About Engage

Engage is all about training and equipping God's people to engage with, handle and teach God's Word.

How it started

Back in 2011 a group of church leaders in Melbourne saw the need to organise a training event to equip Christians to teach the Bible better. With help from our friends at the NextGen conference in Sydney, the Engage Conference was born.

Our Vision

Engage's vision is to see God’s people all across Victoria captivated by God’s Word and confident in proclaiming it for the transformation of lives
in Christ.

What We Believe

The divine inspiration, infallibility and inerrancy of Holy Scripture as originally given and its supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
The unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the Godhead.
The universal sinfulness and guilt of humanity since the fall, rendering men and women subject to God's wrath and condemnation.
The conception of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit and his birth by the Virgin Mary.
Redemption from the guilt, penalty and power of sin only through the sacrificial death, as our representative and substitute, of Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God.

The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
The necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit
to make the death of Christ effective in the individual sinner, granting him or her repentance towards God, and faith in
Jesus Christ.
The indwelling and work of the Holy Spirit in the believer.
The expectation of the personal return of
the Lord Jesus Christ.

Meet the Committee

John Huynh

John is Chairperson of the Engage Committee and serves as Senior Minister at St Stephen's Presbyterian Church in Surrey Hills.

Mike Veith

Mike is the Associate Pastor at Mentone Baptist Church.
He coordinates the strand leaders and strand materials for Engage.

Melly Tjoa

Melly is the Treasurer and Operations Coordinator, responsible for all financial related matters and organising Engage.

Victor Khor

Victor organises the main sessions of the conference and he is a senior staffworker with the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (AFES).

Kath Moody

Kath is the Secretary and also coordinates the promotion and marketing of the conference.

Murray Capill

Murray Capill is the Dean of Ministry Development and a Lecturer in Pastoral Ministry at the Reformed Theological College in Victoria.

Heath Easton

Heath has served as one of the Pastors at Drouin Presbyterian Church since January 2012. He joined the Engage Committee in January 2025.