Children’s Ministries for the South Pacific Division. This has enabled her to connect with, learn from, and serve, world Children’s leaders and those from around our own Unions.
Julie would love to see every child a disciple of Jesus. She knows that to make this happen our churches, homes and schools need to make a huge investment in this most strategic age group. She believes that the home is one of the most important influences in a child’s spiritual development and would love to see confident and equipped parents.
Julie is the proud mother of four great kids and an even prouder grandma of 4 ¾ grandchildren. She remembers with joy the camp meetings she attended as a child and is looking forward to getting to know the Primary children and their parents at NNZ Big Camp.
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